Markus Roth (historian)

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Markus Roth (* 1972 ) is a German historian and non-fiction author . Since 2015 he has been the deputy head of the Holocaust literature department at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and editor of the Scientific Literature Gazette.

Life

From 1995 to 2001 Markus Roth studied German , West Slavonic Philology (Polish) and Modern and Contemporary History at the Wilhelms-Universität Münster . This was followed by activities from 2001 to 2002 as a teacher for Polish-German translations and from 2000 to 2002 as a teacher for German as a foreign language in Münster . In September 2008, Roth received a research assignment from the Commission of Historians for the history of the Federal Foreign Office . In December 2008 he received his doctorate at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena with a thesis on the subject of gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History . From August 2008 to June 2012, Roth worked as a research assistant at the Herder Institute in Marburg. From 2012 to 2015 a job as a research assistant in the project “GeoBib. Early German or Polish-language Holocaust and camp literature (1933-1949) - annotated and geo-referenced online bibliography for researching memory narratives ”. He is co-editor of the series Studies and Documents on Holocaust and Camp Literature , which is published by Metropol Verlag in Berlin .

In addition, Roth was able to prove in the daily newspaper taz in June 2017 that the journalist and author Stefan Aust in his biography about Konrad Heiden took over many text passages almost word for word from Heiden, without indicating this.

activities

  • Board member of the Association for the Promotion of Holocaust Literature
  • Member of the Kempowski Society

Fonts (selection)

  • Theater after Auschwitz: George Tabori's "The Cannibals" in the context of the Holocaust debates. Peter Lang Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 2003, ISBN 978-3-631-50611-0 .
  • Master people. The German district chiefs in occupied Poland. Career paths, domination practice and post-history. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2 .
  • (with Andrea Löw): Jews in Krakow under German occupation 1939–1945. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2011 (Polish translation: Krakowscy Żydzi pod okupacją mèmiecką 1939-1945. Krakau 2014.), ISBN 978-3-8353-0869-5 .
  • (with Annalena Schmidt): Murder of Jews in Ostrów Mazowiecka. Deed and punishment. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86331-120-9 .
  • (with Andrea Löw): The Warsaw Ghetto. Everyday life and resistance in the face of annihilation. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64533-4 .
  • You know, but you don't want to know: persecution, terror and resistance in the Third Reich. CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 3-406-6751-74 .

literature

  • Julius H. Schoeps, Dieter Bingen, Gideon Botsch: Jewish Resistance in Europe (1933–1945): Forms and Facets. Walter de Gruyter 2016, ISBN 3-110-4153-56 , p. 334.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ holocaustliteratur.de Retrieved on September 13, 2017
  2. ↑ wla-online.de: Imprint Retrieved on September 13, 2017
  3. ↑ uni-giessen.de Retrieved on September 13, 2017
  4. ↑ Markus Roth: Stefan Aust's biography on Konrad Heiden: "Who is actually talking here?" In: Die Tageszeitung: taz . June 27, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed October 26, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1972