Monika Sommer
Alumni in portrait June 2024
Monika Sommer is the founding director of the House of Austrian History. In our alumni portrait, we spoke to the historian about what she sees as the mission of the Museum of Contemporary History, how she documents the present at the cutting edge and what she took away from her time as a student at the University of Graz.
Camera: www.unreifundtaube.at
Interview/Editing: Carmen Reif-Teubenbacher
More information about Monika Sommer
Studies: Diploma in history at the University of Graz; doctorate in history at the University of Vienna
Since 2006: Co-director of the ecm master's program for exhibition theory and practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Since 2017: Founding Director of the House of Austrian History