Peter Fritzsche (historian)

Peter Andreas Fritzsche (born July 3, 1959 ) is an American historian . He has been a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1995 .

Life

Fritzsche received his doctorate in 1986 from the University of Berkeley and published several works on the history of the 20th century and the history of technology. One of his best-known works is “How Germans became Nazis”, in which he describes the development of the German people on the way to National Socialism and discusses the reasons for National Socialist rule in Germany.

Fonts

• Rehearsals for Fascism: Populism and Political Mobilization in Weimar Germany. Oxford University Press, New York 1992, ISBN 0-19-505780-5 .
• A Nation of Fliers: German Aviation and the Popular Imagination. Harvard University Press, Cambridge / Mass. 1994, ISBN 0-674-60121-1 .
• Reading Berlin 1900. Harvard University Press, Cambridge / Mass. 1996, ISBN 0-674-74881-6 .
  • Translation: When Berlin became a cosmopolitan city: press, readers and the staging of life. Osburg, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940731-01-2 .
• Germans into Nazis. Harvard University Press, Cambridge / Mass. 1998, ISBN 0-674-35091-X .
  • Translation: How Germans became Nazis. Pendo, Zurich / Munich 1999, ISBN 3-85842-361-0 . Paperback edition: Ullstein, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-548-36320-2 .
• Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History. Harvard University Press, Cambridge / Mass. 2004, ISBN 0-674-01339-5 .
• Friedrich Nietzsche and the Death of God: Selected Writings. Bedford / St. Martins, Boston 2007, ISBN 978-0-312-45022-9 .
• Life and Death in the Third Reich. Belknap, Cambridge / Mass. 2008, ISBN 0-674-02793-0 .
• The Turbulent World of Franz Göll: An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press, Cambridge / Mass. 2011, ISBN 978-0-674-05531-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Fritzsche in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Fritzsche on the University of Illinois website
• Short biography and reviews of works by Peter Fritzsche at perlentaucher.de
• Peter Fritzsche: Little Man, Write Now! , Berfrois, March 31, 2011