Public History | Completed Projects

Four students of the Master Public History programme (FU Berlin/ZZF Potsdam) and a two-person film team from the TH Ostwestfalen-Lippe preserved and digitised the unique history of the GDR History Museum in this completed documentation and interview project. The aim of the project was a virtual tour of the museum.

The aim of the project was to present the first research results on the history of the site Bogensee in an online exhibition. Under the title "BOGENSEE. A historical tour of the place", current 360° photographs shoud provide a glimpse into the buildings that are no longer accessible today.

Within the framework of the project, East and West German print media, contributions from news broadcasts as well as feature films and documentaries from 1961-1962 were evaluated. The material for the DVD was then selected and background information compiled.

In der Ausstellung wurden die Hintergründe der Verhaftungen von sieben jungen Frauen und Männern aus Werder (Havel) beleuchtet. 

At an international conference in Berlin, various research projects on the history of the "Stolpersteine" were discussed.

The exhibition (May 12 - November 9, 2016 in Museum Barnim Panorama, Wandlitz) provided insights into the political style and lifestyle of the GDR’s leadership elite and documented the consequences for the region of the forest settlement and the security regime associated with it.

Using an extensive body of exhibition photos, this project analysed the depiction of prehistory in museums of the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR as well as discourses that led to the alteration or persistence of conceptions of history.

The website, which covers the period from April 1952 to the end of 1953, reconstructs what led to the crisis, the uprising itself and the months thereafter: It explains the causes, the course and the consequences. The texts are illustrated and supplemented by a variety of different sources: for example film clips and original sounds from the RIAS archive.

The Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, and the Municipal Museum Berlin have prepaired a joint exhibition on East Berlin in the Ephraim-Palais in the Nikolaiviertel (May 11 to November 10, 2019). It provided new perspectives on the former metropolis of East Germany. The social and cultural dimensions of urban life in East Berlin were the heart of the exhibition.

Together with the public relations department of the Brandenburg Landtag, the Public History section wrote texts for the pupil calendar 2019/2020 on the topic of "Friedliche Revolution". It explained both the Cold War and the SED dictatorship.