Team

Laura Josefine Schilling

doctoral researcher

Art History with a Focus on the Art of Eastern, East-Central and South Eastern Europe and its Intercultural Relations, Leipzig University

Academic CV

Laura Josefine Schilling is a PhD Candidate at the Leipzig University and is working as a Research Associate at Belongings. Studied Applied Theatre and Curatorial Studies in Gießen, Zagreb and Frankfurt am Main and worked as a freelance educator and curator. 2019 – 2022 MA in Curatorial Studies at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Subject of Master’s thesis: “Kunst der Erinnerung. Jochen Gerz' Installation EXIT. Das Dachau-Projekt (1972/1974) im Kontext von Musealisierungs- und Erinnerungsdiskursen zur Gedenkstätte Dachau in den 1970er Jahren“; Awarded the Kopper Graduate Prize of the Department of History. 2015-2019 BA in Applied Theatre Studies at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen.

Research Interests

German-Jewish History (20^th Century)
Visual and Photo History
Memory Studies and Cultures of Remembrance with a focus on artistic practices

Research Project

Private Photography and Family Albums of Jews in Germany after 1945

Publications

Exhibitions

Introduction and Exhibition Texts in Jüdische Gemeinde Frankfurt (ed.): Auf Leben. 75 Jahre Jüdische Gemeinde Frankfurt, [Together with Fedor Besseler] https://75jahre.jg-ffm.de/.

Articles

"Da hätte doch das ganze Leben keinen Zweck." Hochweitzschen und die NS-Zwangssterilisation, in: Der Mensch als Ballast. Die Klinik Hochweitzschen im Nationalsozialismus, Döbeln: Treibhaus e.V., 2023 [together wirh Sophie Spitzner].