Leonie S.E. Schottler

Leonie S.E. Schottler holds a Master’s in Global Media and Digital Cultures at the University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies). Currently, she is pursuing a Master’s in History at the University of Cambridge. For her Master’s thesis, she is researching the stories, identity, and relationship with post-war Germany of the second and third generation Yekkes. She holds a BA hons in History at the University of London (Royal Holloway). Her Bachelor’s thesis titled “A ‘New Jecke‘? Intergenerational narratives of German-Jewish immigration experiences to Palestine during the 1930s” was based on oral history accounts of first- and second-generation members of the German-Jewish diaspora in Israel and the Netherlands. Schottler is also a keen photographer of history and heritage-related subjects and themes. Her photographic work on “Uncomfortable/Awkward Monuments” has received awards from the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and the German Foundation for Monument Protection (Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz). Her work on the lawyer and Nazi-opponent Dr. Hans Litten, who was of Jewish heritage and murdered in the Concentration Camp Dachau in 1938, has received the First Award of the Hans-Litten-Student-Competition of the German Bar Association (Deutscher Anwaltsverein).