Ingo Zechner

Research topics: time and memory, aesthetics (especially visual culture), film, digital media and Holocaust Studies.

Further research on the concept of modernity in the fields of Cultural Studies and Post-structuralism (Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida etc.).

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).

Until November 2009 he was the Business Manager of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI).

Ingo Zechner (left) at the press conference announcing the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies in June 2006