University lecturer and historian at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, institute for cultural studies and theater history. 2005 habilitation in general contemporary history at the University of Graz, lecturer at the universities of Vienna and Graz Visiting professorships at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna (2007) and at the Hebrew University Jerusalem (2009). Numerous publications on memory culture and on Austrian and European history politics.

University lecturer and historian at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, institute for cultural studies and theater history. 2005 habilitation in general contemporary history at the University of Graz, lecturer at the universities of Vienna and Graz Visiting professorships at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna (2007) and at the Hebrew University Jerusalem (2009). Numerous publications on memory culture and on Austrian and European history politics.

Petra Mayrhofer is a contemporary historian and research assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna.

Prof. Dr. Oliver Rathkolb teaches at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and is Chairman of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the House of History Austria.