Dr. Sonja Dickow-Rotter

Sonja Dickow-Rotter is an academic staff member at the IGdJ and project staff member of the digital source edition entitled Hamburger Schlüsseldokumente zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte (Key Documents of German-Jewish History). She studied literature and cultural anthropology at the University of Hamburg. After receiving her master’s degree, she worked as an academic staff member at the Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for Exile Literature and at the Universitätskolleg at the University of Hamburg, among other positions. Sonja Dickow-Rotter wrote her doctoral dissertation on literary configurations of house and home in contemporary Jewish literatures. Her comparative dissertation was written at the University of Hamburg and at the Daʼat Hamakom: Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). She has been involved in archival projects in Jerusalem and Hamburg and has worked on various cultural projects, including for the Jüdischer Salon am Grindel e. V. Sonja Dickow-Rotter is an alumna of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk.

As a project staff member of the online source edition Hamburger Schlüsseldokumente zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte, which also entails conception and implementation of online exhibitions as well as other digital formats, Sonja Dickow-Rotter’s work focuses on digital history and project coordination, thus serving at the interface of research and outreach. She is particularly interested in interdisciplinary perspectives on Jewish history and culture. Currently, she is also coordinating the revision of the digital Bilddatenbank ‘Jüdische Geschichte’ (‘Jewish History’ Image Database) and the reference work entitled Das Jüdische Hamburg (Jewish Hamburg). Her research interests as a literary scholar include Jewish literature, German-language Jewish exile literature, cultural studies concepts of space, and trauma theories.

Hamburger Schlüsseldokumente zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte
(Key Documents of German-Jewish History)

Das Jüdische Hamburg
(Jewish Hamburg)

Bilddatenbank ‘Jüdische Geschichte’
(‘Jewish History’ Image Database)

Yerusha – European Jewish Archive Portal

• (mit Daniel Burckhardt), Traces of Jewish Hamburg—A Digital Source Edition of German-Jewish History, in: Julia Timpe u. a. (Hrsg.), Potentialities and Challenges of Digitally Researching and Presenting the History of the “Third Reich”, World War II and the Holocaust, Berlin (im Erscheinen).
• (mit Anna Menny), Frauenleben. Werk und Wirken jüdischer Frauen in Hamburg (Online-Ausstellung), veröffentlicht am 23.2.2021.
• Frauenleben-Ausstellung: Moritz Piehler, Weibliche Vielfalt zeigen. Eine Ausstellung beleuchtet jüdisches Frauenleben in der Hansestadt, in: Jüdische Allgemeine, 22.4.2021, online unter: https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/unsere-woche/weibliche-vielfalt-zeigen/
• (mit Anna Menny), Martha Glass ― Theresienstädter Tagebücher 1943–1945 (Digitales Themendossier), veröffentlicht am 31.1.2021.
• Konfigurationen des (Zu-)Hauses. Diaspora-Narrative und Transnationalität in jüdischen Literaturen der Gegenwart (Exilkulturen 3), Stuttgart 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-476-04947-6.
• Architectures of Absence: Nicole Krauss’s Novel Great House, in: Carola Hilfrich u. a. (Hrsg.), Passages of Belonging. Interpreting Jewish Literatures (Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts 7), Berlin 2019, S. 194–210. DOI: 10.1515/9783110525519-015.