Geb. 1976, Professor seit 2019, #Liverpool, Großbritannien/Nordirland
German Studies (Fachgebiet)
- DDR Geschichte; Erinnerungskulturen; Deutscher Film; Deutsche Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts; Deutsche Sprache (Lehrgebiet)
Kontaktinformationen:
The University of Liverpool - School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, Cypress Building - Chatham Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZR
Honecker’s Children: Youth and Patriotism in Eastern Germany (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007)
Memorializing the GDR: Monuments and Memory after 1989 (Oxford; New York: Berghahn, 2018)
Aufsätze und Beiträge
'The Eventisation of Anniversary Activity: Investing in 1989, in German Life and Letters, 73 (2020) 3, 464-489
'The Politics of Memory in Berlin's Freiheits- und Einheitsdenkmal', in Remembering and Rethinking the GDR: Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities, ed. by Anna Saunders and Debbie Pinfold (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 164- 78
The Luxemburg Legacy: Concretising the Remembrance of a Controversial Heroine?’, German History, 29 (2011) 1, 36-56
‘The Ghosts of Lenin, Thälmann and Marx in the Post-Socialist Cityscape’, German Life and Letters, 63 (2010) 4, 441-457
‘Challenging or Concretising Cold War Narratives? Berlin’s Memorial to the Victims of 17 June 1953’, in Memorialization in Germany since 1945, ed. by Bill Niven and Chloe Paver (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 298-307