Marten Düring

Marten Düring completed his Bachelor’s degree in European Cultural History at the universities of Augsburg and Cádiz/Spain in 2004.

In 2006 he graduated from the MA program War, Culture and History at the University of Manchester/UK, supported by a scholarship granted by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In his MA thesis he explored the cross linkages between personal testimonies and official commemoration of the aerial bombardments of Coventry 1940 and Dresden 1945 using methodologies borrowed from literary theory .

His PhD thesis analyzes networks which supported persecuted Jews in Germany during the Second World War. Based on case studies, he aims to examine how social interactions and political frameworks have affected and encouraged support actions within their respective local and national discourses. He is supported by a PhD scholarship granted by the Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung.

Marten Düring is particularly interested in interdisciplinary historiography, historical network analysis and network theory and all aspects of memory studies.

Research Project

Frames of Reference of Help