Vida Bakondy is a historian living in Vienna, Austria. In her work she focuses on questions of migration history, representations of migration, post/colonialism as well as Nazism and its aftermaths in Austria. Together with Renée Winter she is the author of the monograph „Nicht alle Weißen schießen“. Afrika-Repräsentationen im Österreich der 1950er Jahre im Kontext von (Post-)Kolonialismus und (Post-)Nationalsozialismus, Innsbruck/Vienna/Bozen: 2007. She co-edited the book Good Luck! Migration Today. Vienna, Belgrade, Zagreb, Istanbul, Vienna: 2010 as part of a transnational art and research project organized by the platform for minorities (www.initiative.minderheiten.at). Her current PhD-project deals with the private collection of the former Viennese Hakoah Swimmer Fritzi Loewy (1910-1994) and analyzes Loewy´s visual testimonies and memory practices on Nazism, escape, and the Holocaust.
During her residency stay at the Israeli Center for Digital Art she conducted research in the Yekutieli Maccabi Sports Archives of the international Maccabi Movement in Ramat Gan. Historical sources of interest were material on Fritzi Loewy as well as the activities of the Swim Club Hakoah in Emigration, that was founded in autumn 1938 by a group of Viennese emigrees in London. One of the club´s crucial interests laid in the support of emigration of all it´s Viennese members from Nazi Austria.
The CDA's archives are operating with the support of the Ostrovsky Family Fund and Artis
The CDA's archives are operating with the support of the Ostrovsky Family Fund and Artis
Vida Bakondy is a historian living in Vienna, Austria. In her work she focuses on questions of migration history, representations of migration, post/colonialism as well as Nazism and its aftermaths in Austria. Together with Renée Winter she is the author of the monograph „Nicht alle Weißen schießen“. Afrika-Repräsentationen im Österreich der 1950er Jahre im Kontext von (Post-)Kolonialismus und (Post-)Nationalsozialismus, Innsbruck/Vienna/Bozen: 2007. She co-edited the book Good Luck! Migration Today. Vienna, Belgrade, Zagreb, Istanbul, Vienna: 2010 as part of a transnational art and research project organized by the platform for minorities (www.initiative.minderheiten.at). Her current PhD-project deals with the private collection of the former Viennese Hakoah Swimmer Fritzi Loewy (1910-1994) and analyzes Loewy´s visual testimonies and memory practices on Nazism, escape, and the Holocaust.
During her residency stay at the Israeli Center for Digital Art she conducted research in the Yekutieli Maccabi Sports Archives of the international Maccabi Movement in Ramat Gan. Historical sources of interest were material on Fritzi Loewy as well as the activities of the Swim Club Hakoah in Emigration, that was founded in autumn 1938 by a group of Viennese emigrees in London. One of the club´s crucial interests laid in the support of emigration of all it´s Viennese members from Nazi Austria.
The CDA's archives are operating with the support of the Ostrovsky Family Fund and Artis
The CDA's archives are operating with the support of the Ostrovsky Family Fund and Artis