Participant Info
- First Name
- Nina
- Last Name
- Janz
- Country
- Luxembourg
- State
- nina.janz@uni.lu
- Affiliation
- University of Luxembourg
- Website URL
- https://ninajanz.org
- Keywords
- Military History; War History; Digital History; Archival Science; Transnational Soldiers; Memory and commemoration of fallen soldiers in Europe and Russia
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I am a postdoctoral research associate in the project Warlux, at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg.
Before, I was involved in the Project in History of Justice. As an archivist, I was researching and inventorying relevant documents for the project. I analyzed and provided the team with relevant documents and prepares them for the digitalizing and virtual exhibition.
I studied Archival Science in Marburg, European history in Hagen and Haifa/Israel. I worked as an archivist at the German Federal Archive, in Koblenz and Berlin and at the Military Archive in Freiburg, where I managed requests and inquiries concerning the Wehrmacht, WW II and the fate of POW and other Nazi victims. I supported projects in digitalizing and preservation of documents and worked in a project of the German Historical Moscow to digitalize records of Soviet POW.
After my archival career, I began my doctorate at the University of Hamburg in cultural anthropology about the impact of death and violence and the memory of WW II in the post-war period in Germany and Russia. I was a visiting fellow at the State University of St. Petersburg, the Institute for High Technology/Institute for Oral History in Voronezh and at the American Institute for German Contemporary Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.
My research focus lies on the commemoration aspects of military dead/war dead and war cemeteries in Germany and Russia, the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and on cultural aspects on the Wehrmacht and military violence during WW II. And secondly, my research interests cover the classical historical research in archives and libraries, digital methods and innovations and the questions of digital preservation and accessibility of historical documents.
- Recent Publications
Book Review “The Second World War in the Twenty-first Century Museum: From Narrative, Memory, and Experience to Experientiality, Stephan Jaeger (Berlin/Boston 2020), in: The Military History Journal, January 2021, Vol. 85, No. 1, p.293-94.
Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarregionen / Concession à perpétuité? Culture funéraires au Luxembourg et dans les régions voisines, hg. v. Sonja Kmec, Robert L. Philippart, Antoinette Reuter, Luxembourg : Capybarabooks, 2019, in: Hémecht – Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte / Revue d’histoire luxembourgeoise, vol. 3/2020, p.380-381.
“Heldentod”; “Soldatenfriedhof”, in: Großes Lexikon der Bestattungs- und Friedhofskultur. Wörterbuch zur Sepulkralkultur, Medienkultureller Teil: Von Absurdes Theater bis Zombie, ed. by Zentralinstitut für Sepulkralkultur Kassel, Frankfurt/Main 2019, p. 82-85; p. 213-216.
Neuere Soldatenfriedhöfe aus der Zeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, Friedhof und Denkmal, Heft 3/4 – 2019, 64. Jahrgang Schwerpunktthema: Neue Begräbnisanlagen, p.29-31.
Deutsche Soldatengräber des Zweiten Weltkrieges zwischen Heldenverherrlichung und Zeichen der Versöhnung : Kulturwissenschaftlich-historische Fallstudien zur Entwicklung des Umganges mit dem Kriegstod, Dissertation, University of Hamburg 2019 http://10.25592/4n2j-9j92
“Neuere Soldatenfriedhöfe aus der Zeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg”, in: Friedhof und Denkmal, Zeitschrift für Sepulkralkultur, 3/4-2019, p. 29-31.
Aus der Arbeit zweier Gräberoffiziere an der Ostfront 1941–1944, http://portal-militaergeschichte.de/ganz_graeberoffiziere – Article published in August 2018 (DOI: 10.15500/akm20.08.2018).
“Totenhügel und Waldfriedhöfe – die Gräber und Friedhöfe für gefallene Wehrmachtssoldaten während des Zweiten Weltkriegs zwischen individueller Gräberfürsorge und nationalsozialistischem Totenkult (Hill of the Dead and Forest Cemeteries – The Graves and Cemeteries for fallen soldiers during World War II between individual grave care and the National Socialist Necropolis”, in RIHA Journal online, June 2017 https://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2017/0150-0176-special-issue-war-graves/0174-janz
„Die Quellen und Dokumente zu sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen in deutschen Archiven“, in Tagungsband des Workshops zur Geschichte und Gedächtnisgeschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager: Besatzung, Zwangsarbeit, V ernichtung. Forschung zu Nationalsozialismus, Gedenkstätten, Nationalsozialismus, Holocaust, Erinnerungskulturen (Metropol-Verlag, 2017)
“From Battlegrounds to Burial Grounds’ – The Cemetery Landscapes of the German Army, 1939 -1945”, in War and Geography. The Spatiality of Organized Mass Violence. Ed. Sarah K. Danielsson/Frank Jacob (Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, 2017), p. 147-162.
“Reconciliation over the Graves? or the German-Russian Reconciliation of Sologubovka”, Online Essay American Institute of Contemporary German Studies/Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., November 2016 https://www.aicgs.org/publication/reconciliation-over-the-graves-a-german-war-%20cemetery-in-russia/
“The last traces of the war. The soldier cemeteries in the collective memory in dictatorship and democracy”, in Series Memory Studies, South Ural State University Chelyabinsk, Russia (2016).
“Von Toten und Helden“ in “Archiv für Sozialgeschichte“ (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung), volume 55 (2015): 177-204.
“Compiègne, 21. Juni 1940” – Die historische Quelle, in: Militärgeschichte. Zeitschrift für historische Bildung, 2/2010, p. 28.
Works in progress:
The Politics of Graves – Negotiations, practice and reactions about German fallen soldiers of World War Two and their resting places in Russia – Conference proceedings “History of Conflict”, University of Krakow, 2020/2021.
Justiz, Richter und Anwälte während der nationalsozialistischen Besatzung im Großherzogtum Luxemburg – Ein Forschungsbericht in: richten – strafen – erinnern Nationalsozialistische Justizverbrechen und ihre Nachwirkungen in der Bundesrepublik, hrsg. von Janna Lölke und Martina Staats (Schriftenreihe der Gedenkstätte in der JVA Wolfenbüttel, Bd. 3. Herausgegeben von der Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten, Wallstein Verlag, Juni 2021.
- Media Coverage
- https://www.science.lu/de/geschichte-der-gerechtigkeit/auf-der-suche-nach-dokumenten-die-neue-einblicke-die-geschichte-luxemburgs-versprechen
- Social Media
- twitter.com/nina_janz
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Eastern Europe, Germany
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Holocaust & Nazi Persecution, Libraries & Archives, Military, Public History, World War II