Dr. Maren Hachmeister

Forschungsthema:
»Partizipative Archivforschung mit Senior*innen«

Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung, Technische Universität Dresden, Deutschland

Ostmitteleuropa

• Selbstorganisation, Freiwilligkeit und politisches Handeln im 20. Jhd. 
• Vergleichende Transformationsforschung 
• Alter(n) in Zeiten der politischen Transformation 
• Lebensgeschichtliche Forschung und Oral History

• Donate blood - save lives! Blood donation as a practice of socialist humanitarianism in the Czechoslovak and Polish Red Cross, Journal of Contemporary History (November 2025): , https://doi.org/10.1177/00220094251396914.

• Self-organized care for older people in East Germany. Local humanitarianism and post-1989 transformations, in Humanitarian Mobilization ed. by Anca Cretu & Michal Frankl (Manchester University Press) 2025: 94–112.

• Transformations of Care Work for Older People, in Changing Times, Persisting Legacies. The Uneven Development of East-Central Europe since 1989 ed. by Martin Schulze Wessel & Darina Volf (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen) 2025: 165-181.

• “Without Solidarity, No People”: International Solidarity in the East German People's Solidari-ty, International Review of Social History (April 2024): 117–137, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859023000664. 

• Overlooked and Undeserving: Older People in Narratives of Return in Post-1989 East Germa-ny, East European Politics and Societies: and Cul-tures 38, 2 (2023): 703–723, https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254231182695.