The German Titanic Association
The Deutsche Titanic-Verein von 1997 e.V. is a non-profit association that was founded in 1997. Its aim is to provide a platform in German-speaking countries to increase knowledge about the Titanic and shipping in general and to facilitate an exchange of ideas between like-minded people.
Members of the association come from Germany and abroad. Members receive the association magazine "Der Navigator" four times a year, which contains a wide range of articles on around 60 pages each. A Titanic weekend is organized every year, during which the annual general meeting also takes place. It offers a varied program with a focus on Titanic or related topics and brings club members into contact with each other. Members are advised and supported in their Titanic research. Members' trips to Titanic-related locations or events are also part of club life.
The German Titanic Association has been an official partner of Titanic exhibitions in German-speaking countries since 2007.
Further information at: www.titanicverein.de
Malte Fiebing-Petersen
Malte Fiebing-Petersen is accompanying the exhibition "Titanic: An Immersive Journey" as a scientific advisor. He is considered one of Germany's leading Titanic experts.
He was infected with the "Titanic virus" at the age of ten when he read Walter Lord's book "The Last Night of the Titanic" for the first time, motivated by the reporting on the sinking of the Baltic ferry Estonia. By the time he visited the first major artifact exhibition in Hamburg's Speicherstadt in 1997/98 at the latest, he was completely hooked on the subject of the Titanic and there was no stopping him. He began networking with other "Titanicists" and finally joined the German Titanic Association in 2001 and became a member of other Titanic associations around the world. Fiebing-Petersen began to do more and more research of his own, compiling information and clarifying contradictions. Contact with the survivors in particular (the last one died in 2009) was always a major concern for him. Several trips to the stations that are interwoven with the history of the Titanic have constantly given rise to new questions.
After graduating from high school, Fiebing-Petersen began his studies in German and history. In 2007, he accompanied the artifacts exhibition "Titanic - Invitation to a Journey Through Time" as a scientific advisor. This was followed by further exhibitions in Germany and Austria. In 2012, to mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster, he published his research findings on the German feature film from 1943 in book form (title: "TITANIC (1943) - Die Nazis und das berühmteste Schiff der Welt"). This was followed at the end of April 2024 by his second Titanic book, "Titanic - Popular Fallacies and Other Truths", which met with great interest among experts.
He has been a member of the board of the German Titanic Association since 2005. He prefers to spend his free time on the seven seas. He has traveled to pretty much every corner of the globe and is happy to pass on his knowledge of the country and its people as a lecturer on cruise ships. First employed as a teacher, then as a head teacher, he now works full-time as the regional manager of a youth welfare organization responsible for children's homes and schools in Schleswig-Holstein.
