Curators
Dr. Werner Hanak-Lettner
Head curator
Responsibilities
Permanent exhibition project management
Design of temporary exhibition projects
Inventory development: Migration, cultural history, contemporary history
Contact
werner.hanak@jmw.at
Tel.: +43-(0)1-535 04 31 – 119
Research interests
Viennese Jewish history
Migrations and urban history
Music and performing arts
Museology
Dr. Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz
Curator, collection management
Responsibilities
Management of the collections in the Visible Display (three-dimensional objects)
Inventory development: Judaica
Management of permanent exhibition at Museum Judenplatz
Loan request management
Design of temporary exhibition projects
Contact
gabriele.kohlbauer@jmw.at
Tel.: +43-(0)1-535 04 31 – 117
Research interests
Judaica, research on objects in the collection
History and culture of eastern European Jewry
Gender studies
Cultural exhibitions
Dr. Mag. Marcus G. Patka
Curator
Responsibilities
Design of temporary exhibition projects
Development of digital media archive (photographs and films)
Inventory development: culture and modern history
Contact
marcus.patka@jmw.at
Tel.: +43-(0)1-535 04 31 – 116
Research interests
Jewish modern and cultural history in central and eastern Europe, and Israel
Modern historical photographs and documentary films
Exile and Nazi era
Literature, cabaret, music
Human rights, pacifism, social reform, civil society
Mag. Andrea Winklbauer
Curator
Responsibilities
Curator for fine arts within the JMW collection (paintings, graphic art)
Research and extension of inventory of modern and historical art
Design of temporary cultural and art exhibitions
Editing of object database
Contact
andrea.winklbauer@jmw.at
Tel.: +43-(0)1-535 04 31 – 312
Research interests
Art and cultural history since 1789
Pictures as historical sources
Photography, Modernist myths
Viennese avant-garde
International contemporary art
Representations of history
Intellectual cultures
Mag. Maren Waffenschmid
Assistant curator
Responsibilities
Project coordination and assistance with permanent exhibition
Assistance in exhibition planning
Editing of content for the exhibition “Vienna – Jewish Museum – 21st Century – Seven Questions in the Development of a New Permanent Exhibition”
Contact
maren.waffenschmid@jmw.at
Tel.: +43-(0)1-535 04 31 – 126
Research interests
Visitor participation
Communication of the history of the Middle Ages and early modern period
Antique representations of social events
Changes in exhibition media techniques
Modern history
Mag. Alexandra Chava Seymann
Research assistant
Responsibilities
Provenance research
Contact
alexandra.seymann@jmw.at
Tel.: +43-(0)1-535 04 31 – 313
Research interests
Provenance research
Jewish philosophy
Anti-Semitism research, 19th and 20th centuries
Archive
Christa Prokisch
Archive manager, academic library and information expert
Responsibilities
Inventory management and development, archives and documents, registration and classification of archive objects
Database management and administration
Development of a biography database
Research
Responsibility for research questions
User and curator assistance
Cultivation of Contacts with survivors and their descendants
Museum documentation
Contact
christa.prokisch@jmw.at
Tel.: +43-(0)1-535 04 31 – 213
Research interests
Hebrew handwriting (16th–19th century)
History of Vienna Jewish community (1826 – present)
Viennese Jews in organized resistance to Fascism
Jews in Vienna 1938–45
Biographies of Viennese victims/survivors of the Shoah
Mag. Eva Wosobe
Archive assistant
Responsibilities
Digitization
Processing of photo requests
Updating of picture database
Contact
eva.wosobe@jmw.at
Tel.: +43-(0)1-535 04 31 – 124
Library
Dr. Domagoj Akrap
Librarian, research assistant
Responsibilities
Library management (particularly Hebrew and Yiddish books; registration and classification of inventory)
Management of Rara collection
Preliminary provenance research (library)
New acquisitions (Latin and Hebrew alphabets/Yiddish books)
Inventory of Judaica
Visitor support
Contact
domagoj.akrap@jmw.at
Tel.: +43-(0)1-535 04 31 – 412
Research interests
Hebrew printing (particularly in Vienna)
Jewish intellectual history, particularly Jewish mysticism
Jewish thought (particularly 20th century)
Mag. Sabine Frank
Librarian, academic library and information expert
Responsibilities
Library management (particularly Latin alphabet; registration and classification of inventory)
New acquisition of books in Latin alphabet
Preliminary provenance research (library)
Management of Berger collection books
Visitor support
Contact
sabine.frank@jmw.at
Tel.: +43-(0)1-535 04 31 – 414
Research interests
German-Jewish literature (19th and 20th century)
Pnina Schreiber
Librarian, archive assistant
Responsibilities
Dobronyi photo archive
Reader assistance
Contact
pnina.schreiber@jmw.at
Tel.: +43-(0)1-535 04 31 – 413
Restoration
Dr. Bettina Dräxler
Restorer
Restoration, registration, collection management
Responsibilities
Conservation of objects in JMW collections and library
Conservation of objects in temporary exhibitions
Acceptance and registration of loans for exhibitions
Clarification of lending situation and conservation of objects for national and international exhibitions
Coordination of lenders, logistics, and exhibition administration
Supervision of transport of objects loaned from the museum
Coordination of freelance restorers
Contact
bettina.draexler@jmw.at
Tel.: +43-(0)1-535 04 31 – 214
Communication & Education
Hannah Landsmann
Communication & education (manager)
Responsibilities
Organization, supervision, and implementation of communication services for all visitors to the permanent and temporary exhibitions at the JMW and (for school classes) Vienna City Temple
Coaching and workshops for communications team
Workshops for teachers
Exchange and dialog with colleagues from other institutions
Contact
hannah.landsmann@jmw.at
Tel.: +43-(0)1-535 04 31 – 130
Dan Michael Fischman
Communications & Education (assistant)
Responsibilities
Organization, supervision, and implementation of communication services for all visitors to the permanent and temporary exhibitions at the JMW and (for school classes) Vienna City Temple
Coaching and workshops for communications team
Workshops for teachers
Exchange and dialog with colleagues from other institutions
Editing of content for Vienna – Jewish Museum – 21st Century
Management of JMW display window
Contact
dan.fischman@jmw.at
Tel.: +43-(0)1-535 04 31 – 131
Caption
Adam Politzer and his team in action
Photograph, Wiener Allgemeines Krankenhaus, c. 1896, JMW, Inv. No. 52
