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Anne Otto

Associate

2009–2016 studies in history, French, and education (B.A./M.Ed.) at the Ruhr University Bochum; since 2016 dissertation project on the history of schools and schooling in the Weimar Republic; 2017–2023 research associate at the Department of the History of Education at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; 2024–2026 trainee at the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial; since May 2026 employee in the education department.

Research focuses
history of education, childhood and youth in the 20th century, especially the ideas of and (pedagogical) responses to normality and devianceg

Publications (selection)
„Freie Bahn dem Tüchtigen“? Die Begabtenfrage im Ruhrgebiet nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Sara-Marie Demiriz/Jan Kellershohn/Anne Otto (Hg.): Transformationsversprechen. Zur Geschichte von Bildung und Wissen in Montanregionen, Essen 2021, S. 29–58.

Neuer Staat – Neue Schüler*innen? Konzepte demokratischen Schüler*innen-Handelns in der frühen Weimarer Republik, in: Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung 25 (2019), S. 18–39.

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