Nina Frieß
Nina Frieß is a Research Associate at ZOiS. She studied Political Science and Slavonic Studies in Heidelberg, St. Petersburg and Potsdam. From 2009 to 2016, she was a research fellow at the Department of Eastern Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the University of Potsdam. In 2015, she completed her doctorate on the contemporary memory of Stalinist repressions. Her dissertation was awarded the Klaus-Mehnert-Prize of the German Association for East European Studies e.V. (DGO). The working title of her current project at ZOiS is "Literature and power in the post-Soviet space". It focuses on the role of Russian and Russian-language literature in selected post-Soviet countries.