Vrääth Öhner, film and media scholar, is a project leader at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, an associated senior researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (LBIDH), and a member of the international research network BTWH (Berkeley/Tübingen/Vienna/Harvard).

At the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society (LBIGG) he was a researcher in the research projects “Film.Stadt.Wien. A Transdisciplinary Exploration of Vienna as a Cinematic City” (2009-2011, WWTF Vienna Science and Technology Fund) and “Amateur Film Archeology. Excavations in modern visual culture” (2011-2013, FWF Austrian Science Fund). Between 2011 and 2017, he was a university assistant (PostDoc) at the tfm | Department for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna

Since 2018, he has been a senior researcher at LBIGG, which was renamed Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (LBIDH) in March 2019. Öhner contributed to the project “I-Media-Cities” (2016-2019, EU Horizon 2020, project collaborator 2018) and was involved in the creation of the “Red Vienna Sourcebook” (2017-2020, City of Vienna MA 7, chapter editor). He supported the project “Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age” (2019-2023, EU Horizon 2020, project collaborator 2019) in the start-up phase and later served as a consultant for the project. As of July 2019, he was a senior researcher in the project “Educational Film Practice in Austria” (2019-2023, FWF Austrian Science Fund). From October 2019 to March 2020, he held a substitute professorship in Film Studies at the University of Bremen, where he still teaches courses as part of an institutional partnership with LBIDH. At LBIDH, he is currently preparing a new project on the analysis of amateur films.

Research interests: Theory, aesthetics and history especially of documentary and amateur film, media and popular culture.