Gerrit Weßel (he/him) studied cultural and literary studies at Radboud University in Nijmegen and has been working in the Library, Archives and Information Services department at IHLIA LGBTI Heritage in Amsterdam since 2021. Since January 2025, he has been leading the German Homosaurus Working Group, which aims to translate the Homosaurus, an international linked-data thesaurus for queer terms, into German.
Hannes Hacke (he/him) is co-project lead of the collaborative project “LGBTIQ+ Movements and Democracy: History, Present and Future”, a joint initiative by QueerSearch and three university partners. His work focuses on collections, documentation and exhibitions relating to LGBTIQ+ history, as well as participatory museum work.
Janika Seitz (she/her) lives in Berlin; she studied literature and cultural studies, followed by digital data management. Today, she works with a focus on open data and digitisation in the GLAM sector. She has a particular interest in digital cataloguing data: she founded the Data Working Group and is part of the project team that developed the prototype for the QueerSearch research platform.
Linda Strehl (she/her) studied Classical Philology and Book Studies and works as a freelance editor specialising in non-fiction and specialist books. Since 2012, she has worked as an archivist at the Forum Queeres Archiv München e.V. (FQAM) and served on the board from 2021 to 2025. Her main responsibilities include coordinating archival work, cataloguing and documenting written materials and media, Munich’s LGBTIQ* urban history, and conducting guided tours of the archive.
Philipp Hofstetter (he/him), completed his PhD at the University of Zurich and works as a historian in the fields of economic, social and cultural history. Among other things, he conducts research on the body and sexualities. In addition to applied research, he is active in cultural mediation. He has been contributing his experience as a trained archivist to the board of the Schwulenarchiv Schweiz since 2017.
Roman Aaron Klarfeld (he/him) is a historian and academic documentarian. He has been working at the FFBIZ – das feministische Archiv in Berlin since 2011, and has served as project manager there since 2012. To date, he has researched and published on social movements, anti-Semitism and gender, research into female perpetrators, and queer practices. He is currently studying archival science part-time at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.
Thomas Tretzmüller (he/him) studied history and German language and literature in Vienna and Berlin. He has been a member of staff at Qwien – Zentrum für queere Kultur und Geschichte in Vienna since 2018 and has been head of the library and archive there since 2021.