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Aleida Assmann, born in 1947 in Bethel near Bielefeld, studied English and Egyptology at Heidelberg and Tübingen. Between 1968 and 1975 she took part in excavations in Upper Egypt with her husband on several occasions. In 1977 she completed her doctorate in both English and Egyptology. In 1992 she qualified as a professor at the modern languages faculty of the University of Heidelberg. In 1993 she was called to the Chair of English and General Literature at the University of Konstanz. She has been a visiting guest professor at the Rice University Texas, the elite universities Princeton and Yale, as well as at the University of Vienna, among others. Part of the main focus of her research since the 1990s has been on cultural anthropology including the topics cultural memory, remembering, and forgetting.  Remembrance and Memory   The Memory Expert: Aleida Assmann – A Researcher of Literature and Culture |
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Dr. Gabriele Camphausen born in Bonn, 1957; studied Eastern European and Modern History and also Slavic Languages and Literature at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and the Free University of Berlin, doctorate in the history of German research on Russia in the Nazi era.
Scientific collaboration in exhibition projects (Topography of Terror, Berlin-Karlshorst Museum); Scientific Director of Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial; Managing Director of the Topography of Terror Foundation; as of 2002, Head of the Department for Political Education at the office of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records (BStU). Since 1998, Chairwoman of the Berlin Wall Association (sponsoring association of the Berlin Wall Memorial Site). Core themes: dealing with the history of dictatorship and its consequences, issues surrounding the culture and politics of remembrance Constructing Remembrance – Dealing with the German Experience of Dictatorship
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Annette Eberle works as a freelance historian and teacher. She has published works on the history of National Socialism and on memorial and media educational theory. She is currently working on didactic multimedia productions. She has worked for the Goethe Institute in an advisory capacity on a number of occasions, providing expertise on the subject of National Socialism in film. The Feature Film as Cultural Memory |
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Prof. Dr. Monika Flackeis Director of Collections for Art and Photography and Exhibitions Curator at the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) in Berlin. She took her MA. in art history, history and philosophy at the universities of Marburg, Munich and Hamburg. Some of the important exhibitions she has curated are: - Auftrag: Kunst. Bildende Künstler in der DDR zwischen Ästhetik und Politik 1949–1990, Deutsches Historisches Museum 1995. ("Assignment: Art. Visual Artists in the GDR Between Aesthetics and Politics 1949-1990 German Historical Museum 1995"). - Mythen der Nationen. Ein europäisches Panorama, Deutsches Historisches Museum 1998 ("Myths of the Nations. A European Panorama. German Historical Museum 1998") - Mythen der Nationen. 1945. Arena der Erinnerungen, Deutsches Historisches Museum 2005 ("Myths of the Nations. 1945. Arena of Memories. German Historical Musaeum 2005") She is a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Association for the Berlin Wall Memorial and Documentation Center (Verein Berlin Mauer Gedenkstätte und Dokumentationszentrum e.V. Bernauerstr.) and the Task Force Berlin Wall for the development of a concept for the expansion of the memorial, and was a member of the expert commission assigned to create network of memorial sites for "Accounting for the Past; the SED Dictatorship" by the German Federal Government in 2006. She is currently researching exhibition theory, among other things, and was appointed as lecturer at the University of Oldenburg in 2006. History Exhibitions - On the Construction of Reality |
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Prof. Dr. Norbert Frei, born 1955 in Frankfurt/Main, holds a chair for Early Modern and Modern History at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and is director of the Jena Center 20th Century History. From 1979 to 1997 he was an academic member of staff at the Munich Institute of Contemporary History, afterwards he held a chair at the Ruhr University Bochum until 2005. His main area of research is the history of the Third Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany, with special focus on the political cultural history, the history the media and industry as well as the relationship between contemporary history and collective memory. He published several books, including Der Führerstaat‹ (8th extended edition 2007); ›Vergangenheitspolitik‹ (4th edition 2003), ›Hitlers Eliten nach 1945‹ (5th edition 2007, editor); ›1945 und wir‹ (2nd edition. 2005). Chair of Professor Norbert Frei |
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Dr. des. Tobias Freimüller, is a scientific associate at the faculty for modern history (Prof. Dr. Norbert Frei) at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. He did his doctorate in 2007 – his thesis centred on the life and impact of Alexander Mitscherlich, the psychoanalyst and social psychologist. His present research project is entitled "Rekonstruktion und Neuanfang nach dem Holocaust. Frankfurt am Main als Zentrum jüdischen Lebens in Europa" (Reconstruction and a new beginning after the holocaust. Frankfurt am Main as the centre of Jewish life in Europe). Homepage
Is "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" Germany's most successful export? |
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Prof. Dr. Constantin Goschler was born in 1960 in Göppingen (Baden-Württemberg) and read History, German Studies and Geography at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Since September 2006 he has been Professor of Contemporary History at the Ruhr University in Bochum. One of the focuses in his research work is reparation and transitional justice. Among his publications are titles such as "Schuld und Schulden. Die Politik der Wiedergutmachung für NS-Verfolgte nach 1945" (i.e. Guilt and Debts, The Politics of Reparation for Nazi Victims since 1945), Göttingen, 2005. Transitional Justice and Reparation | |
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Gottfried Kößler is the head of the education science department at the Fritz Bauer Institute - Study- and Documentation Center on the History and Impact of the Holocaust at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Alongside teacher training his work focuses mainly on the way history is dealt with in migration society, the pedagogics of memorials and the media. He has been teaching German, history and politics at a German grammar school since 1983. In the 1980’s he worked on the "Lehrer im Museum" (Teachers at the Museum) project at the Historische Museum in Frankfurt and also cooperated on "Spuren Jüdischen Lebens in Frankfurt" (Tracing Jewish life in Frankfurt). In 1989 he started work on setting up the Fritz Bauer Institute. He is the co-founder of the Anne Frank Youth Centre and has been working since then on the further development of the pedagogic concept. From 2003 – 2006 development of the "Anne Frank – A Girl from Germany" exhibition in collaboration with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and the Anne Frank Centre in Berlin. In 2006 he participated in the project entitled "Aus der Geschichte lernen?" (Learning from History?) whose aim was to combine and communicate the pedagogics of memorials and learning about democracy. Last but not least he co-published the Fritz Bauer Institute’s yearbook – "Neue Judenfeindschaft? Perspektiven für den pädagogischen Umgang mit dem globalisierten Antisemitismus" (New anti-Jewish hostilities – Perspectives for the educational handling of globalised anti-Semitism). The History of Nazi Germany: A Way to Learn Democracy? |
