Eva-Maria too

Eva-Maria Auch (born September 21, 1955 in Lutherstadt Eisleben ) is a German professor and author who deals with Eastern European history, religion and politics. Since 2010 she has held the endowed chair “History of Azerbaijan” at the Institute for History at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

biography

Eva-Maria Auch was born in 1955 in Lutherstadt Eisleben . In Baku she studied Arabic and Islamic Studies, in Leipzig she also completed an additional diploma as a translator into Russian. 1985 followed a doctorate in the subject of modern and recent history at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald (EMAU), topic was "Historical conditions, course and results of the Libyan Fatih revolution with special consideration of Islam in the social conception and domestic politics of its executives ( 1969–1983) ".

In 1991 she obtained the license to teach Eastern European History at EMAU Greifswald. In 1999 she received an honorary doctorate from Baku Western University . Her habilitation in the subject of Eastern European history followed in 2000, as was the award of the Venia legendi and the appointment as a private lecturer. She then worked at the universities of Münster , Düsseldorf , Tübingen , Gießen and Bonn .

In 2010 she became professor for “History of Azerbaijan” at the Institute for History at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Since her position is funded by the Azerbaijani embassy, ​​Eva-Maria Auch has come under fire for being too close to the Azerbaijani regime.

Works (selection)

Monographs

• "Eternal Fire" in Azerbaijan. A country between perestroika, civil war and independence (= reports of the Federal Institute for East Scientific and International Studies , 1992,8). BOIS, Bonn 1992.
• Azerbaijan. Democracy as a utopia? (= Reports of the Federal Institute for Eastern Scientific and International Studies , 1994,33). BOIS, Bonn 1994.
• Oil and wine in the Caucasus. German explorers, colonists and entrepreneurs in pre-revolutionary Azerbaijan . Reichert, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-89500-236-4 .
• Muslim, subject, citizen. Identity change in social transformation processes in the Muslim eastern provinces of the South Caucasus . Reichert, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-89500-237-2 .
• Historical prerequisites, course and results of the Libyan Fatih Revolution with special consideration of the social conception and domestic politics of its leaders (1969–1983) . Dissertation, University of Greifswald 1984.
• The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1918–1920). The first year in documents. Publishing house Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-339-10746-6 (print), ISBN 978-3-339-10747-3 .
• Germans in the multicultural environment of the South Caucasus. Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-95650-240-8 .
• Muslim-Azerbaijani elites in the Karabakh region between modernization and political upheaval. Science Development Foundation, Baku 2017, ISBN 978-9952-516-06-7 .
• German winemakers in the multicultural environment of Azerbaijan. Memories of Julius Vohrer (1887–1979). Gebrüder Vohrer, Berlin 2011, ISBN / EAN: 978-3-98143840-6.

Editor

• Habitat and conflict area in the Caucasus. Common life worlds and political visions of the Caucasian peoples in the past and present . Edition Barkau, Großbarkau 1996, ISBN 3-928326-11-2 .
• “Barbarians” and “White Devils”. Cultural Conflicts and Imperialism in Asia from the 18th to the 20th Century . Schöningh, Paderborn 1997, ISBN 3-506-70402-8 .

Essays

• Choral singing in the historical context of cultural topographies of layers of identity and development problems in civil society. The view of Eastern European history . In: Erik Fischer (Red.): Choral singing as a medium of interculturality. Forms, channels, discourses . Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, pp. 369-377, ISBN 978-3-515-09011-7 .
• Between adaptation and cultural self-assertion. Beginning of a new search for identity among Azerbaijani intellectuals and the emergence of a new public using the example of theater and music between 1875 and 1905 . In: Azerbaijan Research Yearbook. Contributions from politics, economics, history and literature , Vol. 2 (2008), pp. 119–147, ISSN  1864-1679 .
• Between vines, copper mines and drilling rigs. German traces in Azerbaijan . In: Ingrid Pfluger-Schindlbeck (Ed.): Azerbaijan, Land of Fire. History and culture in the Caucasus . Reimer, Berlin 2008, pp. 147–172, ISBN 978-3-496-02820-8 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Ethnological Museum Berlin, August 27 to November 16, 2008).

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva-Maria Also in the catalog of the German National Library
• Eva-Maria Also at the Humboldt University in Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Not the pure teaching . In: zeit.de .