Dr. Katharina Rauschenberger

Research Associate

Katharina Rauschenberger has been a Research Associate at the Fritz Bauer Institute since 2008. She is responsible for developing, conceptualizing and coordinating events and is an editor of Einsicht. Bulletin des Fritz Bauer Instituts.

She studied history, philosophy and Spanish at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. She earned her doctorate in 2001 at the Technical University Berlin with a dissertation entitled Jüdische Tradition im Kaiserreich und in der Weimarer Republik. Zur Geschichte des Jüdischen Museumswesens in Deutschland [Jewish Tradition in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. On the History of Jewish Museums in Germany]. From 1989 to 2003, Rauschenberger worked at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt on various projects, including the exhibition »The Rothschilds. A European Family«. From 2006 to 2008, she coordinated the Leo Baeck programme »Jewish Life in Germany – School and Continuing Education«. From 2008 to 2016, she was responsible for program coordination between the Fritz Bauer Institute and the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and in 2015/2016, she was guest curator at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt.

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Research Interests

• German-Jewish history in the 20th century 
• History of Nazi war crimes trials within the context of the Cold War 
• The biography of Fritz Bauer and the history of his impact

Current Research Project

Friedrich Karl Kaul and the role of the GDR in West German National Socialist violent crime

Selected Publications

• (Ed., together with Sybille Steinbacher), Fritz Bauer und »Achtundsechzig«. Positionen zu den Umbrüchen in Justiz, Politik und Gesellschaft, Göttingen 2020.
• (Ed., together with Sybille Steinbacher), Der Auschwitz-Prozess auf Tonband. Akteure, Zwischentöne, Überlieferungen, Göttingen 2020.
• (Ed., together with Jörg Osterloh), Der Holocaust. Neue Studien zu Tathergängen, Reaktionen und Aufarbeitung, Frankfurt am Main, New York 2017.

List of publications

• Publications (pdf-file)