M.A. Leo Dressel
Leo Dressel, born in 1987 in Vienna, studied visual arts and film at the Université de Bordeaux and Concordia University in Montreal, and subsequently at the Kunstuniversität Linz completing the Master Time-Based Media. Since 2018, Dressel has been working in the field of Holocaust memory in various capacities. As an artist they have published the project Steingeschichten, the audio walk across the Nibelungen Bridge in Linz, in 2019. As a mediator they worked at the House of History Austria (hdgö) and at the Mauthausen concentration camp memorial, and since 2023 as a guide for study trips organized by the GEDENKDIENST association. Between 2020 and 2022 Dressel worked at the research center of the Mauthausen Memorial (supervision of the virtual room of names). Leo Dressel is currently writing a dissertation on digital geomedia in Holocaust memory at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is thus a project employee via the DOC Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Dressel, Laura. "Still die Vergesslichkeit der Stadt stören, mit Stimmen im Kopf" in: gfk Magazine, 2019, Issue 02, pp. 26-27.
Dressel, Laura. "Riskantes Widersprechen. Zum Status der Erzählstimme/n" in: Koch, Angela (ed.) (2016); Schwirrende Stimmen, Spukende Geschichten, der Reader zum Film The Halfmoon File. Vienna, pp. 51-75.