Dr. Annika Wienert

Biographical Summary

Annika Wienert studied art history, history and philosophy in Bochum and Krakow. In 2014, she received her PhD from Ruhr University Bochum with a dissertaion on the architecture of the German extermination camps in Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. From 2015 to 2016, she was a research fellow at the Chair of Theorie and History of Architecture, Art, and Design at the Technische Universität München. In 2021, she was a visiting professor at the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt/Main.

Since 2016, she has been working for the GHI Warsaw, where her responsibilities include editing the Institute’s German-language publications and serving as the contact person for the series Poland. Transnational Histories.

Research Interests

• Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies
• Spatial Theories
• Building and Planning of National Socialism in Occupied Poland
• 20th and 21st Century Art and Architecture

Publications

Monographs  

Das Lager vorstellen: Die Architektur der nationalsozialistischen Vernichtungslager, 3rd rev. ed. Berlin 2018. Polish Translation: Architektura nazistowskich obozów zagłady w Bełżcu, Sobiborze i Treblince, Lublin 2022.

Edited Volumes

Janine Fubel, Alexandra Klei, Annika Wienert (eds.): Space in Holocaust Research: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Spatial Thinking, Berlin 2024.

Niels Gutschow: Obsesja porządku: Niemieccy architekci planują w okupowanej Polsce 1939–1945, Warszawa 2021 (Polish Translation of “Ordnungswahn: Architekten planen im ‘eingedeutschten Osten’ 1939–1945”, ed. together with Aleksandra Paradowska).

‘Körper’ und ‘Raum’ im Kontext der Holocaust- und Genozidforschung [Special Issue], Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung 19,2 (2021) (Guest editor, together with Janine Fubel and Alexandra Klei).

Designing the New East. Architecture, Spatial, and Urban Planning in Poland under German Occupation, 1939–1945 [Special Issue], Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung 70,4 (2021) (Guest editor, together with Małgorzata Popiołek-Roßkamp).

Jewish Spaces and the Holocaust [Special Issue], Medaon – Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung 15 (2021) (Guest editor, together with Alexandra Klei).

Journal Articles

“Planning and Building in Occupied Poland: The Architecture of National Socialism as a Multidisciplinary Research Field,” in: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung 70,4 (2021), pp. 515–553.

“Überlieferung in Trümmern: Zur fotografischen Repräsentation des zerstörten Warschaus in der Volksrepublik Polen,” in: kritische berichte 49,2 (2021), pp. 61–70.

“Camp Cartography: On the Ambiguity of Mapping Nazi Extermination Camps,” in: zeitgeschichte 45,4 (2018), pp. 575–598.

“Ruin porn, reconsidered. Oder: Zur Fotografie der Postindustrie,” in: kritische berichte 46,4 (2018), pp. 80–88.

Book chapters

[with Janine Fubel und Alexandra Klei] “Spatial Thinking in Holocaust Studies,” in: Janine Fubel, Alexandra Klei, Annika Wienert (eds.): Space in Holocaust Research: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Spatial Thinking, Berlin 2024, pp. 31–45.

[with Christhardt Henschel und Alexandra Paradowska] “Historia Architektury jako historia okupacji. Niels Gutschow i badania nad architekturą nazistowską na ziemiach polskich w latach 1939–1945,” in: Niels Gutschow: Obsesja porządku: Niemieccy architekci planują w okupowanej Polsce 1939–1945, Warszawa 2021, pp. 7–64.

“Künstlerische Zugänge zu Trümmerbergen des Zweiten Weltkrieges,” in: Ewa Wojno-Owczarka (ed.): Literarische Katastrophendiskurse, Berlin 2019, pp. 23–40.