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ORF star Spera applies for Jewish Museum post

By William Green

ORF news presenter Danielle Spera has applied to become artistic director of Vienna’s Jewish Museum in July 2010, according to today’s (Thurs) online edition of news magazine profil.

The website added the Spera, who presents the ORF's "Zeit im Bild" prime-time news which is one of the state broadcaster’s most-popular programmes, was being backed for the post by Vienna Social Democratic (SPÖ) Deputy Mayor Renate Brauner

Film maker Ruth Beckermann, museum chief curator Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Berhard Purin, the director of the new Jewish Museum in Munich, have also applied for the job.

A decision is expected to be made between city agency Wien-Holding, which manages the museum, and politicians.

Current artistic director Karl Albrecht-Weinberger’s contract runs out in June 2010.

The museum, in Palais Eskeles on Dorotheergasse in the city’s first district, has been open since 1993 and has a permanent exhibit about the history of the Austrian Jewish community as well as six to eight temporary exhibits.

Spera, who is Jewish, studied public relations and political science at Vienna University before going to work at ORF in 1978.

Austrian Times

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