2017-2021 Bachelor’s Degree in History and German at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA
2021-2022 Voluntary Year of Service at the Buchenwald Memorial
2022-2025 Master’s Degree in History and Politics of the 20th Century at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Thesis: Colonial Contexts in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp), freelancer in education at the Buchenwald Memorial and the Museum of Forced Labor under National Socialism
since 2026 Associate at the Buchenwald Memorial Archives
As an associate at the Buchenwald Memorial Archives, Amanda Werner interprets historical documents to answer research requests about the concentration camp and the people who were imprisoned there, develops educational programming for the archive, and hosts relatives of former prisoners who come to visit the memorial site.
Publications:
Beethoven im „Dritten Reich“, in: Ludwig van Beethoven. Aufbruch in die bürgerliche Musikkultur, eine Online-Ausstellung der Maison de Rhénanie-Palatinat, Dijon 2021.
Wege aus den Kolonien nach Buchenwald, in: Zwangsgemeinschaftliche Verflechtungen. Koloniale Kontexte Buchenwalds, Weimar 2027.
