Michael F. Scholz

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Michael F. Scholz (born September 13, 1958 in East Berlin ) is a German historian , university professor and author .

Life

Scholz studied History and Northern European Studies at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald . From 1986 he was a research assistant at the Historical Institute of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, where he received his doctorate in 1990 with a thesis on the Rostock Baltic Sea Weeks in the foreign policy of the GDR. In 1999 the habilitation (Dr. phil. Habil) took place at the same place with a thesis on political emigration and remigration and the granting of the license to teach general history of the modern age (private lecturer). Scholz has been teaching in Visby on Gotland at Högskolan på Gotland since November 2000 , and Uppsala University - Gotland Campus since 2013 . Scholz has been Professor of Modern History since 2008.

Scholz's research focuses on comics as an instrument of propaganda and indoctrination, the history of German-Scandinavian relations in the 19th and 20th centuries, exile and post-exile 1933–1955, and the history of tourism. Scholz wrote several papers on the political and cultural history of the GDR, on the former East-West relations and on the history of Scandinavia. For Gebhardt , the traditional handbook of German history , he wrote the section on the history of the GDR. Furthermore, he published several works on literary and comic research , among others together with Gerd Lettkemann, the book Everyone is guilty ... Comics in the GDR - The story of an unloved medium from 1945 / 49–1990 .

Works (selection)

  • The GDR 1949–1990. (= Gebhardt. Handbook of German History. Volume 22), Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-608-60022-3 .
  • The Jürgen Kieser Book. Mosaik Steinchen for Steinchen Verlag , Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-932667-29-8 .
  • Do you want Scandinavian experiences? Post-exile and remigration. The former KPD emigrants in Scandinavia and their further fate in the Soviet Zone / GDR. (= Historical communications , supplements, volume 37). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07651-4 .
  • Herbert Wehner in Sweden 1941–1946. (= Series of the quarterly books for contemporary history , volume 70). Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-64570-6 ; Extended paperback edition, Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-74668029-8 .
  • Pawn sacrifice of the German question. The communist Kurt Vieweg in the jungle of the secret services. Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-7466-8030-1 .
  • Ernst Wollweber. Saboteur - minister - non-person. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-351-02419-3 (together with Jan von Flocken ).
  • After all, everyone is guilty of ... Comics in the GDR - The story of an unloved medium 1945 / 49–1990. Mosaik Steinchen for Steinchen Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-9803882-0-4 (together with Gerd Lettkemann).
  • Editor: Fix and Fax. Funny mouse adventures. Pictures and verses by Jürgen Kieser (= collector's edition , vol. 25), Mosaik Steinchen for Steinchen Verlag, Berlin 1994-2001, ISBN 3-932667-15-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Michael F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, university professor and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin