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Project manager, research assistant

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Department:

Department of Economics and Social Sciences

Study area:

Public Management

Project:

Project to digitise the Jewish cemeteries in northern Thuringia

Research areas:

  • Jewish life in the 19th century
  • Jewish sepulchral culture
  • Desecration of gravestones and prevention work
  • Economic and social history

Time

Activity

2003-2008

Studied German Studies/German as a Foreign and Second Language, Modern History and Economic and Social History, graduating with a "Magistra Artium" with a teaching qualification for adult education at Friedrich Schiller University Jena

2008-2012

Self-employed lecturer for integration courses German as a second language, phonetics courses and English courses, socio-pedagogical support for integration course participants

2010

District of Nordhausen, Jobcoach

2011-2013

District of Nordhausen, project manager in the "Your Day" project as part of the "JUGEND STÄRKEN: Aktiv in der Region" model programme

2013-2015

City of Nordhausen, employee at the "Flohburg" museum and the city archive

2015-2016

Learning therapist/learning pedagogue course outside the field of medicine with a degree in "Learning therapist/learning pedagogue, seminar leader in autogenic training for working with children and young people" at the German Institute for Learning Therapy (DIL)

2016-2018

Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences, teacher for special tasks for German as a foreign language/German as a second language, temporary project coordination, in the qualification programme "Language - University - Working Life"

2017

Doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

2018-2020

Parental leave, teaching assignments

since 03/2021

Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences, research assistant, head of the project "Digitisation of Jewish cemeteries in northern Thuringia"

since 03/2023

Head of the Working group "Desecration of gravestones - fields of action for prevention and education work" of the State Prevention Council in the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and Municipal Affairs

a) Monographs:

  • From protected Jews of the imperial city to Prussian citizens of the Jewish faith. Opportunities and limits of the integration of Nordhausen Jews in the 19th century. Publication series of the Friedrich Christian Lesser Foundation (37th volume), Nordhausen 2018.
  • Nine centuries of Jewish life in Thuringia (2020-2022). Stone evidence of Jewish life in digital form. Jewish cemeteries in the 19th century in the district of Nordhausen. Edited by Gegen Vergessen - Für Demokratie e. V. - Regional Working Group Thuringia, Dr Marie-Luis Zahradnik, Nordhausen 2021.


b) Published works:

  • Revolution and Democracy 1918/1919 - The Entry of Modernity into the Province. Am Beispiel Nordhausen, Schriftenreihe Heimatliche Forschungen des Stadtarchivs Nordhausen/Harz, No. 11, Nordhausen 2019, and associated online text on "exhibition making" for the Weimar Republic Association (Link: thueringen100.de/moderne-in-der-provinz/projekt-nordhausen)


c) Articles in specialised journals:

  • The children's and youth diary for Otto Eisner. In: Heimatbund Thüringen e. V. (ed.): Heimat Thüringen, 27 Jg, Heft 2, 2020, pp. 28-30.
  • "Digital transmission". In: Against Forgetting - For Democracy (ed.): Gegen Vergessen - Für Demokratie - Magazin, No. 115/July 2023, pp. 28-29 (together with Joachim Heise).


d) Articles in edited works:

  • Medieval-Jewish manuscript remains in the mirror of history. In: Geschichts- und Altertumsverein, Museum Tabakspeicher, Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Beiträge zur Geschichte aus Stadt und Landkreis Nordhausen (38th volume), Nordhausen 2013, pp. 40-50.
  • The House of Life - The Jewish Cemetery in Nordhausen. In: Geschichts- und Altertumsverein, Museum Tabakspeicher, Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Beiträge zur Geschichte aus Stadt und Landkreis Nordhausen (39th volume), Nordhausen 2014, pp. 231-246.
  • The First World War and the fate of Jewish soldiers from Nordhausen - as reflected in the 1921 memorial. In: Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Nordhäuser Nachrichten. Südharzer Heimatblätter (4/2014), pp. 4-8.
  • "The religious reform" of the Braunschweig state rabbi Dr Levi Herzfeld - The sermon for the inauguration of the synagogue in Nordhausen in 1845. In: Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Nordhäuser Nachrichten. Südharzer Heimatblätter (2 and 3/2015), pp. 28-36.
  • Association of female Jewish youth. In: Geschichts- und Altertumsverein, Museum Tabakspeicher, Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Beiträge zur Geschichte aus Stadt und Landkreis Nordhausen (41st volume), Nordhausen 2016, pp. 132-140.
  • Foreign research on fallen Nordhausen Jewish soldiers at the Anneau de Memoire in France (Part 2). In: In: Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Nordhäuser Nachrichten. Südharzer Heimatblätter (25/2016), p. 25- 27.
  • From find to family history (part 1). In: Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Nordhäuser Nachrichten. Südharzer Heimatblätter (27/2018), pp. 6-9.
  • From find to family history (part 2). In: Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Nordhäuser Nachrichten. Südharzer Heimatblätter (28/2019), pp. 10-13.
  • A diaristic source on Jewish bourgeois history in Nordhausen - Otto Eisner's diary for children and young people. In: Geschichts- und Altertumsverein, Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Beiträge zur Geschichte aus Stadt und Landkreis Nordhausen (45th volume), Nordhausen 2020, pp. 173-182.
  • Preserving cultural heritage digitally. A workshop report on the documentation and presentation of the Jewish cemetery in Ellrich (Part 1). In: Geschichts- und Altertumsverein, Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Beiträge zur Geschichte aus Stadt und Landkreis Nordhausen (46th volume), Nordhausen 2021, pp. 293-300.
  • Preserving cultural heritage digitally. A workshop report on the documentation and presentation of the Jewish cemetery in Bleichrode (Part 2). In: Geschichts- und Altertumsverein, Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Beiträge zur Geschichte aus Stadt und Landkreis Nordhausen (47th volume), Nordhausen 2022, pp. 171-184.
  • Preserving cultural heritage digitally - documentation and presentation of the Jewish cemeteries in the Nordhausen district. In: Hahn, Hans-Werner/Kreutzmann, Marko (ed.): Jewish History in Thuringia. Structures and developments from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia (64th volume), Vienna/Cologne 2022, pp. 427-450.
  • Nordhausen: 1000th anniversary of the town. In: Grisko, Michael (ed.): Modernity and Province. Weimar Republic in Thuringia 1918-1933, Halle 2022, pp. 177-182.
  • Jewish life in Sülhayn in the 19th century. In: Geschichts- und Altertumsverein, Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Beiträge zur Geschichte aus Stadt und Landkreis Nordhausen (48th volume), Nordhausen 2023, pp. 215-227.
  • Bureaucracy in the small state - historical cases from administrative practice on the edge of the Harz Mountains. In: Hinz, Emar (ed.): Gestalten in Kommunen. Effective task fulfilment in the administrative ecosystem (in preparation) (together with Stefan Zahradnik).

 

e) Articles in digital libraries:

  • Evidence of Jewish life in Ellrich am Harz, Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences, 2023, DOI: 10.22032/dbt.58352.
  • Graffitied, overturned, smashed: A thought paper on research and prevention needs regarding desecration of grave and other memorials to the dead in Thuringia, Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences, 2023, DOI: 10.22032/dbt.58580.

 

Dr phil. Marie-Luis Zahradnik