Claudia Weber (historian)

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Claudia Weber (* 1969 in Guben ) is a German historian and has been Professor of Contemporary European History at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder) since 2014 .

Life

After studying to be a teacher at the University of Education in Leipzig from 1987 to 1991, which she completed with the first state examination for teaching at secondary schools, Weber studied Southern Slavic , political science and Eastern European studies at the University of Leipzig until 1996 , with a master’s degree . In 1998 she obtained a Master of Arts degree from the Contemporary History Institute of Ohio University in Athens . After research stays in Bulgaria, Weber received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 2003 with a study on the symbolism of monuments and the national culture of remembrance in Bulgaria from 1878-1944 . From 2003 to 2007 she was a research assistant at the History Department of the University of Leipzig. She then worked as a research assistant at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research until 2014 .

Weber has been Professor of European Contemporary History at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt an der Oder since December 2014 , where she works on the Zeitlandschaften project . Leads transnational discourses on the past and future plans at the end of the Cold War and has been Vice President for Research and Young Scientists since September 2015. Weber's research interests include the history of violence and dictatorship in the 20th century, the cultural history of the Cold War and the comparative history of empires.

Weber writes and reviews in the journals Year Books for the History of Eastern Europe , New Political Literature (NPL), the Bavarian Yearbook for Folklore, as well as the historical Internet portal H-Soz-u-Kult and the British literary magazine Times Literary Supplement .

Publications (selection)

Monographs / editorships

  • In search of the nation. Culture of remembrance in Bulgaria 1878–1944. Lit, Berlin / Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-8258-7736-1 (also: Leipzig, University, dissertation, 2003).
  • Ed. (Together with Bernd Greiner , Christian Th. Müller ): Economy in the Cold War . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2010. Online edition 2012. ISBN 978-3-86854-519-7 .
  • Ed. (Together with Bernd Greiner, Tim B. Müller): Power and Spirit in the Cold War . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86854-237-0 .
  • War of the perpetrators. The Katyn mass shootings . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86854-286-8 .
  • The pact. Stalin, Hitler and the story of a murderous alliance 1939–1941 . CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73531-8 . (Review in MDR Kultur by Stefan Nölke)

Essays

  • Against my better judgment. The Silence of the Western Allies on Katyń . In: Eastern Europe . Volume 59, 2009, No. 7/8, pp. 227-247.
  • The Export of Terror - on the Impact of the Stalinist Culture of Terror on Soviet Foreign Policy during and after World War II. In: Journal of Genocide Research. Volume 11, 2009, No. 2/3, pp. 285-306.
  • Disturbing memory. Stalinism in Europe's memory. In: Yearbook for Historical Research on Communism . Structure, Berlin 2012, pp. 341–356.
  • The Katyń Mass Shootings in World War II and Cold War history. In: Anna Kaminsky (ed.): Places of remembrance for the victims of Katyń. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2013, pp. 41–60.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The Pact" When Stalin and Hitler cooperated. August 24, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Guben