Team

Project coordination

Birgit Marzinka holds postgraduate degrees in geography (Lic./Dipl.) and media education (MA). Since 1997 she has worked as a consultant and trainer in media education, historical, civic and intercultural education for children, young people and adults. Her current interests are educational portals, learning through digital media, the virtual learning environment Moodle, blended learning, training courses for adults and projects for young people. She also directs the web portal zeitzeugengeschichte.de, which focuses on oral history. She has received several awards for her work, including the Grimme Online Award for 2008 in the category “Knowledge and Education”. Email:  marzinka [at] agentur-bildung [dot] de

Project staff

Ingolf Seidel holds a postgraduate degree in social pedagogy, and since 1998 has been a freelance educational consultant. He has worked as an author for haGalil onLine and is a freelance consultant and trainer for the working group “Berliner Arbeitskreis Konfrontationen”. Since December 2006, he has coordinated the educational policy network “Task Force: Education on Antisemitism” in the Berlin office of the American Jewish Committee. His interests are antisemitism past and present, the Middle East conflict, cultures of memory and remembrance, seminars on National Socialism and oral history interviews. Email: seidel [at] agentur-bildung [dot] de

Lisa Just holds a BA in history, is a Masters student in historical and cultural studies with a special focus on Eastern Europe, in Berlin, Wroclaw and the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. Her interests are German-Polish encounters on historical and civic education, learning through digital media and the museum as a site of learning. Email: just [at] lernen-aus-der-geschichte [dot] de

Markus Nesselrodt holds a BA in cultural studies and is a Masters student in the culture and history of Central and Eastern Europe in Wroclaw, Warsaw and the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. His interests are German-Polish projects on historical and civic education, cultures of remembrance, film and digital media. Email: nesselrodt [at] lernen-aus-der-geschichte [dot] de

Association Board

Hanns-Fred Rathenow, Professor of Civic Education at the Institute for Social Sciences and Education in History and Politics, Technical University Berlin; numerous publications on the pedagogical confrontation with National Socialism and the Holocaust, most recently Trauma und Erinnerung. Oral History nach Auschwitz (with Juliane Spitta; Kenzingen: Centaurus, 2009). Email: rathenow [at] agentur-bildung [dot] de

Dr. Birgit Wenzel, Visiting Professor for the didactics of history at the Institute for Social Sciences and Education in History and Politics, Technical University Berlin. Her current work focuses on the creation of a resource pack for teaching on opposition and repression in the German Democratic Republic, with special attention to the biographical approach and oral history, and a book on creative and innovative methods in history teaching (both 2010). Email: birgit [dot] wenzel [at] agentur-bildung [dot] de

Christian Geissler-Jagodzinski, is currently completing his teaching qualification in special education and politics; since 2001 freelance consultant on civic education for young people and adults with a focus on twentieth-century history, educational services at memorial sites, anti-discrimination education, human rights education and methodology in civic education. He is currently working on the federally funded pilot project “Memorial site pedagogy and reference to the present” and the international simulation project “Model International Criminal Court”; he also teaches courses at universities in Berlin. Email: geissler [at] agentur-bildung [dot] de

Volunteers

Bodo Paul Hoffmann is currently completing his teaching qualification in history and mathematics after studying educational sciences. His focus of interest is innovative teaching principles and formats in the history classroom. Email: bodopaul [at] gmx [dot] de

Thomas Spahn is currently completing his teaching qualification in history and English. His focus of interest is the use of digital media in the classroom. He was a member of the association’s board until December 2009. Email: spahn [at] lernen-aus-der-geschichte [dot] de