Heidi Hein-Kircher

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Heidi Hein-Kircher (2017)

Heidi Hein-Kircher (* 1969 in Mettmann ) is a German historian with a focus on East Central Europe .

Education and professional career

From 1989 to 1994 Heidi Hein-Kircher studied Eastern European , Middle and Modern History, Political Science and Yiddish Studies at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . After research in Warsaw , Krakow and New York was in 2000 with the work of The Pilsudski cult and its importance for the Polish government from 1926 to 1939 in Dusseldorf doctorate . From 2000 to 2008 she was a lecturer at the Working Group on Social Pedagogy and Society Education in Düsseldorf and from 2002 to 2003 she was a research assistant at Heinrich Heine University, where she held lectures from 1996 to 2007 . In 2003 she became a research assistant at the Herder Institute , and in 2009 she took over the management of the Science Forum department. In addition, she has been holding courses in the history and cultural studies department of the Philipps University of Marburg since 2004 . In 2018 she completed her habilitation at the Philipps University of Marburg. The title of her habilitation thesis is Lemberg Secure. Local political practices, strategies and visions in a multiethnic city of the Habsburg monarchy.

Heidi Hein-Kircher's research interests are the history of East Central Europe, especially Poland in the 19th and 20th centuries, security and conflict history, urban history in Eastern Europe, national and regional identities and the history of the Jews in Eastern Europe. She also conducts research on political cults, myths and cultures of remembrance and is co-editor of the Journal for East Central Europe Research and the New Perspective on Central and Eastern European Studies series of the Herder Institute.

Committees and memberships

  • Association of Eastern European Historians (VOH): Deputy Chairwoman
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde eV (DGO): Co-Spokesperson for the History Section

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The Piłsudski cult and its significance for the Polish state 1926–1939 (= materials and studies on East Central Europe research. Volume 9). Herder Institute publishing house, Marburg 2002 (Polish edition: Kult Piłsudskiego i jego znaczenie dla państwa polskiego 1926–1939. Neriton, Warsaw 2008).

Editorships

  • Together with Liliya Berezhnaja (Ed.): Rampart Nations. Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism. Berghahn Books, New York / Oxford 2019.
  • Together with Martin Zückert (Ed.): Migration and Landscape Transformation. Changes in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th Century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Munich 2016.
  • Together with Ilgvars Misāns (ed.): City history of the Baltic or Baltic city history? Approaching a new field of research on Baltic history (= conferences on East Central European research. Volume 33). Herder Institute, Marburg 2015.
  • Together with Benno Ennker (ed.): The leader in Europe of the 20th century (= conferences on East Central Europe research. Volume 27). Herder Institute, Marburg 2010.
  • Together with Hans Henning Hahn (Ed.): Political Myths in the 19th and 20th Centuries in Central and Eastern Europe (= conferences on East Central Europe research. Volume 24). Herder Institute, Marburg 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heidi Hein-Kircher: On the interplay between missed consolidation, criticism of democracy and discourses of securitization in the Second Republic of Poland (1918 to 1926). TU Dresden, accessed on February 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hein-Kircher, Heidi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian with a focus on East Central Europe
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Mettmann