Paul Perschke

Paul Perschke has been employed at the IRS as a research assistant in the BMWK/IGP project CitizenArchives since December 2021. Within the framework of this project, a knowledge and indexing platform and processes are to be developed, taking into account Citizen Science approaches, which will enable small archives such as the Scientific Collections of the IRS to involve interested users in the digitization and indexing of their holdings. Paul Perschke is responsible for the conception, moderation and control of the processes in the development phase and the selection of exemplary collection holdings and pilot users. Previously, Paul Perschke was a student assistant and later a research assistant in the Scientific Collections of the IRS between 2018 and 2021.

After completing his bachelor's degree in political science and public law at the University of Trier, Paul Perschke went on to earn a Master of Arts in Historical Urban Studies at the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin. In the urban history program, his focus was on urban planning and architectural issues as well as topics of art history 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 wrote his master's thesis on the topic of "Ernst Thälmann Park: A Project between Social Policy and Socialist Identity Creation". He also curated and organized an exhibition on the development of the Ernst Thälmann Park settlement at the end of 2020 together with the IRS Scientific Collections.