Katharina

 

Täufert

Stipendiatin/Assoziierte Doktorandin

since April 2017
PhD at the Institute for Social Movements and at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Berger, Second Supervisor: PD Dr. Winfried Süß) as well as scholarship of the Hans Böckler Foundation in the graduate school ”Social Consequences of the Changing Working Environment in the Second Half of the 20th century”,
PhD Project: "The Role of the German Trade Union Confederation in the Discourse on Poverty and Unemployment in the 1970s to the 1990s" (Working Title)

2015-2016
Scientific Trainee at the Berlin Wall Foundation (Departments “Oral history and biographical research“, “Collections and Archives” and “Exhibition”)

2014
Assistant of the Managing Director at the Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association

2011-2014
Master degree in Political Science at the University of Potsdam

2010
Internship at the Heinrich Böll Foundation Berlin / Green Memory Archive (Department „Democracy and Contemporary History“)

2009-2014
Student Assistant at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (Department “Regimes of the Social Sphere. Mobilization, Welfare State and Rationalisation”)

2009
Internship at the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture Brandenburg (Department “Policy Matters in Contemporary and Cultural History”)

2008-2011
Bachelor degree in Sociology and Political Science / Administration at the University of Potsdam

2008
A level at the Goethe-Gymnasium in Ludwigslust

1989
born in Ludwigslust (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

Research interest:

• Development of both German states and the inner German relations
• History of Social Policy
• Trade Union History
• Violence Research