Maria Fritsche

About

I am historian and film scholar, a highly experienced researcher, teacher, writer and public speaker. I am analytical, curious, reliable and a good team worker. Besides history and cinema, I have a keen interest in human rights issues, forests and the environment, justice and the law. I have published and taught in the folllowing fields: - Film & cinema history, esp. Austria - Gender & masculinity - Wehrmacht and Wehrmacht military justice - German occupation of Europe and Norway during WWII - War, Holocaust, and genocide - War crimes and transitional justice - Aftermath of war and the rebuilding of Europe - Cultural transfer and propaganda

Experience

• Head of Research at Heeresgeschichtliches Museum
  Feb 2026 - Present · 6 mos

• Co-editor at L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft
  May 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 3 mos

• Advisory Board Member at OeZG Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
  2022 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (15 yrs 3 mos)
  • Professor
    Sep 2016 - Feb 2026 · 9 yrs 6 mos

  • Associate Professor
    Dec 2010 - Aug 2016 · 5 yrs 9 mos

• Advisory Council Member at Haus der Geschichte Österreich hdgö
  Jan 2023 - Dec 2025 · 3 yrs