Guido Fackler

Prof. Dr. Guido Fackler is an academic director at the Chair of Museum Studies within the Faculty of Philosophy at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. He specializes in museology, audience research, landscape studies, and music history in Nazi concentration camps.

• Education: Magister (1991) and Ph.D. (1997) in Folklore, Musicology, and Ethnology from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; Habilitation (2011) at JMU Würzburg.
• Leadership: Since 2016, he has led the Chair of Museum Studies, holding an extraordinary professorship since 2017 and appointed Academic Director in 2019.

Research Focus includes:

• Museum practices, provenance research, and cultural heritage transformation.
• Historical analysis of music in Nazi camps, such as jazz in Theresienstadt.
• Landscape and space studies, focusing on European canal systems as cultural artifacts.

Scientific Awards:

• Fraenkel Prize (1992) for research on concentration camp music.
• Theo-Pinkus-Preis (1992) for sociocultural contributions.
• Travel grant for habilitation research (2005–2006).

Advising spans over 30 supervised bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses, including analyses of museum inclusivity, postcolonial exhibitions, and provenance research.

Committee Memberships include advisory roles at the Martin von Wagner-Museum, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, and the Forum Afrikazentrum.