Gundula Pohl has been a research assistant in the Public History department at FernUniversität in Hagen since 2023. In her doctoral project, she is researching historical comparisons of extreme violence as a political resource in Belarus.

From 2012 to 2020, she studied history, European ethnology, and Eastern European cultural studies in Berlin, Lublin, Potsdam, and Saint Petersburg. In 2021, she received the Hans-Jürgen-Bachorski Prize from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam for her master's thesis on memorialization of the Shoah in Minsk and Maly Trascjanec.

From 2021 to 2022, Gundula Pohl was a research assistant at the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial Foundation, where she researched the imprisonment history of German communist Anna Schlotterbeck. The resulting biographical study was published in 202

Publications:

• Alte Geschichte, neue Zahlen. Das geschichtspolitische Projekt „Genozid am belarusischen Volk“ im Minsker Museum des Großen Vaterländischen Krieges, in: Andrea Brait, Cindy Düring, Christine Gundermann, Tobias Kley (Hg.), Krieg Ausstellen. Museale Repräsentationen von Gewalt in der didaktischen Reflexion (Arbeitstitel), Verlag Peter Lang:Frankfurt am Main (erscheint 2026)
• Content Creator in Uniform: Belarus’ Genozidkampagne als nicht-lineares Fernsehen, Osteuropa 1-3/2025, 451–458
• Beyond Death: The ‘Genocide of the Belarusian People’ and its Application in Court, Journal of Genocide Research, 15.1.2025, S. 1–15, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2025.2450184
• Denkmäler als Raumproduzenten. Der Gedenkkomplex Trascjanec bei Minsk, in: Janine Fubel, Alexandra Klei, Annika Wienert (Hg.): Space in Holocaust Research. A Transdisciplinary Approach to Spatial Thinking, Berlin: DeGruyter 2024.
• Ich bin kein Parteifeind! Anna Schlotterbeck in den Mühlen der stalinistischen Parteisäuberungen, Berlin: Stiftung Gedenkstätte Berlin Hohenschönhausen 2024.