Thomas Lutz

Thomas Lutz ( * 1957 in Darmstadt ) is a German political scientist and director of the Memorial Unit of the Topography of Terror Foundation.

Life

Lutz studied after high school in 1975 at the Paul -Gerhard school in Laubach ( Upper Hesse ) in Marburg to 1981 History, Political Science and Sport and 1983 passing the second state exam for teaching in secondary schools in Bensheim. Instead of alternative service, he was responsible for the 1983 Action Reconciliation Service for Peace (ASF ) groups of visitors at the Auschwitz -Birkenau. Since 1984, he has built the Berlin office of the ASF from the " Memorial Unit ", which with the help of the Memorial 's newsletter, regularly carried out seminars, a website on the Internet and individual counseling activities, the work of memorial sites, with a focus on those who has sought an acknowledgment and documentation Nazi victims endeavor coordinated. His area of ​​responsibility also advising governments and parliaments is as much as non-governmental organizations and a very diverse educational and public relations. In this function he has worked since 1993 for the Topography of Terror Foundation.

Lutz is Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation and CEO of the Association of former concentration camps in Germany. By the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media of the Federal government, he has been appointed to the panel of experts to advise on the allocation of funds under the federal memorial fund. At international level, he co-founded in Barcelona the International Council for Memorial Museum for Victims of Public Crimes (IC MEMO) as an international committee of the World Council of Museums ( International Council of Museums ) in 2001 and spent six years as Vice President. Since 2000 he has been one of the German delegates to the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research ( ITF), in the moment 28 states to work together. He was the founding chairman of the Memorials and Museums Working Group of the ITF. In 2007 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. As a participant in the international forum Mauthausen, he advises, the Austrian Ministry of the Interior in the redesign of the memorial. Thomas Lutz is a board member of the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace

He has his dissertation written about the development of the project funded by the federal memorial concept since 2000, new permanent exhibitions at memorial for Nazi victims, while museological developments and based thereon education examined ( Hanns- Fred Rathenow, Technical University of Berlin, Faculty of I and Folk Hard Knigge, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena).

Thomas Lutz is - together with Ingo Loose and Kurt Blank Markard ( design ) - curator of the traveling exhibition "The Face of the Ghetto. Images of Jewish Photographers from the Lodz Ghetto 1940-1944 ". The exhibition was, inter alia, issued on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day in late winter 2012 at the UN main building in New York.

The focus of his historical research is the history of the 20th century in Germany, focusing on the conditions of origin and history of National Socialism (NS) and in that time committed in occupied Germany Europe state crimes. Assuming the reception of National Socialism, the history of compensation for the victims, the socio-political and museological development of memorials have shaped his professional debate in the last 25 years. As an educator, he has dealt with practical experience and in theoretical analyzes with the memorial work compared to education in schools as well as museum and human rights education. To his understanding of the history of the Nazi include at least a basic knowledge of European history in the 20th century. In addition, he has worked to conditions that lead to democratic societies after the end of dictatorships in different countries and the role of memory culture and memorial sites in this socio-political process, including Argentina, East Germany / Eastern Germany, Rwanda, South Africa, South Korea.

Publications

In addition to the editorial staff of the Memorial 's newsletter, which appears with a circumference of 48 pages four times a year, and the care of the online memorial forum with a daily press review, he has published books and articles.

  • Verena Radkau, Eduard Fuchs, Thomas Lutz (ed.): Genocide and State Crimes in the 20th century Studien Verlag, Innsbruck, inter alia, 2004, ISBN 3-7065-4060-6.
  • Dietmar Sedlaczek, Thomas Lutz, Ulrike Puvogel, Ingrid Tomkowiak ( ed.): " inferior" and " anti-social ". Stations of the persecution of social outsiders. Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-03-400716-7.
  • Intermediation claim and emotional perception. The design of new permanent exhibitions at memorial for victims of National Socialism in Germany and their educational aspiration. PhD thesis, Technical University of Berlin, 2009 (full text).
  • Topography of Terror Foundation (ed. ), Thomas Lutz ( curator): The Face of the Ghetto. Images of Jewish Photographers from the Lodz Ghetto 1940-1944. Exhibition catalog ( German / English), Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941772-08-3.
  • August 23. Theses on the installation of a European day commemorating all the victims of dictatorships and totalitarian regimes. In: Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (ed.): Research on Nazism and its aftermath in Austria. Festschrift for Brigitte Bailer. Vienna 2012, pp. 384-396.
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