Florian Kührer-Wielach

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Florian Kührer-Wielach (born March 27, 1982 in Horn / Lower Austria) is an Austrian contemporary and Eastern European historian .

Life

Kührer-Wielach studied history and Romance studies in Vienna and Cluj-Napoca / Klausenburg from 2002 to 2008 . From 2009 to 2012 he was an assistant at the initiative group “European historical dictatorship and transformation research” at the University of Vienna (speaker: Oliver Rathkolb ), then a scholarship holder at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz. In 2013, with a thesis on Romania in the interwar period at the University of Vienna, he was awarded a Dr. phil. doctorate (supervisor: Oliver Jens Schmitt ) and took up a position as a research assistant at the Institute for German Culture and History of Southeast Europe at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (IKGS), of which he has been director since 2015. He is a member of the board of the Working Group for Transylvanian Cultural Studies (AKSL) and the Commission for the History and Culture of Germans in Southeast Europe (KGKDS).

Kührer-Wielach researches regionality and regionalism as well as the history of transformation in the 19th and 20th centuries in Central and Southeastern Europe; Minorities in and from the Danube-Carpathian region, in particular on the history of the German or German-speaking groups of the Danube Monarchy; Confessionalization and confessionalism; National Socialism and its continuities after 1945; Secret service files and coming to terms with communism; Imagology of the "East".

He is editor of the magazine “Spiegelungen. Journal for German Culture and History of Southeast Europe ”and“ Half-year publication for history and current affairs in Central and Southeast Europe ”as well as co-editor of the academic book series“ Publications of the Institute for German Culture and History of Southeast Europe at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich ”.

Awards

  • 2014: Richard G. Plaschka Prize
  • 2014: Grete Mostny dissertation award
  • 2015: Danubius Young Scientist Award
  • 2015: Research achievement award of the Scientia Fund

Publications (selection)

Monographs
  • Vampires. Monster myth media star. Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker 2010. (non-fiction book)
  • Transylvania without Transylvanians? Central state integration and political regionalism after the First World War. De Gruyter Oldenbourg Publisher: Munich 2014 (Southeast European Works 153).
Editorships
  • Transformation in East Central Europe. 1918 and 1989 - a Comparative Approach. Special issue of the European Review of History, Volume 23, 2016 - Issue 4. Ed. With Sarah Lemmen.
  • Mother: Country - Father: State. Conflicts of loyalty, political reorientation and the First World War in the Austro-Russian border area. Verlag Friedrich Pustet: Regensburg 2017. Ed. With Markus Winkler.
  • Orthodoxa Confessio? Confession formation, confessionalization and their consequences in Eastern Christianity in Europe. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen 2018. Ed. With Mihai-D. Grigore.
  • Between grief and triumph. The year 1918 in Central European literature. Verlag Friedrich Pustet: Regensburg 2018. Ed. With Peter Becher.
  • From the poison cupboards of communism. Methodological questions on dealing with surveillance files in Central and Southeastern Europe. Verlag Friedrich Pustet: Regensburg 2018. Ed. With Michaela Nowotnick.
  • Apartment block blues with a shepherd's flute. Tell Romania anew. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach: Berlin 2018 (WAT 794). Edited with Michaela Nowotnick. (Anthology).
  • Look into the unknown. Visions and utopias in the Danube-Carpathian region. 1917 and after. Verlag Friedrich Pustet: Regensburg 2019. Ed. With Angela Ilić, Irena Samide, Tanja Žigon.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard G. Plaschka Prize [1]
  2. ↑ Grete Mostny Dissertation Prize [2]
  3. ↑ Danubius Young Scientist Award [3]
  4. ↑ Research performance award of the Scientia Fund [4]
personal data
SURNAME Kührer-Wielach, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH horn