Katharina
 
Täufert
Assoziierte Doktorandin

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Katharina Täufert

Leibniz-Center for Contemporary History Potsdam
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam

Office: Am Neuen Markt 1, room 0.19

Phone: 0331/28991-35
Fax: 0331/28991-40
E-Mail: taeufert [at] zzf-potsdam.de

Vita

since 2020
Research Associate in Oral History and Biographical Research at the Berlin Wall Foundation

04/2020-09/2020
Final Scholarship ZZF Potsdam

since 2017
Associated Doctoral Candidate 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: "Jobs for everyone? The role of the German Trade Union Confederation in the conflicts about unemployment and poverty, 1972-1998" (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
  • Oral History and biographical research

Projects

Publications

Rezension über Haunschild, Meike: „Elend im Wunderland. Armutsvorstellungen und Soziale Arbeit in der Bundesrepublik 1955-1975“, Marburg: Tectum 2018, in: sehepunkte 19 (2019), Nr. 4 [15.04.2019].

Tagungsbericht „Krieg der Welten“, in: Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift (MGZ), 2015, Jg. 74, H. 1-2, S. 208-213.

Tagungsbericht „50 Jahre Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück, 11.09.2009 - 13.09.2009, Ravensbrück“, in: H-Soz-Kult, 29.10.2009.

Lectures

"Arbeit für alle? Die Rolle des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes in den Auseinandersetzungen um Arbeitslosigkeit und Armut, 1972-1998", as part of the Final Conference of the Postgraduate Research Group "Social Consequences of the Transformation of the World of Work in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century", Institute for Contemporary History, 13.12.2019.

"Inmitten medialer Selbstdarstellung, gewerkschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung und parteipolitischer Nähe - Armut und Arbeitslosigkeit als Themen der DGB-Bundeskongresse", as part of the Workshop "Perspektivwechsel - Protokolle und Oral-History-Interviews als Quellen einer Neuen Geschichte (der Arbeit)", University of Heidelberg, 11.02.2019.

"Die Rolle des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes im Diskurs über Armut und Arbeitslosigkeit in den 1970er bis 1990er Jahren", Projektvorstellung im Historischen Doktorandenkolleg Kolleg Ruhr (HDKR), Universität Duisburg-Essen, 18.01.2019.