Contact
Olaf Berg
Center for Contemporary History
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam
office: Am Neuen Markt 1, room 2.30 phone: 0331/28991-72 fax: 0331/28991-60 E-Mail: olaf.berg [at] zzf-potsdam.de
Vita
Since 2019
Research associate and curator of digital portals at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam for the reseach consortium "Das mediale Erbe der DDR. Akteure, Aneignung, Tradierung" (The media heritage of the GDR. Protagonists, appropriations, traditioning).
2015 - 2018
Research associate at Institute for Migration and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück. main research areas: Visual production of migration, historical migration research based on geographical information systems (GIS) in the research consortium "People on the Move".
2009 - 2015
Staff position publication manager at Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History in Frankfurt/M.
1995 - 2008
Director of Latin-American filmfestival and Spanish filmfestiva, 3001 Kino in Hamburg.
1997 - 2004
Studies of social and economic history, computer science, media culture and Latin-American studies at University of Hamburg (degree: Magister Artium)
2001 - 2002
Latin-American studies at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Instituto de Ciencias Sociales der Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP).
Since 1990
Journalistic work for print, radio and television. Production of documentary films.
Alumnus of Heinrich-Böll-Foundation