Profile
Dr. Corinna von List developed an interest in history as a young child and even before she left primary school she knew she wanted to be a historian.
She studied history, French and international relations at the Free University of Berlin and the Jean Moulin University in Lyon. She went on to do a PhD at the University of Potsdam and her thesis - Women in the Resistance, 1940-1944, was published in 2010.
She then qualified as an information specialist (academic archivist) and founded her research agency Blatt & Bild Archiv-Recherchen.
Her work focuses mainly on early 20th century French history, with close attention to the period between 1914-1945. She draws on her many years of experience working in German, French and British archives and has unearthed a wealth of information about France in the Second World War, the women’s concentration camp at Ravensbrück, military history and the French Resistance.
She also has extensive experience in researching criminal justice records, military diaries, official letters, private correspondences and photographs.
In 2006 Corinna received the Prix Guillaume Fichet-Octave Simon for her ground-breaking research into Franco-German history during the Second World War. She has lectured on her specialist, and favourite subject, Women in the Resistance, at conferences in France and has worked with the Berlin History Network Fantom in preparing and presenting an annual colloquium for historians.
She has been an academic researcher at the German Historical Institute in Paris and an academic adviser to the Fondation de la Résistance, in Paris. She is also a member of many German history societies and specialist archive associations, including Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte, Verband Deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare and Verband Deutscher Historikerinnen und Historiker.