Brigitte Bailer-Galanda (born 5 March 1952, Vienna) is an Austrian social scientist and historian. She was the director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance and deputy chairwoman of the Historical Commission of the Republic of Austria. Bailer-Galanda is an honorary professor of contemporary history at the University of Vienna.[1]
Brigitte Bailer-Galanda | |
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 Bailer-Galanda receiving the Bruno Kreisky Prize in 2016 | |
| Born | March 5, 1952 |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Occupation(s) | Social scientist, historian |
Bailer-Galanda's research focuses on German resistance to Nazism, the Holocaust and its denial, and right-wing extremism in Austria.
Early life
editBrigitte Bailer-Galanda was born on 5 March 1952 in Vienna, Austria.
Education
editBailer-Galanda enrolled in the Vereinsgasse Federal High School in 1970 and studied sociology and economics. She graduated four years later. From 1990 to 1992, she underwent doctoral studies under Erika Weinzierl's direction at the University of Vienna.[2]
Career
editBailer-Galanda became an assistant researcher at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance in 1979. In 1994, she was made a lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. There she completed a habilitation in 2003 with the thesis The Origin of Restitution Laws (Die Entstehung der Rückstellungsgesetze), for which she was named an honorary professor of contemporary history. The next year, Bailer-Galanda succeeded Wolfgang Neugebauer as director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance in 2004 and was herself succeeded in 2014 by Gerhard Baumgartner.
Awards
edit- 1992: Käthe Leichter Prize for the study of women's history in Austria
- 1996: Willy and Helga Sell-Verlon Award for antifascist journalism in Austria
- 1999: Bruno Kreisky Prize for political works from the Dr. Karl Renner Institute
- 2013: Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (speech by Friedrich Faulhammer)
- 2015: Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal from the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien
Citations
edit- ^ "Bailer Brigitte" (in German). University of Vienna. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
- ^ "Für Österreich war Wiedergutmachung kein Thema" (in German). University of Vienna. Archived from the original on August 27, 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2021.