André Raatzsch is a PhD candidate in Art History at Philipps University Marburg and a research associate in the project “Pictorial Narration and Visual Staging of Antiziganist Motifs (1848 –1930)” within the interdisciplinary DFG Research Group “Antiziganism and Ambivalence in Europe (1850–  1950)”.
 

From 2016 to 2025, he was a research associate at the Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg. Between 2015 and 2019, he served as curator and project director of the “Politics of Photography” section at RomArchive – The Digital Archive of the Roma.

 

His research focuses on postcolonial image politics, visual representation, and transcultural concepts of archives and collections.