Markus Fösl
Mag. Markus Fösl, MA is cultural mediator at the House of Austrian History.
He graduated from the teacher training programme for History and Physics at the University of Salzburg and from the /ecm (educating/curating/managing) postgraduate master for exhibition theory and practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He worked as a cultural mediator at the Salzburg Museum, the Dokumentation Obersalzberg and the Vienna Technical Museum. Since October 2018 he ist part of the education team at the House of Austrian History. Since 2022 he is board member of the Austrian Association of Cultural Mediators.
Cultural mediation projectsMoving Museum: Conversations at Heldenplatz Square
Exhibitions at the Bewegtes Museum
2021: The Heldenplatz around the year 1918 (with Antonia Plessing)
2022: Happenings at Heldenplatz (with Antonia Plessing)
2023: Art on Heldenplatz (with Antonia Plessing and Benjamin Schlöglhofer)
Video series Geschichte-to-go
(with Louise Beckershaus, Sarah von Holt, Katharina Kraus, Eva Meran, Lorenz Paulus, Antonia Plessing and Stefan Riedl)
Exhibitions2023
Memory culture of the Nazi past – sites and works in progress (with Stefan Benedik, Laura Langeder and Lorenz Paulus)
Remembering: The Nazi Past in the Present (new part of the main exhibition with the curatorial team of the hdgö)
2021
Disposing of Hitler. Out of the Cellar, Into the Museum (with Louise Beckershaus, Stefan Benedik, Laura Langeder, Eva Meran and Monika Sommer)
2020
New Ages: Austria since 1918 (with the curatorial team of the hdgö)
In Between: Photographs of Spring and Summer 1945 (with Stefan Benedik)
Publications2023
Louise Beckershaus, Stefan Benedik, Markus Fösl, Eva Meran, Laura Langeder, Monika Sommer, Aura versus Dialogue. Displaying Nazi Objects in the Exhibition Disposing of Hitler: Out of the Cellar, Into the Museum, in: Stefan Benedik, Zuzanna Dziuban, Ljiljana Radonić (Hg.), Displaying Violence, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 1/2023, 266-277.
2021
Louise Beckershaus, Markus Fösl, Eva Meran, Was würden Sie tun? Information, Konfrontation, Diskussion, in: Monika Sommer, Louise Beckershaus, Stefan Benedik, Markus Fösl, Laura Langeder, Eva Meran, Hitler entsorgen. Vom Keller ins Museum, Wien 2021.
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