Monika Sommer-Sieghart

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Monika Sommer (2015)

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

Publications (selection)

Web links

Commons : Monika Sommer-Sieghart  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b derStandard.at: Monika Sommer-Sieghart becomes director. January 26, 2017, accessed on March 17, 2018.
  2. Upper Austrian News: On the trail of Austria's identity. June 10, 2017, accessed September 6, 2018.
  3. 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.
  4. ^ Museum, memory, identity: museological and cultural studies contributions to the history of the Styrian State Museum Joanneum . Dissertation. University of Vienna, 2003.
  5. ^ Austrian Academy of Sciences: Associated scientific staff: Monika Sommer . Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  6. ^ Forum Alpbach: Monika Sommer-Sieghart . Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  7. purpurkultur.at: About us ( Memento from October 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  8. Austrian National Library: Monika Sommer-Sieghart is the HGÖ director . Press release from January 26, 2017, accessed on March 17, 2018.
  9. Entry on Monika Sommer-Sieghart in the Austria Forum
  10. ^ Monika Sommer-Sieghart in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  11. ^ Theodor Körner Fund: Excellent Work 2010 . Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  12. diepresse.com - Austria 19 . Retrieved October 6, 2019.