Preserving Survivors Memories

Nicolas Apostolopoulos (Hrsg.)

Nicolas Apostolopoulos, who was born in Athens, Greece, is the founder and managing director of the Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS), the Competence Center for e-learning, e-research and multimedia at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has initiated and conducted many national and international research projects focused on e-learning, multimedia repositories and collaborative learning environments, all supported by third party grants and funding. Networks of integrated e-learning environments, didactic aspects of multimedia teaching and learning systems, and problem oriented e-learning represent the core areas of Apostolopoulos work in research and teaching. He is Honorary Professor of Media-based Didactics at the Department of Education of the Freie Universität Berlin. Apostolopoulos is a member of the Expert Group of the German Commission for Unesco.

Michele Barricelli (Hrsg.)

Michele Barricelli is professor of the Didactics of History and Public History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He teaches and publishes on models as well as competencies of history learning, empirical research into teaching and learning, the narrativity of history, contemporary history in the classroom (National Socialism, German Democratic Republic), and intercultural history learning. He also conducts research on work with eyewitnesses and video interviews as well as exploring didactic issues in connection with Oral History and history teaching. He is the author of a wide variety of publications and essays, including Schüler erzählen Geschichte. Narrative Kompetenz im Geschichtsunterricht (2005)

Gertrud Koch (Hrsg.)

Gertrud Koch teaches Cinema Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. She was visiting professor and scholar at Columbia University, NYU, Washington University, at UIC, UPenn, the Getty Research Center in Los Angeles, the Sorbonne III in Paris, and many others. Her many books and articles deal with aesthetic theory, feminist film theory, as well as questions of historical representation. She has written books on Herbert Marcuse and Siegfried Kra­cauer, the latter published in English in 2005 by Princeton UP, on feminist film theory and on the representation of Jewish history. She has edited volumes on Holocaust representation, perception and interaction, as well as on art and film theory. She is the co-editor and board member of numerous German and international journals, such as Babylon, Frauen und Film, October, Constellations, and Philosophy & Social Criticism. She is currently working on a book about the aesthetics of illusion in film and the other arts.