Martina Winkler

Martina Winkler (* 1970 ) is a German historian whose research focuses mainly on Eastern Europe and East Central Europe .

From 1989 to 1994 Martina Winkler studied history, literature and branches of law at the Free University of Berlin and the University of London . Subsequently, she worked as a scientific consultant at the Brandenburg State Parliament. She received her doctorate from 1996 to 1999 at the University of Leipzig ( subject: Karel Kramář (1860-1937). Self-image, external perceptions and understanding of modernization by a Czech politician) and was then a research assistant there until 2003. During this phase, Winkler went to Stanford University as a Fedor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation .

In the following years she worked at the Humboldt University in Berlin , but also spent some time abroad, for example as a post-doctoral fellow at the German Historical Institute in Moscow and again at Stanford as an International Fellow of the Stanford Humanities Center and Freeman Spogli Institute. From 2008 to 2012 she was the professor for the history of Eastern Europe at the University of Münster ; in 2010 she was a visiting scholar at the University of Leipzig. In 2013 she went to Loughborough University in Great Britain as a lecturer . In the same year she was appointed professor for the cultural history of East Central Europe with a focus on the history of the ČSSR at the University of Bremen . In 2017 she accepted an offer at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel for the W3 professorship for the history of Eastern Europe.

Fonts (selection)

• Tanks in Prague: the photographic view of the invasion of 1968. CW Leske Verlag, Düsseldorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-946595-09-0 .
• The empire and the sea otters. The Expansion of Russia into the North Pacific, 1700-1867 . Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-525-30177-7 .
• together with Alexander Kraus: Weltmeere - Knowledge and Perception in the Long 19th Century , Göttingen 2014
• Burning Bush - The Heroes of Prague. HBO is filming a central memory moment in Czech history , in: Zeitgeschichte-online , March 2014
• Karel Kramář (1860-1937). Self-image, external perceptions and understanding of modernization of a Czech politician ( dissertation ), Munich 2002
• Imagining the Arctic, the Russian Way: Concepts and Projects for the Arctic Ocean in the Eighteenth Century , in: New Global Studies 7 (2012) H. 2, pp. 73-100
• as editor: The events of 1812 in a European comparative perspective , Comparativ 22 (2012) 3, pp. 14–30
• National identity revisited: The Czechs and “their” Švejk , in: Iris Schröder, Hannes Siegrist (eds.): Europa und die Europäische , Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, pp. 230–236, ISBN 978-3-515-08691-2 (Festschrift for Hartmut Kaelble on his 65th birthday).
• Slovak research in North America , in: Bohemia 44 (2003) 2, pp. 342–355
• The curse of backwardness: Comparative approaches in legal history , in: Comparativ 10 (2000) 4, pp. 103–116

Web links

• Literature by and about Martina Winkler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Martina Winkler , professor for the cultural history of East Central Europe with a focus on the history of the ČSSR at the University of Bremen
• Childhood story article , published online October 17, 2016 in Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte , accessed February 28, 2017
• further publications in the Zeitgeschichte-online portal