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Danielle Spera (Vienna 2009)
Danielle Spera (* August 10, 1957, in Vienna) is an Austrian journalist and a curator.
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Life and function
Academic career
Spera was borne to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother and visited a Catholic private school.[1] Subsequently she studied two semester English and French at the University of Vienna, before she finally changed to journalism and political science.[2] She did a doctorate in 1983, topic of her dissertation were the election campaigns of the social democratic party in the interwar period.[3] From 1990 to 2002 Danielle Spera was an assistant professor at the institute for journalism at the University of Vienna.[4]
Journalistic career
Even during her studies Spera began in 1978, the work at the Austrian broadcasting. After two years in the foreign desk of Zeit im Bild 2, she changed to the Wochenschau, from where she returned to the foreign desk again. This was followed by trips to Central America, Greece and Cyprus, before she became ORF-Correspondent in the USA. In her time of correspondence the Watch List-decision was against the former Austrian president Kurt Waldheim. In 1988 she returned back to the ORF centre in Vienna, and started the moderation of the main news program of the ORF, the Zeit im Bild 1. This position she held until June 2010. Her moderation partners were {{link|de|Horst Friedrich Mayer]], {{link|de|Josef Broukal]], Martin Traxl and finally {{link|de|Tarek Leitner]]. Danielle Spera moderated also the weekend magazine Brennpunkt and represented the Zeit im Bild 2.. Until December 2009 she was also in the ORF council of editors, where she was replaced by Dieter Bornemann.
Since 2000 she writes for the Jewish cultural magazine Nu, whose founder she is.[5]
Since autumn 2006 Danielle Spera leads monthly meetings with prominent artists in the City Theatre Walfischgasse. In October 2006 she appeared at the Lieratur im Nebel with Salman Rushdie. She also arranged readings of children’s book by Mira Lobe.
Museum Management
After the leadership of the Jewish Museum of Vienna of Vienna was announced in autumn 2009, at the November 29, 2009 it got known that she will take over the direction of the museum at July 1, 2010. She sat down against fourteen other candidates.[6]She was also preferred candidate by Renate Brauner (de), who is responsible for the Wien Holding[7], the owner of the museum.
To her first projects at the beginning of 2011 belonged the technical renovation of the museum and the creation of a new permanent exhibition.[8] Previously issued holograms, photos and three-dimensional objects projected, were removed and partly destroyed by the conversion. A staff member of the museum photographed the damage and transferred the photos per e-mail, they were finally published in a blog of a museums curator from Graz. Thereupon numerous directors and curators of Jewish Museums as soon as Austrian and German scientists and from other European countries protested against the action of Spera.[9][10]
Engagement
As advisor[11] of the association Austrian Service Abroad Danielle Spera supports the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service.
Private Life
Since 1994 Spera is married with the Jewish psychoanalyst Martin Engelberg and has three children.[12]
Awards
In 1992 and 2007 she receives the Austrian television award Romy as the most popular moderator.
Publications
In 1999 appeared her biography of Hermann Nitsch – Life and Work, which was remade in 2005 in an updated form.
Weblinks
- Literature by and about Danielle Spera in the German National Library catalogue
- ORF-Short biography of Danielle Spera
- NU-Newspaper
- Danielle Spera take leave of the ZiB in the Kurier
- Jewish Museum of Vienna
Itemisation
- ^ Danielle Spera – From ‚ZIB 1‘ to the Jewish Museum. Wiener Zeitung, Dezember 1, 2009 (online: 30 November 2009; released on 14 Jänner 2010)
- ^ My big passion in the Salzburger Nachrichten from 11 Juli 2009
- ^ Katalogzettel Austrian national library
- ^ Reelection of the ORF-council of editors from 29 Jänner 2010 released on 9 Juni 2010
- ^ www.nunu.at – list of author: Danielle Spera, released on 14 Jänner 2010
- ^ Spera will be the next dircector of the Jewish Museum of Vienna, Der Standard from 29 November 2009
- ^ de:Wien Holding
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ [3]
- ^ Advisor of the Austrian Service Abroad
- ^ Paul Vécsei: Radiergummis. Wiener Journal (weekly attachment of the Wiener Zeitung), 19 März 2007 (released on 10 März 2009)
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Since 2000 she writes for the Jewish cultural magazine Nu, whose founder she is.[5]
Since autumn 2006 Danielle Spera leads monthly meetings with prominent artists in the City Theatre Walfischgasse. In October 2006 she appeared at the Lieratur im Nebel with Salman Rushdie. She also arranged readings of children’s book by Mira Lobe.
Museum Management
After the leadership of the Jewish Museum of Vienna of Vienna was announced in autumn 2009, at the November 29, 2009 it got known that she will take over the direction of the museum at July 1, 2010. She sat down against fourteen other candidates.[6]She was also preferred candidate by Renate Brauner (de), who is responsible for the Wien Holding[7], the owner of the museum.
To her first projects at the beginning of 2011 belonged the technical renovation of the museum and the creation of a new permanent exhibition.[8] Previously issued holograms, photos and three-dimensional objects projected, were removed and partly destroyed by the conversion. A staff member of the museum photographed the damage and transferred the photos per e-mail, they were finally published in a blog of a museums curator from Graz. Thereupon numerous directors and curators of Jewish Museums as soon as Austrian and German scientists and from other European countries protested against the action of Spera.[9][10]
Engagement
As advisor[11] of the association Austrian Service Abroad Danielle Spera supports the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service.
Private Life
Since 1994 Spera is married with the Jewish psychoanalyst Martin Engelberg and has three children.[12]
Awards
In 1992 and 2007 she receives the Austrian television award Romy as the most popular moderator.
Publications
In 1999 appeared her biography of Hermann Nitsch – Life and Work, which was remade in 2005 in an updated form.
Weblinks
- Literature by and about Danielle Spera in the German National Library catalogue
- ORF-Short biography of Danielle Spera
- NU-Newspaper
- Danielle Spera take leave of the ZiB in the Kurier
- Jewish Museum of Vienna
Itemisation
- ^ Danielle Spera – From ‚ZIB 1‘ to the Jewish Museum. Wiener Zeitung, Dezember 1, 2009 (online: 30 November 2009; released on 14 Jänner 2010)
- ^ My big passion in the Salzburger Nachrichten from 11 Juli 2009
- ^ Katalogzettel Austrian national library
- ^ Reelection of the ORF-council of editors from 29 Jänner 2010 released on 9 Juni 2010
- ^ www.nunu.at – list of author: Danielle Spera, released on 14 Jänner 2010
- ^ Spera will be the next dircector of the Jewish Museum of Vienna, Der Standard from 29 November 2009
- ^ de:Wien Holding
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ [3]
- ^ Advisor of the Austrian Service Abroad
- ^ Paul Vécsei: Radiergummis. Wiener Journal (weekly attachment of the Wiener Zeitung), 19 März 2007 (released on 10 März 2009)
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Categories:- 1957 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Austrian people
- 21st-century Austrian people
- Austrian television presenters
- Austrian journalists
- Austrian Jews
- Converts to Judaism from Roman Catholicism
- Austrian Roman Catholics
- Austrian people of Jewish descent
- People from Vienna
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