Science communication, culture of remembrance and the press
2025
Lecture hall of history – A tour of the TU Dresden campus
Course by Hagen Schönrich for the Dresden Adult Education Centre, 25 October 2025.
Jörg Zaun during a guided tour of the Historical Dye Collection at TU Dresden
Historical dye collection in the König Building and campus of TU Dresden
Guided tours with Jörg Zaun and Hagen Schönrich as part of the accompanying programme for the annual conference of the Society for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology (GWMT), 24 and 25 September 2025. Excerpt from the programme booklet
Children's campus tour ‘Animal Track Search’ and historical campus tour for adults
TU Dresden Family Festival on 11 September 2025. Tour with Hagen Schönrich, Maximilian Gasch and Christoph Sauer. Colouring pictures
Seating with historians
Which historical event would you like to have witnessed? Youtube channel @TUDentdecken, 18 June 2025. Recorded in the book museum of the SLUB Dresden. Editors: Karl J. Donath and Anne-Ailine Krause. to the video Newsletter of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences from 25 June 2025
Prof. Beate Mitzscherlich (West Saxon University of Applied Sciences Zwickau), Prof. Florian Bruns (TUD) and Dr. Hagen Schönrich (TUD) sheded light on the dark chapters of medical history and science in the era of National Socialism.
YOU ASK we explain. Episode 33: Past, Responsibility, Vision
Podcast by Doreen Pretze and Stephan Wiegand, sponsored by TU Dresden, guests: Florian Bruns, Beate Mitzscherlich and Hagen Schönrich, moderated by Linda Fleck, recorded with an audience on 16 April 2025 at the Kunstverein Dresden. Further informationen TUD Excellence Newsletter
Campus tour
for employees of the Center for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ZiLL) at TU Dresden, tour with Hagen Schönrich, 20 March 2025.
Hagen Schönrich in a lecture to year 9 pupils
Science under National Socialism. An overview of five popular myths
Lecture and campus tour by Hagen Schönrich as part of the Victor Klemperer reading by Renatus Deckert, organised by the School Contact Office of TU Dresden, in the Festsaal der Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 11/12/13 March 2025.
Historical context of the book burnings of 1933
Lecture by Hagen Schönrich at the matinee of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: Lasst uns das Erinnern nicht vergessen, Theater am Wettiner Platz, Dresden, 2 March 2025. FES-Flyer
Presentation of the research project by Dagmar Ellerbrock at the 6th meeting of the expert commission for the appreciation, classification and contextualisation of significant personalities of the city's history for the updating of the list of historical graves in the state capital of Dresden, 24 January 2025. Website der Fachkommission Protokoll 6. Sitzung der Fachkommission
2024
Christoph Sauer reports on the eventful history of today's rectorate building
Campus stories: Journey of discovery on Mommsenstraße
Campus tour by Hagen Schönrich and Christoph Sauer as part of TU Dresden's Diversity Days 2024: Insights into the eventful history and architecture of the TUD buildings on Mommsenstraße, including a visit to the respective interiors, 8 November 2024. To the event
Aerial view of the TH campus from 1926
Campus tour on Open Monument Day
Tour with Hagen Schönrich. Annual motto: True signs. Contemporary witnesses of history, 8 September 2024. Program of the city of Dresden Press release of the TUD
Campus tour
Onboarding event for the second funding phase of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, tour with Hagen Schönrich, 11 July 2024.
View of the packed seminar room at the opening by Roswitha Böhm
University public presentation of the research project
Information event, Auditorium Centre of the TU Dresden, 2 July 2024. Poster for the information event as PDF
The members of the research project for the 2024 advisory board meeting
Advisory board meeting and workshop incl. presentation of the doctoral projects at the “Zentralwerk” Dresden
Tour of the area of the former Goehle factory as well as guided tour of the depot and visit to the current special exhibition at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, 14/15 June 2024.
Hagen Schönrich in the subsequent discussion
Student book burning on May 10, 1933 in Dresden. The event and remembrance
Lecture and discussion by Hagen Schönrich on the 91st anniversary of the book burning in the student club HängeMathe, organized by the Antifascist Initiative Löbtau and the StuRa department WHAT, 10 May 2024. Further information on the HängeMathe club homepage
Hagen Schönrich at the lecture in the Klemperer Hall of the SLUB Dresden
Science policy during the National Socialist era. An overview using the example of the Technische Hochschule Dresden
Lecture and subsequent campus tour, held and conducted by Hagen Schönrich as part of the reading from the diaries of Victor Klemperer, read by Renatus Deckert, organized by the School Contact Office of the TU Dresden for school classes from grades 9 to 12, in the Klemperer Hall of the SLUB, 27/28 February 2024.
Stumbling stones for Margarete and Walter Blumenfeld
Stolperstein laying for Margarete and Walter Blumenfeld
Former home of the Blumenfeld family at Bayreuther Straße 4, laying of the Stolpersteine on 8 February 2024. Further information on the Faculty of Psychology homepage
On the history of psychology at TU Dresden. The life and work of Werner Straub and Walter Blumenfeld
Lecture by Christine Ludl and subsequent discussion event on the question of the name of the Werner Straub Prize, 31 January 2024 Date details on the TU Dresden homepage
2023
Critical campus tour on the 90th anniversary of the book burning on 10 May 1933
Tour by Hagen Schönrich, 13 Mai 2023. Program on the homepage of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities Press release