Bodo Mrozek

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Bodo Mrozek at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011

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 In it he gathers outdated words and explains their history pointedly in a partly linguistic and partly columnist way.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

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ Visiting scholar (Berlin / Munich) on the website of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Competition awards "Cheese Hedgehog" for threatened word , tagesschau.de , December 18, 2006 (archive).
  5. ↑ Thomas Hecken, “Pop. Culture and Criticism «. Topics, orientation, editors and advisory boards of the journal on the journal website, March 8, 2013.
  6. ^ Penn UP, "Perspectives on Sensory History." Advisory Board on the side of the series.
personal data
SURNAME Mrozek, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin