Lisa Füchte

Lisa Füchte, M.A.

Researcher
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About

After completing her voluntary service in Lviv (2009), Lisa Füchte studied towards a Bachelor of Arts in East Slavic Studies and East and Southeast European History at the Universities of Leipzig and Saint Petersburg (2009-2014). From 2012 to 2013, she was a language assistant for the Goethe-Institute Kyiv in Berdyansk. From 2014 to 2019 she was part of the Elite Graduate Program for East European Studies with a focus on Eastern European and Jewish history and culture as well as political science at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Since 2014, she has been a freelance tour guide, translator and editor. In 2020, she worked as a freelance educational assistant for the Flößberg Memorial. From 2020 to 2021, she was a research assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow.

Lisa Füchte has been a researcher at the GWZO since December 2021.

Work focus

  • Gender history
  • Visual cultures
  • History of Ukraine

Current topic of research

After 1917, the state, mode of production and society were not the only things to be fashioned anew under socialism — day-to-day habits and interpersonal relationships were also caught up in the change. This dissertation project examines the significance and depiction of care work in the utopian plans and realities of life following the Bolsheviks’ October Revolution.

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