Dr. Elisabeth Vavra

• 1968 – 1975
  Studied art history and archaeology at the University of Vienna, Austria
  
  

• 1972 – 1976
  Academic assistant at the University of Vienna
  
  

• Since 1976
  Employed at the Institute for the Study of Mediaeval and Early Modern Realia (IMAREAL) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  
  

• 1984
  Adjunct instructor at LMU Munich, Germany (summer semester)
  
  

• 2001
  Adjunct instructor at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany (winter semester)
  
  

• 2002
  Adjunct instructor at the University of Vienna (winter semester)
  
  

• Since 2003
  Director of the IMAREAL
  
  

• 2010 – 2011
  Adjunct instructor in the Department of Arts and Image Science at the Danube University Krems, Austria
  
  

• Vavra, E.: Die Kleidung auf dem Spieleteppich: Motive und Bildsprache. In: Zander-Seidel, J. (Hg.): Der Spieleteppich im Kontext profaner Wanddekoration um 1400. Nürnberg 2010, 107-122.

• Vavra, E.: Die Zeichensprache der Krankheit. In: Nolte, C. (Hg.), Homo debilis. Behinderte-Kranke-Versehrte in der Gesellschaft des Mittelalters (Studien und Texte zur Geistes- und Sozialgeschichte des Mittelalters, 3), Korb 2009, 393-410.

• Vavra, E. (Hg.): Alterskulturen des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit), Wien 2008.

• Vavra, E. (Hg.): Der Wald im Mittelalter. Funktion – Nutzen – Deutung. (Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung), Berlin 2008.

• Vavra, E.: Leidende Körper ? lächelnde Mienen. Gedanken zur Darstellung des Schmerzes in Text und Bild. In: Vavra, E. et al. (Hgg.), Vom Körper zur Schrift. Sofia 2007, 195-230.

• Vavra, E. (Hg.): Virtuelle Räume. Raumwahrnehmung und Raumvorstellung im Mittelalter. Berlin 2005.

• Vavra, E.: Du böser Geist, du pflegst alle Zeit luegen [...] Der Teufel als Verkleidungskünstler. In: Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung 9 (2005), 139-154.

• Vavra, E.: Zentrum oder Peripherie. Das Kunstwerk im Wechselspiel von Auftraggeber und Künstler. In: Die Sachkultur – Quellen und Probleme (Histoire des Alpes/Storia delle Alpi/Geschichte der Alpen 7) Zürich 2002, 173-186.

• Vavra, E.: Kopf und Klinge. Repräsentative Tischkultur im Bild des Mittelalters. In: Kolmer, L. et al. (Hgg.), Mahl und Repräsentation. Der Kult ums Essen. Paderborn 2000, 87-98.

• Vavra, E.: Starke Männer – schwache Frauen. Zur Kontrastierung der Geschlechter im Bild. In: Kontraste im Alltag des Mittelalters (Forschungen des Instituts für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit. Diskussionen und Materialien 5) Wien 2000, 179-210.

• Vavra, E.(Hg.): Bild und Abbild vom Menschen im Mittelalter (Akten der Akademie Friesach "Stadt und Kultur im Mittelalter" = Schriftenreihe der Akademie Friesach 6) Klagenfurt 1999.

• "RAT – legal relics online", since 2007

• "Encounters of the genders", since 2006

• "Everyday and material culture in Bavaria. Documenting material culture", since 2004

• "Memory of the land. A database of the history of the State of Lower Austria", since 2003

• "REALonline – an interdisciplinary database of images", since 2001

• "Documenting pictorial and archival evidence of mediaeval and early modern everyday life within the area of Europe along the Danube", 1991 – 1994

Activities as curator:

• Bavarian and Upper Austrian regional exhibition "Allies – Enemies – Kinsmen. Bavaria and Austria" (Burghausen, Braunau, Mattighofen), 2012

• Rearrangement of the Museum of Legal History (Pöggstall), 2011

• "Jakob Prandtauer – Life in the Baroque" (Museum of the State of Lower Austria in St. Pölten), 2010

• "Schätzereich Schicksalsreich Niederösterreich (Lower Austria – realm of treasures and fortune). Two centuries of precious objects from Lower Austria" (Museum of the State of Lower Austria in St. Pölten), 2009

• Bavarian and Upper Austrian regional exhibition "Without boundaries. History of the people along the Inn" (Stift Reichersberg, Schärding), 2004

• Lower Austrian regional exhibition "The search for the lost paradise. European culture mirrored in monasteries" (Stift Melk), 2000

• Lower Austrian regional exhibition "Defiant & adapted. Life of women in Austria" (Schloss Kirchstetten), 1998

• Bavarian regional exhibition "The family" (Neuburg), 1994

• Lower Austrian regional exhibition "Family – Ideal and Reality" (Schloss Riegersburg), 1993

• Member of the academic council of the University of Education in Vienna, since 2010

• Member of the jury for awarding science prizes from the State of Lower Austria, since 2010

• Member of the advisory board for the publication of the yearbook of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society, since 2008

• Member of the Commission of Art History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, since 2008

• Member of the Commission of Palaeography and Codicology of Medieval Manuscripts in Austria of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, since 2008

• Member of the academic advisory board of the University College of Teacher Education Vienna/Krems, since 2008

• Spokesperson for the cultural advisory board to the City of Krems, since 2007

• Chairperson of the board of trustees of the Museum Krems, since 2006

• Member of the advisory board to the Mediävistenverband (Medievalists’ Society) as the representative of the area for realia studies, since 1997

• Member of the cultural advisory board to the State of Lower Austria, 1996 – 2000

• Interview with Dr Elisabeth Vavra on the study of mediaeval and early modern realia:

  to the interview

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