PD Dr. Sabine Stach
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About
From 2001 to 2009, Sabine Stach studied cultural studies, art history and Bohemian/Slovak studies in Leipzig and Prague (Magister). In 2014, she received her PhD from the University of Leipzig with a study on political discourses of martyrdom in late and post-socialism. From 2014 to 2015, she has held a teaching assignment at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and from 2015 to 2020 a researcher at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw in the research area »Functionality of History in Late Modernity«. In 2025, she completed her habilitation in cultural studies at Leipzig University.
Sabine Stach has been a researcher at GWZO in the department »Culture and Imagination« since September 2020.
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Work focus
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Public history & tourism
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History of tourism
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Performative and sensory approaches to historical culture (“Doing History”)
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Contemporary history of Poland, Czechoslovakia, GDR
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Memberships
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Member of the editorial board and of the steering group [Steuerungsgruppe] of H-Soz-Kult
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Member of the Czechoslovak Studies Association
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German-Czech and German-Slovak Historical Commission
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Teaching
Sabine Stach teaches at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Charles University in Prague, and University of Leipzig.
Current topic of research
Tracing Communism
Historical guided city tours relate history in a spatially bound, oral and interactive way. Taking the presentation of state socialism in commercial communism tours as its example, this project examines the popularisation, commodification and authentication of contemporary history in today’s tourism industry.
read moreWrite your way through the nineties!
The participatory project builds on the widespread interest in autobiographical writing to open up new perspectives on life during the period of upheaval that followed 1989. To this end, writers and writing teachers are offering creative writing courses at various locations across eastern Germany.
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