Alf Lüdtke

Biography

Alf Lüdtke (18 October 1943 in Dresden – 29 January 2019) (also Alf Luedtke) was a historian and a leading German representative of the history of everyday life (Alltagsgeschichte in German). He said his main fields of interest and research include work as a social practice, the connection of production and destruction through "work", forms of taking part and acquiescing in European dictatorships in the 20th century, and remembering and memorialising forms of dealing with war and genocide in the modern era.