Public History | Projects

Exhibition project/Permanent exhibition (Berlin) 
Helmut Kohl's 16-year reign (1982-1998) not only saw German reunification, but also the Schengen Agreement, the Maastricht Treaty and the introduction of the euro, which set the course for European integration. 
The exhibition tells the tense phase of German and European contemporary history in the 1980s and 1990s from an East and West German perspective.

Kooperationsprojekt
Rund 30 Geschichtsstudentinnen und -studenten aus Deutschland und Dänemark entwickeln in Workshops (online und vor Ort) zwischen November 2024 und Februar 2025 didaktische Konzepte und erarbeiten Material für die Kriegsgräberstätte Oksbøl (Dänemark). 

Digital exhibition project
with students of the Master's program Public History (FU Berlin/ZZF Potsdam)

The FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum in Berlin has an extensive collection of historical postcards from and about the Berlin district of Kreuzberg before 1945. In a digiS-funded project entitled ‘The Peter Plewka Collection - Kreuzberg before 1945 in historical postcards’ public history students are developing an online presentation of selected postcards. The students will present the maps they have selected and tell the story or stories associated with them.

Exhibition project/Multimedia traveling exhibition
(Bad Freienwalde, Berlin, Weimar, Hamburg)
The exhibition explores the uprisings, assassinations and attempted coups in the early years of the Weimar Republic. Eight perspectives illustrate how extremists and separatists brought Germany to the brink of civil war.

The Netzwerk Zeitgeschichte connects museums, research and civil society. It wants to open spaces of non-profit, private, and federally funded mueseums and research facilities for project presentations and aims at connecting different players in the contemporary history space.

Multimedia Website project
On the basis of so far partially unpublished documents, film and sound material, photographs and interviews with main actors as well as own research, the dramatic events during the construction and fall of the Wall up to the political unification of Germany are reconstructed and presented on a bilingual website (German/English) for the public.

Between 1951 and 1990 was on Keibelstraße in Berlin-Mitte a detention center (UHA) and also a police and deportation custody from 1992 to 1996. As part of the project, a permanent exhibition was set up at the site and educational materials were developed.