Professional stations

• Since 06/2022 appointment at the University of Leipzig
   
• 02/2022-05/2022 seconded to university service, Ruhr-University Bochum, habilitation project on the promotion of historical thinking in history teaching on dealing with anti-Semitism, focus on Israel-related anti-Semitism
   
• Since 2009 lecturer at various German universities (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ruhr University Bochum, University of Paderborn, RWTH Aachen), currently focusing on teaching GDR history and linking language learning and subject learning
   
• 08/2021-01/2022 Coordination of the KQ group History of the district government Arnsberg.
   
• Since 12/2018 Member of the KQ group of the district government Arnsberg, development and implementation of further education for history teachers
   
• 02/2018-01/2022 Student teacher at the New High School Bochum
   
• 11/2017-07/2018 Research assistant at the Research Training Group "The GDR and the European Dictatorships after 1945", Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
   
• 05/2016-10/2017 Student teacher trainee at the Center for Practical Teacher Training Dortmund/Reinoldus- und Schiller-Gymnasium Dortmund, completion of the second state examination.
   
• 10/2014-04/2016 Research assistant at the Chair for Didactics of History, Ruhr-University Bochum, collaboration in the research network "Historical Thinking - Competencies in History" (HiTCH)
   
• 10/2012-09/2014 Lecturer for special tasks, Institute of History, Ruhr-University Bochum
   
• 03/2010-09/2012 Scholarship holder of the Alfried-Krupp-Schülerlabor Bochum

Advisory boards and memberships

• Since 02/2022 Member of the Center of Educational Studies (CoES), Professional School of Education at the Ruhr-University Bochum
   
• Since 12/2020 Member of the Advisory Board for Reappraisal of the Ettersberg Foundation
   
• Since 2010 Membership of the Association of Historians in Germany
   
• Since 2009 Membership of the Conference for Didactics of History; Association of Didactics of History in Germany e.V.

Monographs:

• Klausmeier, Kathrin: DDR-Geschichte im Unterricht. Norm und Empirie am Beispiel thüringischer Schülerinnen und Schüler, Göttingen 2020 (Reihe Beihefte zur Geschichtsdidaktik, Vol. 20).
   
• Trautwein, Ulrich/Bertram, Christiane/Borries, Bodo von/Brauch, Nicola/Hirsch, Matthias/Klausmeier, Kathrin (et al.): Kompetenzen historischen Denkens erfassen. Konzeption, Operationalisierung und Befunde des Projekts "Historical Thinking - Competencies in History" (HiTCH), Münster/New York 2017.

Essays, Reviews, Conference Reports

• Klausmeier, Kathrin: Bismarck as "Sugar Whip"? - Chances, challenges and limits of Instagramposts as learning products in history classes. In. Britsche, Frank (ed.): Image - Power - History. Interdisciplinary Reflections on Visual History in Historical-Political Education, Frankfurt/M. 2022 (forthcoming).
   
• Klausmeier, Kathrin: Distance Learning 2020 - A Modernization Push for History Education? An explorative stocktaking. In: gfh 3/21, pp. 5-20.
   
• Kathrin Klausmeier: Review of: Marie Müller-Zetzsche: DDR-Geschichte im Klassenzimmer. Deutung und Wissensvermittlung in Deutschland und Frankreich nach 1990, Frankfurt/M.: Wochenschau-Verlag 2020, in: sehepunkte 21 (2021), No. 1 [15.01.2021],URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2021/01/34497.html
   
• Klausmeier, Kathrin: "Well, in class the GDR is presented too harshly, I think." - How moralizing approaches complicate historical-political education. In: GWU, issue 5/6 2021, pp. 299-311.
   
• Klausmeier, Kathrin: The GDR Was Not a Dictatorship!? Results of an Empirical Study on Young People's Perceptions of the GDR. In: Armin-Rosenthal, Anna von/Hüttmann, Jens: Dictatorship and Democracy in the Classroom: The Case of the GDR, Berlin 2017, pp. 88-99.
   
• Review of: Bernhard Schoßig: Historisch-politische Bildung und Gedenkstättenarbeit als Aufgabe der Jugendarbeit in Bayern. Einrichtungen - Projekte - Konzepte, Munich 2011. in: Außerschulische Bildung 2 (2014), pp. 193-194.
   
• Conference report: on the professionalization of history teachers - national and international perspectives. 06.10.2011- 08.10.2011, Augsburg (together with Manuel Altenkirch) in H-Soz-u-Kult, 18.04.2012.
   
• Review of: Davies, Ian: Debates in History Teaching. London/New York 2011. in Zeitschrift für Geschichtsdidaktik 11(2012).
   
• Review of: Neil Smith: The History Teacher's Handbook. London/New York 2010. in Journal of History Didactics 10 (2011), pp. 222-225.
   
• Conference report Zeitgeschichte - Medien - Historische Bildung. 02.04.2010-04.04.2010, Bonn, (together with Yvonne Rogoll; Manuel Altenkirch) in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 16.04.2010.
   
• Review of: Horn, Sabine/Sauer, Michael (eds.): Geschichte und Öffentlichkeit. Places - Media - Institutions. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtsdidaktik 9 (2010), pp. 270-272.

• "It was not such a real dictatorship..." Book presentation and panel discussion at the Grenzlandmuseum Eichsfeld on October 6, 2021.
   
• "Teaching history in the digital world", lecture in the context of the teacher training: learning tasks for distance learning using the example of economic and global history objects of the district government Arnsberg, online teacher training, December 7, 2020.
   
• "Mensch.Macht.Märkte" - Urteils- und Handlungskompetenz in wirtschafts- und globalgeschichtlicher Dimension, teacher training, together with Jana Habig, Alfried- Krupp-Schülerlabor der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, March 11, 2020.
   
• "They had their GDR economy in mind and didn't really have 'a clue' about market economy. That's why it hit the wall." - System change as a component of teaching GDR history, lecture, Fachtag Geschichte der Professur für Geschichtsdidaktik der FSU Jena: Vor und nach 1989. Die DDR und Umbrucherfahrungen seit den 1990er Jahren im Geschichtsunterricht, March 5, 2020, Jena.
   
• "The GDR was not a dictatorship!?" - Results of an Empirical Study on Young People's Perceptions of the GDR, lecture, conference: The GDR in History Teaching Challenges in an All-German Context, May 9, 2019, Point Alpha Academy Geisa.
   
• "It wasn't such a real dictatorship!" - Die DDR im Urteil thüringischer Abiturientinnen und Abiturienten, lecture, Historikertag: Gespaltene Gesellschaften, September 26, 2018, Münster.
   
• How do factual competencies relate to historical learning? Theory and Empiricism Using the Example of 15-Year-Old Students in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, together with Marcel Mierwald, Joana Seiffert, Jörgen Wolf, Andreas Seifert, Thomas Lehmann & Nicola Brauch, Tagung: Geschichtsdidaktik empirisch 15, 03 September 2015, Basel.
   
• Young People from the New Länder and the GDR: Current Line of Discussion and Empirical Findings, lecture, together with Norbert Hanisch, History Fair of the Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung, January 30, 2015, Suhl.
   
• Insights into project work - focus on material production and testing of language-sensitive history teaching, together with Mirka Mainzer, Annual Conference of the Mercator Institute 2015 in Cologne.
   
• Youth and the GDR, lecture, conference: The GDR in Social Memory - Theoretical and Empirical Approaches of "Social Memory, Remembering and Forgetting" in the Sociology of Knowledge Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS) at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), March 12, 2015, Berlin.