Team

Our Team

In 1999, Facts & Files Historical Research Institute was founded as a partnership company by Beate Schreiber and Frank Drauschke in Berlin.
The Facts & Files team comprises of historians, archivists and scholars of literature.
Frank Drauschke

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Frank Drauschke
Facts & Files
P: +49 (0)30 / 480 986 20
drauschke@factsandfiles.com

Frank Drauschke / Partner

Born in 1970, studied History, South Asian Studies and International Relations in Asia at Humboldt University in Berlin and at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. During his studies and research visits to India, Great Britain and the United States, he conducted research in the respective archives.

In 1999, together with Beate Schreiber, he founded the partnership company Facts & Files.

Research topics

  • Crowdsourcing Projects and History Communication
  • Asian History of the 20th century
  • Digitization of historical sources and Online Presentation
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Contact

Beate Schreiber
P: +49 (0)30 / 480 986 20
schreiber@factsandfiles.com

Beate Schreiber / Partner

Born in 1971, studied History, German, Educational Science and Psychology at Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Technical University in Berlin.

Following her state examination in 1998, she worked as a freelancer for various clients in areas of restitution cases in East Germany and as an academic consultant for film screenplays.

In 1999, together with Frank Drauschke, she founded the partnership company Facts & Files.

Beate Schreiber is member of the Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V. (Research Association for Provenance Research).

Research topics

  • “Aryanization” in Berlin 1933-1945
  • Provenance Research
  • Economic History
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Dr. Hans-Christian Bresgott
Facts & Files
P: +49 (0)30 / 480 986 20
bresgott@factsandfiles.com

Dr. Hans-Christian Bresgott / Senior Researcher and Archival Services

Born in 1972, studied History, Art History and German language and literature studies at Technische Universität Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin and at the University Erfurt.

In 2009, Hans-Christian Bresgott became Senior Researcher at Facts & Files. He recieved his Ph.D. with a thesis on the history of German Baltic Resorts from the  Center for Metropolitan Studies of the Technische Universität Berlin in 2014.

Research topics

  • Social History of the 19th Century
  • Biographical Research
  • Archival Services
  • Oral History
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Sabine Altmann
Facts & Files
P: +49 (0)30 / 480 986 20
altmann@factsandfiles.com

Sabine Altmann / Researcher and Project Assistant

studied Medieval History, Pre- and Early History, and American Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin. From 1997 to 2005, she worked as an assistant at the Brandenburg State Office for Cultural Heritage Preservation and Archaeological State Museum. Since 2000, she has worked as a freelancer for Facts & Files. After her graduation in 2006, she worked for the Historic and Photographic Collection at the Jewish Museum in Berlin from 2006 to 2007. She was an academic associate in two projects at the Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO) at the University of Leipzig, researching Early- and High-Medieval border zones from 2008 to 2013, and from 2014 to 2015 project assistant at a management consultancy. In 2016, she began to work as a project assistant and researcher at Facts & Files.

Research topics

  • History of the Early and High Middle Ages
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Ruth Bergmann
Facts & Files
P: +49 (0)30 / 480 986 20
bergmann@factsandfiles.com

Ruth Bergmann / Archival Services

completed her studies in cultural studies with a focus on cultural history at the Europa-Viadrina University in Frankfurt/Oder in 2003 and subsequently worked for various regional history and archaeological projects. Since 2007, she has been involved in projects on the history of collections and museums as an art and cultural mediator in the Collection of Classical Antiquities and the Islamic Museum of the National Museums in Berlin and has also organised various cultural projects since 2014. At the same time, she supported various archival and inventarisation projects of Facts & Files as a freelancer and has now been working as an archive and library staff member at Facts & Files since the beginning of 2021.

 

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Nicolas Weicker
Facts & Files
P: +49 (0)30 / 480 986 20
weicker@factsandfiles.com

Nicolas Weicker / Researcher and Data Expert

studied Public History at Freie Universität Berlin, and graduated with a Master of Science in September 2023. During his bachelor’s degree in history with a minor in media and communication studies at the University of Mannheim, he worked as an intern and student assistant in the archives and library. Since moving to Berlin, he has been involved in various projects at different institutions dealing with the reappraisal of the SED dictatorship. Followed  an internship at Facts & Files, he was a student assistant, and is now working as a researcher and expert in data handling.

 

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