Biography

2004–present: Research fellow at the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture, associated with the Hamburg Institute for Social Research

2000–2004: Researcher and spokeswoman of the team of scholars that created the exhibition Crimes of the German Wehrmacht: Dimensions of a War of Annihilation, 1941–1944

1999–2000: Research project within the framework of the Hochschulsonderprogramm (Special University Funding Program) at the University of Hamburg

1998: Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bielefeld

1995–1998: Completion of doctoral degree at the University of Hamburg (doctoral thesis: Patterns of Memory: Methodological Issues and Biographical Interviews with Survivors of Concentration and Death Camps)

1991–1995: Academic staff, Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial

1990–1991: Staff member, Education Program of the Hamburg Museums

1983–1989: Studied history, theology, and education at the University of Münster

 

 

Selected Publications

New

Space and violence as analytical categories in Holocaust research. In: Janine Fubel, u.a. (Hg.): Space in Holocaust research. A transdisciplinary approach to spatial thinking. Berlin (u.a.): De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024; S. 67-77

zus. mit Wolfgang Hardtwig, Achim Landwehr, Annette Leo: Erinnerung heute. Zur Bedeutung von Geschichte für Gegenwart und Zukunft. Eine Veranstaltung des Netzwerks Zeitgeschichte mit Unterstützung der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung [Podiumsdiskussion]. In: Montagsdebatte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 22. Januar 2024
Open Access

[Rezension zu:] Jeffrey Veidlinger: Mitten im zivilisierten Europa. Die Pogrome von 1918 bis 1921 und die Vorgeschichte des Holocaust. München: Beck, 2022. In: Historische Zeitschrift. 318(2024),1; S. 228-230

“Blonde Provinzen”. National socialist territorial and homogenization policies and the murderous consequences of their failure. In: Journal of urban history. 50(2024),1; S. 46-60

Über Bedürfnisreste und Glaubwürdigkeitsverluste. Ein Gespräch unter Abwesenden über epochale Umbrüche. In: Nils Baratella, u.a. (Hg.): Die Präsenz des Vergangenen. Festschrift für Johann Kreuzer. Paderborn: Brill Fink, 2023; S. 153-169

Generation. In: Gerd Sebald, u.a. (Hg.): Handbuch Sozialwissenschaftliche Gedächtnisforschung. Bd. 1: A-L. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2023; S. 331-340

 

Publications

Memberships

Member of the Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands [German Association of Historians]
Member of various project advisory committees, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn
Member of various project advisory committees, Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf
Member of the “round table” on the future of memory work in Schleswig-Holstein (with the Minister of Justice, Culture, and European Affairs)
Member of the Hamburg Ministry of Culture’s advisory committee for the Hannoverscher Bahnhof memorial site
Reviewer for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [German Research Foundation], the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (FRFG), the European Research Council (erc) Brüssel, as well as various publishing houses and professional journals