Matti Bunzl

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Matti Bunzl (born July 8, 1971 in Vienna ) is an Austrian anthropologist and cultural scientist and has been director of the Vienna Museum on Karlsplatz since October 1, 2015 . His service contract will be extended by five years from October 1, 2020, as decided by the city senate on September 17, 2019.

Bunzl was born the son of the political scientist John Bunzl and attended high school in Radetzkystraße , where he graduated in 1989. From 1990 he studied at Stanford University and at the University of Chicago anthropology .

From 1998 to 2014, Bunzl was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . There he headed the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities from 2003 to 2007 and the program in Jewish Culture and Society from 2008 to 2014 .

From 2010 to 2014 Bunzl also worked as the artistic director of the annual Chicago Humanities Festival.

Bunzl's research concerned, among other things, Judaism , anti-Semitism and Islamophobia . In addition, he researched and published on the question of art education and the museology of the avant-garde.

Publications (selection)

  • Matti Bunzl (Ed.): Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union , 2000
  • Matti Bunzl (Ed.): Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire , 2003
  • Matti Bunzl: Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth Century Vienna . University of California Press, 2004
  • Matti Bunzl (Ed.): Postcolonial Studies and Beyond , 2005
  • Matti Bunzl: Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe . Prickly Paradigm Press / University of Chicago Press, 2007
  • Matti Bunzl (Ed.): Daphne Berdahl. On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption , Germany, 2010
  • Matti Bunzl: In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde: An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum . University of Chicago Press, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matti Bunzl in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ^ Message from a spokeswoman for City Councilor for Culture Veronica Kaup-Hasler (SPÖ) dated September 18, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bunzl, Matti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna