Ingo Zechner
Encyclopedia
Ingo Zechner is a philosopher
and historian
, until 2009 Business Manager of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI).
and Philosophy
at the University of Vienna
; from 1997 until 2001 he completed a PhD Program in Philosophy at the University of Vienna supervised by Hans-Dieter Bahr.
Research topics: Time
and Memory
, Esthetics (especially Images
), Cultural Studies
, Modern French Philosophy (Michel Foucault
, Gilles Deleuze
, Jacques Derrida
etc.), Holocaust Studies, National Socialist Deprivation of Property and Restitution
.
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
. 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 (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.
Various teaching activities, 1997 – 2000 at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna (together with Hans-Dieter Bahr), since 2003 at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna.
2004 he was a BTWH/IFK-Visiting Scholar at the German Department of the University of California, Berkeley
.
He is a participant at various research projects and holds lectures in Austria
and the USA.
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
and historian
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, until 2009 Business Manager of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI).
Life
From 1991 until 1997 Zechner studied HistoryHistory
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
and Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
at the University of Vienna
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
; from 1997 until 2001 he completed a PhD Program in Philosophy at the University of Vienna supervised by Hans-Dieter Bahr.
Research topics: Time
Time
Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....
and Memory
Memory
In psychology, memory is an organism's ability to store, retain, and recall information and experiences. Traditional studies of memory began in the fields of philosophy, including techniques of artificially enhancing memory....
, Esthetics (especially Images
Image
An image is an artifact, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person.-Characteristics:...
), Cultural Studies
Cultural studies
Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its historical foundations, conflicts, and defining traits. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural...
, Modern French Philosophy (Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
, Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze , was a French philosopher who, from the early 1960s until his death, wrote influentially on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus , both co-written with Félix...
, Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...
etc.), Holocaust Studies, National Socialist Deprivation of Property and Restitution
Restitution
The law of restitution is the law of gains-based recovery. It is to be contrasted with the law of compensation, which is the law of loss-based recovery. Obligations to make restitution and obligations to pay compensation are each a type of legal response to events in the real world. When a court...
.
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
The law of restitution is the law of gains-based recovery. It is to be contrasted with the law of compensation, which is the law of loss-based recovery. Obligations to make restitution and obligations to pay compensation are each a type of legal response to events in the real world. When a court...
. 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 (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.
Various teaching activities, 1997 – 2000 at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna (together with Hans-Dieter Bahr), since 2003 at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna.
2004 he was a BTWH/IFK-Visiting Scholar at the German Department of the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
.
He is a participant at various research projects and holds lectures in Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
and the USA.
Monographs
- Bild und Ereignis. Fragmente einer Aesthetik. Vienna: Turia+Kant 1999. 249 pages. (ISBN 3-85132-228-2)
- Deleuze. Der Gesang des Werdens. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2003. 222 pages. (ISBN 3-7705-3915-X)
Exhibition Catalogs
- Ordnung muss sein. Das Archiv der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien. Jewish Museum Vienna, Exhibition Catalog 2007 (together with Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Lothar Hoelbling). 198 pages. (ISBN 978-3-901398-45-2)
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. (ISBN 3706515679)
- '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. (ISBN 3-85132-379-3)
- '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. (ISBN 3770541421)
- '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. (ISBN 3-70651956-9)
- '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 (ISBN 3-85476-185-6)
- '"White Negro" und "Negro White": Mailer, Fassbinder, Sirk, Vian'. In: Blackness, transnational, ed. by Sabine Mueller (= Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fuer Geschichtswissenschaften. 17. Jahrgang, 4/2006). Innsbruck: Studien Verlag 2006. p. 51-67. (ISBN 978-3-7065-4264-7)
- 'Die Sprachlosigkeit des anderen – Mobilitaet und Uebersetzung in Hans-Christian Schmids Film "Lichter"'. In: Klaus Mueller-Richter, Ramona Uritescu-Lombard (Hrsg.), Imaginaere Topografien. Migration und Verortung. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2007, p. 161-176. (ISBN 978-3-89942-594-9)
- '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. Jewish Museum Vienna, Exhibition Catalog 2007. p. 16-19. (ISBN 978-3-901398-45-2)
- '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. Jewish Museum Vienna, Exhibition Catalog 2007. p. 29-34. (ISBN 978-3-901398-45-2)
- '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. Wien: 2007. S. 118-123.