Ulrike Jureit
Ulrike Jureit (born in 1964) is a German historian. Career. Jureit studied history, theology and social pedagogy from 1983 until 1989 at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. From 1991 to 1995 she was a research assistant at the Neuengamme concentration camp. In 1998 she received her doctorate at the University of Hamburg. The topic of her work was "Memory Patterns. On the Methodology of Life History Interviews with Survivors of the Concentration and Extermination Camps". Jureit then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University and then supervised a research project within the framework of the University  of Hamburg's special university program. She is a staff member at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and has been a guest researcher at the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture since 2004. Jureit played a major role in the so-called Second Wehrmachtsausstellung, in which War crimes of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War were thematized. The exhibition was presented from 2001 to 2004. It differed greatly from the first version, which had been the subject of extremely controversial discussion in the German public.