Maëlle Lepitre holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Paris Sciences et Lettres and a master's degree in Franch-German history from both the EHESS in Paris and the Karl Ruprecht University in Heidelberg. She has been a PhD student at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena since 2021, focusing on the redesign of the Buchenwald Memorial in the 1990s. Since 2024 she has been a volunteer researcher at the Buchenwald Memorial (Custody 1).
Research focuses:
History of National Socialism, Memory Studies, history oft he Buchenwald Memorial.
Contributions to collective volumes:
Lepitre, Maëlle: Representing Resistance in Museums: The case of the Buchenwald Memorial, in: Hašimbegović; Elma et al. (Hrsg.): Who is Walter? Internationale Perspektiven auf den Widerstand in Europa während des Zweiten Weltkriegs, Sarajevo 2024, S. 575-590.
Lepitre, Maëlle: Redesign of Camp Memorials in East Germany After 1989, in: Ihab, Saloul/Britt, Baillie (Hrsg.): The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict, Online-Ausgabe, 2024. Abrufbar unter: https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5.
Collaboration on exhibitions:
„Fußball und das KZ Buchenwald“ (hybrid exhibition, 2024)
Maëlle Lepitre
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