Michael Jeismann

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Michael Jeismann (born September 2, 1958 in Münster ) is a German historian and journalist .

Jeismann studied history and German in Münster and Bielefeld . In 1991 he was taught by Reinhart Koselleck at Bielefeld University with the dissertation “The Fatherland of Enemies. Studies on the national enemy concept and self-image in Germany and France 1792–1918 ”and then worked at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig. From 1993 to 2006 he was editor and deputy features editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . In 2003 he completed his habilitation at the University of Baseland has been an adjunct professor for modern and contemporary history at the University of Tübingen since 2009 and at the Humboldt University in Berlin since 2010 . From September 2008 to February 2012 he headed the communication and internet department of the Goethe-Institut , after which he became director of the Goethe-Institut in the Senegalese capital Dakar . Today he lives in Leipzig.

Jeismann researches the concept of the nation, Franco-German relations, the culture of remembrance and the history of transcultural couples. In 2004 he was awarded the Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing.

Publications (selection)

  • The freedom of love. Couples between two cultures , Munich 2019. ISBN 3-446-26401-9 .
  • Goodbye yesterday. The German past and the politics of tomorrow , Stuttgart, Munich 2001. ISBN 3-421-05495-9 .
  • Edited with Reinhart Koselleck: The political dead cult. War memorials in the modern age , Munich 1994. ISBN 3-7705-2882-4 .
  • The fatherland of the enemy. Studies on the national enemy concept and self-image in Germany and France 1792–1918 , Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-608-91374-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Head of the institute. Goethe-Institut Senegal, accessed on August 19, 2012 .
  2. ^ Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing. In: Velcro-Cotta. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Jeismann, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster