Siegfried Mattl

Siegfried Mattl (born February 26, 1954 in Mürzzuschlag ; † April 25, 2015 in Vienna ) was an Austrian historian and head of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society.

career

After graduating from high school in 1972 Mattl studied history and political science at the University of Vienna from 1972 to 1980 at the Mürzzuschlag High School . During his studies Mattl was a member of the group Revolutionary Marxists or the Socialist Alternative and was later also considered to be close to the workers' movement and the left . In 1980 he was at Erika Weinzierl with the dissertation agricultural structure, peasant movement and agricultural policy in Austria from 1919 to 1929 to the Dr. phil. PhD.

After that he was u. a. active as exhibition curator. In 1983 he became scientific secretary of the contemporary history project team at the Federal Ministry for Science and Research and in 1984 research assistant at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute (LBI) for history and society in Vienna. Since 1986 he has worked initially as a lecturer and from his habilitation in 1996 as a lecturer for modern history with special consideration of contemporary history at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and as a research assistant. He also taught regularly at other universities, and he held visiting professorships in Linz and Budapest , for example .

From 2005 Mattl was Scientific Director of the LBI for History and Society. He researched u. a. about cultural, urban and media history. Film art and cinema played a large role in his academic work. He also served as a board member of the Austrian Society for Contemporary History and as a member of the scientific advisory board of the Wien Museum and the Austrian Museum of Folklore . He was active in the research networks International Research Center for Cultural Studies , Association for the History of the Labor Movement and BTWH - Emergence of Modernity . He was also a member of the editorial board of the journals Zeitgeschichte (from 1986) and Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften (from 2007).

Mattl was married to the director of the Vienna City Library , Sylvia Mattl-Wurm .

Awards

1994 Victor Adler State Prize for the History of Social Movements

Fonts (selection)

Agricultural structure, peasant movement and agricultural policy in Austria 1919–1929 (= publications on contemporary history . Volume 1). Geyer, Vienna a. a. 1981.
with Raimund Löw , Alfred Pfabigan : The Austromarxism - an autopsy. 3 studies . Isp-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-88332-115-X .
with Karl Stuhlpfarrer : Applied Science in National Socialism. Large-scale fantasies, geopolitics, science politics . In: Gernot Heiss, Siegfried Mattl, Sebastian Meissl, Edith Saurer and Karl Stuhlpfarrer (Eds.): Willing Science. The University of Vienna 1938 to 1945 . (= Austrian texts on social criticism . Volume 43), Publishing House for Social Criticism, Vienna 1989, pp. 283-301.
with Werner Michael Schwarz (ed.): Felix Salten, writer - journalist - exile. [On the occasion of the exhibition “Felix Salten. Writer - Journalist - Exile ”in the Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna from December 5, 2006 to March 18, 2007] (= Viennese personalities . Volume 5). Holzhausen, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-85493-128-7 .
with Gerhard Botz , Stefan Karner , Helmut Konrad (eds.): War, Memory, History (= publications of the history cluster of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society . Volume 1). Böhlau, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78193-6 .
The radiance of the city. Writings on film and history. (= Drehli Robnik [Ed.]: FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen. Volume 27), Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-901644-66-5 .

literature

Werner Michael Schwarz , Ingo Zechner (Ed.): The light and the dark side of modernity. Festschrift for Siegfried Mattl on his 60th birthday . Turia + Kant, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85132-751-9 .
Gabriella Hauch , Albert Müller: In memoriam Siegfried Mattl. In: Bertrand Perz , Ina Markova (Eds.): 50 Years Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna 1966–2016. new academic press, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7003-1946-7 , pp. 164–167.

Web links

Literature by and about Siegfried Mattl in the catalog of the German National Library
Siegfried Mattl at the University of Vienna
Johanna Gehmacher , Albert Müller, Bertrand Perz : In memoriam Siegfried Mattl (1954-2015) , uni: view, April 28, 2015
Archive recordings with Siegfried Mattl (Ö1 radio interviews) in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library

Individual evidence

^ Siegfried Mattl 1954 - 2015. Obituary by Reinhard Schöny. Artmagazine, April 28, 2015.
^ Agricultural structure, peasant movement and agricultural policy in Austria 1919–1929 , univie.ac.at, accessed on August 12, 2016.
↑ Curriculum Vitae Univ. Lecturer Dr. Siegfried Mattl. Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History. 2014, accessed on May 28, 2019 (PDF; 127 kB).

personal data
SURNAME	Mattl, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 26, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mürzzuschlag
DATE OF DEATH	April 25, 2015
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Siegfried Mattl 1954 - 2015. Obituary by Reinhard Schöny. Artmagazine, April 28, 2015.

[2] Agricultural structure, peasant movement and agricultural policy in Austria 1919–1929 , univie.ac.at, accessed on August 12, 2016.

[3] Curriculum Vitae Univ. Lecturer Dr. Siegfried Mattl. Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History. 2014, accessed on May 28, 2019 (PDF; 127 kB).