Marcus Schönewald
PhD student
marcus.schoenewald@uni-bremen.de
Current dissertation project
Wilhelm Pieck. A Biography
Short CV
2024 Consultant at the Ministry of Education and Child Day Care Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
2021 - 2024 trainee programme for junior managers in the senior civil service of the state of Berlin
2019 - 2020 Postgraduate studies in administrative sciences at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer
2017 Visiting scholar at the Institute of Contemporary History/ Research Department Berlin
2016 Research fellow at the German Historical Institute Moscow
2011 - 2017 Research assistant at the Chair of Contemporary History and Culture of Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen
2009 - 2011 Student assistant, later research assistant to Prof. em. Dr. Gottfried Schramm, Chair of Eastern European and Modern History at the University of Freiburg
2007 Semester abroad at St. Petersburg State University (RU)
2003 - 2011 Studies of Modern and Contemporary History, Modern German Literary History and Philosophy in Tübingen, Basel and Freiburg
Recent publications:
Wilhelm Pieck im Krieg. Der Erste Weltkrieg als biografische Zäsur und erinnerungspolitisches Kapital, in: Emmanuel Droit/ Nicolas Offenstadt (eds.): Das rote Erbe der Front. Der Erste Weltkrieg in der DDR, Berlin/Boston 2022.
Review of: Paul Levi, Without a Drop of Lackey's Blood. Schriften, Reden, Briefe, Vol. I/1 und I/2: Spartakus, ed. by Jörn Schütrumpf, Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2018, in: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte (online) 59, 2019.
Democratic beginnings? The early KPD and the false premise of the Stalinisation thesis, in: Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung 2018, pp. 163-180 (Reviewed by Hannes Schwenger: Luxemburg oder Stalin. KPD and Democracy, in: Tagesspiegel, 11 April 2018).
Workshops:
"Lebensbilder - Bilderleben. Fotografien als biografische Quellen", Villa Ichon Bremen, 8/9 September 2016 (together with Franziska Meifort as part of the doc-network "Grenzenlos - Epochen- und raumübergreifende Geschichtswissenschaften", PhD Centre University of Bremen (ProUB)).
September Academy at the University of Bremen, archive workshop for first-year students at the Research Centre for Eastern Europe, 15-19 September 2014 ("Ein grausiger Fund und sein Nachhall. The Murder of Jerzy Popieluszko in October 1984").
Lectures (selection):
"Wilhelm Pieck. Eine Biografie", lecture at the German Historical Institute Moscow, 29 November 2016.
"Wilhelm Pieck in the War. Der Erste Weltkrieg als biografische Zäsur und das rote Erbe der Front", conference "Das rote Erbe der Front? Der Erste Weltkrieg in der DDR", Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, 1-2 June 2016 (conference report on Deutschlandfunk).
"Between Exclusion and Political Advancement. Biographical Explorations of Wilhelm Pieck's Bremen Years 1896-1910", lecture series of the Historical Society Bremen, Haus der Wissenschaft, 20 October 2015.
"Lebensgeschichte oder Lebensgeschichten? Theoretische und praktische Überlegungen zu einer Biografie Wilhelm Piecks", Workshop Biografie-Forschung, University of Regensburg 14/15 November 2014 (conference report on HSozKult).
Committee activities (selection):
2019 - 2020 Member of the Senate of the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer.
2015 - 2017 Member of the Departmental Council of FB 8 Social Sciences at the University of Bremen