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| Name | Hannah Siegrist |
| Academic title(s) | PhD Student |
| Department | Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University |
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Normal 21 false SV /* Style Definitions */ Hannah Siegrist is a PhD. student in History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden, since 2020. In the first half of 2023, she was a visiting PhD student at ZZF Potsdam. The doctoral project “The S- and U-Bahn, and the Production of Urban Space in Berlin, 1945–1990” examines how rail transport – specifically the S-Bahn and U-Bahn systems – shaped the production of space in Berlin, between 1945 and 1990. The main theme investigated is the parallel production of three interconnected cultural entities – East Berlin (or, the capital of the GDR, Berlin), West Berlin (or Berlin West), and Berlin as a whole – and the impact of the rail networks on this triad. The theoretical starting point is an understanding of infrastructures as large-scale, aesthetic projects by which territorial areas are delimited from one another, and an interpretation of states as the creators of these projects. The project is particularly focused on the urban development planning developed within the framework of Deutsche Reichsbahn’s activities, but empirical material is also collected from several archives: from the traffic departments of national and regional archives, from the collections of the Bundesministerium für Verkehr and the Ministerium für Verkehrswesen, and from the traffic departments of the Berlin Senate and Magistrate respectively. The material is then analyzed using a range of methods influenced by infrastructure, architectural, urban, and media history |
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