Personal data

department

Research

---

function in the IfZ

Researcher / PhD Candidate

---

location

Munich

---

e-mail

amann@ifz-muenchen.de

---

phone

---

studies

History, German Studies, and Catholic Theology at the Universities of Mainz and Vienna

---

---

---

Career

• Since 07/2025: Researcher and PhD Candidate in the project Screening National Socialism: Ideology and Everyday Life in German Cinema 1933–1945 (SCREENS), subproject Old and New Faith: Religion in Nazi Feature Films
• Since 2024: Secondary School Teacher for History, German, and Catholic Religious Education at the Episcopal Willigis Gymnasium Mainz
• 2022–2024: Trainee Teacher at the State Seminar for Secondary Education Teaching at Gymnasiums in Mainz (Second State Examination)
• 2019–2022: Master of Arts (M.A.) in History and Master of Education (M.Ed.) in German and History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
(Master's thesis: “From the ‘Destruction of Innocence’ to ‘True Joy’. The Catholic Church and Carnival in Mainz 1925–1955”)
• 2016–2022: Student and research assistant as well as tutor at the Department of History, JGU Mainz, in the fields of Contemporary History, History Education, and Late Medieval Regional History
• 2018–2022: Certificate program in Catholic Theology at JGU Mainz
• 2015–2019: Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) in German and History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the University of Vienna
(Bachelor's thesis: “The Popularity of Germanic First Names from the German Empire to the Present”)

Publications

• Der Katholisch Kaufmännische Verein. Ein Beispiel katholischer Fastnacht in Mainz. In: Gallé, Volker/ Kaiser, Franziska/ Mahlerwein, Gunter (Hgg.): „Wer das Kino hat, wird die Welt aushebeln.“ – Kultur in Rheinhessen 1919-1939 (Rheinhessische Wege in den Nationalsozialismus. Teil 3) Worms. Worms Verlag 2025, S. 118–138.

• Von der „Zerstörung der Unschuld“ zur „wahren Freude“. Die Katholische Kirche und die Fastnacht in Mainz zwischen 1925 und 1955. In: Andre, Elsbeth/ Linsmayer, Ludwig (Hgg.): Jahrbuch für westdeutsche Landesgeschichte. Koblenz: Verlag der Landesarchivverwaltung RLP 2023, S. 89–98.

• Mainzer Rosenmontagszüge in der NS-Zeit. In: Kißener, Michael/Janson, Felicitas (Hgg.): Die Fastnacht der nationalsozialistischen „Volksgemeinschaft“. Studien zu Mainz und anderen Regionen (Transformationen – Differenzierungen – Perspektiven. Mainzer Studien zur Neuzeit, Bd. 6). Berlin: Peter Lang 2020, S. 83–96.