Alan R. Kramer

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Alan R. Kramer (* 1954 in Cape Town , South Africa) is a German historian .

Life

Alan Kramer is Professor Emeritus of History at Trinity College Dublin , where he taught modern German and European history. He is married to the author Renate Ahrens.

His main research interests are the history of Germany and Europe in the first half of the 20th century, the history of culture and mentality, the history of violence and economic history. Above all, it stands for a transnational approach to the interpretation of military and political violence in the age of the two world wars.

Kramer studied German at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (BA 1977, MA 1979). From 1978 to 1984 he studied history at the University of Hamburg. In 1987 he was awarded a doctorate by Arnold Sywottek with a dissertation on British dismantling policy using the example of Hamburg 1945–1950. phil. PhD.

In 1986/87 he was a lecturer in the Department of History at University College Dublin. Since 1987 he has taught first as a lecturer, then as a senior lecturer, associate professor and since 2008 as a professor with a chair in the Department of History at Trinity College, The University of Dublin until his retirement in autumn 2019. He has been a Fellow of Trinity since 1994 College.

In 1996/97 Kramer was a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. In 1991/92 he was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His host was Wolfgang J. Mommsen at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. Research stay in Rome, 2002/03. In 2015 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's research award, which enabled him to work for a year at the University of Hamburg on the global history of concentration camps (host: Angelika Schaser).

He is co-founder (with Oliver Janz and Ute Daniel ) and general editor from 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War.

In 2018 he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Current research projects:

  • Global history of the concentration camps
  • Blockages in the age of world wars.

Fonts (selection)

  • Monographs
  • British dismantling policy using the example of Hamburg 1945–1950 (= contributions to the history of Hamburg. Volume 40). Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-923356-40-4 (also dissertation, Hamburg 1987).
  • with John Horne : German Atrocities, 1914. A History of Denial . Yale Univ. Press, New Haven and London 2001, ISBN 0-300-08975-9 .
  • In German: German war atrocities 1914. The controversial truth . Translation by Udo Rennert. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2004; Paperback edition with a new foreword on the reception of the book since 2001: Hamburger Edition, 2018. ISBN 978-3-86854-327-8 .
  • In French: 1914. Les Atrocités allemandes . Translation by Hervé-Marie Benoît, Tallandier, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84734-235-4 ; Paperback: Les Atrocités allemandes. La vérité sur les crimes de guerre en France et en Belgique , Tallandier, Paris 2011.
  • Dynamic of Destruction. Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War (= The Making of the Modern World. ) Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-280342-9 . Paperback: Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford et al. 2008, ISBN 0-19-954377-1 .
  • Editorships
  • with Bettina Greiner : World of Bearings. To the "success story" of an institution . Hamburger Ed., Hamburg 2013, ISBN 3-86854-267-1 .
  • with Miguel Alonso and Javier Rodrigo : Fascist Warfare: Aggression, Occupation, Annihilation (1922–1945) , Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2019. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-27648-5
  • Essays
  • Italian prisoners of war in World War I. In: Hermann JW Kuprian, Oswald Übergger (ed.): The First World War in the Alpine region. Experience, interpretation, memory. La Grande Guerre nell'arco alpino. Esperienze e memoria. Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck / Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano 2006, pp. 247-258.
  • German war crimes 1914/1941: continuity or break? In: Sven Oliver Müller, Cornelius Torp (Hrsg.): The German Empire in the controversy . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, pp. 341–356.
  • Ethnic cleansing from World War I to National Socialism . In: Gerd Krumeich (ed.): National Socialism and First World War . Klartext, Essen 2010, pp. 323–345.
  • Blockade and Economic Warfare . In: Jay Winter (Ed.): The Cambridge History of the First World War , Vol. II: The State , Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge 2014, pp. 460-489,
  • Introduction. In: Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, Bill Nasson (eds.): 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Free University of Berlin, 2014. DOI: 10.15463 / ie1418.666.
  • Recent Historiography of the First World War, (Part I). In: Journal of Modern European History, 12, (1), 2014, pp. 5–27.
  • Recent Historiography of the First World War (Part II). In: Journal of Modern European History, 12, (2), 2014, pp. 155–174.
  • "Too early to say?" Centennial perspectives on the First World War . In: Edgar Wolfrum, Odila Triebel, Cord Arendes, Angela Siebold, Joana Duyster Borredà (ed.): European Commemoration: Locating World War I . Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart 2016, pp. 17–30.
  • Who is shooting from ambush here? (with John Horne). In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 1, 2018, p. 14.
  • Introduction: The World of Camps. A Protean Institution in War and Peace. In: Gregor Feindt, Anke Hilbrenner, Dittmar Dahlmann (Eds.): Sport under Unexpected Circumstances: Violence, Discipline, and Leisure in Penal and Internment Camps . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018, pp. 23–40.
  • The Sharp End. Witnessing, Perpetrating, and Suffering Violence in 20th Century Wars . In: Catriona Pennell, Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses (eds.): A World at War, 1911-1949. Explorations in the Cultural History of War , Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2019, pp. 83-107.
  • with Miguel Alonso and Javier Rodrigo: Introduction . In: Miguel Alonso, Alan Kramer, Javier Rodrigo : Fascist Warfare: Aggression, Occupation, Annihilation (1922–1945) , Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2019, pp. 1–23. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-27648-5
  • From Great War to Fascist Warfare. In: Miguel Alonso, Alan Kramer, Javier Rodrigo: Fascist Warfare: Aggression, Occupation, Annihilation (1922–1945) , Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2019, pp. 25–50. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-27648-5
  • Naval Blockade (of Germany) . In: Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, Bill Nasson (eds.): 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War , Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2020-01-22. DOI: 10.15463 / ie1418.11451.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Professor Alan Kramer - Department of History - Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  2. ^ Website of Renate Ahrens. In: Website of Renate Ahrens. Retrieved on March 27, 2020 (German).
  3. ^ TCD - People Finder. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  4. ^ University of Hamburg: Historian Alan R. Kramer conducts research with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Hamburg. October 5, 2015, accessed March 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Contributors | 1914-1918 online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1). Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  6. ^ Member Profile: Alan Kramer. June 22, 2018, accessed March 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Alan R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kramer, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town , South Africa