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 Belonging: Jewish Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Europe and Beyond. From 2018 to 2024, she studied Cultural Studies at Leipzig University, completing both her B.A. and M.A. 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