Thorsten Fehlberg

Thorsten Fehlberg is a political scientist and social geographer. He has been a research assistant at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media in the Knowledge Architectures project since 2025. He is doing his doctorate on politically engaged descendants of victims of Nazi persecution at the University of Cologne and is an associated researcher at the Else Frenkel Brunswik Institute (EFBI). From 2021 to 2024, his doctorate was funded by the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk (ELES). From 2020 to 2022, he worked as a research assistant for the Hamburg Foundation of Memorials and Places of Learning in Memory of the Victims of Nazi Crimes. From 2013 to 2019, he worked as a project manager at the Federal Association for Information & Counselling for Victims of Nazi Persecution.

Discrimination and Empowerment – Present day political activism by Roma* and Sinti* in Germany

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Although social and political activism of Roma* and Sinti*[1] living in Germany is no longer a marginal phenomenon, Roma* activism as a whole receives little attention from the media or society. Since the civil rights movement in Germany (Bürgerrechtsbewegung) of the 1970s, Roma* and Sinti* activists have been raising their voices (cf. Gress, 2015; Herold … Read more

“I am a committed democrat” – Interview with Edith Grube

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Thorsten Fehlberg met with Edith Grube for a conversation about her family history to find out what influence it has had on her political commitment. Edith Grube was born in Munich Haidhausen in 1963. Her father, Werner Grube, the son of a Jewish woman and a communist, was sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1945 … Read more

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