Maren Röger

Maren Röger (* 1981 in Waiblingen ) is a German cultural scientist and historian. Her main research interests include the history of East Central Europe, especially Poland from the 19th century to the present day, occupation and war consequences research, National Socialism and the Holocaust.

Live and act

Maren Röger studied cultural studies , modern and contemporary history and media studies in Lüneburg and Wroclaw / Breslau . In 2010 she received her doctorate from the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . The subject of her dissertation is Flight, Displacement and Resettlement: Media Memories and Debates in Germany and Poland since 1989 . From 2010 she was a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw for five years . After a 2014 summer semester as a visiting professor at the University of Hamburg, she has been working as a junior professor at the University of Augsburg since 2015 . She has been the honorary director of the Bukowina Institute at the University of Augsburg as scientific and organizational director since 2017 .

She is one of the authors of the dictionary of 'coming to terms with the past' in Germany by Torben Fischer and Matthias N. Lorenz . For her book War Relations , published in 2015 . Intimacy, violence and prostitution in occupied Poland from 1939 to 1945 she was awarded the “Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History” of the Wiener Library in 2014.

Publications

Monographs

War relations. Intimacy, violence and prostitution in occupied Poland from 1939 to 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-002260-8
- Polish edition: Wojenne związki. Polki i Niemcy podczas okupacji . Warszawa: Świat Książki 2016.
- English edition: Wartime Relations. Intimacy, Violence, and Prostitution in Occupied Poland, 1939-1945 . Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-19-881722-2 (translation by Rachel Ward)
Flight, displacement and resettlement. Media memories and debates in Germany and Poland since 1989 (= Studies on East Central European Studies, Volume 23). Verlag Herder-Institut, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-87969-371-9 , also slightly modified version of the dissertation, University of Gießen, 2010
- Polish edition: Ucieczka, Wypędzenie i Przesiedlenie. Medialne Wspomnienia i Debaty w Niemczech iw Polsce po 1989 roku . Poznań: Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje 2016 [Studia Brandtiana Translationes].

Editing

with Ruth Leiserowitz : Women and men at war. A gender perspective on World War II and its aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe (= German Historical Institute Warsaw: individual publications of the German Historical Institute Warsaw, Volume 28). fiber, Osnabrück 2012, ISBN 978-3-938400-83-8
with Stephan Scholz and Bill Niven : The memory of flight and displacement. A manual of media and practices. Schöningh, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-77266-4
with Machteld Venken: Growing up in the Shadow of the Second World War. European Perspectives / Grandir dans les brumes de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Perspectives européennes . Special Issue, European Review of History / Revue européenne d'histoire 22 (2015)

Lexicon contributions

In: Thorben Fischer, Matthias N. Lorenz (ed.): Lexicon of 'coping with the past' in Germany. The history of debates and discourse under National Socialism after 1945 . Transcript, Bielefeld 2007. Third revised and expanded edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2366-6
- Adorno dictum
- Bitburg affair
- Goebbels-Gorbachev comparison
- Spiritual and moral turn
- Helmut Kohl's trip to Israel / grace of the late birth

items

About the otter and his wife. Everyday occupation and Nazi racial politics using the example of a German-Polish couple in the Generalgouvernement , in: Historische Zeitschrift , vol. 155, issue 1, 2014