Heidemarie Uhl, Mag. phil. Dr. phil. Tel.   (+43 1) 515 81 – 3317 e-Mail   heidemarie.uhl@oeaw.ac.at

Born 1956 in Feldbach/Steiermark. M.A.-level studies in History and German Philology at Graz University. Since 1988 Researcher at the Department of Contemporary History at Graz University. Since 1989 Lecturer at Graz University. Collaborator in the Special Research Program Modernity. Vienna and Central Europe around 1900, 1994–2000. Since January 2001 Collaborator at the Commission for Culture Studies and History of Theatre (Austrian Academy of Sciences). Habilitation (Contemporary History) at Graz University 2005.

Responsibilities at IKT
Basic Research, Media Management, Cooperation, Conferences/Workshops.

Areas of Specialization
Studies in Memory, National Socialism, Theory of Cultural Studies, Culture and Identity in Central Europe around 1900.

Books
Zwischen Versöhnung und Verstörung. Eine Kontroverse um Österreichs historische Identität fünfzig Jahre nach dem Anschluß, Wien-Köln-Weimar 1992. (ed. together with S. RIESENFELLNER), Todeszeichen. Zeitgeschichtliche Denkmalkultur in Graz und in der Steiermark vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart, Wien-Köln-Weimar 1994 (Kulturstudien bei Böhlau. Sonderband 19); (ed.) Kultur – Urbanität – Moderne. Differenzierungen der Moderne in Zentraleuropa um 1900, Wien 1999 (Studien zur Moderne 4); (ed. together with A. SENARCLENS DE GRANCY), Moderne als Konstruktion. Debatten, Diskurse, Positionen um 1900, Wien 2001 (Studien zur Moderne 14); (ed. together with J. FEICHTINGER, E. GROSSEGGER, G. MARINELLI-KÖNIG, P. STACHEL), Schauplatz Kultur – Zentraleuropa. Transdisziplinäre Annäherungen, Innsbruck u.a. 2006 (Gedächtnis – Erinnerung – Identität 7).

Projects at IKT

(1) Culture of Memory at the End of the 20th Century. Transformations of Social Memory on a Comparative European Scale
(2) Continuity and Transformation. The Austrian Academy of Sciences in the 20^th Century
(3) Topography of the Shoah. Memorial sites of Destroyed Jewish Vienna
(4) The Mauthausen Seminar: Representing and Exhibiting History at Memorial Sites

Publications

since 1999      before 1999