Historians
Our freelance guides lead visitors through the former prison and explain the history of the prison site. Some of them introduce themselves here.
![[Translate to English:] Chiara Fabbrizi](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/0/csm_Fabbrizi_Chiara_2f57bb455c.jpg "[Translate to English:] Chiara Fabbrizi")
Chiara Fabbrizi
Tour guide since 2015
“Historia magistra vitae: The memorial is a great place to learn lessons from history, reflect on life under dictatorship and learn to appreciate the preciousness of our democracy.”
Robert Fissenewert
Tour guide since 2005
“I lead visitor groups through the memorial since 2005 and find it very exciting to observe how the view of the recent past continues to develop and changes through own experiences.”
![[Translate to English:] Veerle Hamerlinck](/fileadmin/_processed_/c/b/csm_Hamerlinck_Veerle_2b5726b29d.jpg "[Translate to English:] Veerle Hamerlinck")
Veerle Hamerlinck
Tour guide since 2022
“I work here with great commitment to contribute to a greater awareness of our common history and the importance of our democracy.”
Sonja Hammer-Klonowski
Tour guide since 2015
“This place tells the story of how dictatorships can be overcome. As a historian, I want to make personal stories visible and show the importance of freedom and democracy.”
Karsten Hemmerling
Tour guide since 2023
“This historical site is ideally suited to show what it means to live in opposition to a political regime that knows no separation of powers or control by the people.”
Gerold Hildebrand
Tour guide since 2022
“From my youth until the SED was disempowered, I constantly knew friends or other acquaintances who were categorised as "hostile-negative" and imprisoned for trivialities or expressions of opinion, some of them in this Stasi prison. Fortunately, I got away with a few Stasi interrogations and operational procedures. Communist crimes must still be remembered.”
Tom Hübner
Tour guide since 2012
Manuela Margaroli
Tour guide since 2022
“In Hohenschönhausen I have the opportunity to use my university and language skills with an international audience, and I particularly enjoy bringing this part of German history closer to those who have no prior knowledge of the subject.”
Andreas Neßlinger
Tour guide since 2022
“My personal concern is to convey historical truths to future generations. Always with a focus on strengthening critical thinking and urging social vigilance.”
Maria-Grazia Orlandini-Amundsen
Tour guide since 2021
Gundula Schmidt-Graute
Tour guide since 2018
“It is important to me to make pupils aware of the importance of universal human rights. And that these are always at risk from ideologies that “fulfil” humanity.”
Jean-Baptiste Schöneberger
Tour guide since 2013