Academic curriculum vitae

since 2006: Teaching staff for special tasks at the Institute of History (CvO)

2006: Dissertation on the topic Geteilte Ansichten. Remembrance Landscape of the German-German Border

2002-2004: Lecturer at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture (CvO)

Exhibition and research projects:

• 2008: Detour Prague. The Prague Embassy Refugees in Autumn '89 (German-German Museum Mödlareuth, German Embassy Prague, Red Cross Museum vogelsang ip)
• 2002: Legacy of absence. Traces of traumatising events in the art of the 20th century (Rockefeller Foundation New York)
• 1995: Representations of Auschwitz. 50 Years of Photographs, Paintings and Graphics (Krakow, Weimar, Oldenburg)

1999-2000: Oldenburger Kunstverein (Artistic Director)

1996: Master's thesis on Strategies of Visualising the Past. Paths of remembrance and spaces of memory on the grounds of the Birkenau memorial site (Auschwitz II)

1991-1998: Studied the subjects of art, history and German language and literature in Oldenburg and Siena (Italy)

1967: Born in Frankfurt am Main

Awards and scholarships

• 2006: Weser-Ems Science Prize
• 2003-2006: Doctoral scholarship from the Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship

Focus of teaching:

• Basic methodological teaching in the introductory phase of studies
  ("History as a science" and "History as an academic appointment")
• History teaching at grammar schools
• Teaching history at lower and intermediate secondary schools
• Early historical learning
• Practical teaching projects with students from all types of schools on various topics,
  e.g. life in the Stone Age (IGS Kreyenbrück), life in the Middle Ages (IGS Kreyenbrück), cultural history of the Weimar Republic (Gymnasium Oldenburg Eversten), crisis of the late Middle Ages (Gymnasium Oldenburg Eversten)
• Preparation and follow-up of school and extracurricular internships

Monographs

• Diversions Prague. The Prague embassy refugees in autumn '89. Weiden 2009
• Divided Views. German-German border landscape of remembrance. Berlin 2006

Essays

• (with Dietmar von Reeken): Knowledge compact: The medieval city, in: Grundschule Sachunterricht, 82/2019, pp. 4-6
• (with Dietmar von Reeken): Pictures of the medieval town, in: Primary school non-fiction teaching, 82/2019, p. 6-15
• Views of the Oldenburg glassworks: image building in the 19th century or "memories of the good old days"? in: Stadtmuseum Oldenburg (ed.): Das Gedächtnis der Stadt. History of Photography in Oldenburg (to be published in September 2012)
• Torn Landscape. Monuments and memorial culture along the former German-German border, in: Kramer, Sven / Schierbaum, Martin (eds.): Traces of contemporary history in the Elbe cultural area, Springe 2012
• Erinnerungslandschaft deutsch-deutsche Grenze, in: "Mauer und Grenze. Denkmal und Gedenken" (Series of publications by the German National Committee for Monument Protection). Bonn 2009
• Vergegenständlichte Erinnerung im ehemaligen deutsch-deutschen Grenzraum, in: Gansel, Carsten (ed.): Gedächtnis und Literatur in den 'geschlossenen' Gesellschaften des Real-Sozialismus zwischen 1945 und 1989 (Formen der Erinnerung. Band 29). Göttingen 2007, pp. 233-264
• Photo report from Bonn. On the representation of the German-German border in the Federal Republic, in: Deutschland Archiv. Journal for the united Germany. 4/2006, S. 607-616
• Etju Schönfeld - Pictures after concentration camps and psychiatry, in: Die Bildnerei der Geisteskranken. Die Kunst von Außenseitern im Spannungsfeld der modernen Kunst, conference at the Evangelische Akademie Loccum, 3 to 5 December 1999. Rehburg-Loccum 2000