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Dora Busch

Affiliated Researcher

dora.busch@mailbox.tu-dresden.de

phone: +49 +49 (0351) 463 32802

Photo  Dora Busch

VITA

Academic career

  • 04/2018 Master's degree in Public Histor, Freie Universität Berlin                                 
  • 06/2014 Bachelor's degree in Economics and History, WWU Münster

Stays abroad

  • 07/2014 - 08/2014 Research trip Rumania - Schwarzkopf Stiftung
  • 02/2013 – 06/2013 Erasmus at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Work experience

  • 08/2019 – 12/2022 As a freelance historian: Interviews with contemporary witnesses about UHA II 1951 and 1990 in UHA II (Lernort Keibelstraße, Hohenschönhausen Memorial)
  • 03/2020 – 03/2021 As a freelance historian: Research and project coordination on justice in the GDR with a focus on UHA II (Lernort Keibelstraße)    
  • 01/2020 – 03/2021 Development and project support for interactive children's stations (Museum Lichtenberg, Berlin)
  • 11/2018 – 03/2019 Curation of the permanent exhibition at the Schwerbelastungskörper (Tempelhof Schöneberg Museums, Berlin)
  • 07/2018 – 11/2018 Co-curation with Philipp Holt "Druckfrisch aus Tempelhof. Blicke in das Ullsteinhaus" (Tempelhof Schöneberg Museums, Berlin).
  • 2014 - today Workshops and guided tours for youth and adults on topics including:  Imprisonment in the GDR (Lernort Keibelstraße), History and art of the East Side Gallery (Berlin Wall Memorial), Cemetery of the victims of the March Revolution of 1848 (Paul Singer Verein)

Linguistic proficiency

  • German
  • English
  • Spanish

Research and teaching focus

  • Contemporary history
  • GDR history
  • History of democracy
  • Mediation of history

Functions and memberships

  • Member of  the Deutschen Museumsbund e. V.

PUBLICATIONS



Monographs

Geschichte des Spreeparks

Busch, Dora; Geyler-von Bernus, Monica; Kahl, Birgit
Berliner Forum für Geschichte und Gegenwart e. V (Ed.)
Grün Berlin GmbH, Berlin 2017. more details