Noëmi Burgenmeister studied sociology and history at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. She deepened her interdisciplinary approach during her master's degree in ‘History and Politics of the 20th Century’. From 2019 to 2023, she worked as a student assistant in the BMBF project ‘Dictatorship Experience and Transformation. Biographical Processing and Representations in East Germany since the 1970s’. Her key research interests include gender, memory culture and qualitative methods. Her thematic focus lies on the former GDR and the transformation period in the 1990s of today's Federal Republic of Germany. This culminated in her master's thesis, for which she conducted a discourse analysis. She examined which patterns of interpretation social scientists produced in their publications on GDR and East German parents after 1990.
Since May 2025, Burgenmeister is working as a research associate at the SFB, continuing the interdisciplinary approach developed throughout her studies. In her dissertation, she deals with property arrangements of couple households in a German East-West and multi-generational comparison.
