Mag.^a Dr.ⁱⁿ Andrea B. Braidt, MLitt.
Film and media scientist at the University of Vienna

*1971 in Ried i.I., film and media scientist. Key research areas: gender/queer film studies, film genre research, narrative research at the University of Vienna. Fellowships at IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna and SFB Media and Cultural Communication in Cologne (2001-2003), research stays in the USA and Canada. Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at CEU in Budapest (2003-2004). From 2011 to 2019, Braidt was Vice-Rector of Art and Research at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2018-2022 president of the ELIA European League of the Institutes of the Arts. Since 2020, she has been chairwoman of the advisory board of the Albertina Museum in Vienna. Since 2023, she has served as chairwoman of the University Council of the University of Arts Linz.

Recent publications: Metabolismus einer Disziplin. Methoden künstlerischer Forschung in/als Film- und Medienwissenschaft. TFJM Journal for Theater, Film and Media Studies 2023 (3-4), 115-129. Queeratorialität. Versuch einer medien-kulturwissenschaftlichen Methodik. Medienkomparatistik, vol. 3, Aisthesis: Bielefeld 2022. 21-34; Screenfest. Queer Film Festivals im Kontext. Policy Recommendations zur Nachhaltigen Förderung der Kunstproduktion, Kultur- und Festivalarbeit. Vienna 2021 (pub. with Nicole Kandioler, Claudia Slanar, Katja Wiederspahn).

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Hon.-Prof. Dr. Claus Spruzina

*1961 in Salzburg; lives and works ins Hallein/Salzburg. Studied law in Salzburg. Appointed public notary in Hallein in 1998.

Selected positions:

President of the Salzburg Chamber of Notaries (since 2004); vice-president of the Austrian Chamber of Notaries (since 2012); long-term member of the Austrian Academy of Notaries; Member (1998) and chairman (2006-2019) of the Austrian Notaries’ working group housing law; 2003 to 2009: chairman of the advisory board of the Ludwig Bolzmann Institut für Rechtsvorsorge und Urkundenwesen in Vienna; since 2003: board member of the Austrian Jurists’ Conference; since 2003: member and temporary head of the Uwe Kirschner Research Institute; 2009: awarded the title of Honorary Professor by the University of Salzburg; founder of Schloss Wiespach Gallery (for the promotion of art and artist in residence scholarships); founder and chairman of the Kunstinsel association in Hallein; board member of the Salzburg Foundation, chairman of the Salzburger Marionettentheater; vice-president of the Association of Friends of the Salzburg Festival; extensive lecturing activities at home and abroad.

Selected publications: 

Kommentierung der §§ 647 bis 712 und 797 bis 824 ABGB im ABGB Online Kommentar von Univ.Prof. Dr. Schauer und Univ.Prof. Dr. Kletecka, Manz. Kommentierung der §§ 143 bis 152, 165 bis 170 und 181 Außerstreitgesetz sowie §§ 105 bis 107 JN im Kommentar zum Außerstreitgesetz, herausgegeben von den Richtern des OGH Dr. Edwin Gitschthaler und Dr. Johann Höllwerth, Manz 2013. Mitherausgeber des Manz Gesamtkommentars Wohnrecht (GeKo Wohnrecht) gemeinsam mit Univ.Prof. Renate Plätzer, Univ.Prof. Dr. Helmut Böhm und Hon.Prof. Dr. Johannes Stabentheiner und Kommentierung des Baurechtsgesetzes sowie der §§ 19 bis 23, 28 -31 und 34 WEG, Manz 2018 und 2019. Mitherausgeber des Bandes 62 der Schriftenreihe des Österreichischen Notariates des Manz-Verlags: „Der digitale Nachlass. Implikationen für die Gesellschaft und das Notariat“, Wien 2018. Spruzina, Herausforderungen des digitalen Nachlasses, in Fischer-Czermak/Tschugguel (Hrsg), Liber Amicorum Edwin Gitschthaler (2020), 267ff.

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Univ-Prof.ⁱⁿ Andrea van der Straeten

*1953 in Trier, Germany. Has lived and worked in Vienna as a fine artist since 1987. Studied German philology and political science in Marburg/Lahn and visual communication at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. 1987/88: postgraduate year at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Maria Lassnig, animated film). Guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Chicago, Piet Zwart Institute of Postgraduate Studies at the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam (i.a.). 2002-2018: University professor and head of the class Experimental Art at the University of Arts Linz.

International exhibitions. Artistic works in Austrian and international, public and private collections. Permanent installations (art and architecture).

Selected publications:

Ausgewählte Publikationen / Monographien u.a.: Fotogalerie Wien (Hg.): Andrea van der Straeten: Werkschau XXVIII, 2023. Landesgalerie Linz/ Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain (Hg.): Andrea van der Straeten [as if], Dt./Engl., Schlebrügge.Editor, 2013. CCS Bard College Annandale on Hudson, New York (Ed.): Not Again, Making History Reimagined, Newly commissioned work by Andrea van der Straeten, curated by Sarah Demeuse, Engl., 2009. Andrea van der Straeten (Ed.): Lauter Flüstern/Whispering Louder, Künstlerbuch, mit einem Gespräch der Künstlerin mit Alexander Kluge. Dt./Engl., Schlebrügge.Editor, Wien 2008.

Text contributions for magazines and broadcasting.

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Julia Warmers, StEx.,
science manager, Berlin University of the Arts 

Julia Warmers has many years of experience in university, art and science management. Head of the Department for Funding and Cooperation at the Berlin University of the Arts. Previously, she headed the Office for Strategic and Academic Policy and coordinated inter-university research networks in the fields of digital transformation and sustainability.

Julia Warmers headed an international fellowship programme at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and coordinated a research project at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. She was a partner at an international festival for art films in Berlin. Since 2023, she has served as a member of the advisory board of the Berlin University of the Arts Foundation and as a member of the University Council of the University of Arts Linz.

She studied German philology, history and social science (state examination). Julia Warmers taught at the International School of Management Munich (2010-2013). She has published on the relationship between arts and science, including Kunstforschung als ästhetische Wissenschaft. Beiträge zur transdisziplinären Hybridisierung von Wissenschaft und Kunst (pub. with Martin Tröndle, 2011).

Mag. Florian Hagenauer, MBA

Mag. Hagenauer studied commercial sciences at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and graduated with a master’s degree in 1986. After joining Oberbank in 1987, he worked in the foreign department and its successor department, Banking Relations and Payment Systems (from 1994 as proxy for the entire institute). In 1999, he was appointed deputy head of the Organisation department and completed the LIMAK General Management programme. In 2005, he completed the LIMAK-MBA programme.

In 2005, Mr Hagenauer was appointed managing director of Drei-Banken-EDV Gesellschaft (now 3 Banken IT GmbH). In 2008, he returned to Oberbank and was appointed head of the Organisation department. In 2009, the supervisory board appointed him to the management board of the Oberbank AG. Furthermore, he is president of the Förderer der OÖ Landmuseen association and the LIMAK Austrian Business School as well as comptroller of the Federation of Upper Austrian Industries.

Supervisory Board mandates in non-group domestic or foreign companies and other positions:

Supervisory board member of Energie AG Oberösterreich; deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Wüstenrot Wohnungswirtschaft (registered co-operative ltd.); chairman of the supervisory board of VA Intertrading plc; member of the University Council of the University of Arts Linz.

Positions in affiliated companies:

Chairman of the supervisory board of 3-Banken Wohnbaubank AG; member of the advisory board of 3 Banken IT GmbH; chairman of the advisory board of Oberbank Service GmbH.

DDr.ⁱⁿ Barbara Glück

*1978 in Vienna, Barbara Glück is a historian and political scientist and has been director of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial for 18 years. 2014: research scholarship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Since 2010: board member at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, since 2020 member of the advisory board of the Museum of Applied Arts, since 2021 deputy chairwoman of the scientific advisory board of the Museum of Military History, member of the working group antisemitism – Austrian Network for De-radicalisation and the Prevention of Extremism, since 2022 chairwoman of the Commission for Combatting Anti-state Tendencies in the Ministry of Defence, board member at the Austrian Association of Museums. Glück is a member of numerous commissions dedicated to the advancement of Austrian museum activities regarding the reappraisal of history. She was awarded the Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal.

Glück has given numerous lectures in Austria, Europe, Israel and the USA.

Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ Gabriele Gramelsberger

Gabriele Gramelsberger holds the Chair of Philosophy of Science and Technology at RWTH Aachen University. Her research focuses on the transformation of science and society through digital change. Previously, she worked as a researcher at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and the Institute of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin. She was a fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy at Bauhaus University Weimar as well as a research associate at the Institute for New Media in Frankfurt. In 2018, she founded the Computational Science Studies Lab at RWTH Aachen University with the support of the Stifterverband. Since 2019, she has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. Since 2021, she has been director of the Käte Hamburger Center ‘Cultures of Research’ – an International Centre for Advanced Studies funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education. Gabriele Gramelsberger is a member of the University Council of the University of Arts Linz (2023-2028 term of office).