Ingo Zechner (born 24 December 1972 in Klagenfurt, Austria) is a

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

. He is the Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (LBIDH) in Vienna. Research topics:

time Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequ ...

and

memory Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembe ...

aesthetics Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and taste (sociology), taste, which in a broad sense incorporates the philosophy of art.Slater, B. H.Aesthetics ''Internet Encyclopedia of Ph ...

(especially

visual culture Visual culture is the aspect of culture expressed in visual images. Many academic fields study this subject, including cultural studies, art history, critical theory, philosophy, media studies, Deaf Studies, and anthropology. The field of vi ...

film A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ...

digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, an ...

and Holocaust Studies. Further research on the concept of

modernity Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular Society, socio-Culture, cultural Norm (social), norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of the ...

in the fields of

Cultural Studies Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices rel ...

and

Post-structuralism Post-structuralism is a philosophical movement that questions the objectivity or stability of the various interpretive structures that are posited by structuralism and considers them to be constituted by broader systems of Power (social and poli ...

(

Michel Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault ( , ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French History of ideas, historian of ideas and Philosophy, philosopher who was also an author, Literary criticism, literary critic, Activism, political activist, and teacher. Fo ...

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes o ...

Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida;Peeters (2013), pp. 12–13. See also 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French Algerian philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, ...

etc.).

Life

From 1991 until 1997 Zechner studied

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

and

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

; from 1997 until 2001 he completed a PhD Program in philosophy at the University of Vienna supervised by Hans-Dieter Bahr. Zechner served as a historian at the Jewish Community Vienna from 2000 until 2008. At the Holocaust Victims’ Information and Support Center of the Jewish Community Vienna, headed by Zechner from 2003 to 2008, he dealt with various kinds of National Socialist Deprivation of Property and

Restitution Restitution and unjust enrichment is the field of law relating to gains-based recovery. In contrast with damages (the law of compensation), restitution is a claim or remedy requiring a defendant to give up benefits wrongfully obtained. Liability ...

. His fields of activity were the restitution of works of art and the restitution of real estate, research on the property of the Jewish organizations in Austria, the reconstruction of the Archive of the Jewish Community Vienna and the planning of the

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) is a research centre dedicated to the research and documentation of and education on all aspects of antisemitism, racism and the Holocaust, including its emergence and aftermath. It was ...

(VWI). He was also a member of the Austrian Commission for Provenance Research from 2002 to 2008 and of the Viennese Restitution Commission from 2003 to 2008. Until November 2009 he was the Business Manager of the

(VWI). From 2010 to 2011 Zechner was a researcher at the Association for the History of the Labour Movement (VGA) in Vienna. Since 2011 he has been an academic staff member at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society in Vienna, since 2015 the institute's director. The institute was transformed into the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History in 2019. From 2013 to 2016 Zechner was the Associated Director and Research Coordinator of the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna. Various teaching activities, from 1997 to 2000 at the Institute for Philosophy of the University of Vienna (together with Hans-Dieter Bahr), since 2003 at the Institute of Contemporary History of the University of Vienna. 2004 he was a BTWH/IFK-Visiting Scholar at the German Department of the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

, 2013 the Raab Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust, dedicated to the documentation, study, and interpretation of the Holocaust. Opened in 1993, the museum explores the Holocaust through p ...

) in

Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with ...

He is a participant and project leader at various research projects and holds lectures in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Greece, Sweden, Iceland, Poland, Russia, Israel, Canada and the United States.

Publications (selection)

; Monographs * ''Bild und Ereignis''. Fragmente einer Aesthetik. Vienna: Turia+Kant 1999. 249 pages. () * ''Deleuze''. Der Gesang des Werdens. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2003. 222 pages. () ; Anthologies * ''Die helle und die dunkle Seite der Moderne''. Festschrift für Siegfried Mattl zum 60. Geburtstag. Vienna: Turia+Kant 2014. 376 pages (together with Werner Michael Schwarz). () * ''Abenteuer Alltag''. Zur Archäologie des Amateurfilms. Vienna: Synema 2015. 270 pages (together with Siegfried Mattl, Carina Lesky and Vrääth Öhner). () ; Journals * ''Mapping''. Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, vol. 1/2018, Bielefeld: transcript. 116 pages (together with Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber). () ; Sourcebooks * ''Das Rote Wien''. Schlüsseltexte der Zweiten Wiener Moderne 1919–1934. Berlin - Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2020. 976 pages (together with Rob McFarland and Georg Spitaler). (Hardcover); (PDF); (EPUB) * ''The Red Vienna Sourcebook''. Rochester NY: Camden House 2020. 804 pages (together with Rob McFarland and Georg Spitaler). (Hardcover); (Paperback); (PDF) ; Exhibition catalogs * ''Ordnung muss sein''. Das Archiv der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien. Vienna: Jewish Museum Vienna 2007 (together with Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Lothar Hoelbling). 198 pages. () ; Articles * 'Das Pandora-Phantasma. Von Epimetheus bis Jack the Ripper: Der Stoff, aus dem Wedekinds Lulu gemacht ist'. In: ''Zeitgeschichte''. Vol. 28, 1–2. Innsbruck: Studien Verlag 2001. p. 34-43. () * 'Die Melancholie der Moderne. Adorno, Wien und der Jazz'. In: Wolfgang Maderthaner, Lutz Musner, Siegfried Mattl, Roman Horak, Otto Penz (eds.): ''Randzone''. Jugend und Massenkultur in Wien 1950–1970. Vienna: Turia+Kant 2004. p. 241-259. () * 'Die Bibliothek der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien. Entstehung – Entziehung – Restitution und so genannte "herrenlose" Buecher'. In: Murray G. Hall, Christina Koestner, Margot Werner (eds.): ''Die Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek stellt sich ihrer NS-Vergangenheit''. Vienna 2004, p. 82-103. * 'Landschaften des Todes und der Erinnerung'. In: Oya Erdogan, Dietmar Koch (eds.): ''Im Garten der Philosophie''. Festschrift fuer Hans-Dieter Bahr zum 65. Geburtstag. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2005. p. 279-283. () * 'Zweifelhaftes Eigentum. Fussnoten zur Kunstrestitution in Oesterreich'. In: Gabriele Anderl, Alexandra Caruso (eds.), ''NS-Kunstraub in Oesterreich und seine Folgen''. Innsbruck: Studien Verlag 2005. p. 235-246. () * 'Wie Entscheidungen fallen – Kunstrestitution in der Praxis'. In: Verena Pawlowsky, Harald Wendelin (eds.), ''Enteignete Kunst. Raub und Rueckgabe – Oesterreich von 1938 bis heute''. Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag 2006. p. 209-220 () * '"White Negro" und "Negro White": Mailer, Fassbinder, Sirk, Vian'. In: Blackness, transnational, ed. by Sabine Mueller (Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften. 17. Jahrgang, 4/2006). Innsbruck: Studien Verlag 2006. p. 51-67. () * 'Die Sprachlosigkeit des anderen – Mobilitaet und Uebersetzung in Hans-Christian Schmids Film "Lichter"'. In: Klaus Mueller-Richter, Ramona Uritescu-Lombard (eds.), Imaginaere Topografien. Migration und Verortung. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2007, p. 161-176. () * 'Von der Macht und Ohnmacht des Archivs'. In: Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Lothar Hoelbling and Ingo Zechner (eds.), Ordnung muss sein. Das Archiv der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien, Exhibition Catalog. Vienna: Jewish Museum Vienna 2007. p. 16-19. () * 'Achtung Baustelle! Die Arbeiten an der Wiedererrichtung des Archivs der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien' (together with Lothar Hoelbling). In: Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Lothar Hoelbling and Ingo Zechner (eds.), Ordnung muss sein. Das Archiv der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien, Exhibition Catalog. Vienna: Jewish Museum Vienna 2007. p. 29-34. () * 'Konfrontationen mit der Geschichte. Die Anlaufstelle der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien fuer juedische NS-Verfolgte'. In: Das Juedische Echo. Europaeisches Forum fuer Kultur und Politik. Vol. 56. Vienna: 2007. p. 118-123. * 'Von der Etablierung einer Hilfswissenschaft. Provenienzforschung in den österreichischen Bundesmuseen und Sammlungen'. In: Christoph Bazil, Eva Blimlinger et al. (eds.), ...wesentlich mehr Fälle als angenommen. 10 Jahre Kommission für Provenienzforschung. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag 2009. p. 70-84. () * 'Nicht schuldig? Film, Beweis und Urteil'. In: Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Michael Huffmaster, Eric Nordhausen, Vrääth Öhner (eds.): Das Geständnis und seine Instanzen. Zur Bedeutungsverschiebung des Geständnisses im Prozess der Moderne. Vienna: Turia+Kant 2011. p. 85-102. () * 'Elementares Kino: Fünf Notizen zu Hans Richters Rhythmus 21'. In: Forschungsnetzwerk BTWH (eds.): Hans Richters Rhythmus 21. Schlüsselfilm der Moderne. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2012. p. 91-102. () * 'Ökonomie des Überflusses: Der andere neue Mensch'. In: Karin Fest, Sabrina Rahman, Marie-Noëlle Yazdanpanah (eds.): Mies van der Rohe, Richter, Graeff & Co. Alltag und Design in der Avantgardezeitschrift G. Vienna - Berlin: Turia+Kant 2014. p. 132-140. () * 'Wie man einen Film dreht. Anleitungen für Amateure'. In: Siegfried Mattl, Carina Lesky, Vrääth Öhner, Ingo Zechner (eds.): Abenteuer Alltag. Zur Archäologie des Amateurfilms (= FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen 25). Vienna: Synema 2015. p. 17-28. () * 'Warum Israel. Eine Einleitung'. In: Oskar Deutsch (ed.): Die Zukunft Europas und das Judentum. Impulse zu einem gesellschaftlichen Diskurs. Vienna - Cologne - Weimar: Böhlau Verlag 2017. p. 39-52. () * 'Eichmanns Zwischenbilanz'. In: Wolfgang Maderthaner (ed.): Österreich. 99 Dokumente, Briefe, Urkunden. Vienna: Brandstätter Verlag 2018. p. 448-453. ()

External links

Personal Homepage Ingo Zechner

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)

IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (LBIDH)
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