Katrin Unger

Research and work focus

Katrin Unger is responsible for the overall education and encounter programme and is the contact person for cooperation partners such as cooperation and third-party funded projects in the memorial's Education work.

Her work focuses on the ongoing development of the overall concept of the Education work, the supervision of material development and event formats as well as the monitoring of quality assurance for the training and further education of employees. On behalf of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation, she is responsible for the cooperation between the state of Lower Saxony and the Yad Vashem Memorial in Israel. In cooperation with the Lower Saxony State Institute for School Quality Development (NLQ), she organises the annual multiplicator training in Israel with its preparatory and follow-up seminars. She is a member of the Working Group on Memorial Site Education and will be a member of the Working Group's Spokesperson Council between 2020 and 2023.

Current and completed projects (selection):

2021-2024 Co-direction of the project "A travelling exhibition in design for all: Tatort Bergen-Belsen"; funded by the BKM and the state of Lower Saxony

2022 Co-direction of the research and education project "Recht ist, was dem Staat nützt?"- Historische Bildung als Voraussetzung demokratischer Handelns in Niedersachsen; funded by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future and the Federal Ministry of Finance

2020-2021 Head of the research and education project "Who against whom? Violence, exclusion and the stereotype 'Jew' in football"; funded as part of the Federal Program "Living Democracy" with funds from the BMFSFJ by the State Democracy Centre of Lower Saxony and with funds from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice

Since 2017: Contact person at the memorial for the project "Partnership for Democracy in Bergen" as a cooperation between the city of Bergen and the Bergen-Belsen Memorial; funding as part of the Federal Program "Living Democracy!" with funds from the BMFSFJ

2014-2017 Contact person at the memorial for the graduate programme "Vergegenwärtigungen. Representations of the Shoah from a Comparative Perspective" at the University of Hamburg; funding as part of the Hamburg State Research Programme

Katrin Unger, M.A. studied European Ethnology, Social Pedagogy and Andragogy at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg. During her studies, she worked as a freelancer at the Max Mannheimer Study Centre in Dachau until 2012. There she designed educational materials and event formats on the subject of National Socialism, in particular on the history of the Dachau concentration camp, and primarily organised seminars and projects lasting several days with various target groups. From 2001 to 2008, she also worked for a development policy organisation in Bayreuth in the field of education and public relations. From 2008 to 2012, Katrin Unger worked as a research assistant and acting head of the project "Deprivation of Rights as a Life Experience" at the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation, which developed innovative educational formats for human rights-oriented memorial work. Through numerous further and advanced training courses, she has a diverse didactic and methodological portfolio in memorial work, historical-political education work, global learning and prejudice-conscious/critical education.