Gerald Lamprecht, studied history and social studies and physics in Graz. His research focuses on the Jewish regional history, the history of anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jewish population of Styria during the Nazi era.

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.