Contact
Katharina Täufert
Center for Contemporary History
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 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
Projects
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PhD project
The transformation of the working environment since the 1970s had a direct impact on social structures in West Germany, e.g. rising unemployment, stagnant wage development and growing social inequalities.
» zum Projekt
Publications
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
"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.