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Dr. Ludger Wimmelbücker

Visiting scientist

Charité – University Medicine Berlin
Thielallee 71
14195 Berlin

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Ludger Wimmelbücker conducts research on the global history of the drug thalidomide (thalidomide) and the birth defects it caused from the 1950s to the 1980s and is preparing further publications on this topic.

Selected publications

Grippex 1956-1961: Ein anderer Blick auf die Geschichte thalidomidhaltiger Medikamente in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, in: Contergan – Hintergründe und Folgen eines Arzneimittel-Skandals. Hrsg. von Thomas Großbölting und Niklas Lenhard-Schramm. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2017, S. 167-203.

‘These are the medicines that “make” monsters’. Thalidomide in Southern Africa, 1958–1962, in: Social History of Medicine, 33/3 (August 2020), S. 898-923. (zusammen mit Julie Parle)

„Im Übrigen bin ich grundsätzlich gegen Tabletten …“. Aussagen von Müttern über die Einnahme von Thalidomid in der Schwangerschaft, in: Leben mit Contergan. Geschädigte, Angehörige und Freunde berichten über die Auswirkungen des Arzneimittels. Hrsg. von Christina Ding-Greiner. Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer 2022, S. 72-83.


Vita Dr. Ludger Wimmelbücker

Ludger Wimmelbücker received his PhD in modern African history in 2000. His dissertation, which was awarded the Walter Markov Prize, deals with changes in living conditions in the Kilimanjaro region (Tanzania) from the beginning of the 19th century to the transition from the German to the British colonial period.

From 1999 to 2003, he worked on a project on the Zanzibari revolution of 1964 within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center 520 "Umbrüche in afrikanischen Gesellschaften und ihre Bewältigung." ("Upheavals in African Societies and their Management.") In 2009, his biography of an African language teacher who worked at the Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin and the Kolonialinstitut in Hamburg was published. His latest related publication is a contribution to the volume „Die postkoloniale Stadt lesen: Historische Erkundungen in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg“ (2022).



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