Frank Stern
Historian
Prof. Frank Stern studied at the Free University Berlin, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and received his PhD from Tel-Aviv University where he taught Modern History and Culture. From 1997 to 2004 Professor for Modern German History and Culture and director of the Center for German Studies and the Austrian-German Studies Program at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel, and 2002 Acting Chair at the Department of Film and Television at Sapir College, Sederot. Visiting Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York, at Georgetown University, Washington DC, at Humboldt University Berlin, and at Vienna University. Since 2004 teaching cinema and cultural history at the Institute for Contemporary History at Vienna University.
He published widely on postwar Germany, on problems of philosemitism and anti-Semitism (“the Whitewashing of the Yellow Badge”), on American-German-Israeli relations, on German-Jewish issues, and particularly on German, Austrian and US-American film.
He was academic consultant for exhibitions on Jewish life and antisemitism in Vienna and Berlin, and curated a number of film retrospectives on German, Austrian, Israeli and Jewish films in Israel and Austria.
