Sarah Könecke M.A.

Sarah Könecke is a researcher at the Chair of "Qualitative Methods of Social Research" at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Ruhr University Bochum since October 2024. She was working between 2021-2025 in the DFG research project “Aliens in the Community” and “Enemies of the State”: Intergenerational Structures of Action and Memory in Families of Stigmatized Victims of National Socialism in Austria and Germany.

Recent Publications

Schäfer, Miriam/ Könecke, Sarah (2026): „Da wird er einfach als Verbrecher dargestellt und das war er nicht“ : Deutungsprozesse von Nachkommen im Kontext marginalisierter NS-Verfolgungserfahrungen. Soziale Probleme 2026 (1). S. 23–38. Publication can be found here.

Dissertation project

"Otherwise I don't know where we would be today" - Effects of National Socialist persecution on the action and memory structures of the descendants of women persecuted as "asocial" and "criminal"