Reinhold Wagnleitner

Reinhold Wagnleitner (born January 17, 1949 ) is Associate Professor for General History of Modern Times at the University of Salzburg .

From 1979 to 1980 he worked as a conscientious objector for eight months in the Salzburg State Neurological Clinic .

Since 1975 he has taught as a history lecturer for students from the USA and Japan at Salzburg College. In 1988 he was awarded the " Fulbright Certificate for increasing the mutual understanding between the people of Austria and the people of the United States of America through academic achievement as Fulbright Scholar".

He continued this international collaboration and teaching American students - for which he was awarded a number of prizes.

1995-96 he was President of the Austrian Association for American Studies (Vice-President 1996-1997). In 2001 he was elected AAAS delegate and board member of the European Association for American Studies, in the same year his project “ Satchmo Meets Amadeus ” was selected by the US Embassy in Vienna for the prize for “Cultural Diversity and Tolerance”.

For his book "Coca-Colonization and Cold War: The US Cultural Mission in Austria after the Second World War" he was awarded the Ludwig Jedlicka Memorial Prize in 1992 for "an outstanding achievement in contemporary Austrian history writing" Prize honored.

Wagnleitner wrote the leading article "Austria, history of, 1978-2000" for the Encyclopædia Britannica .

literature

• Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini (Ed.): Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 99). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 3-205-77476-0 , p. 435 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhold Wagnleitner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography of Wagnleitner on the homepage of the University of Salzburg