Biography

Born 1954, Blindenmarkt, Austria.

Lichtblau completed his studies in history and political science in 1980; thereafter, numerous scholarly projects in the field of housing and renter protest movements; worked for Amnesty International and as a truck driver. Since 1985, research concentrated on migration, ethnicity, history of prejudice, Jewish history and the history of anti-Semitism, autobiography, oral history and video history. Currently: member of the research staff of the Institute for the History of the Jews in Austria and docent in the Department of History of the University of Salzburg.