Charlotta Cordes
Doctoral researcher
former BMBF- Project:
Mod-Block-DDR / sub-project 7
Room 3700 / Telephone: +49 421 218 66646
charlotta.cordes@uni-bremen.de
Current Projects
Socialist economy of space
Territory and planning in the GDR, 1960-1980
Current Research Interests
• Economic, Social and Cultural History of the GDR
• Contemporary History of the Unification and Post-Unification German Society
Short CV
2019-2023 Doctoral Researcher, Chair of Economics of Innovation and Structural Change / Research Centre for East European Studies (University of Bremen), BMBF- Research Project „Obstacles to modernization in the Economy and Science of the GDR“ (Head: Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther, University of Bremen)
since 2022 curator at the discuss data project (https://www.discuss-data.net/) for the category ‚GDR Research‘
since 2019 Affiliated Fellow der Bremer International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)
since 2019 Doctoral Researcher, Chair of Economics of Innovation and Structural Change / Research Centre for East European Studies (University of Bremen), BMBF- Research Project „Obstacles to modernization in the Economy and Science of the GDR“ (Head: Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther, University of Bremen)
since 2019 Affiliated Fellow der Bremer International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)
2017 Research Fellow at the Department of History (Leibniz University of Hannover)
2012-2017 MA in History (University of Bremen)
Titel of MA thesis: „The Duke of Braunschweig as industrial entrepeneur in Nationalsocialism?“ (Award of the »Arbeitskreis für kritische Unternehmens- und Industriegeschichte e.V.« - Association for Critical Business History)
2015-2017 Researcher in the Project „The History of the House Hanover in the Third Reich“ (Head: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Rauh, University of Hannover), funded by „Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte e.V.“ (Business History Society)
2016-2016 Student assistant in the Project „Digital History“ (Head: Prof. Dr. Magdalena Waligórska, University of Bremen)
2013-2014 Tutor at the Department for Contemporary History and Culture of Eastern Europe (University of Bremen)
2009-2013 Student assistant at the Research Centre for East European Studies (University of Bremen)
2008-2009 European Studies (Latvijas Universitāte, Riga, Latvia)
2008-2009 Student assistant for Prof. Dr. Susanne Schmidt (University of Bremen), Bremer International Graduate School for Social Science (BIGSSS), Collaborative Research Centre: „Transformation of the State“
2006-2011 BA in Sociological European Studies (University of Bremen)
Titel of BA Thesis: „Stalinist writing? The Diary of Nina Lugovskaja 1932-1937“
Presentations
After 1989: Socialist elites in post-socialist transformation, Presentation at the Colloquium of Mod-Block-DDR, GDR- Resarch consortium, Online, together with Mareike zum Felde und Heiko Pleines 20.02.2023.
Vom sozialistischen Aufbau zu gleichwertigen Lebensverhältnissen. Territoriale Ordnungen, räumliche Narrative und geplante Räume in Ostdeutschland (1965 bis 1995), Presentation at the first GDR- Conference for Young Scientist, Leipzig (Germany), 15.07.2022.
Vom 'Energiezentrum der DDR' zur 'strukturschwachen Peripherie'. Strukturwandel und Wirtschaftspolitik in der Niederlausitz (1987 bis 1995), Presentation at the Colloquium of Mod-Block-DDR, GDR- Resarch consortium, Online, 20.01.2022
"God created Lusatia and the devil put the coal under it." Consensus and dissent on socio-economic change in a region from socialism to market economy. PhD-Proposal Defense, BIGSSS Colloquium via Video Conference, 12.05.2020.
'Einheit von Wirtschaft und Territorium' - Sozialistische Raumplanung in der Niederlausitz, 1970er-Jahre, FSO-Kolloquium (Online), 12.07.2021.
Project: Political Strategies and Actors of the Economic Transformation in the GDR.
Presentation at the Meeting 2nd of the Research Consortium “Obstacles to Modernization in the Economy and Science in the GDR”, Technische Universität Berlin, 16.09.2019.
Tension Field "Energy". The Restructuring of GDR Electricity Industry in the German Unification Society.
Presentation at the 4th International FRRESH Summer School for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Orilampi, 26.-30.08 2019.
Ernst August Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg als Rüstungsindustrieller, Veranstaltung „Die Nacht, die Wissenschaft“ der Initiative Wissenschaft Hannover, 12. November 2016, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Die Investitionen der Welfen in Luftrüstung und Bau-Wirtschaft von 1939-1945, Tagung „NS-Geschäfte des Hauses Hannover“, 16. Juli 2016, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Publications (only in German)
together with zum Felde, Mareike; Pleines, Heiko:The Question of Legacies: Socialist Elites in Post-Socialist Transformations—East Germany’s Elites from a Comparative Perspective (1990–2020), in: Günther, Jutta et al. (eds.): Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition, Cham 2023. (open access).
Eine Adelsfamilie auf dem Weg in die Moderne. Der Herzog als Unternehmer im Nationalsozialismus, in: Rauh, Cornelia (Hg.), Das Haus Hannover im Dritten Reich. (in preperation)
Eine Adelsfamilie auf dem Weg in die Moderne. Der Herzog als Unternehmer im Nationalsozialismus, in: Rauh, Cornelia (Hg.), Das Haus Hannover im Dritten Reich. (in preperation)
Sowjetischer Dissens und Gender. Über den Beginn der Bürgerrechtsbewegung, digital exhibition and teaching modul, online: www.digitalhistory.uni-bremen.de/women-under-communism
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