Institute for social Movements
Katharina Thießen, M.A.
Vita
| since 2020 | Research Associate in Oral History and Biographical Research at the Berlin Wall Foundation |
| since 2017 |
Associated Doctoral Candidate 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: ”Jobs for everyone? The role of the German Trade Union Confederation in the conflicts about unemployment and poverty, 1972-1988“(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
- Oral History and biographical research
Publications
- Review about Haunschild, Meike: „Elend im Wunderland. Armutsvorstellungen und Soziale Arbeit in der Bundesrepublik 1955-1975“, Marburg: Tectum 2018, in: sehepunkte 19 (2019), Nr. 4 [15.04.2019].
- Conference Report „Krieg der Welten“, in: Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift (MGZ), 2015, Jg. 74, H. 1-2, S. 208-213.
- Conference Report „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)", Universität 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.
