Ingo Zechner

Ingo Zechner ( born December 24, 1972 in Klagenfurt, Austria ) is a philosopher and historian. From January to the beginning of November 2009, he was managing director of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies ( VWI).

From 1991 to 1997 he studied history and philosophy at the University of Vienna; 1997 to 2001 followed by a Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Vienna with Hans -Dieter Bahr. His research interests include time and memory, aesthetics (particularly image science ), philosophy of culture, Cultural Studies and French philosophy ( Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida).

From 2000 to 2008 Zechner worked as a historian for the Jewish Community Vienna. As part of the focal point of the Jewish Community Vienna for Jewish victims of Nazi persecution in and from Austria, which he headed from 2003 to 2008, he occupied himself with Nazi expropriation and restitution. Research focused on art restitution and restitution of properties, the exploration of the assets of the Jewish organizations of Austria, the restoration of the Archive of the Jewish Community Vienna and the conception of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. 2002-2008 was Zechner Member of the Commission for Provenance Research, 2003-2008 member of the Vienna Restitution Commission.

Various teaching activities, 1997-2000 at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Vienna ( together with Hans -Dieter Bahr ), 2003-2004 at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. 2004 Zechner BTWH / IFK Visiting Scholar was the German Department of the University of California, Berkeley. Cooperation in research projects and lectures in Austria and the USA.

Writings (selection )

  • Image and event. Fragments of aesthetics. Vienna: Turia Kant, 1999, ISBN 3-85132-228-2.
  • Deleuze. The singing of becoming. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003 ISBN 3-7705-3915- X.
  • Must be order. The Archive of the Jewish Community Vienna. Jewish Museum Vienna, exhibition catalog 2007 (with Felicitas Heimann- Jelinek and Lothar Hölbling ). ISBN 978-3-901398-45-2
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