Margit Reiter

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Margit Reiter (born September 8, 1963 ) is an Austrian historian .

Life

From 1983/1984 to 1991 Reiter studied history and German studies at the University of Salzburg and at the University of Vienna , where she completed her thesis on December 13, 1991 with the thesis Honorable Antisemitism - Helpless Antifascism? Antizionism and Palestine Solidarity of the New Left in the FRG with Anton Staudinger .

From 1986 to 1987 she was an FWF employee in Salzburg , from 1992 to 1993 she was co-editor of the minutes of the ministerial council of the Ramek cabinet from 1926. From 1994 to 1995 she worked at the Documentation Center of the Association of Jews Persecuted by the Nazi Regime . In the 1998/1999 academic year she conducted research as a junior fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies .

After receiving her doctorate (Dr. phil.) On February 1, 1999 with distinction under Anton Staudinger and John Bunzl , she was a contract assistant (maternity leave substitute) at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna from 2000 to 2001 . From 2002 to 2004 she was a Charlotte Bühler habilitation fellow. From 2005 to 2008 she conducted research in Salzburg as an FWF Research Fellow in the history department of the university. From June 2006 to September 2007 she worked in Berlin as a visiting researcher at the Berlin College for Comparative History of Europe (BKVGE) at the Free University of Berlin and at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the TU Berlin .

After her habilitation (venia docendi for contemporary history) on November 7, 2006, she was an FWF Research Fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History in Vienna from 2009 to 2012 . In the summer semester of 2012 she taught as a visiting professor at the University of Salzburg. Then she was Botstiber Fellow for Austrian-American Studies (2013/2014), and from 2014 FWF Research Fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History in Vienna. On October 1, 2019, she became Professor of European Contemporary History at the University of Salzburg.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Helga Embacher : A tightrope walk. Relations between Austria and Israel in the shadow of the past . Picus, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85452-418-8 .
  • Under suspicion of anti-Semitism. The Austrian Left and Israel after the Shoah . Studienverlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich / Bozen 2001, ISBN 3-7065-1445-1 (also dissertation, Vienna 1998).
  • The Tauern power plant in Kaprun . In: Oliver Rathkolb , Florian Freund (ed.): Nazi forced labor in the "Ostmark" electricity industry 1938–1945. Böhlau, Vienna 2002.
  • The generation after. National Socialism in the family memory . Studienverlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2006, ISBN 3-7065-1940-2 .
  • with Maria Mesner and Theo Venus : expropriation and return. Social Democratic Party Assets in Austria in 1934 and after 1945 . Studienverlag, Innsbruck / Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-7065-4358-3 .
  • as editor with Helga Embacher: Europe and September 11, 2001 . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2011, ISBN 3-205-78677-7 .
  • The former. National Socialism and the Beginnings of the FPÖ . Wallstein, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3515-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Five new professors introduced. In: uni-salzburg.at . November 11, 2019, accessed February 3, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Reiter, Margit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1963