Judith Albrecht received her Master’s degree in Social Anthropology, Latin American Studies and Sociology at the Freie Universität in Berlin and holds a phd in Social-and Cultural Anthropology. 

In 2002 she joined the Master class  in Documentary Filmmaking at  Filmwerkstatt Münster.

Since 2003 she has worked as a Social and Visual Anthropologist and freelance documentary filmmaker in Germany and abroad, lecturing at a number of different universities and colleges (Freie Universität Berlin, Ruhr Universität, TaSuBa College Bagamoyo (Tanzania), Webster University Vienna, FÜAK Hamburg,The Vienna Intercultural and international Summer- University,  University of Münster, Leuphana University Lübeck, HMKW University of applied science Berlin).

She did research in Tansania, Iran, Libya, Germany and the United States and  has dealt in various ways with social and political upheavals and their effects on life stories and biographies.  

Her thematic focuses are gender, conflict, violence, trauma, memory, social movements, migration and diaspora. She is the co-founder of the AG “Deutsch im Asyl” (German in Asylum) and Memos, an NGO for culture of remembrance on crises and conflicts. From 2015 to 2020, she worked in collaboration with the victims’ institution, the federal association ANUAS e:V. on a research study on “Trauma, Grief and Social Justice  in Germany”.

She is one of the chief editors oft the multilingual blog and magazine encounter (www.encounter-blog. com) and one of the spokes person of the AG Public Anthropology (www.publicanthropology.de).