Interview with Andreas Brunner, Co-Founder and Co-Director of QWIEN

ABSTRACT

The Co-Editor of the Journal, Nathaniel Prottas, sat down with curator, educator, and academic of queer Vienna, Andreas Brunner, to discuss the history of and education about the persecution of LGTBQI+ people in Vienna during National Socialism (1936–1945).

KEYWORDS:

• LGTBQI+
• queer history
• national socialism
• persecution
• city walks
• location specific programs

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Nathaniel Prottas

Nathaniel Prottas is the Co-Editor of the Journal of Museum Education and Director of Education at the Wien Museum, Austria. He is also the Co-Director of the MA in Museum Studies at the Central European University and has published widely on museum education.

Andreas Brunner is Co-Director of QWIEN (Center for Queer History), curator (Sex in Wien, 2016 at Wienmuseum), researcher, and city guide. He has published numerous publications on queer history in Vienna from the 19th to twenty-first century, including queer life and activism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and in the 1920s, the persecution between 1938 and 1945, and the early history of AIDS in Austria.