Johannes Beermann-Schön M.A., M.A.

Archive

Johannes Beermann-Schön has been responsible for the Fritz Bauer Institute Archive since 2016.

He studied history at Bielefeld and Bremen Universities. During his studies, he was supervising the archive of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts in Bremen. After graduating, he worked as an archivist at Bielefeld University Archive, being in charge of digital long-term preservation and the archiving of audio-visual media. After moving to the Fritz Bauer Institute, he started a part-time postgraduate degree in archival science at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. He graduated with an interdisciplinary thesis on how to deal with emotionally stressful documents and materials in an archive.

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Responsibilities

• Continuous development and administration of the archives of the Fritz Bauer Institute
• Documentation of the Institute’s work
• Conception, design and organisation of information systems; digitisation of archive holdings, maintenance and care of archives already digitised and of »born digitals«
• Documentation of current criminal cases against Nazi perpetrators
• User support

Selected Publications

• »Achtung Akte! Über den Umgang mit emotional belastenden Beständen im Archiv«, in: Einsicht 2025. Bulletin des Fritz Bauer Instituts, Frankfurt am Main 2025, pp. 64–67.
• »25 Jahre Arbeiten mit der Vergangenheit. Eine erste Zwischenbilanz für das Archiv des Fritz Bauer Instituts«, in: Einsicht 2020. Bulletin des Fritz Bauer Instituts, Frankfurt am Main 2020, pp. 86–92.
• »Archiv und Zufall. Entstehung und Überlieferung der Tonbandmitschnitte von Zeugenaussagen«, in: Sybille Steinbacher, Katharina Rauschenberger (Hrsg.), Der Auschwitz-Prozess auf Tonband. Akteure, Zwischentöne, Überlieferung, Göttingen 2020, pp. 87–107.

List of publications

• Publications (pdf-file)