Prof. Dr. Friederike Lorenz-Sinai

Research Professorship for Methods of Social Work and Social Work Research

Committees & Offices

Vice-dean for Special Affairs for Research and Transfer

Decentralised Equal Opportunities Officer

Unit

Social and Educational Sciences Department

friederike.lorenz-sinai@fh-potsdam.de

Phone

+49 331 580-4136

Location

House 5

Room

220

Office hours

Tuesday, 9:30 - 10:30 am

Main fields of activity (research, teaching)

Current research foci

(Sexualised) violence and social processes of coming to terms with it
Anti-Semitism in institutional contexts
Prison architecture and everyday life in the penal system

Teaching specialisms

Qualitative social research
Profession and discipline of social work
Conversation and counselling
Criticism of discrimination and diversity in social work
Abuse of power and violence in institutions
Children's rights and protection concepts

CV

Educational and professional biography

since October 2021: Professor for Methods of Social Work and Social Work Research at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
since 2021: Board member of OFEK e.V. – Counselling centres for anti-Semitic violence and discrimination https://ofek-beratung.de/
2017 – 2021: Research Associate at the Department of Social Pedagogy at Freie Universität Berlin
11/19 – 02/20: Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Education
since 01/2018: Joint Head of the Kompetenzzentrum für antisemitismuskritische Bildung und Forschung together with Marina Chernivsky in a permanent cooperation with the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. Further information at https://zwst-kompetenzzentrum.de/studien/
08/18 – 12/20: Research assistant at the University of Wuppertal in the GIF research project "German teachers and students learning about the Shoah in Israel - An analysis of Holocaust education regarding the impact of generational orientations"
2019: Doctorate (Dr Phil.) at the University of Wuppertal (summa cum laude)
09/16 – 04/17: Substitute lecturer for Prof. Dr Sabine Wagenblass at Bremen University of Applied Sciences, Social Work degree programme, for "History and Theories of Social Work"
06/13 – 07/16: Research assistant at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Education, in the research project "Violent constellations in inpatient educational support - a case study"
10/10 – 03/16: Freelancer at the Bremen Institute for Social Work and Development (BISA+E) in various research projects
10/10 – 10/13: Freelancer in the educational department of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial Centre
2011 – 2013: Studied education and educational sciences at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, specialising in migration and education
2009 – 2010: Further training in the anti-bias approach at the Anti-Bias Workshop
10/07 – 02/10: Studied social work at Bremen University of Applied Sciences, specialising in educational assistance
2004 – 2011: Worked as an educator and social worker in various institutions in the areas of daycare centres, after-school care, open child and youth work, children's and youth residential groups, social psychiatric services
2001 – 2004: Training as a state-recognised educator at the technical college for social pedagogy in Bremen

Awards and honours

"Prize for Best Teaching 2021" at the Department of Educational Science and Psychology at Freie Universität Berlin for the master's seminar "Research and Development in Educational Fields of Action" (winter semester 2020/21)
2020 - 2024: Admission to the humanities and social sciences class of the Junge Akademie/ Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
"Prize for Best Teaching 2018" at the Department of Educational Science and Psychology at Freie Universität Berlin for the seminar "Ansätze sozialpädagogischen Handelns" (WS 2017/18)
Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation for doctoral studies (2015 - 2018) and studies (2008 - 2013)
Emilie Stahl Prize 2012 for particularly qualified colloquium report on the year of recognition as a state-recognised social worker in Bremen

Projects

Ongoing research projects

2024 – 2025: Effects of the terror of 7 October 2023 on Jewish and Israeli communities in Germany. In cooperation with the Competence Centre for Education and Research Critical of Anti-Semitism, funded by the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency
2024: Prison Architecture - An Ethnography on the Use of Space and Everyday Life in a Berlin Prison. Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Justice and Consumer Protection
2023 – 2024: Self-help in the context of addiction, imprisonment and release from prison. Funded by BARMER.
2022 – 2024: Antisemitism in the context of the police (Thuringia and Saxony)
Since 2018: Federal state study series "Dealing with antisemitism in the context of schools" (so far Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia), in cooperation with the Competence Centre for Education and Research Critical of Antisemitism, funded by "Demokratie leben!" (BMFSFJ). Further information: https://zwst-kompetenzzentrum.de/studien/

Completed research projects

2021 – 2024: Joint project "ForuM - Research on the processing of sexualised violence and other forms of abuse in the Protestant Church and Diaconia in Germany", co-management of sub-project B "Systemic conditions and the practice of processing (sexualised) violence". Further information: https://www.forum-studie.de/
2022 – 2023: Study on coming to terms with the violent constellation at Martinstift (Moers), in cooperation with Bergische Universität Wuppertal, funded by: Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Moers church district, Moers church community, Diakonisches Werk Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe
2020 – 2022: "Discomfort with history? Dealing with the impact of National Socialism and contemporary anti-Semitism in memorial sites", in cooperation with the Competence Centre for Prevention and Empowerment (ZWST), funded by the Foundation Remembrance - Responsibility - Future (EVZ). Further information: https://zwst-kompetenzzentrum.de/unbehagen-an-der-geschichte-2/
2021 – 2023: "Leaving Care - Experiences of Care Leavers and Professionals in Poland and Germany", explorative comparative study in cooperation with the Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski and other universities in Poland, funded by the German-Polish Science Foundation (DPWS)
2018 – 2020: "Learning about the Shoah in Israel: an analysis of generational orientations of German teachers". Research cooperation between the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Universities of Wuppertal and Duisburg-Essen, funded by the German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)
2013 – 2016: "Violent constellations in inpatient educational support - A case study". University of Duisburg-Essen. Funded by the Graf Recke Foundation, the Diakoniewerk Deutschland, the Diakoniewerk Rheinland and the Evangelischer Erziehungsverband e.V. (EREV)
2015: 'Racism has become totally normal' - Perceptionsof racism and other discrimination in the north of Bremen - An analysis of the situation and resources from different perspectives'. Created on behalf of the "Partnership for Democracy Bremen North/Federal Programme `Demokratie leben! Active against right-wing extremism, violence and misanthropy." Bremen Institute for Social Work and Development (BISA+E)
2011 – 2014: Evaluation of the social training courses and individual case support (STK) of the organisations: Bremer Integrationshilfen BRIGG e.V., Stadtteil-Schule e.V. and JUS - Jugendhilfe und Soziale Arbeit Bremen gGmbH. (BISA+E)
2011: Preparation of a situation and resource analysis for the implementation of the Bremen Local Action Plan "Working against discrimination in the district" as part of the BMFSFJ federal programme "Promoting Tolerance - Strengthening Competence". Bremen Institute for Social Work and Development e.V. (BISA+E)

Research projects with students

Workshops and research labs

Winter semester 2023 – summer semester 2024: Workshop "Sexualised violence in institutional contexts"

Winter semester 2022 – summer semester 2023: Real-life laboratory "Self-help in the context of addiction, the penal system and release from prison" in cooperation with addiction support services from Blaues Kreuz in Deutschland e.V.

Winter semester 2021 – summer semester 2022: Workshop "Relational Social Work in the Context of Probation Services" in cooperation with specialists from the Berlin Youth Probation Service

Projects

Ongoing research projects

2024 – 2025: Effects of the terror of 7 October 2023 on Jewish and Israeli communities in Germany. In cooperation with the Competence Centre for Education and Research Critical of Anti-Semitism, funded by the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency
2024: Prison Architecture - An Ethnography on the Use of Space and Everyday Life in a Berlin Prison. Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Justice and Consumer Protection
2023 – 2024: Self-help in the context of addiction, imprisonment and release from prison. Funded by BARMER.
2022 – 2024: Antisemitism in the context of the police (Thuringia and Saxony)
Since 2018: Federal state study series "Dealing with antisemitism in the context of schools" (so far Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia), in cooperation with the Competence Centre for Education and Research Critical of Antisemitism, funded by "Demokratie leben!" (BMFSFJ). Further information: https://zwst-kompetenzzentrum.de/studien/

Completed research projects

2021 – 2024: Joint project "ForuM - Research on the processing of sexualised violence and other forms of abuse in the Protestant Church and Diaconia in Germany", co-management of sub-project B "Systemic conditions and the practice of processing (sexualised) violence". Further information: https://www.forum-studie.de/
2022 – 2023: Study on coming to terms with the violent constellation at Martinstift (Moers), in cooperation with Bergische Universität Wuppertal, funded by: Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Moers church district, Moers church community, Diakonisches Werk Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe
2020 – 2022: "Discomfort with history? Dealing with the impact of National Socialism and contemporary anti-Semitism in memorial sites", in cooperation with the Competence Centre for Prevention and Empowerment (ZWST), funded by the Foundation Remembrance - Responsibility - Future (EVZ). Further information: https://zwst-kompetenzzentrum.de/unbehagen-an-der-geschichte-2/
2021 – 2023: "Leaving Care - Experiences of Care Leavers and Professionals in Poland and Germany", explorative comparative study in cooperation with the Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski and other universities in Poland, funded by the German-Polish Science Foundation (DPWS)
2018 – 2020: "Learning about the Shoah in Israel: an analysis of generational orientations of German teachers". Research cooperation between the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Universities of Wuppertal and Duisburg-Essen, funded by the German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)
2013 – 2016: "Violent constellations in inpatient educational support - A case study". University of Duisburg-Essen. Funded by the Graf Recke Foundation, the Diakoniewerk Deutschland, the Diakoniewerk Rheinland and the Evangelischer Erziehungsverband e.V. (EREV)
2015: 'Racism has become totally normal' - Perceptionsof racism and other discrimination in the north of Bremen - An analysis of the situation and resources from different perspectives'. Created on behalf of the "Partnership for Democracy Bremen North/Federal Programme `Demokratie leben! Active against right-wing extremism, violence and misanthropy." Bremen Institute for Social Work and Development (BISA+E)
2011 – 2014: Evaluation of the social training courses and individual case support (STK) of the organisations: Bremer Integrationshilfen BRIGG e.V., Stadtteil-Schule e.V. and JUS - Jugendhilfe und Soziale Arbeit Bremen gGmbH. (BISA+E)
2011: Preparation of a situation and resource analysis for the implementation of the Bremen Local Action Plan "Working against discrimination in the district" as part of the BMFSFJ federal programme "Promoting Tolerance - Strengthening Competence". Bremen Institute for Social Work and Development e.V. (BISA+E)

Research projects with students

Workshops and research labs

Winter semester 2023 – summer semester 2024: Workshop "Sexualised violence in institutional contexts"

Winter semester 2021 – summer semester 2022: Workshop "Relational Social Work in the Context of Probation Services" in cooperation with specialists from the Berlin Youth Probation Service

Publications

2024

Marina Chernivski, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai.Antisemitismus vor und nach dem 7. Oktober: Historische Kontinuitäten, Erscheinungsdimensionen und empirische Befunde. 9-152024.
Marina Chernivsky, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai.Antisemitismuserfahrungen und die Rolle der Polizei: Ein ambivalentes Verhältnis. 32-422024.
Marina Chernivsky, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai.Der 7. Oktober als Zäsur für jüdische Communities in Deutschland. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte19-242024.
Friederike Lorenz-Sinai. Die Verschiebung des Sagbaren in organisationalen Schweigepraktiken. Organisationsberatung, Supervision, Coaching239-2532024.
Lance Levenson, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai, Fabian Kessl, Julia Resnik. German teachers' pilgrimage to an Israeli Holocaust Memorial: Emotions, encounters, and contested visions. Anthropology and Education Quarterly400-4182024.
Marina Chernivski, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai.Institutioneller Antisemitismus in der Schule. 2024.
Martik Wazlawik, Caroline Inhoffen, Fabienne André, Thomas Großbölting, Johanna Sigl, Sebastian Justke, Lisa Hellriegel, Fabian Kessl, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai, Helga Dill, Peter Caspari, Tinka Schubert, Sabine Wallner, Malte Täubrich, Safiye Tozdan, Wiebke Schoon, Amina Shah, Peer Briken.Mögliche institutionelle und evangelisch-spezifische Phänomene der Ermöglichung, der Verdeckung und des Umgangs mit sexualisierter Gewalt. 732-7962024.
Friederike Lorenz-Sinai, Lara Schaper.Suchtselbsthilfe im Strafvollzug: Befunde aus einer qualitativen Studie im offenen Frauen- und Männervollzug. 2024.
Svenja Bluhm, Sophia Hoppe, Johanna Forth, Bernd Kappel, Fabian Kessl, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai.Teilprojekt B: Perspektive „Organisation und Person: Systemische Bedingungen und die Praxis der Aufarbeitung von (sexualisierter) Gewalt“. 317-4192024.
Martin Wazlawik, Thomas Großbölting, Fabian Kessl, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai, Helga Dill, Peter Caspari, Safiye Tozdan, Peer Briken, Harald Dreßing, Andreas Hoell, Dieter Dölling.Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse, Schlussfolgerungen und Empfehlungen für Prävention, Intervention und Aufarbeitung. 798-8332024.

2023

Marina Chernivsky, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai.Antisemitische Gewaltdynamiken in und jenseits extremer Gewalt. 48-612023.
Marina Chernivsky, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai.Antisemitismus im Kontext Schule: Deutungen und Praktiken von Lehrkräften. 2023.
Marina Chernivsky, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai.Antisemitismus in institutionellen Kontexten: Soziale Prozesse der Deutung und Einordnung. Migration und Soziale Arbeit54-612023.
Fruzsina Müller, Svenja Bluhm, Fabian Kessl, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai. Aufarbeitung der gewaltförmigen Konstellation der 1950er Jahre im evangelischen Schülerheim Martinstift in Moers. 1-1322023.
Sophia Hoppe, Piotr Kulikowski, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai, Astrid Męczkowska-Christiansen, Sylwester Zagulski.Selected Aspects of Foster Care Systems in Poland and Germany. Social work & society1-182023.
Marina Chernivsky, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai, Johanna Schweitzer.Von Antisemitismus betroffen sein: Deutungen und Umgangsweisen jüdischer Familien und junger Erwachsener. 2023.
Maksim Hübenthal, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai, Ulrike Urban-Stahl.Well-Being. 443-4622023.
Fabian Kessl, Lance Levenson, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai, Julia Resnik.Wie erleben Lehrkräfte eine Weiterbildung zur Shoah?. Pädagogik42-452023.

2022

Marina Chernivsky, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai."Und ich wusste nicht, dass es das gibt": zur Bedeutung von Kollektivbiografie und Antisemitismusverständnissen von Lehrer/-innen für den Umgang mit Antisemitismus an Schulen. 242-2612022.
Marina Chernivsky, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai.Die Shoah in Bildung und Erziehung heute: Weitergaben und Wirkungen in Gegenwartsverhältnissen. 2022.
Friederike Lorenz-Sinai.Dimensionen der Verwirklichung von Kinderrechten am Beispiel des Rechts auf Schutz vor Gewalt in Institutionen. Treffpunkt Bücherei6-72022.
Susanne Nef, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai. Multilateral generation of violence: on the theorization of microscopic analyses and empirically grounded theories of violence. Historical Social Research111-1312022.
Marina Chernivsky, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai.Perspektivendivergenz in der Antizipation und Einordnung antisemitischer Gewalt im Kontext Schule. 252-2622022.
Marina Chernivsky, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai.„Keine schwerwiegenden Vorfälle“: Deutungen von Antisemitismus durch pädagogische Teams an Gedenkstätten zu ehemaligen Konzentrationslagern. Zeitschrift für Rechtsextremismusforschung22-402022.

2021

Marina Chernivsky, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai, Johanna Schweitzer.Antisemitismus im (Schul-)Alltag: Erfahrungen und Umgangsweisen jüdischer Familien und junger Erwachsener. 2021.