2016–2023 Sophia Annweiler studied history and Romanic languages at the Universities of Hamburg and Göttingen. From 2024 to 2025, she worked as a research assistant on the provenance research project ‘The Global Trade Networks of the Alfeld Animal Trading Companies Reiche and Ruhe. Provenance Research on the Circulation of Animals, People and Ethnographica in the 19th and 20th Centuries’, and as a freelance educational assistant at the Friedland Border Transit Camp Museum, 2023–2025 Trainee at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, 2025–2026 Freelance project assistant at the Hamburg Memorials and Learning Centres Foundation for the Remembrance of the Victims of Nazi Crimes in the exhibition project ‘Culture under Control. Hamburg Cultural Institutions and Cultural Administration under National Socialism’ and in the publication project ‘Memorial History/ies. Memorials to Nazi Crimes in Post-National Socialist Societies since 1945’. From February 2026, she works as a research associate at the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation.
Publications (selection):
Sophia Annweiler, “Wild animals completely up close”. On the Genesis and Implicit Messages of the Natural History Dioramas in the Museum of Alfeld, in: Claudia Andratschke/ Charlotte Marlene Hoes/ Annekathrin Krieger (Hg.), Colonial Dimensions of the Global Wildlife Trade, Heidelberg 2024.
Gisela Ewe/ Sophia Annweiler/ Lennart Onken/ Alyn Šišić, Kultur unter Kontrolle. Hamburger Kultureinrichtungen und die Kulturverwaltung im Nationalsozialismus. Katalog zur Ausstellung, Hamburg 2026.
Contribution:
KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme (Hg.), Leerstellen aufzeigen – Perspektiven öffnen. Kriegsgefangene, Zwangsarbeiter*innen und KZ-Häftlinge aus Polen und der Sowjetunion in Norddeutschland (Neuengammer Studienhefte 6), Hamburg 2026.
KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme (Hg.), Verflechtungen. Koloniales und rassistisches Denken und Handeln im Nationalsozialismus: Voraussetzungen, Funktionen, Folgen. Materialien für die Bildungsarbeit (Neuengammer Studienhefte 5), Hamburg 2019.
