Andrea Rottmann has worked on the queer history of Germany and the United States. Her dissertation about queer spaces and subjectivities in Berlin between the end of the Second World War and the beginnings of gay and lesbian liberation ("Queer Home Berlin? Making Queer Selves and Spaces in the Divided City, 1945-1970," University of Michigan, 2019), won the 2020 dissertation prizes of the Coalition of Women in German and the Arbeitskreis Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung. The book will come out in 2023. Currently, she is a postdoctoral research fellow in history at the Freie Universität Berlin. She works in the project "Human Rights, Queer Genders and Sexualities since the 1970s", which is part of the research group “Law – Gender – Collectivity” funded by the German Research Foundation.

Publications:

Rottmann, Andrea. “Bubis Behind Bars: Seeing Queer Histories in Postwar Germany Through the Prison.” Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 30, Nr. 2, 2021, 225-252.

Hacke, Hannes and Andrea Rottmann. “Homosexualität_en: Exhibiting a Contested History in Germany in 2015.”  Social History in Museums, Issue 41, 2017, 57-66.