Dr. Hannes Leidinger, Privatdoz.

Lecturer

Hannes Leidinger is a lecturer and visiting professor at the University of Vienna, as well as teaching at the University of Salzburg and the Andrássy University Budapest and being an associated researcher at the University of Bern. He is a member of the Military Historical Memorial Commission of the Austrian Ministry of Defence, head of the Vienna branch of the Ludwig Boltzmann Department for Research on the Consequences of War, head and contributor to several research projects, exhibition curator, consultant for television and and radio programmes, editor of film sources (in particular, the Austrian Film Archive's editions) and the author of numerous publications, particularly on the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.

 

Contact:
E-mail: hannes.leidinger@univie.ac.at

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Teaching



Key Research Topics

  • Habsburg monarchy, Austrian Republic, Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th century
  • First World War, war crimes and history of violence
  • communism research

    • Film history

  • History of migration
  • Memory cultures, history of ideas and mentalities
  • Historical suicidology and history of science
  • History of espionage

 

Selected publications (from the last three years)

  • Together with Laurence Cole, Rudolf Kučera und Ina Markova (Hg.), zeitgeschichte, 47. Jg., Heft 1 (2020): World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia.
  • Together with mit Christian Rapp, Hitler - Prägende Jahre. Salzburg/Wien 2020.
  • (Ed.), Habsburg´s Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present), New Orleans 2018.
  • Together with Verena Moritz, Umstritten, verspielt, gefeiert. Die Republik Österreich 1918/2018. Innsbruck-Wien 2018.
  • Der Untergang der Habsburgermonarchie. Innsbruck/Wien 2017.