Contact

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+49 441 798-2393  (F&P) 

+49 441 798-3021

Head

Dr Mareike Witkowski (acting professorship)

Department Secretariat

Julia Hashagen

Mon–Thu 09:00–11.30,
Fri: Working from home

0441 798-2609

Ilka Kemmling

Tue–Fri 09:00–11.30,
Mon: Working from home

0441 798-4507

Jan Luca Rottmann

Wed 10.00 am – 2.00 pm

Fri 09:00 – 14:00

0441 798-4507

Tina Schmelter (maternity leave/parental leave)

Address

Dr Maren Ullrich

Teaching staff for special tasks

  • Teaching in the field of history and historical culture
  • Supervision of school-based and extracurricular internships
  • Point of contact for university studies for secondary school students in History

About the person

2006 to the present

University of Oldenburg

  • Teaching staff for special tasks at the Institute of History (Department of History Didactics)
2003–2006

Fellow of the Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship

  • PhD thesis on‘Divided Views: The Landscape of Memory along the German-German Border’
  • Awarded the Weser-Ems Science Prize
2001–2004

University of Oldenburg

  • Lecturer at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture
  • Research assistant on the research project‘Legacy of Absence: Traces of Traumatic Events in 20th-Century Art’
1999–2000Worked at the Oldenburg Art Association ( Artistic Director)
1991–1998

Studied Art, History and German Studies at the University of Oldenburg and the Università degli Studi di Siena (Italy)

  • Work placement at Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) ( ‘Aspekte’ editorial team) in Mainz
  • Research stay in Oświęcim (Poland) as part of the Tempus project ‘Civil Society and Social Change in Europe after Auschwitz’
  • Contributed to the exhibition‘Representations of Auschwitz. 50 Years of Photographs, Paintings and Graphics’ (Kraków, Weimar, Oldenburg)
  • Master’s thesis on the topic‘Strategies for making the past visible. Paths of remembrance and spaces of memory on the grounds of the Birkenau Memorial (Auschwitz II)’
1987–1991Training and professional work at the German Publishers and Booksellers Association ( including the office of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade)
1987Abitur at the Heinrich-von-Gagern Grammar School, Frankfurt am Main

Teaching activity

  • Methodological Foundations in the Introductory Phase of the Course (“History as a Career”)
  • History teaching in grammar schools
  • History teaching in secondary schools (Haupt- and Realschulen)
  • Historical learning in General Studies
  • Preparation for and follow-up on school-based and non-school-based internships
  • Co-operation with the second phase of teacher training (Oldenburg Teacher Training College for grammar school teachers)
  • Practical teaching projects (IGS Kreyenbrück, Oldenburg Eversten grammar school, etc.)

Publications

Monographs

  • Detour via Prague. The Prague Embassy Refugees in the Autumn of ’89. Weiden 2009
  • Divided Views. The Landscape of Memory along the German-German Border. Berlin 2006

​​​​​​​Essays

  • (with Dietmar von Reeken): ‘Compact Knowledge: The Medieval Town’, in: Grundschule General Studies, 82/2019, pp. 4–6
  • (with Dietmar von Reeken): Images of the Medieval Town, in: Grundschule General Studies, 82/2019, pp. 6–15
  • Views of the Oldenburg Glassworks: Image-building in the 19th century or ‘Memories of the good old days’? in: Oldenburg City Museum (ed.): The City’s Memory. A History of Photography in Oldenburg (to be published in September 2012)
  • A Torn Landscape. Architectural Monuments and Memorial Culture along the Former German-German Border, in: Kramer, Sven / Schierbaum, Martin (eds.): Traces of Contemporary History in the Elbe Cultural Region, Springe 2012
  • Landscape of Memory: The German-German Border, in: ‘The Wall and the Border: Monuments and Remembrance’ (Publication series of the German National Committee for the Protection of Historical Monuments). Bonn 2009
  • Materialised Memory in the Former German-German Border Region, in: Gansel, Carsten (ed.): Memory and Literature in the ‘Closed’ Societies of Real Socialism between 1945 and 1989 (Forms of Memory. Volume 29). Göttingen 2007, pp. 233–264
  • A pictorial report from Bonn. On the representation of the inter-German border in the Federal Republic, in: Deutschland Archiv. Journal for the United Germany. 4/2006, pp. 607–616
  • Etju Schönfeld – Images from Concentration Camps and Psychiatric Institutions, in: The Art of the Mentally Ill. The Art of Outsiders in the Context of Modern Art, conference at the Evangelical Academy in Loccum, 3–5 December 1999. Rehburg-Loccum 2000
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