Sven Reichardt

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Sven Reichardt (born June 30, 1967 in Bremen ) is a German historian . He has held the professorship for contemporary history at the University of Konstanz since 2011 .

From 1988 to 1995 Reichardt studied history, political science, psychology and Italian at the University of Hamburg and later at the Free University of Berlin . From 1995 to 2000 he did his doctorate on fascist combat alliances. Violence and community in the Italian squadrism and in the German SA at the Free University of Berlin. He developed an explicitly praxeological concept of fascism . The doctoral thesis was received very positively in specialist circles; Stefan Breuer called the comparative study in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung a masterpiece because it succeeded in viewing fascism as a “political phenomenon sui generis”. In 2003 Reichardt received the audience award for the “best historical book” in 2002 by H-Soz-Kult .

From 2003 to 2011 Reichardt taught and researched as a junior professor for contemporary history at the University of Konstanz . From 2007 to 2011 he was a fellow of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz and from 2007 to 2009 a member of its board. In addition, he was editor of the journal Sozial.Geschichte (2003-2007), has been co-editor of the yearbook Contributions to the History of National Socialism since 2003 , since 2006 co-editor of the book series Italy in modern times and since 2009 co-editor of the socio-historical journal Geschichte und Gesellschaft . In 2011 he was appointed to the Chair of Contemporary History at the University of Konstanz.

Reichardt's main research interests are the social and cultural history of the Federal Republic, the history of European fascism , dictatorships in comparison, the history of violence in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of the concept of civil society, and theories and methods in historical studies .

Fonts (selection)

  • Edited with Sebastian Conrad and Julia Eckert: Issue of purity and violence of the journal Sociologus 51, 2001, double issue 1/2.
  • Fascist combat leagues. Violence and community in Italian squadrism and in the German SA. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002. 2nd revised edition 2009.
  • Edited with Ralph Jessen and Ansgar Klein: Civil Society as History. Studies on the 19th and 20th centuries. Wiesbaden 2004
  • Edited with Armin Nolzen : Fascism in Italy and Germany. Studies on transfer and comparison. Göttingen 2005.
  • Edited with Arnd Bauerkämper and Dieter Gosewinkel: Special issue civil society of the journal Mittelweg 36 15, 2006, issue 1.
  • with Malte Zierenberg: Back then after the war. A history of Germany 1945 to 1949. Munich 2008.
  • Edited with Detlef Siegfried : The alternative milieu. Anti-bourgeois lifestyle and left politics in the Federal Republic of Germany and Europe 1968-1983 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010
  • Authenticity and community: left alternative life in the seventies and early eighties. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-29675-2 .

important essays

  • Praxeology and fascism. Violence and community as elements of a praxeological concept of fascism . In: Karl H. Hörning , Julia Reuter (Ed.): Doing Culture. New positions on the relationship between culture and practice . Bielefeld 2004, pp. 129–153.
  • What happened to fascism. A literature report on international research on fascism, part 1 . In: Neue Politische Literatur 49, 2004, pp. 385–406.
  • “Warmth” as a mode of social behavior? Preliminary considerations on a cultural history of the left-wing alternative milieu from the end of the sixties to the beginning of the eighties . In: processes 44, No. 171/172, 2005, pp 175-187.
  • Civil society: note on the revival of a concept . In: Sven Eliaeson (Ed.): Building Democracy and Civil Society East of the Elbe. Essays in Honor of Edmund Mokrzycki . London / New York 2006, pp. 17-28.
  • Klaus Theweleit's “Male Fantasies” - a successful book from the 1970s , In: Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History 3, Issue 3, 2006, pp. 401-421 ( online edition ).
  • New ways of comparative research on fascism . In: Mittelweg 36 1/2007.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 22, 2003 ( summary in Perlentaucher ).
  2. ↑ www.zukunftskolleg.uni-konstanz.de
  3. ^ Vita, University of Konstanz
  4. ↑ Table of contents (pdf)
personal data
SURNAME Reichardt, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen