Monika Sommer-Sieghart
Monika Sommer-Sieghart , also Monika Sommer , (born November 30, 1974 in Linz ) is an Austrian historian and curator . She has been the founding director of the House of History Austria (hdgö) since February 2017 .
Life
Monika Sommer attended the economics secondary school at the Kreuzschwestern school in Linz . Then she studied history and the combination of subjects European ethnology , art history and German studies in Graz . She completed her studies in 1999 at the University of Graz as a Magistra. In 2003 she completed her doctorate at the University of Vienna with a dissertation on the history of the Landesmuseum Joanneum .
From 1999 to 2003 she was a research assistant at the then Commission for Cultural Studies and Theater History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). From 2001 to 2005 she was also a lecturer at the University of Vienna , the University of Klagenfurt and the Webster University Vienna .
From 2003 to 2013 she worked at the Wien Museum , initially as assistant to Wolfgang Kos until 2008 , then as curator. Since 2006 she has been co-director of a master’s course for exhibition theory and practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in museums. She also had a teaching position at the University of Linz . As part of Linz 2009 - European Capital of Culture , she curated the project In Situ.Zeitgeschichte finds Stadt together with Dagmar Höss and Heidemarie Uhl , and worked in an advisory capacity for the Cathedral Museum Vienna and the Tyrolean State Museum . From 2014 to 2016 she was the head of the cultural program of the European Forum Alpbach and was responsible for several exhibition projects as a curator. B. in the outer castle gate on Vienna's Heldenplatz.
At the beginning of 2017 she was appointed by the General Director of the Austrian National Library , Johanna Rachinger , as the founding director of the newly created House of History Austria , which opened in November 2018 on the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the republic in the Neue Burg on Heldenplatz.
Monika Sommer is a board member of schnittpunkt. Exhibition theory & practice and finance officer of the Austrian Museum Association as well as member of the military historical monument commission of the Federal Ministry for National Defense.
Awards and nominations
- 2010: Theodor-Körner-Preis - Prize of the City of Vienna for work as a curator
- 2019: Nomination by the daily newspaper Die Presse for Austrian of the year in the cultural heritage category
Publications (selection)
- with Moritz Csáky and Jacques Le Rider : Transnational places of memory in Central Europe. Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich / Bozen 2002, ISBN 3-7065-1809-0 .
- with Michaela Lindinger: The eyes of the world on Vienna: Summit 1961 Khrushchev-Kennedy. Wien Museum, StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-7065-4086-X .
- with Marcus Gräser and Ursula Prutsch : Imaging Vienna. Inside views, outside views, city narratives. Turia and Kant, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85132-436-6 .
- Hieronymus Löschenkohl : Sensations from old Vienna. Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85033-314-6 .
- with Heidemarie Uhl : The Myth of Old Vienna : Tension Fields of Urban Identities. Vienna Museum. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7065-4386-6 k
- with Charlotte Martinz-Turek : Storyline: Narrations in the Museum. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85132-547-8 .
- with Alexandra Steiner-Strauss: Gustav Klimt and Vienna: Walks to the places where he worked. Metroverlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-99300-068-4 .
- with Birgit Johler and Alexandra Steiner: Anna Freud in Vienna: a tour to places of psychoanalysis. Turia + Kant publishing house, Vienna / Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-85132-777-9 .
- with Heidemarie Uhl and Klaus Zeyringer : 100 × Austria: New essays from literature and science. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-218-01131-0 .
- The Voices. A temporary sound installation by Susan Philipsz on Heldenplatz in Vienna on the occasion of the commemorative year 2018 , Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-01-000043-7 .
- with Michaela Raggam-Blesch, Heidemarie Uhl: Only the violins remained. Alma & Arnold Rosé , Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-01-000046-8 .
- with Nicole-Melanie Goll, Stefan Benedik, Georg Hoffmann, Brigit Johler, Eva Meran, Heidemarie Uhl: What is Austria? People and stories in 101 objects , Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-01-000047-5 .
Web links
- Entry on Monika Sommer-Sieghart in the Austria Forum
- Monika Sommer-Sieghart in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b derStandard.at: Monika Sommer-Sieghart becomes director. January 26, 2017, accessed on March 17, 2018.
- ↑ Upper Austrian News: On the trail of Austria's identity. June 10, 2017, accessed September 6, 2018.
- ↑ External or self-determination? : socio-historical aspects of everyday life in the barracks camps in Linz after the Second World War; using the Linz-Ebelsberg case study . Diploma thesis 1999, University of Graz.
- ^ Museum, memory, identity: museological and cultural studies contributions to the history of the Styrian State Museum Joanneum . Dissertation. University of Vienna, 2003.
- ^ Austrian Academy of Sciences: Associated scientific staff: Monika Sommer . Retrieved March 17, 2018.
- ^ Forum Alpbach: Monika Sommer-Sieghart . Retrieved March 17, 2018.
- ↑ purpurkultur.at: About us ( Memento from October 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved March 17, 2018.
- ↑ Austrian National Library: Monika Sommer-Sieghart is the HGÖ director . Press release from January 26, 2017, accessed on March 17, 2018.
- ↑ Entry on Monika Sommer-Sieghart in the Austria Forum
- ^ Monika Sommer-Sieghart in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ^ Theodor Körner Fund: Excellent Work 2010 . Retrieved March 17, 2018.
- ↑ diepresse.com - Austria 19 . Retrieved October 6, 2019.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sommer-Sieghart, Monika |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Summer, Monika |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian historian and curator |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1974 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Linz |