Kirsten John-Stucke

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Kirsten John-Stucke (* 1966 in Unna ) is a German historian , non-fiction author and museum director of the Wewelsburg Museum . She is the editor of numerous documentations on the history of the Wewelsburg under National Socialism and the history of the Niederhagen concentration camp . The focus of her work is on the culture of remembrance and educational work on memorial sites, as well as the redesign of the Wewelsburg memorial and memorial site from 1933 to 1945.

life and work

After graduating from high school , Kirsten John went to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster to study modern and contemporary history , German and journalism . During her studies, she completed an internship at the Wewelsburg District Museum in 1990 and worked until 1993 as a pedagogical assistant for the documentation Wewelsburg 1933-1945. Cult and terror site of the SS. As part of her master's thesis , she dealt with the Serious Bible Students among the prisoners of the concentration camp in Wewelsburg .

After completing her studies, she went to Bremerhaven for two years in 1993 , where she completed an academic traineeship at the Morgenstern Museum , the historical museum of the city of Bremerhaven . Since 1995 she has worked as a research assistant at the Wewelsburg District Museum, which she has been deputy head of since 1999. After the death of long-time museum director Wulff E. Brebeck , she took over the management of the museum in 2011. She played a key role in the new conception of the Wewelsburg memorial and memorial from 1933–1945. In addition, she researches and documents the history of the Niederhagen concentration camp and the various groups of inmates. In the ZDF documentary series Böse Bauten , Kirsten John-Stucke explained how the National Socialist architecture was dealt with at the Wewelsburg.

Kirsten John-Stucke is a board member of the working group NS memorials and places of remembrance in NRW eV , in the scientific project advisory board NS documentation Vogelsang as well as a member of the advisory board of the Altertumsverein Paderborn eV

Kirsten John-Stucke is married and has two children.

Literature (selection)

Books

  • Prisoners in the concentration camp in Wewelsburg with special consideration of the Serious Bible Students . Master's thesis (1993)
  • "My father is wanted ...". Inmates of the concentration camp in Wewelsburg , (2001)
  • 12 years - 12 fates. Case studies on the NS victim group Jehovah's Witnesses in North Rhine-Westphalia 1933 - 1945. (2006, together with Michael Krenzer & Johannes Wrobel)
  • The Wewelsburg 1933–1945. SS megalomania and concentration camp terror. CD-Rom with booklet, (2007, together with Wulff E. Brebeck, Karl Hüser )
  • End time fighters. Ideology and Terror of the SS. (2011, together with Wulff E. Brebeck, Frank Huismann & Jörg Piron)
  • The Wewelsburg myth. Facts and legends. (2015, together with Daniela Siepe)
  • The bodies of the SS - ideology, propaganda and violence. Accompanying volume for the special exhibition from June 19 to September 4, 2016 in the castle hall of the Wewelsburg. (2016, together with Erik Beck, Markus Moors & Jörg Piron)
  • We're opening a barrel! Brewing and drinking beer in the Paderborn region. Accompanying volume for the special exhibition from June 1 to September 2, 2018 in the castle hall of the Wewelsburg. (2018, with Erik Beck, Markus Moors, Jörg Piron)

Articles (selection)

  • Jehovah's Witnesses in the concentration camp in Wewelsburg . In: Hans Hesse (Ed.): "The most courageous were always the Jehovah's Witnesses". Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses in National Socialism , Bremen 1998, pp. 63–75.
  • Niederhagen / Wewelsburg concentration camp . In: Jan Erik Schulte (Ed.): Concentration camps in the Rhineland and in Westphalia 1933–1945. Between central control and regional initiative . Paderborn 2005, pp. 97-112.
  • Wewelsburg . In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel : The Place of Terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps, Vol. 3 (Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald; here on Sachsenhausen ). Munich 2006, pp. 286–288.
  • Niederhagen / Wewelsburg concentration camp. In: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel: D er Place of Terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps, Vol. 7 (Niederhagen / Wewelsburg, Lublin-Majdanek, Arbeitsdorf, Herzogenbusch (Vught), Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora) . Munich 2008, pp. 15-29.
  • The Wewelsburg: Renaissance castle - "SS school" - place of remembrance - excursion destination . In: Heinz-Dieter Quack, Albrecht Steinecke (ed.): Dark Tourism. Faszination des Schreckens (= Paderborn Geographical Studies on Tourism Research and Destination Management, Vol. 25), Paderborn 2012, pp. 179–191.
  • Sinti and Roma in the Niederhagen / Wewelsburg concentration camp (Büren-Wewelsburg ). In: Karola Fings , Ulrich F. Sacrificial man (eds.): Gypsy persecution in the Rhineland and in Westphalia 1933–1945. History, processing and memory . Paderborn 2012, pp. 101-107.
  • Between "mystification" and "authenticity". Considerations for dealing with the extreme right in so-called perpetrator locations . In: Hans-Peter Killguss, Martin Langebach (Ed.): "Grandpa was fine!" Remembrance politics of the extreme right (= articles and materials from the information and education center against right-wing extremism in the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne, vol. 8), Cologne 2016, pp. 144–159 (with Heiko Klare, Stefan Wunsch)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burg Wewelsburg in North Rhine-Westphalia - The castle of evil. Accessed January 5, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ a b Kirsten John-Stucke new director of the Wewelsburg District Museum - Wewelsburg District Museum. Retrieved January 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Kirsten John-Stucke, the new director of the Wewelsburg District Museum. Retrieved January 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Hitler's architecture - traces from the Siegfried Line to the Autobahn (27.00-33: 55min). Retrieved January 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Memorial Forum - circular. Retrieved January 5, 2020 .
  6. ^ Vogelsang IP: Scientific Project Advisory Board. Retrieved January 5, 2020 .
  7. ^ Altertumsvereins Paderborn eV: elected board and advisory board. In: Altertumsverein Paderborn. Accessed January 5, 2020 (German).

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personal data
SURNAME John-Stucke, Kirsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES John, Kirsten (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, non-fiction author and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Unna