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PD Dr. habil. Udo Grashoff

Academic Researcher

udo.grashoff@mailbox.tu-dresden.de

phone: +49 (0351) 463 32802

Photo PD Dr. habil. Udo Grashoff

VITA

Academic career

  • 2019 Habilitation at the University of Leipzig "Betrayal in the Communist Resistance to National Socialism 1933-45"
  • 2006 Doctorate at the University of Leipzig "Suicides in the DDR"

Stays abroad

  • 2014-2020 DAAD-Specialst Lector at University College London (School of Slavonic and East European Studies)

Work experience

  • since 2008 University lecturer at the University of Leipzig

Research and teaching focus

Teaching:

  • Everyday and Social History of Germany in the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • Environmental History

Research:

  • political taboos in dictatorial regimes
  • Resistance and opposition in the Nazi regime and in the DDR
  • Collaboration with the Gestapo in the "Third Reich
  • Suicide as a political issue
  • Informal housing, black housing
  • Juvenile Penal System

Research projects

  • Jugendhaus Halle - History of the largest and most modern youth prison in the DDR (1971-90)

Functions and memberships

  • since 2010 Chairman of the association Zeit-Geschichte(n) - Verein für erlebte Geschichte, Halle (Saale)
  • Member of Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (Association of German Historians)

HAIT-RESEARCH PROJECTS

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

Jugendhaus Halle. "Die Schlägerei hört einfach nicht auf". Gefängnisalltag (1971-1990), Halle 2023.

Grashoff, Udo
Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2023.

Gefahr von innen. Verrat im kommunistischen Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus

Grashoff, Udo
Wallstein, Göttingen 2021.

Articles in journals

Umweltbewusstsein in Deutschland

Grashoff, Udo
In: Verein Berliner Debatte Initial e.V. (Ed.)Berliner Debatte Initial, 2023 (2023), 3, pp. 59-72.

Kern und Peripherie. Zur Struktur politischer Tabus in der DDR. Das Suizidtabu als Beispiel.

Grashoff, Udo
In: Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur (Ed.)Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung, 2023 (2023), , pp. 239-255.

Outwitting the Gestapo? German Communist Resistance between Loyalty and Betrayal

Grashoff, Udo
In: Journal of Contemporary History, 57 (2022), 2, pp. 365-386.

Political Taboos in the German Democratic Republic

Grashoff, Udo
In: German History, 39 (2021), 3, pp. 442-463.