Hanno Loewy

Hanno Loewy (born 1961) is a scholar of literature and film. He studied literature, theatre, film and television studies, and cultural anthropology, and earned his doctorate at the University of Konstanz with a dissertation on the film theorist Béla Balázs. From 1990 to 2000, he helped establish the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main and served as its founding director from 1995 to 2000. In 2004, he became director of the Jewish Museum Hohenems. From 2011 to 2017, he was president of the Association of European Jewish Museums. His publications include “Béla Balázs: Märchen, Ritual und Film” (2003) and “Holocaust: Jukebox. Jewkbox! Ein jüdisches Jahrhundert auf Schellack & Vinyl” (2014).