Maximilian Brockhaus

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Mail: maximilian.brockhaus@univie.ac.at
Telephone: +43-1-4277-41218

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Media and Contemporary History

Maximilian Brockhaus, BA MA

Prae-Doc

Maximilian Brockhaus is a university assistant (prae-doc) at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna in the research area of Prof. Mag. DDr. Oliver Rathkolb (since 1 July 2021). He was a guest researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media research | Hans-Bredow-Institut in Hamburg and from 1.9.2024-30.6.2025 as a Marietta-Blau Scholarship of the OeAD at the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota.

In his dissertation project, he is looking at school radio and school television in Austria and Europe between 1924 and 1993 from a media history perspective.

His research interests focus on the theoretical and practical examination of how (contemporary) history is taught, as well as a multi-perspective, interdisciplinary view of public history. A particular focus of his research and teaching concerns the field of tension between "Democracy and the Digital Revolution", whereby the historical genesis of media and digital developments, the interaction between media and society, and the classification of current developments in the fields of AI and the like for our democratic coexistence are at the forefront.

He was the project manager of the digitisation project: "Hugo Portisch – A liberal-minded Viennese from Pressburg", where the extensive written legacy of Hugo Portisch is being digitised, transcribed and prepared for further scientific use. He is also a founding member and editor of the podcast "Doctor it!" at the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies (DSHCS) and Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences (ViDSS).

Deputy representative of the non-professorial teaching staff (Mittelbau) at the Department of Contemporary History.