Peter Wurschi

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Peter Wurschi (* 1975 in Suhl ) is a German political scientist and sociologist and the incumbent state representative of the Free State of Thuringia for coming to terms with the SED dictatorship.

Life

Peter Wurschi studied political science, sociology, philosophy and psychology at the University of Leipzig from 1995 to 2000 . In his thesis he researched the development of the political opposition in his hometown of Suhl. As a scholarship holder of the Federal Foundation to come to terms with the SED dictatorship , he wrote his doctorate on GDR youth protest culture in Thuringia. In 2007 he developed a first concept for the development of a memorial and educational facility in the former Erfurt Stasi remand prison in Andreasstrasse. Since 2008 he has worked at the Ettersberg Foundation , which is responsible for scientific research into the emergence, manifestations and overcoming of dictatorships in Europe, especially the SED dictatorship. There he curated exhibitions, among other things, and as a senior research assistant was responsible for the foundation's program of events and historical and political educational work. During this time, he also coordinated and organized the development of the "Thuringia History Association".

Since 2010 he has been a lecturer at the University of Erfurt . From 2014 to 2016 he was a member of the German Bundestag's expert commission on the future of the authority of the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR . In November 2018 Wurschi took office as the State Commissioner of the Free State of Thuringia to come to terms with the SED dictatorship (ThLA). A legal focus of the ThLA is advising politically persecuted people on how to deal with their past and providing support on the way to their rehabilitation. In addition, the ThLA provides political and historical educational work on the work and effects of the SED dictatorship .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Being young in the GDR, Erfurt 2014.
  • Rennsteigbeat. Adolescent subcultures in the Thuringian region 1952 to 1989, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007.
  • "... and they woke up in North Rhine-Westphalia!" The development of the opposition in Suhl and its work in autumn 1989, Zella-Mehlis 2002.

Anthologies

  • Bersch: Passion. One picture is not enough, Halle (Saale) 2017.
  • Silence or speaking - How we deal with history, Weimar, Erfurt 2015 (ed. Together with Annegret Schüle, Solveig Negelen and Manuel Leppert).
  • "There was something in the air ..." The occupations of the district administrations of the State Security in Thuringia (districts of Erfurt, Suhl and Gera). Weimar, Erfurt 2014 (edited together with Hans-Joachim Veen ).

Essays

  • Be ready! Being young in the GDR. In: Andreas Apelt / Robert Grünbaum / Jens Schöne (eds.): GDR place of memory. Berlin 2016, pp. 105–116.
  • Sweating, stamping, on file: The Suhl youth club Kramkiste in the 1980s, in: Leonard Schmieding / Alfons Kenkmann (eds.): Kothe, Kanu, Kino und Kassette. Youth between Wilhelm II. And reunification, Leipzig 2012, pp. 159–180.
  • In the provinces I am the prince - youth cultural conflicts in the GDR with examples from the Suhl district, in: Leonore Ansorg / Bernd Gehrke / Thomas Klein / Danuta Kneipp (eds.): "The country is still - still!" Change of rule and political Opposition in the GDR (1971–1989), Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2009, pp. 181–202.
  • "I'm so bored!" Youth, everyday life and the socialist provinces, in: Susanne Muhle et al. (Ed.): The GDR in view. A contemporary historical reading book, Berlin 2008, pp. 129–138.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ behalf of THLA. Accessed December 4, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Wurschi, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Suhl