Team

Thekla Elise Funke

doctoral researcher

Comparative Cultural and Social History of Modern Europe, Leipzig University

Academic CV

Thekla Elise Funke is a doctoral researcher in the International Research Training Group Belongings. From 2018 to 2024, she studied Cultural Studies at Leipzig University, completing both her BA and MA degrees. She has worked as a teaching and research assistant at the Institute for Cultural Studies (Institut für Kulturwissenschaften) and as a research assistant at Bar-Ilan University. In 2024–2025, she was a member of the Bass Connections team at Duke University, contributing to the project Diaspora, Exile, and Interreligious Dialogue.

Research Interests

  • German-Jewish Life Writings of Barbara Honigmann
  • Representation of material culture in post 1945 contexts
  • Memory/post-memory in German Jewish texts
  • History of antisemitism after 1945

Research Project

  • The Written Silent, the Visible Absence, and the Text in the Written after 1945 – Materiality of Catastrophe, Exile and Belonging in Barbara Honigmann’s Writings

Publications