Educational / Project Team
Yariv Lapid
Yariv grew up in the north of Israel and studied in Jerusalem and Hamburg. The focus of his work has been the development of dialogue on the meaning of the Holocaust between societies with differing, and at times contradictory and competing collective memories. An important aspect has been the development of strategies for the reflection of evil actions and motivations as an aspect of normative human behavior and their incorporation into a moral self-image. A central challenge of Yariv's work has been his employment by formal state institutions, creating constant tensions between notions on moral issues such as human rights on the one hand and national narratives and their representations on the other. He worked at Israeli NGO’s, at Yad Vashem, and then went on to build a pedagogical infrastructure at the Mauthausen Memorial. From October 2013 he is the director of the Center for Humanistic Education at the Ghetto Fighters House in Israel, while continuing to lead the project Developing Education at Memorial Sites.
Articles
Christian Angerer
Christian Angerer was born in 1960 in Linz. German and History studies (teacher training) as well as doctorate in German at Salzburg University. Teacher at Khevenhüller Gymnasium (grammar school) in Linz and at Pädagogische Hochschule Oberösterreich (Pedagogical University Upper Austria). Since 2003 working at _erinnern.at_, since 2008 in the educational team of Mauthausen Memorial. Publications in the fields of literary studies, literature and history ditactics and Gedenkstättenpädagogik (pedagogics at memorial sites).
Articles [German]
Zur Didaktik ästhetischer Darstellungen des Holocaust. Eine theoretische Grundlegung. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtsdidaktik. Jahresband 2006, S. 152-177.
Über die literarische Erinnerung an die nationalsozialistischen Lager. In: XING – Ein Kulturmagazin. Sonderheft 07: 329 km Erinnerung – Absenz (Jänner 2007), S. 34-37.
Ankunft in Auschwitz. Über die literarische Erinnerung an den Holocaust. In: Karl Klambauer, Herbert Seher (Hg.): Holocaust in Education in Centrope – Spurensuche zwischen Vergessen und Erinnern. Wien 2011, S. 164-175.
Das literarische Mauthausen. KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen. Jahresbericht 2011, S. 15-26.
Wolfgang Schmutz
Born in Linz in 1977. Wolfgang has studied German language and literature and applied cultural studies in Linz, Graz and Bologna. After several engagements at art, theatre and film festivals he worked as a cultural journalist. Since 2009 he is active as local researcher and production assistant for films and documentaries related to the Holocaust ("Six Million and One", "Ha'Bricha 3G"). In 2009 he started to be a guide at Hartheim Castle, Place of Learning and Remeberance. Since 2011 he's a member of the guide pool and the educational team of Mauthausen Memorial. His focus in the team is the support and developement of the guide pool.
Articles [German]
Franz Stangl - eine Karriere im Nationalsozialismus. In: betrifft Widerstand, Nr. 105/2012.
Karin Gschwandtner
Karin Gschwandtner has been working as a guide at the Mauthausen Memorial since 2011. From 2011 to 2013 she was part of the team that organized two new permanent exhibitions at the Mauthausen Memorial. Her responsibility was the organization of all original objects that are being presented in the exhibitions at the Memorial. Now Karin is a member of the educational team at the Mauthausen Memorial.
In the project team she is dealing with organizational matters and the budget.
Ines Brachmann
Ines Brachmann received the second guide development program at the memorial site of Mauthausen in 2010/2011 and works as a guide since spring 2011. She absolved the course of studies Pädagogik an Gedächtnisorten/Pedagogics at Places of Remembrance at the University of Education in Linz from March 2012 to February 2013. Ines holds a degree (Diplom) in International Cultural and Business Studies of the University of Passau and currently works as an editor in a publishing house. She is a guide-in-training at Hartheim Castle – Place of learning and remembrance.
In June 2013 she joined the project team for the editorial support of the website and the planning and preparation of the publication of the results of the EU project.
Articles [German]
Vermittlung des Themas Täter_innenschaft an Gedenkstätten –Theorie und Praxis.
Abschlußarbeit im Lehrgang "Pädagogik an Gedächtnisorten"
Stefan Rummerstorfer
Born and raised in Upper Austria, Stefan Rummerstorfer attended HTL Leonding with a focus on Information Technology and received his diploma in 2007. In the course of civilian service at Mauthausen Memorial, among other duties, he conducted guided tours in German and English. Subsequently, he became part of the guide pool at the Mauthausen Memorial. Starting in September 2008 he studied Communication and Knowledge Media at the University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg, and graduated with a Master's Degree in Social Sciences in September 2013. Stefan Rummerstorfer wrote his Master's Thesis on the application of new media in the course of guided tours at Mauthausen Memorial.
For the EU-Project he created the edums.eu-Website and is responsible for the design, the programming and some of the content on it. Additionally, it's his job to document the project creating video and audio content, photographs and workshop protocols. Occasionally, he also supports the Project Team with various kinds of technical and organizational tasks, such as setting up video call conferences.
Articles [German]
Master Thesis: Lernen mit neuen Medien bei Rundgängen an der KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen (pdf)
Thomas Zaglmaier
Thomas attended HTL Perg with a focus on commercial data processing in 2005 and started working at the memorial
for his community service in 2006. With several breaks he continued doing guided tours after the community service and
joined the first guide training 2009.
Besides studying cultural- and social anthropology as his main subject Thomas also is self-employed IT engineer. In February 2014 he joined the educational team of Mauthausen Memorial. In the project team, Thomas is dealing with technical support, organizational and budget matters.
