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Merle Strunk, M.A., is a historian specialising in knowledge transfer in museums. She has been involved in exhibition and publication projects in various institutions, including the Museum der Arbeit. As a history mediator at the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung, she works on building bridges between historical events and the present. She also works on questions of visual and public history.
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Folders, books, photo albums and an extensive collection of dossiers: the Helmut Schmidt Archive contains all of this. The wide range of documents not only provides a personal insight into Helmut Schmidt's main topics, the estate also reflects the political discourse of the time. The files are open to academic research - here you can find out more about the background and access to the Schmidt Archive.
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Franziska heads the correspondence project at the Helmut Schmidt-Archiv, where she combines archival description and cataloguing of the impressive collection of letters with issues relating to long-term archiving and historical and political education.
She studied German Studies, European History and History at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and the University of Hamburg. She has been with the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung since 2017, where she previously oversaw the ‘60 Years of the Storm Surge’ project.
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