Markus Krzoska
Markus Krzoska (born February 17, 1967 in Darmstadt ) is a German historian and translator . His thematic focus is on the history of Poland as well as the history of the city, religion and historiography in general. More recently he has also turned to human-animal studies and the broadly understood cultural studies.
academic career
After attending the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt, he studied Eastern European History , Political Science and Middle and Modern History from 1986 to 1992 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In 2001 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the Polish historian Zygmunt Wojciechowski at the Free University of Berlin under Klaus Zernack . From 2008 to 2012 he was a research assistant at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen , where he also completed his habilitation in 2012 with a presentation on the history of Poland after 1945. Since 2014 he has been a private lecturer in Giessen again. From 2016 to 2019 he was a research associate on a DFG project on maneuvering spaces in state socialism at the University of Siegen , from 2019 to 2020 he will work in the same position at the German Poland Institute in Darmstadt. From 1998 to 2015 he headed the Internet mailing list "Polhist", one of the longest functioning lists in the German academic landscape.
Offices, memberships, honors
- Chairman of the Commission for the History of Germans in Poland (2005-2017)
- Corresponding member of the Historical Commission for the Bohemian Lands
- Member of the Herder Research Council (since 2011)
- Medal of Honor " Bene Merito " of the Polish Foreign Minister (2015)
Publications (selection)
- A country on the move. Cultural history of Poland since 1945, Paderborn 2015.
- For a Pole on the Oder and Baltic Sea. Zygmunt Wojciechowski (1900–1955) as historian and publicist, Osnabrück 2003 ( accessible online ).
- (Ed. With Wolfgang Kessler ) Between region and nation. 125 years of research on the history of Germans in Poland, Osnabrück 2013.
- (Ed.) Between Faith and Nation? Contributions to the religious history of East Central Europe in the long 19th century. Munich 2011.
- (Ed.) Memoirs of the Poznan Canon Albert Steuer. Munich 2010.
- (Ed. With Hans-Christian Maner) Profession and calling. History and nation building in East Central and Southeast Europe. Munster 2005.
- (together with Kolja Lichy and Konstantin Rometsch) Beyond East Central Europe ? On the aporia of a German niche research, in: Journal of Modern European History 16 (2018), p. No. 1, pp. 40–63.
- Experiences of division and the formation of traditions: the historiography of the partitions of Poland-Lithuania (1795–2011), in: The partitions of Poland-Lithuania. Inclusion and Exclusion Mechanisms - Formation of Tradition - Levels of Comparison, ed. v. Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg ( inter alia), Osnabrück 2013, pp. 37-104.
- The “ Bromberger Blutsonntag ” 1939. Controversies and research results, in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 60 (2012), no. 2, pp. 237–248.
- German East Research - Polish West Research. Prolegomena for a comparison, in: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 52 (2003), No. 3, pp. 398-419.
Web links
- Literature by and about Markus Krzoska in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography on the website of the Justus Liebig University Giessen
- Acknowledgment of the "Polhist" mailing list (in Polish)
- Radio interview for Funkhaus Europa
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krzoska, Markus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th February 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |