Jochen Hellbeck

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Jochen Hellbeck (* 1966 in Bonn ) is a German Eastern European historian.

Hellbeck studied history and Slavic studies in Bonn , Berlin , Leningrad , Bloomington and New York . Since 2003 he has been an associate professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA . His research focuses on the cultural, political and intellectual history of the Soviet Union , in particular during the Second World War and the Cold War . His analysis of hundreds of interviews with Red Army soldiers on the Battle of Stalingrad (1942/43) , presented under the title The Stalingrad Protocols 2012, met with a wide reception.

Fonts

  • Diary from Moscow 1931–1939 . Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag (dtv), Munich 1996, ISBN 3-423-02971-4
  • Autobiographical practices in Russia [= Autobiographical practices in Russia]. Unipress, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89971-192-0 .
  • Revolution on My Mind. Writing a Diary under Stalin . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2006
  • The Stalingrad Protocols. Soviet eyewitnesses report from the battle. Translation of the minutes from Russian by Christiane Körner and Annelore Nitschke. S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-030213-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jochen Hellbeck's employee page at Rutgers University
  2. ↑ Michael Sontheimer: When the earth breathed fire. How did Soviet soldiers experience the battle for Stalingrad? Were they really forced to fight at the front by force of arms? A German historian has now evaluated hundreds of interviews with Red Army soldiers . In: Der Spiegel No. 43/2012 of October 22, 2012, pp. 48–52; "And no water, nothing". The battle for Stalingrad escalated 70 years ago. So far unknown Soviet eyewitness accounts document how she devastated people and the city . In: Tages-Anzeiger , November 1, 2012; The Stalingrad Protocols. A book presentation by Ingrid Strobel ( Memento from November 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) . In: WDR 3 , from November 9, 2012. “ Don't step back! “ Interview by Christian Staas with Hellbeck. In: Die Zeit of Nov. 25, 2012; Jörg R. Mettke: How Russians experienced the Battle of Stalingrad . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 286 of December 11, 2012, p. 17; Hans Mommsen : Stalingrad protocols - witnesses to a world crime. The American historian Jochen Hellbeck found unpublished eyewitness accounts by Soviet soldiers and translated them into German. They correct the picture of Russian warfare . In: Die Welt , December 11, 2012.
  3. ↑ Julia Herzberg : Review of: Hellbeck, Jochen: Revolution on My Mind. Writing a Diary under Stalin. Cambridge 2006 , in: H-Soz-u-Kult , February 20, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Hellbeck, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Eastern European historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn