Bodo Mrozek
Bodo Mrozek (* 1968 in Berlin ) is a German historian and author . Since February 2019 he has been a fellow at the Berlin Cold War College.
Life
Mrozek studied history , literature and political science in Berlin and Amsterdam .
During his studies he wrote as a journalist for national daily newspapers. He was a generalist for dpa and the Berlin pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , features editor at Tagesspiegel and wrote a column on conceptual history for Spiegel Online . He also worked as a copywriter for journals and magazines. Bodo Mrozek's two-volume bestseller Lexicon of Threatened Words became better known . In it he gathers outdated words and explains their history pointedly in a partly linguistic and partly columnist way.
As a historian, Mrozek works on topics of contemporary history and cultural history . He was a scholarship holder of the German Historical Institutes in Washington , London and Paris , at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and a research fellow at the Center for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF) and the Humboldt University in Berlin . Mrozek is co-editor of a two-volume pop story. In his research monograph Youth - Pop - Culture. A transnational story , he analyzes the change from the criminalization of an internationalized youth culture to a pop culture across all classes and ages against strong national cultural resistance. In the 2018 summer semester, he took over the chair for theory and history of popular music at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Bodo Mrozek lives in Berlin .
Offices
In a language competition for the most beautiful threatened word , Mrozek presided over a jury (including the writers Jakob Hein and Eva Menasse ). He was a member of the jury for the strangest book title and has been a member of the central jury of the Federal President's history competition since 2009 . He is a member of the scientific advisory board of Pop magazine . Culture and Criticism and the Perspectives on Sensory History series (Pennsylvania State University Press).
Fonts
- Youth - Pop - Culture. A transnational history (= Suhrkamp Taschenbuchwissenschaft , Volume 2237). Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-29837-4 .
- with annette hollywood : The Art Song Collection . argobooks, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-942700-46-7 .
- The great lexicon of threatened words . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2008, ISBN 3-499-62447-8 .
- Lexicon of threatened words II . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006, ISBN 3-499-62193-2 .
- Lexicon of threatened words . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2005, ISBN 3-499-62077-4 .
as editor
- with Alexa Geisthövel: Pop history. Volume 1: Concepts and Methods . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2528-8 .
- with Alexa Geisthövel and Jürgen Danyel: Popgeschichte. Volume 2: Case studies of contemporary history 1958–1988 . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2529-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Bodo Mrozek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Vita and list of publications at the Center for Research on Contemporary History
- Vita and selection of publications on the website of the Humboldt University of Berlin
- Bodo Mrozek on Academia.edu
- Author's website at Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's website at transcript Verlag
- Contributions by Bodo Mrozek in contemporary historical research
- Deutschlandfunk essay and discourse from September 29, 2019: From Anywheres and Somewheres. On the criticism of the popular enemy image of the "cosmopolitan elite"
Remarks
- ↑ Visiting scholar (Berlin / Munich) on the website of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin
- ↑ In addition u. a. Web video: Bodo Mrozek in conversation with Annika Kipp about threatened words ( memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); Bodo Mrozek in an interview with taz , December 6, 2005; Bodo Mrozek in an interview with Radio Corax .
- ↑ See u. a. History of pop culture: When the police reporter had to go to the concert , interview with Bodo Mrozek, Spiegel Online , April 10, 2019.
- ↑ Competition awards "Cheese Hedgehog" for threatened word , tagesschau.de , December 18, 2006 (archive).
- ↑ Thomas Hecken, “Pop. Culture and Criticism «. Topics, orientation, editors and advisory boards of the journal on the journal website, March 8, 2013.
- ^ Penn UP, "Perspectives on Sensory History." Advisory Board on the side of the series.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mrozek, Bodo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian, author and journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |