Ingo Zechner, born 1972, is a philosopher and historian, who has been serving as Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society (LBIGG, in 2019 transformed into the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History, LBIDH) in Vienna since 2015. He was an academic staff member at the Jewish Community Vienna (2000–2008), the Head of the Community’s Holocaust Victims’ Information and Support Center (2003–2008), and the founding Business Manager of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, VWI (2009). 2013–2016 he was the Associate Director of the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies. Since 2010 he has been a project manager and participant of several research projects, including the project “Ephemeral Films: National Socialism in Austria” (2011–2016), jointly directed with Michael Loebenstein, and the Horizon 2020 project “I-Media-Cities” (2016–2019). Working on American Liberation Footage he was the Raab Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC (2013). He has published two books (on philosophical aesthetics and post-structuralist philosophy), co-edited four volumes, two journals, as well as one exhibition catalogue, and written articles on film, literature, music, archival theory and practice, Holocaust studies and Jewish history.
Participation in Public Deliverables
Participation in Events
Pre-Kick-off MeetingMeeting Friday, 19.10.2018, 09:15 to Saturday, 20.10.2018, 18:00 |
Liberation Footage and the Visualization of the HolocaustPresentation Friday, 30.11.2018, 11:00 |
Kick-off MeetingMeeting Wednesday, 27.02.2019, 09:15 to Friday, 01.03.2019, 20:00 |
Advanced DigitizationWorkshop Wednesday, 20.03.2019, 09:30 to Friday, 22.03.2019, 16:00 |
Curation of Engagement LevelsWorkshop Monday, 20.05.2019, 09:00 to Tuesday, 21.05.2019, 17:00 |
Archival ResearchMini-Workshop Wednesday, 12.06.2019, 13:30 to Thursday, 13.06.2019, 18:00 |
Taxonomy of RelationsWorkshop Monday, 19.08.2019, 13:30 to Tuesday, 20.08.2019, 17:00 |
Archival Research in Eastern European ArchivesMini-Workshop Monday, 14.10.2019, 13:30 to Tuesday, 15.10.2019, 17:00 |
MetadataWorkshop Monday, 21.10.2019, 09:00 to Tuesday, 22.10.2019, 16:00 |
VocabulariesWorkshop Thursday, 21.11.2019, 13:45 to Friday, 22.11.2019, 17:00 |
Bilder der Befreiung. Liberation Footage - Atrocity PicturesScreening and Discussion Monday, 09.12.2019, 10:00 to Monday, 09.12.2019, 12:00 |
Allied Attempts to Cover Nazi Crimes on Film. What Questions can the Footage Answer?Workshop Friday, 13.12.2019, 10:30 to Sunday, 15.12.2019, 13:00 |
CitaviWorkshop Thursday, 13.02.2020, 13:15 to Friday, 14.02.2020, 17:30 |
NonAV Metadata (Citavi)Mini-Workshop Wednesday, 27.05.2020, 13:00 to Wednesday, 27.05.2020, 17:00 |
In Focus: Approaching the Visual History of the Holocaust through Digital TechnologyPresentation Tuesday, 24.11.2020, 16:00 to Tuesday, 24.11.2020, 17:30 |
Engaging with the Visual History of the Holocaust Through Digital Curation: The Case of the VHH-Media Management and Search InfrastructurePresentation Tuesday, 08.12.2020, 17:30 to Tuesday, 08.12.2020, 17:50 |
Text AnalysisMini-Workshop Tuesday, 12.01.2021, 09:30 to Tuesday, 12.01.2021, 13:00 |
Relation DetectionMini-Workshop Tuesday, 26.01.2021, 14:00 to Tuesday, 26.01.2021, 17:00 |
Exploitation RoadmapMini-Workshop Tuesday, 02.02.2021, 09:30 to Tuesday, 02.02.2021, 13:00 |
The VHH Horizon 2020 Innovation ActionPresentation Wednesday, 10.02.2021, 10:00 to Wednesday, 10.02.2021, 12:00 |
Advanced Digitization: Tool Kit & Best Practice ModelsPresentation Friday, 19.02.2021, 11:00 to Friday, 19.02.2021, 12:00 |
Consortium MeetingMeeting Tuesday, 23.02.2021, 15:00 to Wednesday, 24.02.2021, 19:00 |
VHH Research Seminar – Session 1: The Making of Majdanek – Cemetery of Europe (1944)Research Seminar Thursday, 25.02.2021, 16:00 to Thursday, 25.02.2021, 18:00 |
VHH Research Seminar – Session 2: Dziga Vertov’s Blood for Blood (1941) in the Interval of Fall 1941Research Seminar Friday, 26.03.2021, 16:00 to Friday, 26.03.2021, 18:00 |
VHH Research Seminar – Session 3: Soviet Footage on Nazi Crimes and Its Textual Documentation: Identification and Research IssuesResearch Seminar Tuesday, 06.04.2021, 16:00 to Tuesday, 06.04.2021, 18:00 |
Unfolding the Visual History of the Holocaust through American Liberation FootagePresentation Thursday, 08.04.2021, 13:00 to Thursday, 08.04.2021, 14:30 |
VHH Research Seminar – Session 4: Un-Seen: The Manyfold Lives of a 1943 Deportation Film Footage across the East-West DivideResearch Seminar Tuesday, 18.05.2021, 16:00 to Tuesday, 18.05.2021, 18:00 |
VHH Research Seminar – Session 5: Soviet Filmed Atrocity Images on American Movie Screens, 1942–1945, and Some Partial Answers to the Questions of What, When, Where and By Whom?Research Seminar Tuesday, 15.06.2021, 18:00 to Tuesday, 15.06.2021, 20:00 |
Relational MemoriesPanel Friday, 09.07.2021, 10:00 to Friday, 09.07.2021, 12:00 |
Reconsidering Representations of the Holocaust – Digital Curation, Evidence and Remembrance Through the VHH ProjectRoundtable Tuesday, 12.10.2021, 16:00 to Tuesday, 12.10.2021, 17:30 |
Digital Transformation of Analog FilmPresentation Tuesday, 19.10.2021, 18:00 to Tuesday, 19.10.2021, 18:20 |
VHH Research Seminar – Session 6: Towards a Forensic CinemaResearch Seminar Tuesday, 26.10.2021, 16:00 to Tuesday, 26.10.2021, 18:00 |
Dunkles Erbe: Digitales Kuratieren von Holocaust-FilmenPresentation Thursday, 04.11.2021, 15:30 to Thursday, 04.11.2021, 15:30 |
VHH Research Seminar – Session 7: How to Tell the Story of Liberated Concentration Camps: On the Written Documents of British Cameramen and FilmmakersResearch Seminar Tuesday, 23.11.2021, 16:00 to Tuesday, 23.11.2021, 18:00 |
Die Todesmühlen (1945)Screening Wednesday, 05.01.2022 to Wednesday, 05.01.2022 |
Digitales KuratierenPresentation Thursday, 21.04.2022, 10:30 to Thursday, 21.04.2022, 12:00 |
Tracing Visual Evidence of the Holocaust: Challenges of the Digital Curation of Liberation Footage across Archives and DisciplinesPanel Tuesday, 26.04.2022, 09:00 to Tuesday, 26.04.2022, 10:30 |
VHH Research Seminar – Session 10: Between Fiction and History: Ethical Questions during the Historical Research for Son of SaulResearch Seminar Thursday, 28.04.2022, 16:00 to Thursday, 28.04.2022, 18:00 |
Moving Images from the Archives. Historical Footage of Nazi Crimes in DocumentariesConference Sunday, 08.05.2022, 18:00 to Tuesday, 10.05.2022, 17:00 |
VHH Research Seminar – Session 11: By Filming, by Writing. Photographic Testimonies of the Nazi CampsResearch Seminar Thursday, 09.06.2022, 16:00 to Thursday, 09.06.2022, 18:00 |
VHH Research Seminar – Session 12: Writing the History of the Holocaust and of Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied KharkivResearch Seminar Thursday, 16.06.2022, 16:00 to Thursday, 16.06.2022, 18:00 |
Migrating Images and Image Migration: How Popular Culture Shapes the Visual History of the HolocaustConference Monday, 12.09.2022, 18:00 to Wednesday, 14.09.2022, 20:00 |
Documenting Nazi Crimes through Film: Soviet Union, 1942–1945Conference Thursday, 24.11.2022, 09:30 to Sunday, 27.11.2022, 16:30 |
Von Bildern extremer Gewalt und vom digitalen KuratierenPresentation Friday, 27.01.2023, 18:00 to Friday, 27.01.2023, 20:00 |
RememberScreening Friday, 27.01.2023, 20:30 to Friday, 27.01.2023, 22:30 |
Holocaust Remembrance Day – Digitales KuratierenPresentation Friday, 27.01.2023, 09:00 to Friday, 27.01.2023, 12:30 |
Das Fortunoff Video Archive, Überlebende und "archivarischer Aktivismus"Presentation Sunday, 29.01.2023, 15:00 |
Kinodokumenty o zverstvach nemecko-fašistskich zachvatčikov (Die von den deutsch-faschistischen Invasoren verübten Gräueltaten)Screening Sunday, 29.01.2023, 18:00 |
Film als Zeuge?Panel Discussion, Presentation Wednesday, 03.05.2023, 18:30 to Wednesday, 03.05.2023, 20:30 |
Participation in Media Reports
Filmdokumente des Holocaust werden digital aufbereitetDer Standard, Thursday, 02.08.2018 |
Neuartiges Archiv für Holocaust-Filmescience.orf.at, Thursday, 02.08.2018 |
Online-Archiv zu Holocaust-Dokumenten geplantORF-Radio Ö1, Wissen aktuell, Thursday, 02.08.2018 |
Stumme Bilder des Holocaust sichtbar machenDie Presse, Saturday, 04.08.2018 |
Kulturzeit extra: Auschwitz und wir – Wie der Shoah gedenken?3sat, Thursday, 27.01.2022 |
Wie umgehen mit Bildern des Holocaust?Der Standard, Friday, 27.01.2023 |
ZIB 2: Die visuelle Geschichte des MassenmordesORF ZIB 2, Friday, 27.01.2023 |
Film als Zeuge des Holocaust?ORF-Radio Ö1, Kulturjournal, Wednesday, 03.05.2023 |
Participation in Videos
Advanced Digitization: Tool Kit & Best Practice ModelsFriday, 19.02.2021 |
Unfolding the Visual History of the Holocaust through American Liberation Footage (1/4): IntroductionThursday, 08.04.2021 |
Unfolding the Visual History of the Holocaust through American Liberation Footage (4/4): Advanced Digitization & the VHH-MMSIThursday, 08.04.2021 |
Annotating and linking – Establishing relations in the Visual History of the Holocaust Media Management and Search InfrastructureFriday, 09.07.2021 |
Digital Transformation of Analog FilmTuesday, 19.10.2021 |
Dunkles Erbe: Digitales Kuratieren von Holocaust-FilmenThursday, 04.11.2021 |
Digital Humanities and the Archive: Datafication and Curation of “Non Feature” Film Documents, Transhuman Agents, Historiographical Challenges – and ChancesTuesday, 26.04.2022 |
Welcome to the ConferenceThursday, 24.11.2022 |
Vom Bildgedächtnis und von seinen digitalen TransformationenFriday, 27.01.2023 |
Automatisierte digitale ErschließungFriday, 27.01.2023 |
