Andreas Margara

Andreas Margara (* 1983 in Heidelberg ) is a German historian and journalist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Margara studied history , politics and American studies at the universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg . During his studies he sat in with Guido Knopp in the ZDF History editorial team and was a DAAD scholarship holder at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi .

In 2012 his monograph "The American War - Culture of Remembrance in Vietnam" was published, which deals with the coming to terms with the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective.

As a journalist with a focus on the Far East , Margara reported from Southeast Asia for SPIEGEL Online , Die Tageszeitung and on behalf of the Goethe-Institut Jakarta . He was active as a scientific advisor for the German edition of National Geographic .

In 2019 he undertook a film expedition for the ZDF format Terra X as a contemporary history expert in front of the camera. The program "Adventure Vietnam" was broadcast in 2020 on ZDF and Arte .

Margara lives in Mannheim and works as a press officer and lecturer at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg .

Works (selection)

• "The American War: Culture of Remembrance in Vietnam" (monograph), Berlin 2012, ISBN 3940132489

• "Saigon and the Traces of War". In: Waibel, Michael [Ed.], Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Pazifische Studien, Pazifik Forum Volume 14: Ho Chi Minh Mega-city, pp. 13–44, Berlin 2013, ISBN 9783940132550

• "I destroy my enemy" - the evolution of battle rap in Germany . In: SPRACHREPORT issue 4/2018. Published by the Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim, November 26, 2018 (Accessed August 14, 2019)

• "Eat, Spray, Love: This is how young women are changing the graffiti scene in Indonesia" . ze.tt , June 25, 2018 (accessed April 22, 2019)

• "Vietnam reloaded: Tourism on the trail of the war" . In: Geographische Rundschau , Westermann Verlag , February 2016.

• "The Khmer Rouge Tribunal and the Coming to terms with the Genocide in Cambodia" . Heidelberg 2009, GIGA - Leibniz Institute for Global and Regional Studies

• "Graffiti in Indonesia: Colors bloom in the concrete jungle" . In: Pacific Geographies # 53, Hamburg 2020, ISSN 2196-1468

Web links

• "One hour of history" on the invasion of Vietnamese troops in Phnom Penh and the liberation of Cambodia from the Khmer Rouge . Deutschlandfunk Nova , January 4, 2019 (accessed January 21, 2019)

• "Agent Orange. Vietnam's Culture of Remembrance" . SWR2 Readable Feature, October 16, 2017

• "Ambiguity in memory" , Andreas Margara in conversation with Dieter Kassel Deutschlandfunk Kultur , April 30, 2015

• "40 years after the end of the Vietnam War" . Interview with historian Andreas Margara. In: Pacific Geographies No.44, August 2015

• "From the street to the lecture hall" , Mannheimer Morgen . Preliminary report on the Hip-Hop Symposium, November 28, 2018

• Literature by and about Andreas Margara in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Symposium at the Popakademie , Mannheimer Morgen , February 6, 2019 (accessed April 23, 2019)
2. ↑ Oliver Tappe: Review of: Margara, Andreas: The American War. Remembrance culture in Vietnam . Berlin 2012. In: H-Soz-Kult , March 14, 2014
3. ↑ "Where Joan Baez started against US bombs" SPIEGEL Online , December 18, 2016 (accessed April 22, 2019)
4. ^ "Hip-Hop in Vietnam: B-Boy or Die" . Die tageszeitung , January 6, 2014 (accessed April 20, 2019)
5. ↑ Iris Gesang: "Adventure Vietnam" . ZDF / Arte , June 28, 2020 (accessed July 7, 2020)
6. ^ "Mannheim Hip-Hop Symposium" . Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , December 13, 2018 (accessed April 20, 2019)