Michael Loebenstein

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Michael Loebenstein (* 1974 in Vienna ) is an Austrian cultural manager , curator and author . From 2011 to January 2017 he was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) of Australia . In November 2016 he was appointed director of the Austrian Film Museum on October 1, 2017.

Life

From 2000 to 2004 Michael Loebenstein wrote for the weekly newspaper Falter and for kolik.film , among others , the special issues of the literary magazine kolik appearing on the occasion of the Viennale and Diagonale film festivals , and worked as a freelance curator and media designer. From 2004 to 2011 he built up the education and research department for the Austrian Film Museum and supervised various projects as a curator. He also worked at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society (LBIGG) in Vienna , where, among other things, he worked on the research projects “Like Seen on the Screen. The media and our living environment ”and“ Film.Stadt.Wien. A Transdisciplinary Exploration of Vienna as a Cinematic City ”. From 2011 to 2013 he led the project Ephemeral Films: National Socialism in Austria together with Ingo Zechner and then worked in an advisory capacity for this project until 2016. From February to June 2017 he was a research associate in the "I-Media-Cities" project.

In 2011 he moved to the Australian Federal Archive for Film, Radio and Sound Documents , the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) in Canberra , as director and managing director , a position he held until January 2017. In 2013 he was elected General Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF). In November 2016 he was appointed by the board of directors of the Austrian Film Museum founded by Peter Konlechner and Peter Kubelka (directors from 1964 to 2001) to succeed Alexander Horwath (director from 2002 to 2017) as director of the Filmmuseum on October 1, 2017.

Publications (selection)

  • 2005: Peter Tscherkassky , together with Alexander Horwath, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen Volume 2, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-901644-16-0
  • 2006: Dziga Vertov : The Vertov Collection at the Austrian Film Museum - The Vertov Collection at the Austrian Film Museum , together with Thomas Tode, Barbara Wurm and Alexander Horwath, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-901644-19-1
  • 2008: Film Curatorship: Archives, Museums, and the Digital Marketplace: Museums, Curatorship and the Moving Image , together with Paolo Cherchi Usai, David Francis and Alexander Horwath, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-901644-24-5
  • 2008: Researcher's Guide to Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio , together with Paolo Cherchi Usai, David Francis and Alexander Horwath, British Universities Film & Video Council, ISBN 978-0-901299-79-6
  • 2009: Gustav Deutsch , together with Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen Volume 11, Vienna 2009, ISBN = 978-3-901644-30-6
  • 2010: Vienna in Film: Cityscapes from 100 Years , together with Christian Dewald and Werner M. Schwarz, Czernin-Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-7076-0337-8

Filmography (selection)

  • 2005: Restoring 'Entuziazm' (Documentation)
  • 2010: Vertov in Blum. An investigation (documentation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Filmmuseum Directorate: Michael Loebenstein appointed as successor to Alexander Horwath . Retrieved August 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b derStandard.at: Michael Loebenstein becomes the new director of the Filmmuseum . Article dated November 14, 2016, accessed August 29, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Michael Loebenstein | Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society . Retrieved August 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Loebenstein, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cultural manager, curator and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna