Michael Hagemeister

Michael Hagemeister (born January 9, 1951 in Ellwangen (Jagst) ) is a German historian and Slavist .

Life

Hagemeister studied history, Slavic, German and philosophy in Basel and Marburg and received his doctorate with a thesis on the Russian philosopher Nikolai Fjodorowitsch Fjodorow . He worked as a research assistant, guest lecturer and lecturer at the Slavonic Seminar in Marburg, the Slavonic Seminar and the Seminar for Comparative Literature (Comparative Literature) in Innsbruck , at the Lotman Institute for Russian and Soviet Culture at the Ruhr University in Bochum , at the Eastern Europe Institute of Free University of Berlin and at the history seminar in Basel .

From 2000 to 2006 he was a research assistant at the Chair for the History of Eastern Europe at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). From 2006 to 2009 he was a research associate at the history seminar of the University of Basel, where he worked on a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation for an annotated edition of the protocols and materials of the Bern process on the protocols of the Elders of Zion . From April 2009 to March 2011 he represented Martin Schulze Wessel in Munich and Karl Schlögel at the Viadrina in the 2011 summer semester . From 2012–2013 he was a lecturer for special tasks at the chair for Eastern European History at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . 2013–2014 he was the professor for the history of Eastern Europe at the Viadrina . Since the winter semester 2014/15 he has been working at the Ruhr University Bochum on a DFG-funded research project on anti-modern and anti-western thinking differently in Russia.

research

His main research interests are: Russian philosophy and intellectual history, utopian and apocalyptic thinking in Russia, anti-Semitism (especially the Protocols of the Elders of Zion , on which he has presented more than thirty scientific essays), Russian biopolitical utopias and philosophical aspects of the Soviet space program. He is considered an expert on Sergei Alexandrovich Nilus and Pawel Alexandrovich Florensky . His work on Imjaslavie , the worship of the name of God in Russian Orthodoxy, should also be seen in this context .

Publications (selection)

• Nikolai Fedorov. Studies on life, work and impact. Sagner, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-87690-461-7 ( dissertation , University of Marburg , 1989; full text ).
• Materials for Pavel Florenski . 2 volumes. Context, Berlin.

1. 1999, ISBN 3-931337-31-6 .
2. 2001, ISBN 3-931337-35-9 .

• As editor: History of utopia in Russia. Tertium, Bietigheim-Bissingen 2003, ISBN 3-930717-56-5 .
• Editor together with Boris Groys : The new humanity: biopolitical utopias in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-518-29363-X .
• The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Between History and Fiction. In: New German Critique. Vol. 35 (2008), Vol. 103, doi: 10.1215 / 0094033X-2007-020 ( full text ; PDF; 4.1 MB).
• Editor together with Eva Horn : The fiction of the Jewish world conspiracy. On the text and context of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-0498-7 .
• Editor together with Birgit Menzel and Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal: The New Age of Russia. Occult and Esoteric Dimensions. Otto Sagner, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86688-197-6 .
• The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in court. The Bern Trial 1933–1937 and the «Anti-Semitic International» . Chronos, Zurich 2017, 2nd edition 2019 (publications from the Archives for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich; 10), ISBN 978-3-0340-1385-7 .

Hagemeister also wrote numerous articles in the Handbuch des Antisemitismus , in the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) and in the 4th edition of the Concise Dictionary Religion in Past and Present (RGG).

Web links

• Michael Hagemeister on the Ruhr University Bochum website
• Michael Hagemeister on the website of the Institute for Historical Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Literature by and about Michael Hagemeister in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb00052974_00002.html
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Basel: Former at the Department of History - Michael Hagemeister ( Memento from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 27, 2013
4. ↑ http://www.gose.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/lösungen/ehemalige/hagemeister/index.html
5. ↑ Dr. Michael Hagemeister - research project. In: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Retrieved April 21, 2016 . 
6. ↑ http://www.kontextverlag.de/florenskij.hagemeister.html
7. ↑ Michael Hagemeister: Imjaslavie - Imjadejstvie. Name mysticism and name magic in Russia (1900–1930) . In: Tatjana Petzer et al. (Ed.): NAMEN - Naming - Adoration - Effect. Positions of European Modernism . Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2009, pp. 77–98.
8. ↑ From Volker Strebel: Let's get rid of death! - Biopolitical utopias fell on fertile ground in revolutionary Russia of the early twentieth century, as an anthology shows: literaturkritik.de. In: www.literaturkritik.de. Retrieved April 21, 2016 .