Philipp Ther

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Philipp Ther, Leipzig Book Fair 2015
Philipp Ther receives the 2015 Leipzig Book Fair prize in the non-fiction category for his book The New Order on the Old Continent .

Philipp Ther (born May 16, 1967 in Mittelberg im Kleinwalsertal , Austria ) is a German contemporary historian, cultural scientist and university professor at the University of Vienna .

Life

Philipp Ther comes from a family of teachers. He grew up in Bavaria and spent parts of his childhood in Istanbul , where his father taught mathematics and physics at the German School . Ther studied modern history, Eastern European history, sociology and political science at the Universities of Regensburg and Munich from 1988 to 1992 . He lived in Poland and Ukraine for several years. He received his master's degree from Georgetown University in the USA in 1993 . In 1997 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the history of German and Polish expellees from 1945 to 1956. He was a John F. Kennedy Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University in 1997/1998 . He then worked as a research assistant at the Center for Comparative History of Europe at the Free University of Berlin until 2002.

In 2002 he received a junior professorship for Polish and Ukrainian studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) . He completed his habilitation with a thesis on the political and social function of the opera house in the 19th century. From 2007 to 2010 Philipp Ther was professor of 20th century European history at the European University Institute in Florence.

Ther made a name for himself as an expert on the history of displacement in Europe and provoked with his criticism of the Association of Expellees , whose policy was not concerned with reconciliation even after the end of the Cold War . Erika Steinbach then wrote to his Göttingen publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht at the beginning of 2008 in order to “blacken” Ther there as an author on the history of displacement. His relationship with the Association of Expellees is also disrupted. The publisher made this letter public and spoke of "brazen interference".

Since the 2010/11 winter semester, Philipp Ther has been professor for the history of East Central Europe / “nation building” at the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna . He has been its board member since 2014.

His main research interests include comparative social and cultural history in the 19th and 20th centuries in Germany and East Central Europe, in particular studies of nationalism, the history of migration, the history of the city and the history of music theater. The focus of his research was on comparative analyzes of the history of transformation in Eastern and Central Europe since the 1980s.

Awards

Ther is the recipient of several awards, including the Richard G. Plaschka Prize . In 2015 he received the “Political Book of the Year” award from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Leipzig Book Fair award in the non-fiction / essay category for his study The New Order on the Old Continent .

Fonts

As an author
As editor
  • with Ana Siljak: Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe 1944–1948. Lanham 2001.
  • with Holm Sundhaussen : Nationality Conflicts in the 20th Century: A Comparison of Causes of Inter-Ethnic Violence. Wiesbaden 2001.
  • with Kai Struve: Nations and their borders. Identity change in Upper Silesia in modern times. Marburg 2002.
  • with Jürgen Danyel: Flight and displacement from a European perspective. (= Journal of History . Vol. 51, Issue 1). Metropol, Berlin 2003.
  • with Holm Sundhaussen: Regional movements and regionalisms in European spaces since the middle of the 19th century. Herder Institute, Marburg 2003 ( PDF ).
  • with Constantin Goschler : Robbery and Restitution. Aryanization and restitution of Jewish property in Europe. Frankfurt 2003.
  • with Tomasz Krolik, Lutz Henke: Polish Wroclaw as a European metropolis. Memory and History Politics from the Perspective of Oral History. Wrocław 2005
  • with Martin Dean, Constantin Goschler: Robbery and Restitution. The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe. Providence 2006.
  • with Georgii Kasianov: A Laboratory of Transnational History. Ukraine and Ukrainian Historiography since 1991. Kiev 2007.
  • with Peter Stachel: How European is opera? The history of music theater as a gateway to a European cultural topography. Vienna 2009.
  • with Sven Oliver Müller, Jutta Toelle, Gesa zur Nieden: The opera in the course of society. Cultural transfers and networks of music theater in modern Europe. Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59236-8 .
  • Cultural politics and theater. The continental empires in Europe compared. Oldenbourg, Munich / Böhlau, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-71211-7 (Oldenbourg) / ISBN 978-3-205-78802-7 (Böhlau).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unwelcome author . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 2008, p. 20 ( online ).
  2. ↑ orf.at: Wittgenstein Prize to historians and microbiologists . Article dated June 17, 2019, accessed June 17, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Ther, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Mittelberg (Vorarlberg)