Anna Georgiev
From 2006 to 2012, Anna Georgiev studied Cultural Sciences in a bachelor’s and Intercultural Communication in a master’s programme at the Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). Various exchange programmes and working stays abroad brought her to Paris (2005), Sofia (2008), Haifa and Tel Aviv (2011-2013) and finally London (2013-2015). Most recently, she worked as a freelance cultural scientist in Berlin. Since February 2017, she has been a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Europäisches Kolleg in Jena.
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Research project
Jewish Culture in Eastern German Museums (working title)
The museumisation of Jewish culture in Eastern Germany was not only influenced by politics and museum policies but also by a particular view on history (Geschichtskultur) in the former GDR. At the first glance, the perception of Jewish culture in GDR museums happened in comparison to the FRG relatively late and museumised synagogues were created mostly after the reunification of Germany.
Nevertheless, approaches to tackle this politically sensitive subject began long before that – shortly after the war Jewish cultural life became a prominent subject in a small regional museum in Gröbzig, present-day Saxony-Anhalt. This was to become the first and only Jewish museum in the country.
Despite the fact that Eastern German museums had contributed to West German exhibitions on Jewish topics through artefact loans from the 1960s, they generally did not yet raise the subject themselves. Only in the late 1970s did the main German historical museum – the Museum für Deutsche Geschichte - focus on the topic and finally, in 1988, the 50th commemoration of the November pogrom lead to a wide range of activities including the inauguration of exhibitions across the country.
So far, these museumisation processes have been discussed only marginally in scientific literature. In terms of a museological perspective, the historical analysis explores the extent to which curators of this day and age continue to be influenced by the museums' former handling of the subject.
Research interests
material oriented cultural science
museology
Jewish history and culture
Select publications
Thälmanns Turnhose und andere Dinge. Kurze Objektgeschichte antifaschistischer Ausstellungen der DDR, in: Deutschland-Archiv, 20.12.2019.
Jüdische Selbstbehauptung in Berlin. Die Geschichte der 500 Thorarollen, die die NS-Zeit in Berlin-Weißensee überdauerten, in:
Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte 67(2019), 4, S. 537-563.
Zur materiellen Geschichte des 'Judensterns' 1941 bis 1945, in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft (66/2018), S. 623-639.
Zweimal getäuscht. Synagogenbilder am Museum für Deutsche Geschichte, in: Mitgliederrundbrief, Aktives Museum, Faschismus und Widerstand in Berlin e.V. (79/2018), S. 23-27.
Jüdische Perspektiven, in: 'Das andere Deutschland'. Festschrift 70 Jahre Berliner VVV (01/2018), S. 8f.
(with Markus Wegewitz) Tagungsbericht. Rescue of Jews during the Second World War in Contemporary Museums, 05.10.2017 – 06.10.2017 Berlin, in: H-Soz-Kult.
Zwischenstation Jerusalem oder der geheimnisvolle Jacques Barley – Der Reformationsteppich im Israel-Museum, in: Anna webt Reformation. Ein Teppich und seine Geschichten. Museum Europäischer Kulturen 2017, S. 61-68.
Gedenken nach dem Krieg - Zur Errichtung der ersten OdF-Denkmäler in Berlin., in: Gedenkstättenrundbrief 183, 10/2016, S. 44-50.
Die ersten OdF-Denkmäler Berlins, in: Mitgliederrundbrief, Aktives Museum, Faschismus und Widerstand in Berlin e.V. (75/2016), S. 14-19.
„Paper Dolls' Houses”. Ausstellungshomepage Small Stories: At Home in a Dolls' House, V&A Museum of Childhood.
(with Zohar Efron) New Ideals. The Image of the New Woman in Photography. Ausstellungskatalog, Stadtmuseum Haifa, 2015.
Über Neue Frauen, Neue Juden und die Populärkultur. Selbstbilder deutsch-jüdischer Photograph-Innen, in: Trumah 22, Zeitschrift der Hochschule für jüdische Studien Heidelberg, 2014.