Annette Weinke

Annette Weinke (* 1963 in Kiel ) is a German historian .

Annette Weinke studied history, journalism and art history at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and the Free University of Berlin . From 1990 to 1992 she was a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Communication at the Free University. She then worked until 1996 as a research assistant at the Government Crime Working Group of the Public Prosecutor's Office II at the Berlin Regional Court . From 1996 to 2000 she was a doctoral scholarship holder of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst and received her doctorate in 2001 at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Potsdam under Christoph Kleßmann with a study on Nazi law enforcement and politics of the past .

In 2002 she was visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts ; from 2003 to 2004 lecturer at the University of North Carolina . In 2005, together with Klaus Marxen , she supervised a research and exhibition project on the East German court film. Then she was a lecturer for the Berlin European Studies Program (FU-BEST) at the Free University of Berlin. From 2006 to 2008 Weinke worked as a research assistant at the Ludwigsburg research center with Klaus-Michael Mallmann . From 2006 to 2010 she worked for Norbert Frei as a research assistant for the Independent Commission of Historians on the History of the Foreign Office in the Nazi era .

Weinke has been a research assistant at the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena since autumn 2010. In July 2014 habilitated them at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Jena with a study on transnational debates about German crimes against the state in the 20th century . In 2015 and 2016, Weinke was a visiting fellow at the History Department at Princeton University , New Jersey. Her research interests include the history of the two German states after 1945, the post-history of National Socialism, international humanitarian law and human rights in the 20th century and the history of the Foreign Office after 1945. As part of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation , she works on the research project Lobbyists of Law: Transatlantic International law activists and human rights activists in the 20th century .

Publications (selection)

• The persecution of Nazi perpetrators in divided Germany. Coming to terms with the past 1949–1969 or: a German-German relationship story during the Cold War . Schöningh, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 978-3-506-79724-7 (= Zugl .: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss). ( Review by Sabine Horn at H-Soz-u-Kult ; Review by Claudia Moisel at sehepunkte ).
• The Nuremberg Trials (= CH Beck Wissen; 2404). CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-53604-5
• A society investigates against itself. The history of the central office Ludwigsburg 1958-2008 (= University of Stuttgart. Research center Ludwigsburg: Publications of the research center Ludwigsburg of the University of Stuttgart; Vol. 13). WGB, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21950-6
• Violence, history, justice. Transnational Debates on German State Crimes in the 20th Century . Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-2876-1 (habilitation thesis, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 2014) ( review by Anselm Doering-Manteuffel at H-Soz-u-Kult ).
• The enemy in court. Show trials in communist Eastern Europe . State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-943588-79-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Annette Weinke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Reviews of works by Annette Weinke at Perlentaucher
• Page from Annette Weinke at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena