Karolina Kaleta
Born in 1988 in Hamburg, Germany
Karolina graduated in 2014 in Comparative Literature, Psychoanalysis and Religious studies with a Master thesis on the interplay of Zionist and historical narratives in contemporary Israeli literature. She has been working for the Koerber Foundation since March 2015. (Last updated 2015)
"From the executive floor of Promonta. Eleven chapters on the theme:
'Hard work pays off" (2004)
This group project focuses on the history of the Promonta company, a Hamburg-based cosmetics and pharmaceutical firm. Using photographs, advertising posters and documents, the authors describe the company's history - particularly its founding in 1914 and the development of its most successful products. One special episode is the company's cooperation in the 1920s with Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science. On the basis of this episode, the authors illustrate the influence of the "productive force of science" on the company's development.
Karolina Kaleta and her fellow students (altogether 11 authors) won fourth prize for their contribution to the Federal President's History Competition of 2004/2004, the topic of which was: "Hard work pays off. Work in history."