An American in the German-Speaking World: A View from Both Sides of the Atlantic

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Notes

1 Mörsch, “Am Kreuzungspunkt von vier Diskursen.” Other important authors who remain less read in America include Harald Welzer, Nora Sternfeld, Eva Sturm, and Nora Landkammer. Some English-language authors are discussed widely in the German-speaking world, notably Nina Simon.

2 Quoted in Brodel, Museumspädagogik in Kindermuseen und Jugendmuseen, 8. The German reads: “die nicht nur zu isolierten Betrachtungen, sondern darüber hinaus zu Erkenntnis von Wirkungszusammenhängen.”

3 See Häntzschel, “‘Das Humboldt-Forum ist wie Tschernobyl.’” The art historian Horst Bradekamp has argued against Savoy’s insistence that objects in the Humbolt Forum are “dripping with blood” and must be returned. See Roelcke, “Bredekamp Widerspricht Savoys Empfehlungen.”

4 See these articles I collected for Power Play and also Nora Sternfeld on how educators and curators are both equal and should be fluid. Also workshop from Museum Akademie can be mentioned here.

5 Anderson, “Museum Education in Europe.”

6 Manabe and Lydens, “Digital Technology in Japanese Museums.”

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Nathaniel Prottas

Nathaniel Prottas has worked in museum education for over 15 years, beginning as a lecturer at the Cloisters in New York. Since 2017 he has been the Director of Education and Visitor Services at the Wien Museum (the City Museum of Vienna) in Austria. Nathaniel holds Ph.D. in art history from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an MA in the same subject from University College, London. He has taught both museum education and museum studies as a visiting professor at The Central European University (Austria), The Technical University of Dortmund (Germany), Tulane University (Ferrara, Italy), Masaryk University (Czech Republic), and the University of Vienna (Austria). His publications have appeared in the Journal of Aesthetic Education, Museum Worlds, and most recently in the edited volume, Presence in Art and Art in the Present.