Natasha Konradova
Journalist, Researcher, Author of popular academic and artistic projects, Coordinator of the Zukunft Memorial educational program "Man in History. (Post)Soviet experience"
Born in Moscow in 1974. In 1996 she graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities, and in 2001 defended her PhD thesis in cultural studies. Since the early 2000s, she worked in Russian magazines and online publications as a journalist and editor ("Polit.ru", "Russian Reporter", "Snob", "Around the World", Radio Liberty, etc.). In 2015, she moved to Berlin, where up until 2018 she worked at the Free University on a research project on the history of the Russian Internet ("Archaeology of the Russian Internet: telepathy, teleconferences and other techno-utopias of the Cold War", Moscow: Corpus, 2022). Co-author of the projects "Ural Mari. There is no death" (with the support of the Khamovniki Foundation, Moscow, Innovation Prize for 2020) and "Undesirable Paths: Informal Relations between Citizens of the GDR and the USSR" (with the support of the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur), as well as a number of books, exhibitions and multimedia projects, mainly dedicated to exploratory art and media archaeology.
Since 2023, she has been working with Zukunft Memorial to relaunch the school history competition and the "History Lessons" website.