Dr. Anna Lipphardt has been awarded the Prix de la Fondation Auschwitz
23. July 2009
Dr. Anna Lipphardt has been awarded the Prix de la Fondation Auschwitz for her doctoral thesis “Kulturelle Erinnerung, Trauma, Migration. Die Vilne-Diaspora in New York, Israel und Vilnius nach dem Holocaust”. The book will be published in Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht‘s (Göttingen) series “Studien zur Historischen Migrationsforschung”. In 2005, the study was already awarded the Klaus-Mehnert-Preis of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde.
Dr. Anna Lipphardt is fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz and the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz. At present she is researching the cultural and social history of the circus in Germany.