Danielle Spera

Danielle Spera ( born August 10, 1957 in Vienna) is an Austrian communications scientist, journalist and director of the Jewish Museum Vienna.

Life and work

Spera has a Jewish father, attended a private Catholic school and has converted to Judaism later. Then studied for two semesters English and French at the University of Vienna before finally moving to journalism and political science. She received her PhD in 1983, the topic of her thesis was the election campaigns of the Social Democratic Party in the interwar period. From 1990 to 2002, Danielle Spera lecturer at the Institute of Journalism of the University of Vienna.

While studying Spera began in 1978 to work at the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. After two years in the foreign desk of the period in Figure 2, she moved to the newsreel, from where they returned again in 1983, the foreign desk. This was followed by tours as a reporter to Central America, Greece and Cyprus before 1987 ORF correspondent in the United States. In its correspondent time, the Watch List decision was made against the former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. In 1988, she returned to the ORF Centre to Vienna and started the main news program of the ORF, to moderate the time in Figure 1. A position she held until June 2010. Moderation your partner were Horst Friedrich Mayer, Josef Broukal, Martin Traxl and finally Tarek Leitner. Danielle Spera also hosted the weekly magazine Focus and representation, the time in Figure 2 From 1985 to December 2009, she was television editor spokeswoman and TV editor Councillor, her successor Dieter Bornemann was chosen.

Since 2000, she writes for the Jewish culture magazine Nu, whose co-founder is. 2006-2008 led Danielle Spera talks with prominent artists in the city theater Walfischgasse. In October 2006, she appeared in literature in the fog with Salman Rushdie. It also introduced through readings of children's books by Mira Lobe.

After the line of the Jewish Museum Vienna had been advertised in the autumn of 2009, was on 29 November 2009 announced that it will take over on July 1, 2010, the line. You stood up to fourteen other candidates. She was also preferred candidate by Renate Brauner, which is for the Wien Holding, the owner of the museum, in charge. Her projects included the renovation of the museum in 2010 and 2011 Jews space of the museum in Dorotheergasse each with a new permanent exhibition.

Spera is married to the psychoanalyst Martin Engelberg since 1994 and has three children ( the daughters Rachel and Deborah, and son Sammy ).

Other activities

Since April 2013 Danielle Spera is the university council of the Medical University of Innsbruck and was elected in November 2013 as the new president of ICOM Austria.

Awards

1992 and 2007 she received the Austrian Television Award Romy as a popular presenter.

Publications

• Hermann Nitsch. Life and work. Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna, 1999 and 2005, ISBN 3-85498-434-0.