Paul Perschke

Paul Perschke has been a documentalist in the Scientific Collections on the History of Building and Planning in the GDR since December 2023 and is also a member of the externally funded project "Crafting Entanglements: Afro-Asian Pasts of the Global Cold War (CRAFTE)". In the project, which examines Afro-Asian entanglements during the Cold War with its actors, practices and their everyday places of interaction, he is responsible for the development of a project database.

Previously, between 2018 and 2021, he was already employed as a student assistant, later as a research assistant in the Scientific Collections of the IRS and as a research assistant in the BMWK/IGP project CitizenArchives. In the two-year third-party funded project, a central knowledge and communication platform with various plug-ins was developed that enables every archive to involve its users in the cataloguing work with the help of citizen science approaches and semantic web and artificial intelligence technologies.

Following his Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Public Law at the University of Trier, Paul Perschke completed a Master of Arts in Historical Urban Studies at the Centre for Metropolitan Studies at TU Berlin. In the urban history programme, his focus was on urban planning, architecture and art history topics and the question of how historical, social and political upheavals manifest themselves in urban space and how visible and invisible traces of the past are dealt with today. Paul Perschke wrote his Master's thesis on the topic of "The Ernst Thälmann Park estate: a project between social policy and socialist identity creation". He also curated and organised an exhibition on the development of the Ernst-Thälmann-Park estate at the end of 2020 together with the Scientific Collections of the IRS.