Brief Biography
2011–2017: Studied history, philosophy, and archaeology at the University of Leipzig
2018–2023 Studied history at Georg-August University of Göttingen
2023 Master’s examination; thesis topic: “Colonial Education and the Radical Right: Wilhelm Arning and the Students of the German Colonial School at the End of the Weimar Republic”
Since June 2024: Research fellow in the Gerda Henkel Project “Transformations of Knowledge: Ice Cream and Its Spread as Incubators of Modern (Knowledge) Society” (Director: Prof. Dr. Angela Schwarz)
Since 2024: Doctoral project: “'Gelati per tutti'? Public Ice Cream Consumption and the Spaces of Knowledge in Sales, Marketing, and Consumption (ca. 1870–1950)” (working title)
Publications and Presentations
Gelato for Everyone? Public Ice Cream Consumption and the Spaces of Knowledge in Sales, Marketing, and Consumption (circa 1870–1950). Lecture presented as part of the “Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies” colloquium at the University of Leipzig, June 2, 2026.
Pleasure, Health, and Morality. Ice Cream in the Focus of Municipal Regulatory Policy, ca. 1900–1933. Lecture as part of the colloquium “History of the 19th and 20th Centuries” at the University of Freiburg, February 27, 2026.
No Ice Cream for Children?! Public Ice Cream Consumption at the Intersection of Pleasure, Health, and Morality, ca. 1900–1914. Lecture as part of the workshop “Youth Movement Research” at Ludwigstein Castle, May 11, 2025.
Colonial and Far-Right. Wilhelm Arning and the Students of the German Colonial School at the End of the Weimar Republic, in: Meike Sophia Baader, Till Kössler, Dirk Schumann (eds.): Youth–Violence. Experiencing – Discussing – Remembering, Göttingen 2023, pp. 267–274.
Colonial School Students in Witzenhausen in the 1920s and 1930s. Lecture presented as part of the “Modern and Contemporary History” colloquium at Georg-August University of Göttingen, June 30, 2022.
“The Power of Satan.” Letters from a German Non-Commissioned Officer in the Colonial Maji-Maji War, in: iz3w No. 361 (2017), pp. 43–45.
Experiences of a German Non-Commissioned Officer in the Maji-Maji War. Research Colloquium hosted by Prof. Dr. Sylvia Paletschek, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, December 13, 2016, Freiburg im Breisgau.