Christoffer Horlitz
Research Fellow
Christoffer Horlitz is a Mercator Research Fellow with Forensic Architecture.
As an open source researcher, human rights investigator and curator he works on topics such as security, migration and digital human rights. Previously, he worked for Amnesty International, the United Nations and Berlin Social Science Center.
He holds an MA in International Relations from Humboldt University Berlin and studied politics and arts in Leipzig, Paris and New York. His thesis dealt with human rights implications of EU border technology.
- investigations
- Police Violence and Misinformation at the 2025 Nakba Day Protest, Berlin
- German Colonial Genocide in Namibia: Swakopmund
- German Colonial Genocide in Namibia: Shark Island
- Drift-backs in the Aegean Sea
- Restituting Evidence: Genocide and Reparations in German Colonial Namibia
- Racist Terror Attack in Hanau: The Police Operation
- Racist Terror Attack in Hanau: The Arena Bar