praxisgemeinschaft hubin/schneider/schmutz

The praxisgemeinschaft hubin/schneider/schmutz is a collaboration between art and history educators Andrea Hubin, Karin Schneider, and Wolfgang Schmutz. It brings together their experiences, expertise, and methodological approaches to create spaces for discourse and learning. This work takes place within the context of Austrian history, art, and society and seeks to address processes of social transformation within a global framework. In October 2024, the Praxisgemeinschaft founded the educational association Lernen in gesellschaftlichen Spannungsfeldern (Learning in Areas of Social Tensions) and is currently implementing, among other projects, the CON STRUCTION SITE ANTISEMITISM.

Andrea Hubin

is an art historian and art educator currently based at the Kunsthalle Wien. As an art educator, she creates spaces for reflection and discourse and develops new educational approaches to address complex social issues through and with art. She conducts research, publishes, and teaches on the history and methods of art education. Current research focus: Intersections of antisemitism and racism in avant-garde art movements and art-related progressive education.

Karin Schneider

is an art educator and contemporary historian. Since 2019, she has headed the art education department at the Museums of the City of Linz (Lentos Art Museum, Nordico City Museum) and, in this capacity, coordinated the EU project MemAct (2020–2022) alongside Wolfgang Schmutz and Paul Salmons. 2021–2023 Project collaborator on “Synoptic Storytelling in a Multidirectional Vienna” at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (funded by the City of Vienna with Friedemann Arbel-Derschmidt, Alaa Alkurdi, Anne Pritchard-Smith, and Nikolaus Wildner). From 2007–2022, various projects on art-based and action research, including at the “Institute for Art Education” at ZHdK and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 2001–2007, staff position in art education at mumok.

Wolfgang Schmutz

is an educational consultant, lecturer, and memorial site educator. He specializes in participant-centered and site-specific learning about the Nazi era and the Holocaust, as well as in the development of educational practices and public memory projects. From 2009 to 2020, he worked as a staff member and project manager at several Nazi memorial sites; from 2020 to 2022, he coordinated the EU project “MemAct” alongside Karin Schneider and Paul Salmons. He currently serves as a consultant to the USHMM and the Claims Conference, among others, and is a lecturer in history in the Salzburg Program at the University of Redlands.

Contributors

Anna Pech

is a visual artist who has been working and teaching as a university assistant in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Art and Design Linz since 2021. Anna Pech’s often ephemeral installations and interventions are characterized by a consistently site-specific and socio-political context. From the beginning of the production process through to the presentation of the works, she operates within a contextual and referential space. In addition to her artistic practice, she leads projects in the field of cultural education, such as the Young Readers’ Jury (Literaturbagage Association) or How Deep Is Your Love (Vienna Festival 2025). She studied spatial and design strategies as well as fine arts (experimental design) at the University of Art and Design Linz and at partner universities in Rotterdam, Berlin, and Bogotá, among others.

Moritz Maschke

studied fine arts and art education in Linz, Jerusalem, and Bogotá. His art focuses on site-specific installations and interventions, often involving the public. Through numerous projects with children and young people both inside and outside of schools, he has gained experience with alternative and experimental forms of art education. In 2024, he earned his Ph.D. with his dissertation “Humanstorks tangled Tracks” under the supervision of Karin Harrasser. Moritz Matschke works as a visual artist, freelance educator, and currently as a Senior Artist at the Institute for Art and Education at the University of Art and Design in Linz. Since 2019, he has served on the board of the A.R.E.A.L. Education and Culture Association in Vienna.

Nora Hasan

is an elementary school teacher and political scientist. She served as president of the Austrian Student Union at the University of Vienna and, during that time, worked closely with the Jewish Student Union, with which she organized numerous educational and commemorative events. Hasan is organizing a Europe-wide conference on Holocaust education and serves as team leader and organizer at MoRaH Austria, which conducts memorial and educational trips for students from all over Austria.

Anne Pritchard-Smith

is a high school teacher who also teaches at the University of Vienna and at colleges of education. She studied German language and literature, history, and German as a foreign/second language in Vienna and subsequently taught adolescents and adults both in Austria and abroad. Her work focuses on German as a second and foreign language, migration, and multilingualism didactics. She was co-curator of the exhibition “Vielgeschichtig” at the House of Austrian History (hdgö).

Partners

Wien Museum, Education department

Through its Education Department, the Wien Museum will play a central role as an external partner in the development and implementation of all phases of the project. We are building on the Education Department’s close ties with Vienna’s vocational schools. As part of this collaboration, we will link individual items from the Wien Museum’s collection (e.g., objects related to the Ottoman Siege, objects from the Jewish ghetto on the Werd) with sites of remembrance in the city to develop questions for the boxes. Together with the education specialists, we will conduct methodological reflections and events on the topic.

Dr. Annemarie Steidl, Institute for Economic and Social History

Annemarie Steidl is an associate professor at the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on migration, industrialization, and urbanization; the history of crafts; as well as gender studies and methods of quantification. Her essay “An Attractive Destination for Immigrants from All Over Europe: Migration Patterns to Vienna, 1740–2010” appeared in *The Social History of Vienna, 1740–2010*, edited by Andreas Weigl and others in 2015. Her monograph *On Many Routes. Internal, European, and Transatlantic Migration in the Late Habsburg Empire" was published in 2021.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hellmuth, Department of History Education

Thomas Hellmuth, Ph.D., holds the Chair of History Education at the University of Vienna (Department of History, Center for Teacher Education); previously, he was an associate professor of history education and political education in the Department of History at the University of Salzburg, University Assistant and Senior Scientist at the Institute for Modern and Contemporary History at Johannes Kepler University Linz, where he initiated and directed the Master’s program in Political Education; thirteen years of experience as a high school teacher. Current research focuses: Theories and methods of history didactics and political education (in particular subject-oriented history and political didactics, New Critical History Didactics), historical-political (meaning) formation, cultural history of France and Austrofascism, local and regional history. Publications (selection): "Historisch-politische Sinnbildung. Geschichte – Geschichtsdidaktik – politische Bildung" (2014); "Frankreich im 19. Jahrhundert. Eine Kulturgeschichte" (2020); "Austrofaschismus. Eine Identitätsgeschichte" (2024).

Institute for Migration Education

The Institute for Migration Education, founded by PROSA – Project School for All!, offers specialized training programs for young people and adults. Our programs are designed to foster a deep understanding of the mechanisms of racism and discrimination. Through modular training for educators and other change agents, we strengthen their ability to operate effectively in a society shaped by migration and to bring about change. (https://migrationspädagogik.at/)

DÖW Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstands

The Documentation Center of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW) is an important partner both in terms of archiving research findings and in terms of methodological reflection and research support. (https://www.doew.at/)

Consultation

Yariv Lapid and Paul Salmons

Yariv Lapid and Paul Salmons work as international consultants in the field of Holocaust education, including for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the Claims Conference, and UNESCO. Their expertise encompasses both educational approaches and educational research. Their ongoing development work on a participant-centered methodology and learning practice (in collaboration with Wolfgang Schmutz) will inform the design and application of the learning tool. In addition, they will serve as advisors to the overall project.

Evaluation

Sabrina Isić

Sabrina Isić is a lecturer in Applied Social Psychology at Ruhr University Bochum and most recently served as Deputy Director of the NGO Pacemaker Initiative. Her focus is on social-psychological insights into transformation processes and how these can be applied in practice.