Ulrike Jureit

Ulrike Jureit (* 1964 ) is a German modern historian .

Scientific career

Ulrike Jureit studied history, theology and social pedagogy at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster from 1983 to 1989 . From 1991 to 1995 she was a research assistant at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial . In 1998 she received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg . The theme of their work was memory patterns. On the methodology of biographical interviews with survivors of the concentration and extermination camps . Jureit then worked as a postdoc at Bielefeld University and then supervised a research project as part of the special university program at Hamburg University. She works at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and has been a guest scientist at the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture since 2004.

Jureit was significantly involved in the so-called Second Wehrmacht Exhibition, in which the crimes of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War were discussed. The exhibition was presented from 2001 to 2004. It was very different from the first version, which had been extremely controversial in the German public.

Publications (selection)

• Life is lived forwards and understood backwards - orally asked case histories as sources of historical research. In: Susanne Düwell, Nicolas Pethes (Ed.): Case - Case History - Case Study. Theory and history of a form of knowledge. Frankfurt am Main et al. 2014, pp. 227–241.
• The arrangement of rooms. Territory and habitat in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hamburg 2012.
• with Margrit Frölich and Christian Schneider (eds.): The discomfort in memory - processes of change in memory of the Holocaust. Frankfurt am Main 2012.
• with the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (ed.): Crimes of the Wehrmacht. Dimensions of the War of Extermination 1941–1944. Exhibition catalog, conception: Jan Philipp Reemtsma , Ulrike Jureit; Overall editor: Ulrike Jureit. Hamburg 2002.
• Construction and meaning. Methodical considerations on biographical constructions of meaning. Oldenburg 1998 (PDF file).
• In dubio contra reum? About the desire for historical clarity. In: Music & Aesthetics. Vol. 17, No. 67, 2013, pp. 9-21.
• Autobiographies: Questions about a lived life. In: Martin Sabrow (Ed.): Autobiographical work-up. Dictatorship and Life History in the 20th Century. Leipzig 2012, pp. 149–157.
• Generation, Generationality, Generational Research , Version 1.0. In: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte , published on February 11, 2010.
• as editor with Nikola Tietze: Post sovereign territoriality. The European Union and its area . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86854-287-5 .
• Hope for success. Actor-centered action concepts in migration and refugee research , in: Zeithistorische Forschungen 15 (2018), pp. 509–522.

Web links

• Section on Ulrike Jureit on the website of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
• Interview with Jureit on Deutschlandradio Kultur about her research into memories of the Holocaust , published on July 29, 2010.
• Interview with Jureit on the website of the project “Forced Labor 1939–1945” from August 6, 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The information on this section comes from the web pages of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
2. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: 20 years ago: An exhibition on the crimes of the Wehrmacht polarized Germany | bpb. Retrieved February 27, 2020 . 
3. ↑ See the review by Agnes Laba in the online portal Sehepunkte .