Eva Hahn

Eva Hahn (* 1946 in Prague as Eva Schmidtová ) is a German-Czech historian with a focus on Bohemian Studies and German-Czech relations.

Life

In 1968 she fled Czechoslovakia and has lived in the Federal Republic of Germany ever since . Until 1993 she published under the name Eva Schmidt-Hartmann (Eva Hartmann). In the Czech Republic she is also called Eva Hahnová .

Eva Hahn studied at the universities in Prague (before 1968), Stuttgart (after 1968) and at the LSE (doctorate in 1981 with Ernest Gellner ).

1981 to 1999 she was a research assistant at the Collegium Carolinum in the Sudeten German House in Munich , research center for Bohemian countries. She edited & a. the journal Bohemia and the Biographical Lexicon on the History of the Bohemian Lands . In April 1999 she published her article German Bohemian Studies - Seen from the Outside ; immediately afterwards she was dismissed from the Collegium Carolinum without notice.

She lives and works with her husband Hans Henning Hahn , professor for Eastern European history at the University of Oldenburg , in Apen near Oldenburg .

Scientific and journalistic work

Her first publications deal critically with the domestic political practices and decisions of the Czechoslovak governments during the Second World War (in exile) and in the immediate post-war period, as well as with the political thinking of the first Czechoslovak President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk . Subsequently, in numerous publications in German, Czech and English, she subjected the Czech memory of the expulsion to a detailed critical analysis. In the 1990s she edited several academic anthologies, including on the theory and history of nationalism, interpretations of communism and the history of Czech images of Europe. Since 1990, her journalistic activities include articles that she writes for the Prague newspaper Lidové noviny . Since 2001 she has been working intensively on the German memory of the expulsion.

bibliography

• Eva Hahn: Sudetoněmecký Problem: obtížné loučení s minulostí (Sudeten German Problem: Difficult Farewell to the Past) , Prague 1995/1996, Aussig 1999
• Eva and Hans-Henning Hahn: Flight and Expulsion , in Etienne François, Hagen Schulze (eds.): German places of memory 1 , CH Beck, Munich 2001, pp. 335–351.
• Eva and Hans-Henning Hahn: Sudetoněmecká vzpomínání a zapomínání (Sudeten German remembering and forgetting) , Votobia, Prague 2002, ISBN 80-7220-117-4 .
• Eva and Hans Henning Hahn: The expulsion in German memory. Legends, myths, history . Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-77044-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva Hahn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature and other media by and about Eva Hahn in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
• bohemistik.de own websites by Eva Hahn (and Hans Henning Hahn)
  • to and from Eva Hahn
  • Center against evictions
  • "Historical Stereotype Research" (AHS)
• Hans-Henning and Eva Hahn: For more remembering without a center against expulsions , Press Service Uni Oldenburg, May 4, 2005
• Publications by and about Eva Hahn at Litdok East Central Europe / Herder Institute (Marburg)

items

• Article by Eva Hahn , Hans Henning Hahn on the Britské listy web (in Czech):
  • O Češích, jejich sousedech a odsunu (About the Czechs, their neighbors and deportation ) , August 26, 2003
  • Historický místopis (sudeto) německých vzpomínek (Historical Topography of the (Sudeten) German Memories) , June 5, 2003
  • Edvard Beneš a jeho dekrety - (sudeto) německý Problem ( Edvard Beneš and his decrees - a (Sudeten) German problem) , July 11, 2002
• The "Czech Question" from Masaryk to Havel , www.demokratiezentrum.org (German; PDF; 110 kB)
• Martin D. Brown and Eva Hahn: Sudeten Dialogues , Central Europe Review , May 7, 2001
• Eva and Hans Henning Hahn:
  • “We want to go home to the Reich!” - The Sudeten German Landsmannschaft and its unexplained tradition , Die Zeit , 08/2002
  • The German minority in the Czech Republic faces the election , landeszeitung.cz 13/04

Individual evidence

1. ^ Collegium Carolinum: Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Countries
2. ^ Eva Hahn: Put up for discussion - Eastern European research in transition The German Bohemian Studies - seen from the outside , Eastern Europe. Journal for contemporary issues in the East. Published by the German Society for Eastern European Studies, 4/1999, pp. 387–396.
3. ^ Collegium Carolinum - termination without notice on April 22, 1999: Support Eva Hahn and the academic freedom! ( Memento of July 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (ad-financed) - The information about the entire relevant dispute can be found in the magazine Osteuropa. Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens 1999 can be read. The reason for the dismissal can be found in the following article: Ferdinand Seibt: German Bohemian Studies from Inside. A reply to Eva Hahn: Bohemian Studies from the Outside , in: Osteuropa , 6/1999, pp. 630–634. Immediate response in detail appeared in: Eva Hahn: Deutsche Bohemistik - wie? , in: Osteuropa 9/1999, pp. 957-974.
4. ^ Eva Hartmann: Domestic political prerequisites for the coming to power of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia. In: Bohemia . Volume 19, 1978, pp. 197-246 (digitized version ) .
5. ^ Eva Schmidt-Hartmann: Thomas G. Masaryk's Realism: Origins of a Czech Political Concept 1882-1914. Munich 1984.
6. ↑ Eva Schmidt-Hartmann (Ed.): Forms of national consciousness in the light of contemporary theories of nationalism. Munich 1994.
7. ^ Eva Schmidt-Hartmann (Ed.): Communism in Eastern Europe. Interpretations through the ages. Munich 1994.
8. ↑ Eva Hahnová (ed.): Evropa očima Čechů. Prague 1997.
9. ^ Book review by Christian Domnitz: Eva Hahnová / Hans Henning Hahn: Sudetoněmecká vzpomínání a zapomínání , Sehepunkte 4/04, April 15, 2004.