Marcus G. Patka

Marcus G. Patka (* 1966 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian and Germanist .

Life

After graduating from the modern language grammar school in Vienna XVIII, he studied German, philosophy , journalism and musicology at the University of Vienna . He then worked as a freelancer for Die Presse and Der Standard , and graduated in 1990 . In 1994 he received a research grant from Erika Weinzierl and Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler as a Dr. phil. PhD.

Further research projects followed in 1996 and 1998. In 1997 he was a research assistant in the exile department at the documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance and assistant to Herbert Zeman at the Institute for German Studies.

He has been a curator at the Jewish Museum Vienna since 1998 , where he is responsible for the conception of temporary exhibitions, the development of the digital media archive, and cultural and contemporary history. In 2003 he did an internship at the Jewish Museum in New York City. In 2004 and 2006, he taught at Portland State University in Oregon . Since 2005 he has been on the board of the Institute for Biography of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society . In 2009 he received science and research funding from the City of Vienna's Department of Culture. Since 2012 he has also worked at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna , where he completed his habilitation in 2014 .

His main research interests include a. Jewish history, the time of National Socialism, exile and culture. He is u. a. Member of the Theodor Kramer Society , the Austrian Society for German Studies , the Quatuor Coronati Research Society , the Manès-Sperber Society and the Societies for Exile Research in Austria and Germany.

Fonts (selection)

• Egon Erwin Kisch : Stations in the life of a contentious author (= literature in history, history in literature . Vol. 41). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-205-98612-1 .
• (Ed.): The mad reporter Egon Erwin Kisch: A biography in pictures . With a foreword by Hellmuth Karasek , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-351-02472-X .
• Too close to the sun: German writers in exile in Mexico (= construction paperbacks . 8034). Construction paperback, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7466-8034-4 .
• with Heinz Lunzer , Viktoria Lunzer-Talós (ed.): "What we kill": "The torch" by Karl Kraus . [An exhibition by the Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna, June 23 - November 1, 1999] . Mandelbaum, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85476-024-8 .
• with Elke Krasny , Christian Rapp , Nadia Rapp-Wimberger (eds.): From Samoa to Isonzo: The photographer and travel journalist Alice Schalk. [An exhibition of the Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna, November 9th to January 30th, 2000. To be seen at the "Stern" in the publishing house of Gruner & Jahr in Hamburg in July 2000] . Commissioned by the Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna with the support of "Stern", Mandelbaum, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85476-030-2 .
• with Peter Goßens (Ed.): "Displaced": Paul Celan in Vienna 1947–1948. [On the occasion of the exhibition "Displaced. Paul Celan in Vienna 1947–1948" at the Jewish Museum Vienna, November 14, 2001 to February 24, 2002] . Commissioned by the Jewish Museum Vienna, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518412-73-6 .
• with Alfred Stalzer (Ed.): Die Welt des Karl Farkas : [Accompanying publication to the exhibition "Sie Werden Lachen! Die Welt des Karl Farkas" of the Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna from April 4 to July 1, 2001] (= Viennese personalities . Vol. 2). Holzhausen, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85493-034-8 .
• with Michael Haas (eds.): Hans Gál and Egon Wellesz : Continental britons. Exhibition "Continental Britons - Hans Gál and Egon Wellesz of the Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna from February 25th - May 2nd, 2004 (= music of departure ). On behalf of the Jewish Museum Vienna, Mandelbaum-Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85476 -116-3 .
• (Ed.): Theodor Herzl : The driving force. Feature sections . Picus, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85452-483-8 .
• (Ed.): Ignaz Hermann Körner : Lexicon of Jewish athletes in Vienna, 1900–1938. [Accompanying publication to the exhibition "100 Years of Hoppauf Hakoah" at the Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna from June 4 to September 7, 2008] . Mandelbaum-Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85476-265-2 .
• with Marcel Atze (ed.): The "dangers of versatility": Friedrich Torberg 1908–1979. [On the occasion of the exhibition The dangers of versatility. Friedrich Torberg 1908–1979 in the Jewish Museum Vienna in cooperation with the Vienna Library in the City Hall. From September 17, 2008 to February 1, 2009] (= Viennese personalities . Vol. 6). Holzhausen, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85493-156-0 .
• Ways of Laughter: Jewish Joke and Humor from Vienna (= Encyclopedia of Viennese Knowledge . Vol. 13). Publishing House Library of the Province, Weitra 2010, ISBN 978-3-902416-78-0 .
• Austrian Freemasons under National Socialism: Loyalty and Treason . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78546-0 .
• Freemasonry and Social Reform: The Struggle for Human Rights, Pacifism and Civil Society in Austria 1869–1938 . Löcker, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85409-594-1 .
• with Alfred Stalzer (Ed.): Alle Meschugge ?: Jewish wit and humor. [On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Jewish Museum Vienna, March 20 to September 8, 2013] . Amalthea, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85002-825-7 .
• End of the world: Jewish life and death in the First World War. [On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Jewish Museum Vienna, April 1 to September 14, 2014] . On behalf of the Jewish Museum Vienna, Styria Premium, Vienna a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-222-13434-0 .
• with Alfred Stalzer (ed.): Stars of David: The sound of the 20th century . Commissioned by the Jewish Museum Vienna, Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95565-136-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Marcus G. Patka in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marcus G. Patka at the Jewish Museum Vienna