Research projects of the director Frank Bösch

Research project
Postgraduate Research Group of the Hans Böckler Foundation
Project management: Frank Bösch/ZZF, Winfried Süß/ZZF (spokesman), Stefan Berger/ISB Bochum, und Andreas Wirsching/IfZ München-Berlin
Duration: November 2021 - October 2024 (second funding phase of the Kolleg).
During the second half of the twentieth century, technological and economic changes have induced fundamental changes in the world of labour. The four dissertation projects of Lukas Doil, Till Goßmann, Jessica Hall, and Christina Häberle are located at the ZZF Potsdam in Dept. IV "Regimes of the Social."

Postgraduate Research Group of the Hans Böckler Foundation
Project management: Frank Bösch/ZZF, Winfried Süß/ZZF (spokesman), Stefan Berger/ISB Bochum, und Andreas Wirsching/IfZ München-Berlin
Duration: November 2021 - October 2024 (second funding phase of the Kolleg).

During the second half of the twentieth century, technological and economic changes have induced fundamental changes in the world of labour. The four dissertation projects of Lukas Doil, Till Goßmann, Jessica Hall, and Christina Häberle are located at the ZZF Potsdam in Dept. IV "Regimes of the Social."

Research project
Project Management: Prof. Dr. Frank Bösch (ZZF Potsdam), Prof. Dr. Gideon Botsch (MMZ Potsdam)
The project is dedicated to the history of the radical right in both parts of Germany in the second half of the 20th century. The aim is to analyse their development comprehensively and with the support of archives, also on the basis of previously untapped sources, in the context of contemporary history. The ZZF Potsdam is working on six sub-projects by: Laura Haßler, Dr. Marie Müller-Zetzsche, Darius Muschiol (completed phd project, June 2024), Dr. Dominiik Rigoll, Jakob Saß and Luisa Seydel (until 31.1.2023).

Joint project
Project Management: Prof. Dr. Frank Bösch (ZZF Potsdam), Prof. Dr. Gideon Botsch (MMZ Potsdam)
The project is dedicated to the history of the radical right in both parts of Germany in the second half of the 20th century. The aim is to analyse their development comprehensively and with the support of archives, also on the basis of previously untapped sources, in the context of contemporary history. The ZZF Potsdam is working on six sub-projects.

Collaborative research project / Verbundprojekt
Part project (PhD project) Elisabeth Kimmerle: Women in Movement. Migrant Self-Organization and Transnational Mobilization of Migrant Women from Turkey in West Germany (1961-1990)
The project explores democracy and debates about democracy in the Arab and Muslim worlds from a historical perspective. It is a research network of: ZMO Berlin, IEG Mainz, ZZF Potsdam, IFO Amman, Manouba University. Project leader at ZZF is Prof. Dr. Frank Bösch.

Cooperation project
of the ZZF and the University of Potsdam
under the direction of Prof. Dr. Frank Bösch and Prof. Dr. Dominik Geppert (University Potsdam)
The project will comprehensively investigate the transformations on the basis of three individual studies. The central question is the extent to which the founding history of Potsdam University differs from the transformation processes of other East German universities. There are two PhD projects at the ZZF.

Joint project "Drifting Apart"
Subproject at the ZZF Potsdam under the direction of Frank Bösch.

The subproject examines how international engagement with Iran has changed since the 1979 revolution. It analyzes the negotiation and enforcement of sanctions as well as the emergence of new forms of cooperation.

BMBF joint project
ZZF, LMU München and FU Berlin 
Project leader at ZZF: Prof. Dr. Frank Bösch, Dr. Jürgen Danyel, Christoph Classen 
The project investigates the emergence, transformation and use of GDR-related media. Mass media and private media as well as their usage environments are analysed. In addition to the research projects, the network is developing a handbook on GDR film, a new website with oral history interviews and a portal on GDR narrow film.

BMBF joint project
ZZF, LMU München and FU Berlin 
Project leader at ZZF: Prof. Dr. Frank Bösch, Dr. Jürgen Danyel, Christoph Classen 
The project investigates the emergence, transformation and use of GDR-related media. Mass media and private media as well as their usage environments are analysed. In addition to the research projects, the network is developing a handbook on GDR film, a new website with oral history interviews and a portal on GDR narrow film.
In the 2nd project phase 2023-25, the ZZF is working on projects by Isabel Enzenbach/Anja Tack, Tom Koltermann, Nikolai Okunew and Lea Freese-Renner.