RESEARCH

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2024-2027:
Die Rechnungsbücher des Klosters Aldersbach
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Lino Wehrheim M.Sc.
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
2024:
Archive workshop – "Danzig-Gdańsk-Gduńsk" eine europäische Metropole vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Archivexkursion nach Polen
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Dr. Roman Smolorz
Funding: Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation Warsaw/Berlin, Sanddorf-Foundation Regensburg, City of Regensburg

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2023:
Archive workshop 2 – Inflationstrauma und Armut. Archivexkursion nach Polen
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Sebastian Pößniker M.A.
Funding: Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation Warsaw/Berlin, Sanddorf-Foundation Regensburg, City of Regensburg

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2023:
Archive workshop 1 – Archivalische Zeugnisse für den Volksaufstand in der DDR 1953
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Roman Smolorz PhD
Funding: The Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany, City of Regensburg

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2022-2024:
Calculating with Eternity. In-Depth Indexing of the Account Books of the Regensburg St. Katharinenspital 1354 to 1934
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Sebastian Pößniker M.A., Katharinenspital, Universitäts-Bibliothek Regensburg
Funding: bavarikon
2022:
Archive workshop 2 – Archive als Akteure in der deutsch-polnischen Erinnerungsarbeit
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Sebastian Pößniker M.A.
Funding: Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation Warsaw/Berlin, Sanddorf-Foundation Regensburg, City of Regensburg

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2022:
Archive workshop 1 – Archivalische Zeugnisse für die innerdeutsche Grenze 1952 und 1962
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Roman Smolorz PhD
Funding: The Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany, City of Regensburg

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2021:
Archive workshop – Deutsch-polnische Geschichte 1921-2021
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Roman Smolorz PhD
Funding: Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation Warsaw/Berlin, Sanddorf-Foundation Regensburg, City of Regensburg

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2021-today:
Research Colloquium / Lecture Series Economic and Social History
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer
2019-2022:
SPP 1859 "Erfahrung und Erwartung. Historische Grundlagen ökonomischen Handelns"
Subprojekt „More than a Feeling. Media Sentiment as a Mirror of Investors´ Expectations at the Berlin Stock Exchange, 1872-1930“
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Lino Wehrheim M.Sc.
(in cooperation with Junior Professor Dr. Manuel Burghardt and Bernhard Liebl from University Leipzig)
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
2019:
Archive workshop – Wissenschaftsbegegnungen in Lemberg
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Roman Smolorz PhD
Funding: Sanddorf-Foundation Regensburg, City of Regensburg

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2018-2021:
The account books of the Regensburg St. Katharinenspital 1354 to 1934 digital on BAVARIKON
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Katharinenspital, Universitäts-Bibliothek Regensburg
Funding: bavarikon

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2018:
Archival workshop - German-Polish Academic Encounters in Posen/Poland
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Roman Smolorz PhD
Funding: Sanddorf-Foundation Regensburg, Municipality of Regensburg
2017:
Archive workshop – Encounters of Regensburg students with Eastern Europe and Eastern Europeans
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Roman Smolorz PhD
Funding: Forum Internationaler Jugendaustausch Regensburg
2016:
Archive workshop – "Digital Humanities" in Poland and Germany
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Kathrin Pindl M.A.
Funding: Sanddorf-Foundation Regensburg
2016:
SPP 1859 "Erfahrung und Erwartung. Historische Grundlagen ökonomischen Handelns"
Subproject „Speichern und Auskommen: Der Getreidekasten des Regensburger St. Katharinenspitals“
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Kathrin Pindl M.A.
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)

2015:
Modeling semantically Enriched Digital Edition of Accounts (MEDEA)
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Kathrin Pindl M.A.
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
2015:
Lecture series with Professor Cormac Ó Gráda (Dublin): Poverty, hunger and survival in historic perspective
Lecture series from July 1st to July 8th at the University of Regensburg
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Kathrin Pindl M.A.
Funding: University foundation Hans Vielberth
2015:
Archive workshop – material heritage and (everyday) memory 1795, 1945, 2015
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Kathrin Pindl M.A.
Funding: Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation Warsaw/Berlin, Sanddorf-Foundation Regensburg, City of Regensburg

2015:
The End of World War II in Regensburg
Coming to terms with the history of Regensburg around the end of World War II (c. mid-1944 to late 1945)
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Kathrin Pindl M.A.
Funding: City of Regensburg
2015:
The Regensburger Domspatzen (Regensburg Cathedral Choir) and their director Theobald Schrems in the area of conflict between church and Nazi Germany
Historiographic placing of the Regensburg Cathedral Choir and their conductor in the course of the “Third Reich”
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Roman Smolorz PhD
Funding: Verein “Freunde des Regensburger Domchors” e.V. (Society „Friends of the Regensburg Cathedral Choir, registered society)
2014:
Archive workshop – German economic and social order in the Baltic countries. The sources for the Hanseatic history in today’s Poland (12th – 17th century)
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Roman Smolorz PhD
Funding: Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation Warsaw/Berlin, Sanddorf-Foundation Regensburg, City of Regensburg
2014:
Region in the state – state in the region. Upper Silesia in the state of the House of Hohenzollern and Habsburg (1742-1918)
Conference from May 29 to 30 2014 in Katowice and Rybnik with around 40 participants from Germany, GB, Austria and Poland.
Organizers:
- Historic Institute at the Silesian University of Katowice
- Chair for Economic and Social History at the University of Regensburg
- Institute for Regional Studies at the University of Katowice
- Record Office Katowice
- Museum in Rybnik
Funding: Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation Warsaw/Berlin
2013-2014:
The path to leave poverty as reflected in bureaucracy: account books as source for linguistic and economic history
Direction: Professor Paul Rössler, Professor Mark Spoerer
Co-worker: Kathrin Pindl M.A.
2013:
Surviving through Art: Forced Labor for the Messerschmitt-Werke Regensburg in the Concentration Camp Gusen – Exhibition of original watercolors created at Gusen from the records kept in Ratisbon / Germany and in Stary Sacz/Poland
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Dr. Roman Smolorz
Funding: Stiftung Erinnerung Verantwortung Zukunft (Foundation Memory Responsibility Future)
2013:
Archive workshop – German social history ant its sources in East Central Europe
Direction/coordination: Professor Mark Spoerer, Roman Smolorz PhD
Funding: Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation Warsaw/Berlin
2012-2013:
Surviving through Art: Forced Labor for the Messerschmitt-Werke Regensburg in the Concentration Camp Gusen
(this exhibitions was also displayed in Warsaw, Poland)
Direction/coordination: Reinhard Hanausch, Bernhard Lübbers PhD, Roman Smolorz PhD, Professor Mark Spoerer
Funding: Sparkasse Regensburg (German Public Bank), Sanddorf Foundation Regensburg
2012-2014:
The History of Kelheim Fibres from 1935 to 2005
Direction: Professor Mark Spoerer
Co-worker: Martin Götz M.A.
2011-2016:
The history of the textile-retail and the apparel-industry, as well as the C&A corporation in the 20th century
Direction: Professor Mark Spoerer
Co-workers: Uwe Balder M.A., Anna Pauli M.A., Julia Schnaus

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