Prof. Dr. Axel Klausmeier

Prof. Dr. Axel Klausmeier

Director of the Berlin Wall Foundation

Prof. Dr. Axel Klausmeier studied art history, modern and medieval history in Bochum, Munich and Berlin and subsequently worked as an assistant at the Department of Monument Conservation of the BTU Cottbus with a research focus on "Uncomfortable Monuments". Between 2001 and 2003 he documented the remains of the Berlin Wall on behalf of the Berlin Senate. Since January 2009 he has been Director of the Berlin Wall Foundation and since 2012 Honorary Professor for Historical Cultural and Memory Landscapes at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg.