Antonia Frinken, M.A.

• Tasks in the project

  • Assistance to the project management
  • Concept, design and coordination of the project website
  • Writing, editing and proofreading of texts and articles 
  • Administration and organization

• Studies

  2019-2022: Master's degree in Ethnology at the University of Cologne

  Master's thesis: "No flowers, but stones" - The Jewish cemeteries in Hemmerden, Hülchrath and Wevelinghoven as places of remembrance in village contexts in the Lower Rhine Area

  2014-2019: Bachelor's studies in Ethnology, Scandinavian Studies and History at the University of Cologne; B.A. Ethnology and Scandinavian Studies

• Professional career

  since October 2022: Research assistant in the project ‘The Massacres in Occupied Italy (1943-1945): Integrating the Perpetrators’ Memories’ 

  April 2020 to October 2022: Research assistant at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies

  November 2017 to April 2020: City guide in Cologne

• Research and fields of interest

  • Urban and rural cultures of remembrance of the Shoah in Germany
  • Jewish history and cultures in the Rhineland in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Jewish women's history
  • Anti-Semitism and racism
  • Collection and exhibition practices, post-colonialism, provenance and restitution in German museums
  • Conceptualisation and conduction of city tours on the Jewish history of Cologne
  • Fashion history in the 19th and 20th centuries