Christian Gudehus

Christian Gudehus is executive director of the CMR. Main fields of research are memory studies and reception studies (focussing on film, exhibitions, and memorials) as well aspects of collective violence. Current research projects concern helping behaviour of Germans who supported Jews to survive the persecution during the Third Reich and research on the mentalities of German and Italian World War II soldiers. He was Professeur Invité at Sciences Po (Paris), Goethe Institute Scholar in Residence at the Center of Genocide Studies, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Buenos Aires), and Visiting Fellow at the Shue Yan University Hong Kong.

Research Projects
‘Etudes sur la mémoire en Allemagne et en France. Epistémologies, approches et méthodes, objets et enjeux‘
Frames of Reference of Help
Frames of Reference in war. Perceptions and interpretations by axis-power soldiers, 1939-1945
Understanding "Hotel Rwanda" - A Reception Study
Europeanization of national memory scapes
Visitors Research - Imperial War Museum North (Manchester)
Visitors Research - Memorial and Museum Ravensbrück
Holocaust Narrations in German Memorials (PhD)