Dirk Rupnow

Dirk Rupnow ( * 1972 in Berlin ) is a German historian. He researches and teaches since 2009 as a university- assistant professor, since 2013 as an associate professor at the University of Innsbruck and forwards since 2010 the local Institute for Contemporary History.

Life

Rupnow studied history, German literature, philosophy and art history at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Vienna. He completed his studies in 1999 at the University of Vienna, in 2002 she received her doctorate at the University of Klagenfurt, 2009, the Habilitation again in Vienna. 1999/2000 he worked as a research associate of the Historical Commission of the Republic of Austria. 2000/ 01 he was a Junior Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies IFK, Vienna, 2004-07 postdoctoral fellow in the Austrian Programme for Advanced Research and Technology APART, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2007-09 Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM, Vienna. Since 2007 he was a lecturer, since 2009 lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. In 2008 he was appointed a member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Rupnow completed a variety of guest stays at various research institutions in Europe and the USA: the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College, the History Department at Duke University, at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University and at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Awards

His work has been awarded with international prizes: as 2009 with the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History of the Wiener Library (London ), 2010 with the promotion price of the Tyrol of Science, 2011 " Humanities International " of the Association of German Book Trade.

Writings (selection )

Rupnow has authored numerous publications on contemporary history, The Holocaust and Jewish Studies, Memory Cultures and Politics of History, migration and history of science.

• Jewish research in the Third Reich: Science between politics, propaganda and ideology ( Historical Foundations of Modern, authoritarian regimes and dictatorships 4). Nomos, Baden -Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6421-4.
• History exhibit in Austria. Museums - Memorials - exhibitions, Böhlau, Vienna among other things, 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78531-6 (edited with H. Uhl ).
• Pseudoscience. Conceptions of non- scientific in the History of Science ( Science Paperbacks Suhrkamp 1897). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt aM 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-29497-0 (edited with V. Lipphardt / J. Thiel / Ch. Wessely ).
• Aporias of remembrance. Reflections on 'Holocaust' and memory (Edition parabases Vol 5). Rombach Sciences, Freiburg / Br. Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7930-9466-1.
• Wipe and remembering. Traces of Nazi politics of memory. Wallenstein -Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-871- X.
• The "Central Office for Jewish Emigration " as Beraubungsinstitution. Publications of the Austrian Historical Commission. Expropriation during the Nazi period as well as restitution and compensation since 1945 in Austria ( National Socialist institutions of the asset deprivation Vol 1 20 d.) Oldenbourg, Munich, inter alia, 2004, ISBN 3-486-56784-5 ( with G. Anderl ).
• Offender- victim memory. The " Central Jewish Museum " in Prague from 1942 to 1945. Picus Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3-85452-444-1.