Olaf Berg

Olaf Berg is a researcher and data curator in the research network "The Media Legacy of the GDR" (https://medienerbe-ddr.de/) at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam (https://zzf-potsdam.de). He is also a member of the alternative media center Medienpädagogik Zentrum Hamburg e.V. (https://mpz-hamburg.de). His research interests include the impact of audiovisual media and digitization on our understanding of history and historical scholarship. His previous research projects have focused on digital methods in migration history, the representation of migrants in film, Claude Lanzmann's cinematic exploration of the Shoah, and the cinematic search for traces of Pinochet's dictatorship in post-dictatorial Chile.

Selected Publications

„Capturing Displaced Persons’ Agency by Modelling Their Life Events: A Mixed Method Digital Humanities Approach,“ Historical Social Research 45, no. 4 (November 2020): 263–289. https://doi.org/10.14765/zzf.dok-2051

„Schriftliche Quellen und der audiovisuelle Zugang zu ihnen. Javier Fernández Vázquez' ‚Anunciaron Tormenta‘ und Radu Judes ‚Tipografic Majuskul‘.“ Zeitgeschichte-online, Juli 3, 2020. https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/film/schriftliche-quellen-und-der-audiovisuelle-zugang-zu-ihnen

„Musen im Widerstand. Als sich französische Feministinnen die Videotechnik aneigneten.“ Zeitgeschichte-online, September 17, 2019. https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/themen/musen-im-widerstand

"Auf filmischer Spurensuche im Chile nach der Diktatur: Patricio Guzmán und Carmen Castillo." In Der andere 11. September. Gesellschaft und Ethik nach dem Militärputsch in Chile, edited by Cristian Alvarado Leyton, 121–141. Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster, 2010. https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/26110

Berg, Olaf, and Helen Schwenken. "Masking, Blurring, Replacing: Can the Undocumented Migrant Have a Face in Film?" In Images of Illegalized Immigration. Towards a Critical Iconology of Politics, edited by Christiane Bischoff, Francesca Falk, and Sylvia Kafehsy. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2010),S. 111-127, URL: https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/34076

"The Challenge of Film Considered as Historical Research: Claude Lanzmann's Approach to the Shoah – Constructing History in Dialectical Time-Images." Cultural Studies Review 14, no. 1 (2008): 124–136. https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/20426