Painted Rolf

Malte Rolf (born March 24, 1970 in Bremen ) is a German historian who deals in particular with Central and Eastern European contemporary history. Since the beginning of 2012 he has held the professorship for the history of Central and Eastern Europe at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg . On September 1, 2018, he moved to the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg to the professorship for the history of modern Europe with a focus on Eastern Europe.

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After graduating from high school, the Bremen native studied history, German and Russian at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . From 1994 he continued his studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which he completed in 2000 with the state examination. In 2004 Rolf received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen with a thesis on the Soviet mass festival. The dissertation has received several awards and has been translated into several languages. From 2007 he held the junior professor of Cultural History Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen before 2012 at the Humboldt University habilitation was. In his habilitation thesis , which u. a. was funded by the German Research Foundation , he dealt with the relationship between the Kingdom of Poland and the Russian Empire between 1865 and 1915.

In addition to other activities, Rolf is co-editor of the journal Research on Eastern European History of the Harrassowitz publishing house and head of the Bamberg branch of the German Society for Eastern European Studies . He is also z. Currently chairman of the examination boards for the bachelor and master degree in history at the University of Bamberg. His main research interests include the recent history of Poland , the Soviet - Polish relations before and during the existence of the Soviet Union , mass festivities and intoxication in (Eastern European) dictatorships as well as utopias of various kinds in the former Soviet republics, etc. a.

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Monographs

• The Soviet mass festival . Hamburg 2006 (dissertation), ISBN 978-3-936096-63-7 .
• Imperial Rule in the Weichselland: The Kingdom of Poland in the Russian Empire (1864-1915) . (= Order systems - studies on the history of ideas in the modern age 43 ), Munich 2014 (habilitation thesis), ISBN 978-3-11-034537-7 .
• Rządy imperialne w Kraju Nadwiślańskim. Królestwo Polskie i cesarstwo rosyjskie (1864–1915) . Warsaw 2016, ISBN 9788323525721 .

Editorships

• with Árpád by Klimó : Intoxication and dictatorship. Staging, mobilization and control in totalitarian systems . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-593-38206-7 .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae of Malte Rolfs on the University of Bamberg's website
• List of publications by Rolf, ibid.