Biography
Born in Berlin in 1995.
2014–2022 Studied history, German language and literature, and interdisciplinary anti-Semitism research at the University of Potsdam and the Technical University of Berlin. 2019–2022 Participation in the DFG projects “The Persecution and Murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933–1945” (VEJ) and "The Persecution and Murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933–1945“ (PMJ) at the Institute for Contemporary History Munich–Berlin and at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Freiburg. 2022–2025 Project assistant and PhD candidate at the IKW in the FWF research project “The Construction of the Austrian Trümmerfrau”. Since January 2026, Fellow for Anti-Semitism Research at the Institute for Cultural Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Areas of Specialization
History of National Socialism and the Shoah, anti-Semitism, politics of history and memory in Germany and Austria.
Publications
With Martin Tschiggerl and Patricia Seifner “‘As a former National Socialist [...] I suffered most severely.’ How National Socialists’ Atonement Work Became a Reconstruction Myth”, in: Austrian History Yearbook 2025.
Die Edition „Von der letzten Zerstörung. Die Zeitschrift ‚Fun letstn churbn‘ der Jüdischen Historischen Kommission in München 1946–1948“, Rezension in: H-soz-kult 2022.
„Bildung gegen Antisemitismus“, Rezension, in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 69. Jg., Heft 7/8, 2021.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
„Der Essayist Jean Améry: ‚Eine Linke, die sich selbst vergisst‘“ (2024)
„Wie jüdische Überlebende im Nachkriegsösterreich nach NS-Tätern suchten“
(2024)
„‚Survived to tell‘: Die jüdische Tradition, Zeugnis von der Gewalt gegen Juden abzulegen“
(2023)