Susanne Schattenberg

Susanne Schattenberg (born June 24, 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German historian and director of the Research Center for Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen .

biography

Schattenberg studied history, Slavic studies and psychology at the universities of Hamburg , Leningrad and Konstanz from 1988 to 1995 .

From 1995 to 1996, Schattenberg worked at the House of History in Bonn. In 1999 she received her doctorate at the European University Viadrina on “Stalin's Engineers” and then worked as a research assistant at the University of Erlangen as part of the DFG project “Civil servants and officers. The Identity of Russian Public Servants in the First Half of the 19th Century ”at the Center for Contemporary Historical Research in Potsdam and at the Chair for the History of Eastern Europe at Berlin's Humboldt University . In 2006 she completed her habilitation there with a thesis on Russian officials in the 19th century. In 2007/2008 she took on a substitute professorship for Eastern European history at the University of Jena and the University of Freiburg .

Since 2008, Susanne Schattenberg has been Director of the Research Center for Eastern Europe and Professor of Contemporary History and Culture in Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen.

Memberships, advisory boards

• Associate Editor at Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
• Co-editor of Dokupedia
• Member of the ProFiL network - professionalization for women in research and teaching
• 2003–2008 member of the Eastern Europe editorial team at H-Soz-u-Kult
• Member of the program advisory board for the conferences of German research on Poland

Publications

Biographies

• Leonid Brezhnev . Statesman and actor in the shadow of Stalin. A biography. Böhlau, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50209-6 .

Monographs

• The Corrupt Province? Russian officials in the 19th century . Historical studies. Ed .: Rebekka Habermas et al., Frankfurt am Main 2008.
• Stalin's engineers. Living worlds between technology and terror in the 1930s . Studies on the history of ideas in modern times. Ed .: Dietrich Beyrau et al., Vol. 11, Munich 2002.

Editorships

• with Iris Schröder and Jan-Holger Kirsch: Zeithistorische Forschungen 8 (2011), Volume 3: International orders and new universalisms in the 20th century .
• with Martin Sabrow : The last general secretaries. Communist rule in late socialism . (= Communism and Society. Series of the Center for Contemporary Historical Research Potsdam Volume 8 ). Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-028-5 (special edition for the state centers for political education)

Articles in magazines and edited volumes

• From Chruscev to Gorbacev - The Soviet Union between reform and collapse . In: NPL (2010) 2, pp. 255-284
• The power of protocol and the impotence of the Ottomans . On the Berlin Congress in 1878. In: External relations in an actor-related perspective . Ed .: Christian Windler and Hillard von Thiessen, Cologne 2010, pp. 373-390.
• The fear of humiliation. The U2 crisis and the end of détente . In: Fear in the Cold War . Ed .: Bernd Greiner et al., Hamburg 2009, pp. 220-251.
• The fear of humiliation of the superpower Soviet Union or: The U2 crisis and the end of détente . In: Politics of Fear in the Cold War . Ed .: Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Hamburg 2009.
• Diplomacy of the dictators. A cultural history of the Hitler-Stalin Pact . In: Eastern Europe. Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens No. 59, 2009, 7/8, pp. 7–32.
• The honor of the officials or: Why the public servants were not corrupt. Patronage in the Russian provincial administration in the 19th century . In: Andreas Fahrmeir , Alexander Nützenadel , Jens Ivo Engels (Ed.): Money - Gifts - Politics. Corruption in Modern Europe. Supplement to the Historical Journal No. 48, Munich 2009, pp. 203–227.
• Neither a despot nor a bureaucrat. The Russian governor in the pre-reform period . In: Imperial rule in the province. Representations of political power in the late empire . Ed .: Jörg Baberowski, David Feest and Christoph Gumb, Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 81–101.
• The diplomat as an actor on a great stage before the whole people? A cultural history of diplomacy and the peace negotiations of Portsmouth in 1905 . In: The Diplomats' World. A Cultural History of Diplomacy , 1815–1914, ed .: Markus Mösslang and Torsten Riotte, Oxford 2008.
• The Language of Diplomacy or The Miracle of Portsmouth . Reflections on a cultural history of foreign policy. In: Year books for the history of Eastern Europe 56 (2008) 1, pp. 3–26.
• Conversation between two deaf mutes? The culture of Chruščev's foreign policy and Adenauer's trip to Moscow in 1955 . In: Eastern Europe. Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens , 2007, 7, pp. 27–46.
• Corrupt Russia? Russian administrative culture in the 19th century . In: European history portal , published in May 2007
• Democracy 'or' Despotism '? How the Secret Speech was Translated into Everyday Life . In: Jones, Polly, Ed .: Dilemmas of Destalinization. Negotiating Cultural and Social Change in the Khrushchev Era, London 2006, pp. 64-79.
• The thing about Khrushchev's shoe . In: THEN . The magazine for history and culture 37 (2005) 10, pp. 8–11.
• Kultura korrupcii ili K istorii rossijskich činovnikov ; [The Culture of Corruption or The History of Russian Officials] . In: NZ - Neprikosnovennyj zapas 4 (2005) 42, pp. 29-35.
• Stalinism in the mind. Engineers build their world . In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 30 (2004) 1, pp. 94–117.

Web links

• Homepage of Susanne Schattenberg at the Research Center for Eastern Europe
• Literature by and about Susanne Schattenberg in the catalog of the German National Library