Siglinde Bolbecher

Siglinde Bolbecher (18 June 1952 – 6 July 2012) was an Austrian historian, exile researcher and poet.

In the early 1980s, she was co-founder (and later vice-chairwoman) of the Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft [de] and of the Verein zur Förderung und Erforschung der Antifaschistischen Literatur [de], whose fate she also helped to steer until her death.

Bolbecher was a freelancer at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance for several years and taught at the Federal Academy for Social Work in Vienna.

She has conceived and organised numerous conferences, among others: "Gespräch über die Rückkehr" (2005 and 2006).

[2][3] On 21 March 2012, she was awarded the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria in recognition of her significant contribution "to the research and dissemination of Austrian exile literature".