Living History - Twitter-Projekt@Mauerfall89 - Lindenstraße Memorial Site - Victims at the Berlin Wall, 1961-1989 - Integrated Urban History - Witnesses - Authorities research - History of the VHD
Forschung
Completed research projects of the directorate
Projekte
Study on the state of research into the federal ministries and supreme federal authorities with regard to the Nazi past
Christian Mentel Completed research project
The study provides a summary survey of the research projects supported by the federal ministries and the supreme federal authorities on the history of their own institutions, which address not only the Nazi era but also the handling of this past...
Logo of the Association of German Historians.
History of the Verband der Historikerinnen und Historiker Deutschlands (Association of German Historians)
Martin Sabrow Completed Research project
The Association of German Historians was founded in 1895 and has since worked to promote history as an academic discipline and to represent German historians vis-à-vis the national and international public. This collaborative project (Professor...
The Victims at the Berlin Wall, 1961-1989
Hans-Hermann Hertle Completed Research project
Between 1961 and 1989, at least 140 people were killed at the Berlin Wall or died under circumstances directly connected with the East German border regime. This number includes 101 escapees who were shot dead, suffered fatal accidents or...
Custody prison Lindenstraße, Photo by Hans-Hermann Hertle
Lindenstraße Memorial Site
Hans-Hermann Hertle Completed Research, Documentation and Exhibition Projects
Located at the heart of historic Potsdam, the Lindenstrasse Memorial Site is a unique place of memory. With its history under National Socialism as well as in the Soviet Occupation zone and the GDR, it is a symbol...
‘Heute vor 25 Jahren’ - @Mauerfall89
(Twitter Project)
Hans-Hermann Hertle Completed Collaborative Project of the Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam (ZZF), The Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR (BStU) and Bild Deutschland
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall...
Living History: Reenacted Prehistory between Research and Popular Performance
Frank Bösch Completed Research project
This interdisciplinary project, financed by the Volkswagen Foundation, examines by means of ‘living history’ forms of physical appropriation of history.
Oberbaumbrücke with border installations, October 1989, Roehrensee - own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
Public and Private Sphere in Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg
An Integrated Urban History
Hanno Hochmuth Completed PhD project
The two boroughs of Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg were once known as Berlin’s ‘poor house’ on the East Side. They shared similar demographics and history, until the two boroughs found themselves separated by the political divide cutting across post-...
Der Zeitzeuge in der Zeitgeschichte
Martin Sabrow Completed Book project
The volume provides a critical reflection on eyewitnesses as a phenomenon of popular historical culture.