Peter Pirker (historian)

Peter Pirker (* 1970 in Lienz ) is an Austrian historian and political scientist .

Life

Peter Pirker grew up in Berg im Drautal . He studied history , political science and cultural and social anthropology at the University of Vienna .

1999–2000 he worked for the Austrian Research Foundation for International Development . He then worked as a journalist and editor for Ö1 and the APA until 2006 and ran free scientific and journalistic project work.

2006–2008 he was a research associate in an FWF research project at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna on the Austrian-related activities of the British secret service SOE during the Second World War . Associated with this were research stays at numerous archives in Austria , Germany , London and Washington, DC. In 2009 he received his doctorate in history with a dissertation on this topic.

From 2009–2013 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Political Science, held lectureships at the Institute for History at the University of Klagenfurt and the universities of teacher education in Carinthia and Tyrol. In addition, he completed shorter stays abroad as a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington , as a visiting fellow at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies in London and as a visiting scholar at Stanford University .

Since 2014, Pirker has been entrusted with the projects Politics of Remembrance and Digital Map of Remembrance for Vienna at the Vienna Institute for Political Science . Since November 2019 he has also been a research assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck .

Awards

• 2009 Herbert Steiner Acknowledgment Prize of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance for his dissertation
• 2010 Dissertation Prize of the Great Britain Research Working Group (then: Working Group German England Research)
• 2013 Michael Mitterauer Prize for social, cultural and economic history
• 2015 Hans Maršálek Prize 2nd place
• 2019 First prize in the "Digital Products" category at the International Cartographic Exhibition of the International Cartographic Association

Works (selection)

• together with Lisa Rettl : "I was there with pleasure." The concentration camp doctor Sigbert Ramsauer - An Austrian story. Milena, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85286-200-2 .
• Subversion of German rule: the British war intelligence service SOE and Austria. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-990-1 .
• 30 years of the Austrian Militia Association. Contributions to a cultural change in national defense. Edited by the Austrian Militia Association. Trauner, Linz 2011.
• Against the "Third Reich". Sabotage and transnational resistance in Austria and Slovenia 1938–1940. Kitab, Klagenfurt / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902585-65-3 .
• Code name Brooklyn. Jewish agents in enemy territory. Operation Greenup 1945. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 2019, ISBN 978-3-7022-3756-1 .
• together with Matthias Breit: Snapshots of Liberation . Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-7022-3850-6 .

Web links

• Peter Pirker's website
• Website of the project "Politics of Remembrance" (English)
• Map of memory in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

supporting documents

1. ↑ Peter Pirker. In: czernin-verlag.com . Retrieved February 28, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} biography / areas of work. In: peterpirker.at. Retrieved February 28, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Entner Rez GdDR. (PDF; 44 kB) In: peterpirkner.at. January 14, 2012, accessed February 28, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Mag. Dr. Peter Pirker. In: uibk.ac.at . January 29, 2020, accessed May 3, 2020 .