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Dr. Cord Pagenstecher

Research and Publication Services | Digital Interview Collections

Address
Central Library
Garystr. 39
Room 254 A
14195 Berlin
Telephone
+49 30 838 53673
Email
cord.pagenstecher@fu-berlin.de
  • Historian, research associate in the Digital Interview Collections department at the University Library of Freie Universität Berlin, Research and Publication Services department.
  • Conception and development of interview archives, research and learning environments for oral history, in particular management of the DFG project Oral-History.Digital.
  • Publications on National Socialism, migration history, tourism research, oral history, visual history and digital humanities

Projects:

  • Project “Oral-History.Digital. Interview portal - indexing platform - research environment”, project lead (2020-2026)
  • Project “NFDI 4Memory”, coordination of FU participation in the historical consortium of the National Research Data Infrastructure (2023-2028)
  • Project “Text+ohd”, project management (2025)
  • Project “ASR4Memory”, collaboration (2024)
  • Interview project “40 years of church asylum”, project lead (2023-2024)
  • “Colonia Dignidad - A Chilean-German Oral History Archive”, coordination of the UB sub-project (2019-2022)
  • Project “Iron Curtain. Deadly escapes and bending the law”, coordination of the UB sub-project (2018-2022)
  • Interview archive “Forced Labor 1939-1945”, various work packages (since 2008)
  • Educational material “Witness Interviews for the Classroom” (DVD with the BpB 2010), “Learning with Interviews” (online applications since 2016) and “Dossier on Nazi Forced Labor” (BpB 2016)
  • HERA project “Accessing Campscapes”, head of work package “Testimonies and Campscapes” (2016-2019)
  • Collaboration in projects “Memories of the Occupation of Greece” (2017), “Witnesses of the Shoah” (DVDs with the BpB 2012, online application 2016), “Nucena Prace” (online application by Ziva Pamet Prague 2016), “Prinuditelniy Trud” (online application by the Regional Center for Oral History Voronezh 2017) and “Frank Falla Archive” of the University of Cambridge (2018).


Former activities:

  • Activities at the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt (since 1989), the Ravensbrück Memorial (1998 - 2000) and the Compensation Authority of the State of Berlin (2001 - 2007)
  • Master's thesis on the history of mentality of 'Gastarbeit' (1994), doctorate on the visual history of German tourism (2003)


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