About Joanna
• BA in German from University of Cambridge
• Master’s in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths College, University of London
• Studies in contemporary history at Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna
• Freelance translator since 2009, specialist for (contemporary) history exhibitions, journal articles (history, cultural studies and social sciences), research, research proposals
• Qualified Member (MITI) of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting
• Specialisms: History (especially contemporary Austrian history, history of the Shoah, National Socialism), memory culture, memorial work, cultural studies, social sciences, music studies
• Extensive experience in cultural management (classical music)
• Scholarly contribution to project ‘Identity – Alterity – Music’ at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
• Scholarly contribution to project ‘Mauthausen Seminar’ at the Institute for Culture Studies and Theatre History, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Exhibitions and publications
• Austrian Parliament
o Demokratikum – Experience Parliament, permanent exhibition, opened January 2023
o Reading Democracy, permanent exhibition in the Parliamentary Library, opened January 2023
o Talking tacheles. Antisemitism – danger for democracy, permanent exhibition in the Parliamentary Library
• Mauthausen Memorial
o The Mauthausen Concentration Camp 1938–1945, permanent exhibition and catalogue
o The Crime Scenes of Mauthausen – Searching for Traces, permanent exhibition and catalogue
o The Virtual Guide to the Mauthausen Memorial (audioguide and mobile app)
o Web content and Advisory Board minutes
• Wien Museum
o Atelier Bauhaus, Vienna. Friedl Dicker and Franz Singer, 24 November 2022 to 26 March 2023
o Instantly! Vienna Street Photography, 19 May 2022 to 23 October 2022
o Beyond Bambi. Felix Salten and the Discovery of Viennese Modernism, 15 October 2020 to 19 September 2021
o Otto Wagner, 15 March 2018 to 7 October 2018
o Vienna Calling! A History of Pop Music, 14 September 2017 to 25 March 2018
o Sex in Vienna. Desire. Control. Transgression, 15 September 2016 to 22 January 2017
o The Myth of Galicia, 26 March 2015 to 30 August 2015 plus catalogue texts
o Fast Years – Wien Museum: Exhibition Design 2003-2013, 5 October 2013 to 6 January 2014
o Edith Tudor-Hart. In the Shadow of Tyranny, 26. September 2013 bis 12. Januar 2014
o A Museum of the Middle Ages, permanent exhibition in the Chapel of St. Virgil
o Otto Wagner’s Court Pavilion (Hietzing), permanent exhibition
• House of Austrian History
o Remembering: The Nazi Past in the Present, new area in the main exhibition, opened May 2023
o The Vienna Model of Radicalisation. Austria and the Shoah (touring exhibition in the Wiener Holocaust Library, London), 10 November 2022 to 13 February 2023
o Disposing of Hitler. Out of the Cellar, into the Museum, 12 December 2021 to 9 October 2022
o Toppling Gender Norms. Time for New Monuments, 22 October 2021 to 12 June 2022
o Buried No Longer. Jewish-Austrian History in Vienna’s Malzgasse, 8 November 2019 to 6 April 2021
o Europe of Dictatorships (1926 to 1945), web exhibition
o Web content and lexicon articles
• Vienna City Library
o The Destruction of Democracy. Austria, March 1933 to February 1934, 23 May 2023 to 16 February 2024
• Topography of Terror Documentation Centre, Berlin
o The Reich Ministry of Labour 1933–1945: Civil Servants of the Nazi State, 3 April to 8 October 2019
o Paul Schultze-Naumburg. Networks of a Cultural and Racial Theorist, media station in the foyer of the Documentation Centre, 27 November 2019 to 1 March 2020
• Folk Life Museum Graz / Universalmuseum Joanneum
o The Folk Costume Room, permanent exhibition, opened November 2022
o how it is. Worlds – Changes – Perspectives, permanent exhibition, opened 2021
• Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art
o Audio tour “Soya in the Museum”, available since 2023
o SchwarzÖsterreich. The children of African-American occupation soldiers, 27 April 2016 to 21 August 2016
o Freud’s Dining Room.
• Hartheim Castle – Place for Learning and Remembrance
o Value of Life. Dealing with the ‘Useless’, permanent exhibition
• Josephinum, Collections of the Medical University of Vienna
o Viennese Medical Faculty 1938 – 1945, 14 March to 29 December 2018
Publications (excluding exhibition catalogues)
• Advokaten 1938. The fate of the lawyers and trainees registered with the Austrian Regional Bar Associations who were barred from practicing in the legal profession from 1938 to 1945. Vienna: March 2022
• Memorial Book for the Dead of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, vol 1: Commentaries and Biographies, Vienna: new academic press, 2016
• Experimental Biology in the Vienna Prater: On the History of the Institute for Experimental Biology 1902 to 1945, Wien: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2016
Clients in scholarship – translation of articles and research proposals, academic editing
• Scholarly contribution to project ‘Mauthausen Seminar’ at the Institute for Culture Studies and Theatre History, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna
• Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna
• Department of Legal and Constitutional History, University of Vienna
• Department of Sociology, University of Graz
• Doctoral Programme in Artistic Research, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
Clients in culture
• MuseumsQuartier Wien Errichtungs- und BetriebsgesmbH
o Monthly progamme
o Web content and press releases
• Wiener Symphoniker
o Season brochure
• Tonkunstler Orchestra
• Grafenegg Festival