Dr. Danielle Engelberg-Spera Director Curriculum Vitae Since July 1, 2010 CEO of the Jewish Museum Vienna 1978 2010 journalist, reporter and anchorwoman for the Austrian National Public Service Broadcasting Network ORF 1988 2010 anchorwoman of the primetime television newscast Zeit im Bild, foreign news correspondent among others in the Middle East 1999 2010 spokeswoman for all TV journalists of ORF 1987/88 correspondent and deputy manager of the ORF office in Washington, D.C. for TV and radio 1985 2010 spokeswoman for all editors of Zeit im Bild 1983 PhD theses on Austrian Election Campaigns between 1918 and 1930 1976 1983 Studies of Journalism and Political Science at University of Vienna Curator of exhibitions by the Jewish Museum Vienna Jewish Geniuses: Warhol s Jews. Museo della Comunità ebraica di Trieste (June 19 December 31, 2017) together with Dr. Astrid Peterle Horowitz. 50 years of portrait photos. Museum Judenplatz (December 2, 2016 May 28, 2017) From Generation to Generation. Arik Brauer s New Pesach Haggadah. Festival of Tolerance Zagreb (April 3 April 13, 2017) Lessing presents Lessing. Centrum Wykladowe Politechniki Poznanskiej (February 24 March 30, 2017) Lessing presents Lessing. Municipal Museum Wroclaw (January 30 February 19, 2017) A Good Day. Installation by Andrew M. Mezvinsky. Festival of Tolerance Zagreb (January 27 February 10, 2017) Lessing presents Lessing. Österreich-Tage Gdansk (December 2 December 18, 2016) Lessing presents Lessing. Jewish Museum Galicia (October 18 November 27, 2016) 1
From Generation to Generation. Arik Brauer s New Pesach Haggadah. Galerie Creart Bucharest (April 5 April 15, 2016) The Jewish Museum Vienna on International Court: Erich Lessing. Andrew Mezvinsky. Austrian Cultural Forum Washington (January 21 March 18, 2016) Erich Lessing. Andrew Mezvinsky. The Jewish Museum on 52nd Street. Austrian Cultural Forum New York (September 30, 2015 January 03, 2016) Lessing presents Lessing. Museum Judenplatz (April 29, 2015 September 6, 2015) The Südbahnhotel The Faded Days of the Magic Mountain. Photographs by Yvonne Oswald. Museum Judenplatz (September 9, 2014 January 2015) From Generation to Generation. Arik Brauer s New Pesach Haggadah. Palais Eskeles (January 22 May 25, 2014) A Good Day. Installation by Andrew M. Mezvinsky. Museum Judenplatz (November 6, 2013 March 02, 2014) TATIANA LECOMTE וצילום.צלם Museum Judenplatz (May 23 October 27, 2013) Jewish Geniuses. Warhol s Jews. Museum Judenplatz (March 14 October 28, 2012) together with Astrid Peterle The Waiting Room of Hope. The Rothschild Hospital in November 1947. Photographs by Henry Ries. Palais Eskeles (October 19, 2012 February 17, 2013) Today in Vienna. Harry Weber revisited. Gailtaler Heimatmuseum Hermagor. September/October 2012. General Artistic Exhibition Directorship Shelter! Architecture of Survival. 2017 Buy from Jews! Story of a Viennese store culture. 2017 Trude&Elvis. Wien Memphis Hollywood. 2017. The Better Half: Jewish Women Artists before 1938. 2016. The Glück Family Living Room. 2016. When Past Meets Present. Exhibition at the residence of the State of Israel in Vienna. 2016. Viennese Synagogues: A Memory. 2016. Stars of David. The Sound of the 20 th Century. 2016 Roads to Leisure. Entertainment in the Prater and the City. 2016. 2
The University. A Combat Zone. 2015 Post41. Reports from Litzmannstadt Ghetto. 2015 Wiesenthal in Vienna. 2015 Transit. The Iranians in Vienna. Photographs by Christine de Grancy. 2015 Ringstrasse. A Jewish Boulevard. 2015 200 und 20 the library of the Jewish Museum. 2014 Kosher for Eating and Tradition in Judaism. 2014. Tales of 2 Cities. An exhibition in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow and Memorial Society. 2014/2015. Doomsday. Jewish Life and Death in World War I. 2014. Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait, 2014 (in cooperation with the Jewish Museum London) Our City! Jewish Vienna then to now. 2013 Euphoria and Unease. Jewish Vienna and Richard Wagner. 2013 Chawerim Chasak! Centennial of the Haschomer Hatzair Jewish Youth Movement. 2013 All MESHUGGE? Jewish Wit and Humor. 2013 Foreigners Everywhere. Contemporary Art from the Pomeranz-Collection. 2012 Vienna s Shooting Girls. Jewish Women Photographers from Vienna. 2012 The Vienna Woods in Israel. 110 years Keren Kayemeth Leisrael. 2012 Visible Storage revisited. 2011 From Alef to Tav From Beginning to End. The Atelier at the Jewish Museum Vienna. 2011 LARGER THAN LIFE. 100 years of Hollywood. A Jewish experience. 2011 Being Jewish. Vienna Jewish Identity Project. Photos by Peter Rigaud. 2010 On your marks! Get Set!! Go!!! Jewish sport. Maccabi-Games. 2010 Additional Occupations Since November 2013 President of ICOM Austria Since April 2013 Universitätsrätin (member of the university s council) of Innsbruck Medical University Since 2013 member of the program advisory board of arte-geie 3
Since 2011 member of the advisory board of the Nitsch Foundation Since 2010 member of the artistic and academic advisory board of ORF III Since 2010 member of the executive commitee of VWI (Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust Studien) Since 2000 author at the Jewish magazine NU 2004 2009 series of talks with Austrian and international artists at Stadttheater Walfischgasse, Vienna 1990 2002 lecturer at the Institute of Journalism at University of Vienna Eulogies at award ceremonies (e.g. Chief Rabbi Paul Chaim Eisenberg, Arik Brauer, Anita Ammersfeld) Opening addresses at art and cultural events and openings Hostess of different events Speeches, panel participations and symposia (selection) Opening address for the exhibition Hermann Nitsch: Unter den Bergen at arlberg1800 Contemporary Art & Concert Hall. St. Anton am Arlberg. July 2017. Lecture at RAC Hofburg-St.Stephen, June 2017. Lecture Remembrance and Renewal. Communicating Life and History at the Jewish Museum Vienna at the Austrian Consulate General New York, May 2017. Opening speech at the ICOM spring seminar in Vienna at Leopold Museum, May 2017. Opening speech for the exhibition Lessing presents Lessing at the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin, April 2017. Opening speech for the exhibition From Generation to Generation. The New Pesach Haggadah by Arik Brauer at the Museum of Arts and Crafts Zagreb, April 2017. Speech at the memorial ceremony at University Innsbruck, March 2017. Lecture Die Vermittlung von jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur Chancen & Grenzen am Beispiel des Jüdischen Museums Wien as part of the establishment of a regional museum for Bad Erlach and the Bucklige Welt region, March 2017. Opening speech for the exhibition Yigal Ozeri, Gallery Hilger Vienna, February 2017. Lecture Jewish Vienna. Broken Heritage. Dynamic Present at the conference Urban Planning and Tourism Consumption: 160 Years for the Ringstrasse in Vienna, Hebrew University Jerusalem, November 2016. 4
Stage talk Nitsch trifft Spera Ritual und Religion at Nitsch Museum Mistelbach, November 2016. Project presentation Die alte Synagoge Linz ein virtueller Rundgang, Ars Electronica Center Linz, November 2016. Panel discussion with Robert Schindel Die Geschichte der Gerti Schindel, Arbeitswelt Steyr, November 2016. Panel discussion Nur noch ein Gott kann uns retten at the Philosophicum Lech, September 2016. Lecture "Jewish Vienna: Just a Museum or a Living Community?" at the Hebrew College/University of Southern California. Los Angeles, September 2016. Panel discussion with Kilian Kleinschmidt Klub für Frauen, June 2016. Lecture at the Rotaract Club Blue Danube-Niederösterreich, May 2016. Panel discussion with Marko Feingold in memory of the victims of the Shoah, Austrian parliament, May 2016. Opening speech for the exhibition Maya Zack: Counterlight. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, April 2016. Host of the award ceremony Die Gerechten unter den Völkern, Vienna, March 2016. Lecture Jewish Museum Contemporary. Zeitgenössische Kunst im Jüdischen Museum Wien, Auktionshaus Ressler, Vienna, February 2016. Lecture at the Deutsche Schule Washington D.C., January 2016. Panel discussion with Thomas Ebeling, Wiener Gespräche, Vienna, Dezember 2015. Lecture Die jüdischen Künstler der École de Paris, Artcurial Vienna, November 2015. Lecture Oppenheimer, Ephrussi, Gutmann und... wie jüdische Persönlichkeiten die Entwicklung der Stadtgeschichte Wiens geprägt haben, Gutmann Money Talk, Vienna, November 2015. Lecture in memory of the November pogromes. Katholisch Pädagogische Hochschule Vienna/Krems, November 2015. Round Table Provenance Research, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, September 2015. Panel discussion REWE-Stakeholder-Forum, September 2015. Graduation Speech for the Lauder Business School Vienna, June 2015. Lecture Jewish Vienna just a museum or a living community?, Polin Museum Warsaw, May 2015. Opening speech at the Martin Buber Kolloquium, IRPA Vienna, May 2015. 5
Host of the exhibition opening Tracey Emin. Where I Want to Go at Leopold Museum Vienna, April 2015. Eulogy for Arik Brauer at the Amadeus Music Award, March 2015. Chair of a panel at the conference Antisemitismus in Österreich 1933 1938, Juridicum Vienna, March 2015. Lecture Das jüdische Wien. Bildungshaus St. Magdalena Linz, March 2015. Opening speech for Chagall. Lithografien, Radierungen, Holzschnitte. Kunsthandel Giese und Schweiger Vienna. February 2015. Lecture at Literatur und Kaffee. Quo vadis. Vienna, February 2015. Talk with Haya Molcho during the exhibition Kosher for Eating and Tradition in Judaism. Vienna, January 2015. Panel discussion Warhol s Jewish Geniuses in conjunction with the Jewish Museum of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne, November 2014. Opening address for Femmes Immortelles. Photographs by Gabriele Seethaler. Galerie Suppan Contemporary. Vienna, October 2014. Panel discussion with Josef Ackermann for Wiener Gespräche, Vienna, October 2014. Panel discussion Leadership Beyond Limits in conjunction with the mentoring program of Österreichische Post AG. Vienna, October 2014. Wiener Salon, Vienna Tourist Board. London, October 2014. Das jüdische Wien for the program Geist und Gegenwart. Graz, Juni 2014. Opening speech for the exhibition Im besten Einvernehmen. Villach, 2014. Lecturer at the Lauder Business Forum, Lauder Business School Wien, May 2014. Lecture Aspekte zu Leben und Sterben im Judentum at the spring symposium of the Franziskanerinnen Vöcklabruck, 2014. Keynote Außerschulische Lernorte am Beispiel des Jüdischen Museums Wien at the oead Tagung Schule grenzenlos, 2014. Lecture Das jüdische Österreich: Nur im Museum oder eine lebendige Gemeinde? at the Management Club Linz, 2014. Panel discussion Metamorphosen des Antisemitismus at Wiener Vorlesungen, 2013. Commencement Speech, AIS, 2013. Presentation at Women in Rotary, 2013. Lecture at St. Severin Akademie. Catholic University Linz, 2013. Lecture at Kepler Salon Linz, 2012. 6
Presentation at Shalom-Music between Friends, Stift Altenburg, 2012. Lecture Das Jüdische Wien nur im Museum?, Heimatmuseum Gailtal/Hermagor, 2012. Opening address for the exhibition Hermann Nitsch: STRUKTUREN. Leopold-Museum Wien, 2011. Presentation at 125 Jahre Johann Böhm ceremony, Parliament 2011. Presentation at the ceremony for the Gerechte unter den Völkern, Austrian Parliament, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013. Presentation at KULTUR MACHT MENSCH, 2010. Presentation at Jewish Film Festival, 2010. Lecture at Jewish Vienna-Past and Present, American Jewish Committee Los Angeles, 2010. Eulogy for the exhibition Juden, Christen und Muslime at the Austrian National Library, 2010. Presentation at 50 years Bnei Brith Österreich, 2010. Presentation at Frauen im Leben, Thora-Talmud-Schule, 2009 and 2010. Austria presentation at the Trilaterales Zentrum IDC-Herzlya, Townhall Vienna, 2010. Panel on the collection Herbert, Joanneum 2006. Presentation at comsult, 2006 2010. Presentation at FBA, 2006 2009. Presentation at International Women s Day, 2008. Presentation at 50 Years Geneva Convention, 2005. Conversation with Amos Oz at Gespräche für den Frieden. Karl Kahane Stiftung. 2005. Presentation at 135 Years ÖRAG, 2006. Presentation at St. Pöltner Demokratiegespräche, 2001. Presentation at Paragraph 175 NS repression of homosexuals, 2001. Presentation at Wiener Energieforum, 2000. Presentation at Demokratie in Österreich wohin? Austrian Parliament, 1999. Presentation at CDA-Mobility, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1998. Presentation at the Management Symposia for Women in Zurich, 1988 1990. Lecture Does Gender affect Performance at the International Conference of Journalists, Washington, 1986. 7
Publications Displaced in Austria. Jewish Refugees since 1945. Wiener Jahrbuch für jüdische Geschichte, Kultur und Museumswesen, Volume 11 2015/16 (together with Dr. Werner Hanak-Lettner). Horowitz. 50 years of portrait photos. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2016. Viennese Synagogues: A Memory. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2016 (together with Prof. Bob Martens, DI Herbert Peter and Dr. Werner Hanak-Lettner). Wiesenthal in Vienna. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2015. Lessing presents Lessing. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2015. Maya Zack. The Shabbat Room. Vienna 2014. The Südbahnhotel The Faded Days of the Magic Mountain. Photographs by Yvonne Oswald. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2014. Jewish Museums Past and Future. Wiener Jahrbuch für jüdische Geschichte, Kultur und Museumswesen, Volume 10-2013/14 (together with Dr. Werner Hanak-Lettner). Our City! Jewish Vienna then to now. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2013. A Good Day. Installation Andrew M. Mezvinsky. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2013. TATIANA LECOMTE וצילום.צלם Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2013. meeting : jedermann. rabinovich revisited. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2013. Muzeon. Vienna 2012. Jewish Geniuses. Warhol s Jews. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2012. Hermann Nitsch. Leben und Arbeit. Vienna 1999 and 2005. Essays (selection) Architecture of an Existential Threat. Publication accompanying the exhibition Shelter! Architecture of Survival. Vienna 2017. Counterpoles / Widerstäbe. Brochure accompanying the Baden memorial by Peter Kozek. Baden 2017. Buy from Jews! Story of a Viennese store culture. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2017. Trude&Elvis. Wien Memphis Hollywood. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2017. The Better Half: Jewish Women Artists before 1938. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2016. 8
The Glück Family Living Room. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2016. Viennese Synagogues: A Memory. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2016. Stars of David. The Sound of the 20 th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2016. Vom Ankommen und Bleiben. In: Die Presse am Sonntag, March 20, 2016. Roads to Leisure. Entertainment in the Prater and the City. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2016. The University. A Combat Zone. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2015. Wiesenthal in Vienna. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2015. Transit. The Iranians in Vienna. Photographs by Christine de Grancy. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2015. Ringstrasse. A Jewish Boulevard. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2015. Tales of 2 Cities. An exhibition in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow and Memorial Society. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2015. 200 und 20 the Library of the Jewish Museum. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2014. Kosher for Eating and Tradition in Judaism. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2014. Anatevka. Playbill for Seefestspiele Mörbisch. 2014 Doomsday. Jewish Life and Death in World War I. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2014. Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait. Exhibition catalogue. London/Vienna 2014. From Generation to Generation. Arik Brauer s New Pesach Haggadah. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2014. Euphoria and Unease. Jewish Vienna and Richard Wagner. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2013. Entgrenzung. The artist and scholar Univ.-Prof. Dr. Maximilian Gottschlich. Vienna 2013. All MESHUGGE? Jewish Wit and Humor. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2013. Vienna s Shooting Girls. Jewish Women Photographers from Vienna. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2012. Today in Vienna 2012. Photographs of contemporary Jewish life by Josef Polleross. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2012. Foreigners Everywhere. Contemporary Art from the Pomeranz-Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2012. How people become fanatics. molden Verlag, Wien 2011. Styrian Year Book of Politics. 2011. 9
LARGER THAN LIFE. 100 years of Hollywood. A Jewish experience. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2011. Zenita Komad. Spirituality is not Shopping. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2011. Being Jewish. Vienna Jewish Identity Project. Photos by Peter Rigaud. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2010. On your marks! Get Set!! Go!!! Jewish sport. Maccabi-Games. Exhibition catalogue. Vienna 2010. Praxisbuch Diversity Management. Facultas WUV Verlag. Vienna 2010. Big Animals. Vienna 2002. Spiegelportraits. On Gabriele Seethaler s photographs. 2000. Unbuilt America für Yigal Ozeri. 1998. Hermann Nitsch ein biographisches Gespräch. Krems 1993. Krieg. Landesgalerie Klagenfurt 1991. Awards 1991 and 2007 ROMY TV award Personal life Married to psychoanalyst Mag. Martin Engelberg, three children. 10