Ana Clementina Irimină

Clementina Irimina joined the research area “Contemporary History and Archive” in a project about the history of the Bauakademie (Building Academy) of the GDR as a research associate in November 2024. She studied history at the University of Bucharest and at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. During her studies, she attended an Erasmus exchange semester at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and worked as a student assistant in the research department and as a guide at the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial. In her Master’s thesis she examined the culture and cultural policy in the early Cold War era and analyzed the development of the East Berlin theater landscape in the early post-war period. Her main areas of interest are contemporary, architectural and cultural history, particularly in relation to the GDR and Eastern Europe.