Mark Roseman

This article is about the British historian. For the American film director and screenwriter, see Mark Rosman .

Mark Roseman (* 1958 in London ) is a British historian. He is a professor of modern history and has taught at the University of Southampton . Roseman now teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington / USA.

As a publicist and scientist, he has been working in the field of source research for years and analyzes the status of historical research on the Holocaust and Nazi bureaucracy, as in his publication on the Wannsee Conference . Federal German and European history after 1945 is another Roseman's specialty.

Marianne Strauss-Elbow

In 2000 he published a book about Marianne Strauss-Ellenbogen , a German Jew from Essen, who was hidden in Germany between 1943 and 1945 by the Essener Bund - Community for Socialist Life and who survived through these Jewish workers . In 2002 the book was published in German translation. For this work he received several awards.

• 2000: Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, Category A of the Wiener Library
• 2001: Wingate Literary Prize from the Jewish Quarterly magazine
• 2002: Mark Lynton History Prize from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism .
• November 24, 2003: Geschwister-Scholl-Prize from the Landesverband Bayern e. V. in the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and the City of Munich

Publications (selection)

• The past in hiding. Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany , London 2000, ISBN 978-0713993745
  • In an unguarded moment. A woman survives underground . Construction Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3351025311
• Saved history: The Bund, community for socialist life in the Third Reich . In: "Mittelweg 36", journal of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, vol. 16, issue 1 (2007), pp. 100–121
• A person in motion. Dore Jacobs , 1894–1979 , in: “Essener Contributions. Contributions to the history of the city and monastery of Essen ”, No. 114, Essen 2002, pp. 73–109
• The villa, the lake, the meeting. Wannsee and the Final Solution , London 2002,
  • The Wannsee Conference. How the Nazi bureaucracy organized the Holocaust , Berlin 2002
• Lives Reclaimed - A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany
  • "You are not completely abandoned": A story of rescue and resistance under National Socialism . Translation Stephan Pauli. Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2020

Web links

• Literature by and about Mark Roseman in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://www.indiana.edu/~histweb/faculty/roseman.shtml
• Geschwister-Scholl-Prize 2003 ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Mark Roseman - Laudation by Imo Moszkowicz on the occasion of the presentation of the Geschwister-Scholl-Prize 2003 to Mark Roseman

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Benz : Idealists in dark times . Review. SZ, July 20, 2020, p. 12