Peter Payer (historian)

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Peter Payer (2013)

Peter Payer (* 1962 in Leobersdorf , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian historian, urban researcher and publicist. He lives in Vienna and Küb am Semmering.

Life

Peter Payer studied geography / spatial research and spatial planning as well as history / combination of subjects at the University of Vienna. In addition, he completed a course in exhibition and museum didactics. From 1990 he worked in various offices for architecture and urban research and from 1994 in the field of urban renewal (area management Vienna-Brigittenau). In 2002 he was a Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna.

He runs an office for history and urban research and has been a curator at the Technisches Museum Wien since 2007 , section “Everyday Life” (2007–2013 head).

His publications and projects range from urban history / sensory history / environmental history / everyday history from the 19th to the 21st century. They deal with the following topics - mostly using the example of Vienna:

  • Sensory perception in the big city
  • City images
  • technical infrastructure
  • Public room
  • Street furniture
  • "Viennese types"
  • religious and ethnic minorities
  • Forgotten artists, writers and journalists

Fonts

  • The sound of the big city. A history of hearing, Vienna 1850–1914. Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau Verlag 2018.
  • Up and down. A cultural history of the elevator in Vienna. Vienna: Brandstätter Verlag 2018.
  • Right across Vienna. Cultural and historical forays . Vienna: Czernin Verlag 2017.
  • The future of the city. weiter_gedacht_ , (ed., together with Marie Gruber). Exhibition catalog of the Technisches Museum Wien. Vienna: Edition TMW 2017.
  • Vienna - the city and the senses. Features and reports around 1900 . Edited and with an afterword by Peter Payer. Vienna: Löcker Verlag 2016.
  • The synchronized city. Public clocks and time perception, Vienna 1850 until today . Vienna: Holzhausen Verlag 2015.
  • Out and about in Vienna. Cultural and historical forays . Vienna: Czernin Verlag 2013.
  • Eduard Pötzl : Big City Pictures. Reports and features, Vienna around 1900 . Edited and commented by Peter Payer. Vienna: Löcker Verlag 2012.
  • The Danube Canal. The discovery of a Viennese urban landscape . Vienna: Metroverlag 2011 (together with Judith Eiblmayr).
  • Paint films. The Viennese poster painter Eduard Paryzek , (ed.). Salzburg: Pustet Verlag 2010.
  • Julius Rodenberg : Vienna Summer Days . Edited and with an afterword by Peter Payer. Vienna: Czernin Verlag 2009.
  • Else Spiller: Experiences in the mud quarters of modern large cities . Edited and with an afterword by Peter Payer. Vienna: Czernin Verlag 2008.
  • View of Vienna. Cultural and historical forays . Vienna: Czernin Verlag 2007.
  • Clean Vienna. City cleaning and waste disposal since 1945 , (ed.). Vienna: Holzhausen Verlag 2006.
  • Matters of opinion. The suburbs in private photographs , 1945–1980. Vienna: Verlag Punkt 2005.
  • Hunger artist. A disappeared attraction . Vienna: Sonderzahl Verlag 2002.
  • Life, opinions and work of the widow Wetti Himmlisch. Memoirs of a Viennese toilet woman around 1900 . Reissued and with an afterword by Peter Payer. Vienna: Löcker Verlag 2001.
  • Indispensable props of the big city. A cultural history of Vienna's public lavatories . Vienna: Löcker Verlag 2000.
  • The stench of Vienna. Over sewer gases, dead fumes and other unpleasant scent scents . Vienna: Döcker Verlag 1997.
  • The cosmos cinema. Play of light between art and commerce . Vienna: Publishing House for Social Criticism 1995. (together with Robert Gokl)

In addition, Payer regularly publishes articles in newspapers (including Neue Zürcher Zeitung / Feuilleton, Die Presse / Spectrum, Wiener Zeitung / Extra, Falter , Die Furche ) and specialist journals (including Wiener Geschichtsblätter , Austrian journal for historical sciences , dérive - magazine for urban research , modernism Stadtgeschichte, Journal of Urban History) as well as in numerous historical anthologies and exhibition catalogs. City tours and lectures, etc. a. in Vienna, Innsbruck, Linz, Munich, Bonn, Hamburg, Berlin.

Awards

Memberships

  • Association for the History of the City of Vienna (board member)
  • Austrian Working Group for Urban History Research (board member)
  • Point. Association for scientific and artistic work. History-architecture-spatial research (chairman)
  • Association for history and social studies
  • Society for Urban History and Urbanization Research
  • Forum soundscape
  • International Council of Museums
  • Concordia press club

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Payer: Forgotten dream factories , in: Der Standard , Vienna, April 2, 2016, album , p. A 3.

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personal data
SURNAME Payer, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and urban researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Leobersdorf , Lower Austria