On June 12, 2023, Dr. phil. Adriane Feustel celebrates her 80th birthday. The ASH Berlin congratulates the historian, founder and long-time director of the Alice Salomon Archive. Feustel is one of the most profound experts on Alice Salomon and has made an immense contribution to the memory of her life and work, not least through the publication of the comprehensive, three-volume new edition of Alice Salomon's writings.
In addition, the researcher is committed to the field of social and women's history of the 19th and 20th centuries and to the reappraisal of women's history and women's rights on a national and international level. For her work, she was awarded the Cross of Merit with Ribbon in March 2023.
Born in Berlin, after studying history, geography and political science at the Free University of Berlin, Adriane Feustel joined the University of Applied Sciences for Social Work and Social Pedagogy (FHSS), the predecessor of the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, in 1971 as a lecturer in the subjects of social history/social policy and social pedagogy/social psychology.
From 1990, Adriane Feustel then worked at the now renamed Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences (ASFH) Berlin in the area of archival and exhibition activities, followed by a guest lectureship from 1996-1997 in social policy/history. In 2010, she completed her doctorate at the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on the concept of the social in the work of Alice Salomon.
In 2000, in cooperation with the archive of the Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus in Berlin-Schöneberg, Adriane Feustel founded the Alice Salomon Archive, a publicly accessible archive that she directed until 2013. Since then, the archive has offered the opportunity to explore the history of social work and social movements of the 19th/20th centuries.
In establishing the Alice Salomon Archive, Adriane Feustel has created a unique place of research and remembrance. In the course of her activities, Adriane Feustel has repeatedly been successful in establishing and maintaining contacts with Alice Salomon's descendants living all over the world.