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Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer, born 1958, is head of the Research Group "Interdisciplinary Memory Research" at the KWI Essen. He teaches social psychology at the universities of Hanover and Witten-Herdecke. Areas of research and teaching: Memory research, political pschology, methods. |
Some publications:
"Das soziale Gedächtnis. Geschichte, Erinnerung, Tradierung." (Hg.). Hamburg: Hamburger Edition;
"'Opa war kein Nazi'. Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust im Familiengedächtnis" (mit S. Moller u. K. Tschuggnall), Frankfurt/M: Fischer 2002;
"Das kommunikative Gedächtnis. Eine Theorie der Erinnerung. München: Beck 2002.
Reserach projects:
Interdisciplinary Memory Reserach (together with Hans J. Markowitsch), sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation
Comparative Research of Tradition-Processes (sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation and the Hamburg Foundation for the Support of Science and Culture)
For more information see www.memory-research.de
