Project Description:

The project targets the establishment of a network focused on the history of the family in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Civil society outreach: including interactive, outreach-based courses on family history and village history at the Evangelical Lutheran Bartholomäus Parish in Sommerhausen, Würzburg District; free courses on dealing with family heritage, particularly family photos.

Media presence: This includes, among other things, public and radio lectures, storytelling cafés, and teaching at KIT: courses on family history in the Liberal Arts and Sciences / Contemporary History (B.A.) and European Culture and History of Ideas (M.A.) degree programs.

Ongoing dissertation on the topic at KIT: Sophia Merkel, “Family Contemporary History in a Research Context: The Case of Walter Kempowski’s *Deutsche Chronik*.”

See Rolf-Ulrich Kunze, *Textbook on Family History: A Resource for Contemporary History*, Stuttgart 2018; BNN, May 31, 2019: “Treasures of Memory.” A Look at Photo Albums at the First Karlsruhe Storytelling Café; https://bnn.de/karlsruhe/wie-erforscht-maneigene- familiengeschichte-tipps-karlsruher-historiker; for a discussion of photo albums as sources of family history, see https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fotoalben-eine-kleinequellenkunde-rolf-ulrich-kunze-fz2ae.