Ingo Zechner

Ingo Zechner (born December 24, 1972 in Klagenfurt, Austria) is a philosopher and historian, until 2009 Business Manager of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI).

Life

From 1991 until 1997 Zechner studied History 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 United States.

Publications (Selection)

Monographs

Exhibition Catalogs

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