The writer and historian Doron Rabinovici, born in Tel Aviv in 1961, has lived in Vienna since 1964. Together with the theatre director Matthias Hartmann, he realized the project Die letzten Zeugen (The Last Witnesses), which was shown at the Vienna Burgtheater in 2014 and invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen that same year. His most recent books are Die Außerirdischen (Extraterrestrials; Suhrkamp, 2017) and Die Einstellung (The Position; Suhrkamp, 2022). In 2000 he published Instanzen der Ohnmacht. Wien 1938–1945. Der Weg zum Judenrat (Suhrkamp). He was a co-editor of the volume Neuer Antisemitismus? Fortsetzung einer globalen Debatte (Suhrkamp, 2019). Doron Rabinovici received the Jean Améry Prize for essay writing in 2002, the Anton Wildgans Prize of the Austrian Industry Federation in 2010, and the Austrian Book Trade’s Honorary Award for Tolerance in Thought and Action in 2015. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature.
