The Realignment of “Education after Auschwitz” in Immigration Society

Participants

• Rosa Fava studied secondary teaching at the University of Hamburg for the subjects chemistry and history. After her traineeship, she worked from 2004 as a freelancer at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg, and was co-founder of the Kreuzberg Initiative against Anti-Semitism, Berlin. Since 2012, she has headed the “Diversity in Schools” project at the Jewish Museum Berlin and in 2013, she was awarded a doctorate in educational science from the University of Hamburg.
• Selman Erkovan studied teaching at the Free University Berlin for the subjects political science/social studies and history. In August 2014, he began his teacher traineeship in Berlin at the Ernst Schering School and at the sixth-form college of a vocational school serving the banking and insurance sector (Oberstufenzentrum Banken und Versicherungen). Selman Erkovan’s particular area of academic interest is the category of identity in historical and political learning.
• Angela Kühner, psychologist, has worked in the area of sociology and psychoanalytic social psychology at the Goethe University Frankfurt since 2009. She has a doctorate in reflexive social psychology from the University of Munich. Her publications include “Trauma und Kollektives Gedächtnis” (Trauma and collective memory, 2008), “Kollektive Traumata” (Collective traumas, 2007) and “Reflexive Wissensproduktion” (Reflexive knowledge production, 2013, Ed. with Phil C. Langer and Panja Schweder).
• Marco Kühnert studied history, political science, and philosophy at the University of Hamburg. In 2004, he served on the educational staff for the exhibition “Crimes of the Wehrmacht” and has since freelanced as a guide at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg.