Kirsten John-Stucke (born in 1966 in Unna) is a German historian, non-fiction author, and museum director of the Wewelsburg Museum. She is the editor of numerous documentations on the history of Wewelsburg during the National Socialist era and on the history of the Niederhagen concentration camp. The focus of her work lies in commemorative culture, educational memorial work, and in the re-conception of the Wewelsburg Memorial and Museum from 1933 to 1945.[1]

Life and work

After completing her secondary education, Kirsten John attended the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster to study modern and contemporary history, German studies, and journalism. During her studies in 1990, she completed an internship at the Kreismuseum Wewelsburg and worked until 1993 as an educational assistant for the documentation 'Wewelsburg 1933 – 1945: Cult and Terror Site of the SS.' Her master's thesis focused on the Serious Bible Researchers among the prisoners of the Wewelsburg concentration camp.[2]

After graduating, she spent two years in Bremerhaven, undertaking a scientific traineeship at the Morgenstern-Museum, the Historical Museum of the city of Bremerhaven. Since 1995, she has worked as a research assistant at the Kreismuseum Wewelsburg, where she served as the deputy director from 1999. Following the passing of the longtime museum director Wulff E. Brebeck, she assumed the position of museum director in 2011.[3] Additionally, she conducts research and documents the history of the Niederhagen concentration camp and its various prisoner groups. In the ZDF documentary series 'Böse Bauten' (Evil Buildings), Kirsten John-Stucke explained the handling of Nazi architecture at Wewelsburg.[2][4]

Kirsten John-Stucke is a board member of the Working Group of Nazi Memorials and Places of Remembrance in North Rhine-Westphalia, part of the scientific project advisory board for the NS Documentation Vogelsang, and a member of the advisory board of the Paderborn Antiquities Association.[5][6][7]

Kirsten John-Stucke is married and has two children.[3]

Literature

Books

Essays

References

  1. ^ deutschlandfunkkultur.de. "Burg Wewelsburg in Nordrhein-Westfalen - Die Burg des Bösen". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  2. ^ a b "Kirsten John-Stucke neue Leiterin des Kreismuseums Wewelsburg - Kreismuseum Wewelsburg". www.wewelsburg.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  3. ^ a b "Heimatkreis Meseritz e.V." www.heimatkreis-meseritz.de. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  4. ^ "Hitlers Architektur - Spuren vom Westwall bis zur Autobahn". www.zdf.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  5. ^ "Dezentralität und Vielfalt". Gedenkstättenrundbrief.
  6. ^ "NS-Dokumentation Vogelsang - Vogelsang IP – Internationaler Platz". vogelsang-ip.de. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  7. ^ "Vorstands und Beirat gewählt | Altertumsverein Paderborn" (in German). 2019-05-14. Retrieved 2023-11-24.