EDUCATION
since 2021 PhD Program at the Academy of fine Arts, Vienna
2021 – 2022 Training Course to become a Guide for Student Trips to Memorial Sites, at the Verein Gedenkdienst
2018 Educator Training Course at the Mauthausen Memorial
2013 – 2018 Timebased Media Master Program at Kunstuniversität Linz
2011 – 2012 Theater Of The Oppressed Course with Birgit Fritz at VHS Meidling, Vienna
2009 Film Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Kanada
2007 – 2010 Arts Plastiques / Cinéma – Licence (BA), Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux
2005/06 Linguistics, Vienna University
PUBLICATIONS
Dressel, L. (2026) „Revealing Layers of Traumatized Space – A Reflection on the Use of Digital Geomedia in Holocaust Memory“. Culture, Practice & Europeanization (forthcoming)
Dressel, L. (2024) “Überlegungen zu einer kritischen Kartographie traumatischer Orte des Holocaust,” in V. Kumar et al. (eds.) Erinnerungskultur und Holocaust Education im digitalen Wandel: Georeferenzierte Dokumentations-, Erinnerungs- und Vermittlungsprojekte. 1. Auflage. Bielefeld: transcript (Public History – Angewandte Geschichte, Band 19), pp. 35–53.
Dressel, L. (2022) “Mapping the Unapproachable: An Analysis of Digital Mappings of Traumatic Places in Europe,” Jewish Film & New Media: An International Journal, 10(2), pp. 273–284. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1353/jfn.2022.a936923.
Dressel, L. (2019) “Still die Vergesslichkeit der Stadt stören, mit Stimmen im Kopf,” gfk Magazin, (02 2019), pp. 26–27.
Dressel, L. (2016) “Riskantes Widersprechen. Zum Status der Erzählstimme/n,” in A. Koch (ed.) Schwirrende Stimmen, spukende Geschichten. Der Film The Halfmoon Files. A Ghost Story von Philip Scheffner. Wien: Sonderzahl (Linzer Augen), pp. 51–75.
POJECTS AND PRESENTATIONS
2025-26
Co-organization and workshop at (Un)comfortable Remembrance – Location-Based Education Training Critical of Racism and Antisemitism, Verein Gedenkdienst
2025
Presentation Revealing Time Layers at the Conference Digitization and Transnationalization of WWII and Holocaust memory, European University Flensburg
Presentation at Stumbling – A City Walk Exploring Collapsing Narratives and Speculative Reinterpretations, Linz
2024
Research stays in Munich, Paris, and Oświęcim
2023
Presentation at Dialogforum Mauthausen, together with Maike Heinrich and Sebastian Dallinger about Queer History as Core Principle within the Study Trips Group at the Gedenkdienst Association
Presentation of the Steingeschichten Project at the series of talks “Geh Denken!” by the Verein Gedenkdienst at the Republikanischer Club in Vienna
2021
Presentations of the Steingeschichten Audiowalk in Linz (at the Conference Verstörende Orte, and a Workshop for Teachers in cooperation with erinnern.at and pädagogische Hochschule Upper Austria)
Presentation Critical Cartography of traumatic spaces at the conference Digital Memory – Digital History – Digital Mapping, organized by the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz
Presentation Mapping the unapproachable at the conference Digital Holocaust Memory from the margins, organized by Esther and Sidney Rabb Center for Holocaust and Revival Studies Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
2019
Presentations of Steingeschichten at the house of history Austria and together with the Gfk OÖ in Linz
Nona Grant at blöder dritter Mittwoch, Vienna
Storytelling Workshop, held with Violetta Leitner at Kinder Kunstuni Wien
Nona Grant at Paperfeed Festival, Graz and Filmbar Goodbye Party, Vienna
2018
Nona Grant at queerograd Festival, Graz
Durch Exhibition curated with Emilia Lichtenwagner
WEG exhibition Raumschiff Linz
2017
Presentation of the Audiowalk Steingeschichten at the conference Grau in Grau – ästhetisch politische Praktiken der Erinnerungskultur, Linz
Best OFF Exhibition, Kunstuniversität Linz
Festival stadttfinden Leipzig as part of the Mobile Museum by Hund
Exhibition Artistic Waste, Kunstuniversität Linz
2016
Release of Schwirrende Stimmen, Spukende Geschichten, the Reader to the Film THE HALFMOON FILES, Raumschiff Linz
2015
Extra Uni Exhibition, O.K., Linz
Show with the band Musikotzn Tüwi Vienna
2014
Show with the band Musikotzn, Stadtwerkstatt Linz
Exhibition at the Timebased Media Department, Kunstuniversität Linz
2013
Grrrls Edding Film Screening and Event at Schenke, Vienna
2009
Video Martine Bleeding shown at Kino Session, Bordeaux
GRANTS/FUNDS
2022-2025
Doctoral Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Marietta Blau Fellowship
2019
Fund for Steingeschichten by the culture departments of Upper Austria and the city of Linz, as well as by the Austrian Future Fund
2017-2018 and 2021-22
Student Support Program Pro Scientia
2017
FOHN-Stipendium
2008
award at Wiener Video&Filmtage