Christian Rapp (author)

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Christian Rapp (born 1964 in Vienna) is an Austrian author, cultural scientist and exhibition curator.

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Life

Christian Rapp studied theater, media, and art history at the University of Vienna. [1] From 1988 to 1990 he was cultural editor of the "AZ" and the courier. Christian Rapp has been working as an exhibition curator since 1990, focusing on urban history, contemporary history, traffic and tourism history. He curated exhibitions for the Technical Museum Vienna, the Vienna Museum, the Jewish Museum Vienna, the Lower Austrian Provincial Exhibition and others. In 1995 he was with the work Höhenrausch. The German mountain film zum Dr. phil. PhD. Since 2002 he is a lecturer at the Institute for European Ethnology of the University of Vienna. From 2004 to 2008 he was a lecturer in the postgraduate course "ECM-Exhibition and Cultural Communication Management" of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. On 1 January 2018 he followed Stefan Karner as scientific director in the History of Lower Austria and Rapp becomes new leader in the House of History .

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Footnotes

  1. "Christian Rapp" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2018. in einer Presseinformation der Schallaburg


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