Kristin Schulz became a researcher at the Heiner-Müller-Archiv / Transitraum in 2002. Since 2008, she has been working as head of the collection.
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Since 1984, Uwe Schwabe has engaged in the Leipzig Working Group on Environmental Protection and in 1987 was a co-founder of the ‘Initiative Group Life’. He took part in numerous activities in support of human rights and environmental protection in the GDR, and opposed the militarization of the country. He was under observation by the Ministry for State Security, and the target of several operations. As regional speaker for the ’New Forum’, in 1989 he became one of the representatives of the Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig. His networking activities played a significant role in the creation of the Civic Movement Archive in Leipzig in 1990. He was one of the founding members of the archival association, has edited a large number of its publications and remains a member of its advisory council. Since 1994, despite a professional background as a maintenance technician, Schwabe works in the
Zeitgeschichtlichen Forum Leipzig [Leipzig Contemporary History Forum]. He was recipient of the Federal Service Cross in 1995 and the German National Prize in 2014 for his societal engagement.
Karel Schwarzenberg is a Czech politician. In 1948 he emigrated with his family to Austria, where he lived until 1989. He was active in human rights, supported Czechoslovak dissidents, and from 1984–1991 was chair of the International Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. In his family estate in Bavaria he established together with the historian Vilém Prečan the Czechoslovak Documentation Centre for Independent Literature, the archive of which can now be found in the National Museum in Prague. He returned to Czechoslovakia in 1989 and was President Václav Havel’s chancellor from 1990–1992. In 2004 he was one of the co-founders of the Václav Havel Library. He was the foreign minister from 2010–2013 and presidential candidate for the Czech Republic in 2013.
Larisa Seago serves as the processing archivist for the Keston Library and Archives. She was born in Samara, Russia, Seago and she received her bachelor’s degree from Samara State Aerospace University. She completed a masters programme in Church-State Studies at Baylor.
Artist, filmmaker, curator, archivist