Klaus Bachmann

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Klaus Bachmann (born December 12, 1963 in Bruchsal ) is a German journalist , historian , and political scientist . He is the author of many works on German- Polish and Ukrainian- Polish relations and transitional justice as well as a professor of political science at the Uniwersytet SWPS ( University of Social and Humanities ) in Warsaw .

Life

Klaus Bachmann studied Eastern European history and Slavic languages ​​at the universities in Heidelberg , Vienna and Krakow .

After moving to Poland in 1988, he became a correspondent for the German taz as well as the Austrian press and Falter . In 1989 he was given the status of foreign correspondent in Poland, and since 1992 also in Kiev , Minsk and Vilnius . From the mid-1990s he wrote for the ( Tagesspiegel , the Stuttgarter Zeitung , the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung ) and in Poland for the ( Rzeczpospolita , the Polityka and the Tygodnik Powszechny ). In 2000 he received his doctorate from the University of Warsaw on the Polish-Ukrainian conflict in Galicia from 1907 to 1914.

From 2001 he worked for three years in Brussels as a correspondent for German and Austrian newspapers in the Benelux countries . He then completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wroclaw and was appointed head of the Chair of Political Science at the "Center for German and European Studies Willy Brandt" at the University of Wroclaw. In 2004 he was a visiting professor at the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna and in 2008 at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bordeaux . Research stays took him to the Chinese People's University in Beijing and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 2007 and to the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa in 2009 .

Since 2005 he has been a board member of the Stephan Báthory Foundation (Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego), which he was for a year in 2000. He was appointed associate professor at the Warsaw School of Social Psychology in 2006 and was appointed full professor of social sciences in 2013 by President Bronisław Komorowski.

Works (selection)

  • "A hearth of enmity against Russia". Galicia as a hot spot in the relations between the Danube Monarchy and Russia 1907–1914 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-56538-9 .
  • Poland's clocks are different. Warsaw before the eastward expansion of the European Union . Hohenheim-Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-89850-030-6 .
  • Repression, protest, tolerance. Changing values ​​and coming to terms with the past in Poland after 1956 . Neisse Verlag, Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-86276-004-6 .
  • with Mina Zirojević (ed.): Special Issue on Transitional Justice. The Review of International Affairs. vol. LXI No. 1138–1139, April - September 2010.
  • Retaliation, punishment, amnesty. Collaboration and its processing in Belgium, Poland and the Netherlands in comparison . Peter Lang International, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61512-6 .
  • with Aleksandar Fatić: The UN International Criminal Tribunals. Transition without Justice? . London, New York: Routledge 2015. (approx. 350 pages)

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personal data
SURNAME Bachmann, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and political scientist in Poland
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruchsal