Michael Schmidt-Neke

Michael Schmidt-Neke (born July 5, 1956 in Baden-Baden ) is a German historian and albanologist .

Life

Schmidt-Neke graduated from high school in Hohenbaden Baden-Baden in 1975 and visited Albania for the first time in June 1975. He then studied history and ancient languages at the University of Freiburg and learned Albanian on his own . Supervisor of his dissertation emergence and expansion of royal dictatorship in Albania (1912-1939) was Gottfried Schramm .

Around 1980 he took part twice in international seminars at the University of Pristina . With the support of the Institute for Languages ​​at the University of Bonn , he was able to establish contact with the Albanian Academy of Sciences . An invitation from the then President of the Academy, Aleks Buda , gave him access to sources in Albanian libraries, on the basis of which he could write his dissertation.

Schmidt-Neke worked from 1988 to 1993 as a scientific editor on the Southeast Europe Handbook led by Klaus-Detlev Grothusen at the University of Hamburg as a long-term project , in which he supervised the volumes on Bulgaria and Albania and, in particular, several chapters on the Albania volume contributed to the country's political and social system.

Since 1995 he has worked as a consultant for education, science and culture in the parliamentary group of the SPD in Kiel .

He was chairman from 1990 to 1993 and has been vice chairman of the German-Albanian Friendship Society (DAFG) since 1999 as well as a member of the editorial board of the DAFG magazine Albanische Hefte .

Publications (selection)

• Establishment and expansion of the royal dictatorship in Albania (1912-1939) . (= Southeast European Works 84). Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-54321-0 .
• Historical basics, domestic politics, political system, (together with Örjan Sjöberg) population structure. Bibliography . In: Südosteuropa-Handbuch . Vol. VII: Albania. Edited by Klaus-Detlev Grothusen. Göttingen 1993, pp. 26-56, 57-85, 169-242, 464-490, 778-808.
• From Arnauten and Skipetaren: Albania and the Albanians with Karl May . In: Yearbook of the Karl May Society . 24 (1994), pp. 247-284.
• Albania - a safe haven? . In: Solidarity and help for Jews during the Nazi era . Edited by Wolfgang Benz and Juliane Wetzel. Volume III: Regional Studies 3. Berlin 1999, pp. 247–270 (republished in: Johanna Jutta Neumann: Detour via Albania. A personal report. Bochum 2003)
• The Constitution of the Republic of Albania of November 28, 1998 . In: Yearbook for Eastern Law. XL (1999) 2, pp. 267-281 (illustration); Pp. 345–379 (translation)
• Johann Adolf Erdmann Schmidt's Albanian dictionary . In: Südostforschungen . 58 (1999), pp. 103-117.
• The Kanun of the Albanian Mountains: background of the northern Albanian way of life . In: Robert Elsie (Ed.): The Kanun. Albanian customary law based on the so-called Kanun des Lekë Dukagjini, codified by Shtjefën Gjeçovi . Prishtina 2001, pp. 11-34.
• Albania . In: Hans Döbert, Wolfgang Hörner, Botho von Kopp, Lutz R. Reuter (eds.): The educational systems of Europe . Baltmannsweiler 2010, pp. 33-49.
• Talk to Skipetaren - phrasebook for Albanian until 1945 . In: Monica Genesin, Joachim Matzinger (Hrsg.): Albanological and Balkanological studies . Festschrift for Wilfried Fiedler. Hamburg 2005, pp. 139–149.
• Pseudologia phantastica and orientalism: Albania as an imaginary stage for Spiridion Gopčević, Karl May and Otto Witte . In: Yearbook of the Karl May Society . 36: 151-183 (2006)
• The constitutions of Albania. With an appendix: The 1990 Constitution of the Republic of Kosova . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2009.
• Between Cold War and Teleology: Communist Albania as an Object of Contemporary History Research . In: Oliver Jens Schmitt, Eva Anne Frantz (ed.): Albanian history. Status and prospects of research . (= Southeast European Works 140). Munich 2009, pp. 131–147.
• The political system of Albania . In: Wolfgang Ismayr (Ed.): The political systems of Eastern Europe . Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 1007-1052.
• Skanderbeg's Prisoners: On the Albanian National Hero Debate . In: Southeast Europe . 58 (2010) 2, pp. 273-302.
• Research on Albania in the shadow of National Socialism . In: Southeast Research. 72 (2013), pp. 243-268.
• About the land of the Skipetars. Book reviews from 25 years . (= Albanian Studies 17). Center for Albanian Studies, London, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertations completed by Gottfried Schramm , accessed on December 10, 2011.

Web links

• Schmidt-Neke at the SPD parliamentary group Schleswig-Holstein