Helene Henze receives doctoral scholarship from Zeilinger Foundation
The GS doctoral researcher's project deals with the Germans in the Soviet Union after Stalin's death
16.09.2024
Helene Henze has been awarded an eight-month scholarship by the Dr. Roswitha and Hermann Zeilinger Foundation for her doctoral project “Homines sovietici? - The German minority in the Soviet Union after 1956”. Many congratulations for this award!
Henze's project "Homines sovietici? – The German minority in the Soviet Union after 1956" examines the partial rehabilitation of the repressed Soviet Germans after 1956. It also outlines Soviet policies for the reintegration of the German minority through economic opportunities, education, and socialization, especially in Central Asia. It uses life-history approaches and archival research to explore how Soviet-Germans adapted and how their collective trauma shaped their identity.