Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff

A one-year apprenticeship enabled her to become a curator in the painting and graphic collection of the Historical Museum, Frankfurt.

In 1990, she did a substitute professorship at the University of Oldenburg, and in 1992, a collaboration at the Institute of Cultural Studies Essen.

Schmidt-Linsenhoff became Professor of Art History at the University of Trier with a focus on women's research from 1992 until her retirement in 2008.

The Center for Postcolonial and Gender Studies (CePoG) was founded at University of Trier on her initiative in 2005 and she remained on its advisory board until her death.

Schmidt-Linsenhoff research projects included: In 2008, together with her partner, the filmmaker Dieter Reifarth, she directed the film The Court.