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Matthias Marschik (born 1957) is an Austrian cultural studies scholar, media expert and sport historian.
Marschik was born in Vienna. After his Abitur at the Jesuit secondary school Albertus-Magnus-Schule in 1975, Marschik studied law, psychology and art history at the University of Vienna until 1983. After his civil service at the psycho-biological research station of the Psychiatric University Hospital Vienna General Hospital he became a staff member of the Verein für Konsumenteninformation in 1986 while continuing to study psychology. From 1987 on, he worked as a freelancer for newspapers and magazines in Austria. [1]
In 1990, Marschik obtained his doctorate on the topic Literatur gegen Therapie. The following year he was co-founder of the social science research institute Institut für biologische Sozialwissenschaft and from 1991 to 1996, he was a research assistant at the Vienna 'Institut für Schreibpädagogik und Schreibtherapie. In 2003, he completed his habilitation as privatdozent at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Linz; his subject was contemporary history with special emphasis on cultural studies. He holds further visiting professorships and teaching positions at the universities of Vienna, Klagenfurt, Linz, Salzburg and Zurich for among others, psychology, media studies, artistic and industrial design and contemporary history. In his publications he deals with Alltagsgeschichte, especially in the history of sport. [2] [3]
Marschik's special merit is that he introduced Cultural Studies into the history of sport. [4] [5]
Erich Frauwallner was an Austrian professor, a pioneer in the field of Buddhist studies.
Ingo Zechner is a philosopher and historian. He is the Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (LBIDH) in Vienna.
Arnd Krüger is a German professor of sport studies. Krüger earned his BA from UCLA in 1967 and his PhD from the University of Cologne in Germany in 1971. He attended UCLA on a track scholarship, was 10 times German champion, and represented West Germany at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the 1500 metres run, where he reached the semi-final. He was one of the first Germans to be honored as All-American for being part of the UCLA Distance Medley Relay which ran faster than the World Record in 1965.
Ida Raming is a German author, teacher and theologian.
Oliver Jens Schmitt is a professor of South-East European history at Vienna University since 2005. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Friedrich Stadler is an Austrian historian and philosopher and professor for history and philosophy of science at the University of Vienna. He is the founder and long-time director of the Institute Vienna Circle, which was established as a Department of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education of the Vienna University in May 2011. Currently he is a permanent fellow of this department and serves at the same time as the Director of the co-operating Vienna Circle Society, which is the continuation of the former Institute Vienna Circle as an extra-university institution.
Rudolf Anton Haunschmied is an Austrian author and local historian.
Thomas Reinhold is an Austrian painter, one of the initiators of so-called “New Painting”.
Giaco Schiesser is a Zurich-based theorist of cultural and media studies. He is a professor emeritus for cultural theory and media theory and for artistic research of Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK (Switzerland).
Gerhard Rühm is an Austrian author, composer and visual artist.
The Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences was founded in 1904 by the chemist and factory director, Ludwig Camillo Haitinger (1860–1945), who created the award in honor of his father, Karl Ludwig Haitinger. From 1905 to 1943 it was awarded every year, for "studies in chemistry and physics that proved to be of great practical use for industrial applications". The prize was awarded for the last time in the year 1954.
Erich Kirchler is an Italian-Austrian psychologist and Professor of Economic Psychology at the University of Vienna.
Ottilie "Tilly" Spiegel was an Austrian political activist, first as a member of the Communist Party and then as part of the wartime resistance. After her actions had earned her a term of imprisonment during the Austrofascist period she fled the country, ending up as in Paris as a member of the French Resistance. Her parents were murdered by the Nazis but five siblings managed to emigrate to England or to the United States. In 1945 the merger combining Germany and Austria was reversed at the insistence of the occupying powers whose military victory had put an end to the Hitler regime. Tilly Spiegel returned to Vienna and was one of the first researchers to study the histories of victims of National Socialism. Books that she published were frequently consulted and quoted by subsequent researchers.
Ilse Erika Korotin is an Austrian philosopher and sociologist. She researched and published on the history of ideas of Nazism. At the Institute for Science and Art in Vienna, she heads the Documentation Centre for Women's Studies. Her work focuses on feminist biographical research and history of science.
Max Kaser was a German professor of Jurisprudence who taught successively at the universities of Münster, Hamburg and Salzburg. The principal focus of his scholarship and teaching was on Roman law. He became a member of a number of learned societies. In addition, between 1958 and 1992 he was awarded honorary doctorates by no fewer than ten different universities on three different continents. An eleventh honorary doctorate, from the Jurisprudence faculty at the University of Regensburg, was awarded only posthumously, however, in 1999).
Fritz Walden, real name Friedrich Drobilitsch, also Fritz Drobilitsch-Walden and Franz Drobilitsch, was an Austrian publicist, author and cultural editor as well as film, literature, music and theatre critic.
Beatrice von Bismarck is a German art historian, curator, author and professor for art history and Bildwissenschaft.
Georg Hüsing was an Austrian historian and philologist who specialized in Germanic studies and mythography.
Helmut Hentrich was a German architect who became particularly known for his striking high-rise buildings in the 1960s and 1970s. The architectural firm he founded, Hentrich, Petschnigg und Partner (HPP), still exists under the name HPP Architekten.
Michael John is an Austrian historian and exhibitions-curator, internationally known for his research on European and Jewish migration, and on Nazism.