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Dr. Maren Hachmeister

01.09.2026 - 28.02.2027

Contemporary History

  • GWZO Fellow

    Research topic:
    ‘Participatory archival research with older people’

  • Institution

    Hannah Arendt Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

  • Research region

    Eastern Central Europe

  • Research focuses

    • Self-organisation, voluntary action and political engagement in the 20th century
    • Comparative transformation research
    • Ageing in times of political transformation
    • Life-history research and oral history

  • Publications (selection)

    • 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.

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