Danica Trifunjagić
Danica Trifunjagic has been a research associate in modern history at the Technical University of Darmstadt since 2026. She previously worked at the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies in Tübingen (2022–2025) and at the Haus der Donauschwaben (2023–2025), and was a visiting researcher at Saarland University in 2025. She earned her PhD in literature at the University of Novi Sad in 2022 with a thesis on the imaginary Europe in Serbian documentary-artistic prose of the 18th and early 19th centuries, after studying Serbian literature and language there (B.A. 2015, M.A. 2016) and working as a research associate on a project about identity in Serbian literature (2017–2021).
Daniela Simon
Daniela Simon studied history, political science, and German studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen and earned her doctorate at Tübingen in 2015 with a thesis on religion and violence in Eastern Croatia and Northern Bosnia, 1941–1945. From 2015 to 2020, she was an academic associate in the Collaborative Research Center 923 “Threatened Orders” (board member 2018–2020). Since 2021, she has been a research associate at the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies (IdGL), where she headed the archive until 2023. After her habilitation in 2022 she became the IdGL’s managing and deputy director. She teaches Southeast European history, focusing on Germans in the region in the context of war, flight, and loss of belonging.