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Hesse's resistant women

Historical podcasting with students

01.02.2024, We still have places available!

The project "Hessens widerständige Frauen - historisches Podcasting mit Schüler:innen" is being extended. Now that the first project schools have successfully completed the seminars, there are still a few project places available. If you would like to take part with your class or know interested and committed teachers or youth group leaders from Hesse who may be interested in the project, please let us know or pass on the information about the project!

15.12.2023 The second project days, or: How do you make a podcast?

"That's how you hear me?" That's terrible!" - This or something similar was the reaction of the pupils from the first project schools as they tested the podcast equipment for the first time. In the run-up to the project, we discussed what a podcast actually is, what is needed for its production and how to edit and cut audio files. Criteria for a good podcast were then established and discussed. In order to involve all participants in the production process, we worked in small groups. The following questions had to be answered: Who speaks? Who writes the recording schedule? What is the topic of the test recording? Who takes on the role of recording director? After a short familiarization and familiarization phase, everyone involved was enthusiastic about the task.

12.12.2023, Das Podcast-Equipment ist da!

After the first seminars, the project team is now focusing on the technical side: the podcast equipment! Now it's time to unpack - familiarize - test - process and prepare the upcoming project days in terms of media education. The only question that remains, full of anticipation, is: How do you actually edit a podcast and how do you create an intro? Our project team member Magnus Hose will be supported in these steps by media educator Nils Kastenhuber.

30.11.2023, The first project days took place

The first project days took place at the Carlo-Mierendorff-Schule (Q1/2, advanced history course) in Frankfurt and at the Aartalschule (year 9) in Aarbergen. The groups worked out the individual stages in the life of Clarita von Trott, the widow of Adam von Trott, with great interest. The participants found her life and commitment after 1945 particularly impressive. Her studies, further education, the development and expansion of a culture of remembrance and the Nazi resistance, her role as a joint plaintiff in trials against Nazi criminals and her involvement as a doctor in protests are just a few aspects of her eventful life. Dealing with this opened up a view of German post-war history: the students had previously associated terms such as "protest" and "resistance" primarily with the history of National Socialism. Together with the project management, they used Clarita's biography to work out that there was also resistance behavior after 1945 and that political activism today can also be related to Nazi history.In the second half of the day, the participants first dealt with the question: How does remembering work? Many were amazed at how much the memory of the first day of school after the summer vacations had faded for them, so how should they remember events from five, ten or even twenty years ago? Through practical exercises, the students then created the first questionnaires for their interviews with politically active women, worked out initial research approaches and drew up a schedule for the first interviews.

Project description

Based on Clarita von Trott, the deceased widow of resistance fighter Adam von Trott, the project enables pupils from all over Hesse to carry out their own research on resistant and politically active women from their region. Pupils take on the role of historians by actively researching the topic of the project, finding resistant or politically active women and conducting interviews with them. The students will process the results of their research and interviews themselves as podcast episodes and publish them. Gradually, a small series on resistant and politically active women will emerge, showing that resistance against the Nazis and other contexts of injustice was and is also female.

Through the guided creation of a podcast episode, the participants will turn from media consumers into producers and media creators, whereby the project also makes a contribution to individual media education. In addition to these individual learning opportunities for the students, the product as such can be used for sustainable educational work. The podcast series not only preserves the historical treasure of the contemporary witnesses and the historical sources used, but also becomes educational material itself: critical comparisons can be drawn from the individual episodes and they can serve as the basis for new teaching units and extracurricular projects. In addition, the podcast offers other students an authentic, target group-specific approach to history, as it was created by their peers. Some of these suggestions were prepared as part of the project in a handout that critically reflects both the advantages and the challenges of the podcast medium in historical-political educational work.

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