Anna Högner graduated in Film and Media Studies and Educational Science with a focus on film history, film and media theory and the history of education. She worked as an exhibition coordinator, educator and curator at Filmarchiv Austria (2015–2020) where she (co-)curated several exhibition projects such as Unwanted Cinema. Exiled Filmmakers in Vienna and Budapest 1933–1938 (2019) and Analog/Digital. Media (Ex)changes (2017) and Valeska Gert. Face – Body – Movement (2017). She was a staff member at the research project “The Wien-Film. A comprehensive Analysis of the studio 1938–1945” (2018–2021) at the Austrian Academy of Science. In 2020 she joined the Austrian Film Museum team and the VHH project as a research associate.
Article Author
Filmgeschichte als Visual History: Digitale Zugänge zu Europas Dunklem ErbeAnna Högner, Filmgeschichte als Visual History: Digitale Zugänge zu Europas Dunklem Erbe, in: Katharina Günther, Stefan Alschner (Hg.), Sammlungsforschung im digitalen Zeitalter: Chancen, Herausforderungen und Grenzen, Göttingen 2024, 209–218. |
Depicting Atrocities. Ethics of Sharing Holocaust ImagesAnna Högner, Fabian Schmidt, Depicting Atrocities. Ethics of Sharing Holocaust Images, in: Research in Film and History, no. 6 (February 2025) |
Participation in Public Deliverables
D2.4 Database of Films, Artworks, and other Visual Culture ProductsContributor |
D3.5 Concept: VHH i-docsContributor |
Participation in Events
Participation in Videos
Curating (big) data in film heritage institutionsTuesday, 19.10.2021 |
Combining Sources on Nazi Atrocities: A Metadata Schema to Describe, Relate and Annotate Film and Non-Film MaterialTuesday, 26.04.2022 |
Depicting Atrocities: Ethics of Sharing Holocaust ImagesThursday, 24.11.2022 |
The Documentation of the Liberated Camps for Soviet Prisoners of War Using the Example of Lamsdorf (Silesia)Saturday, 26.11.2022 |
Datenmodelle und VokabulareFriday, 27.01.2023 |
