Sybille Steinbacher

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Sybille Steinbacher (born June 10, 1966 in Munich ) is a German contemporary historian and has been a university professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main since May 2017 .

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In 1992 she finished her studies in history and political science in Munich with the academic degree Magistra Artium . From 1994 to 1997 she was a scholarship holder at the Institute for Contemporary History and in 1996 at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw . In 1998 she received her doctorate at the Ruhr University Bochum with a thesis supervised by Hans Günter Hockerts . She then worked until 2001 as a research assistant at the chair for modern and contemporary history with Norbert Frei . From 1999 to 2002 she was involved in the historical commission for research into the history of Bertelsmann in the Third Reich . She spent 2004/2005 at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University . Since 2003 she has been a member of the editorial team for articles on the history of National Socialism . From 2005 to 2010 she worked at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena ; In 2010 she held a visiting professorship at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 2010 she was appointed university professor for "Contemporary History - Comparative Dictatorship, Violence and Genocide Research" at the University of Vienna .

She has been a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies since 2012 . In 2014 she was elected as a corresponding member in Germany of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . Also since 2012, she has been the project manager at the Dachau Symposium on Contemporary History. An annual event in October over two half days, in the International Youth Hostel Dachau, in the Max Mannheimer Study Center.

On May 1, 2017, Sybille Steinbacher took over the chair “History and Effects of the Holocaust ” at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in the Department of Philosophy and History as well as the management of the Fritz Bauer Institute .

Her research areas include National Socialism , Holocaust, Fascism in a European context, post-Nazi history, and the social and cultural history of sexuality in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Monographs

  • Dachau - the city and the concentration camp during the Nazi era. Investigating a neighborhood. (= Munich studies on recent and recent history. Vol. 5). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1993, ISBN 3-631-46682-X .
  • Auschwitz "model town". Germanization policy and the murder of Jews in Eastern Upper Silesia (= representations and sources on the history of Auschwitz. Vol. 2). Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-24031-7 (also: Bochum, University, dissertation, 1998).
  • with Saul Friedländer , Norbert Frei, Trutz Rendtorff and Reinhard Wittmann : Bertelsmann in the Third Reich. Bertelsmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-570-00711-1 .
  • Auschwitz. History and post-history (= Beck'sche series. 2333). Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-50833-2 (several editions).
  • How sex came to Germany. The struggle for morality and decency in the early Federal Republic. Siedler, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-88680-977-6 (also: Jena, Universität, habilitation paper, 2009).

Editorships

  • with Norbert Frei , Thomas Grotum, Jan Parcer and Bernd C. Wagner: Location and command office orders of the Auschwitz concentration camp. 1940–1945 (= representations and sources on the history of Auschwitz. Vol. 1). Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-24030-9 .
  • with Norbert Frei and Bernd C. Wagner: exploitation, annihilation, public. New studies on National Socialist camp policy (= representations and sources on the history of Auschwitz. Vol. 4). Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-24033-3 .
  • with Norbert Frei: silence and confession. The German post-war society and the Holocaust (= Dachau Symposium on Contemporary History , Vol. 1). Wallstein, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-493-5 .
  • National comrades. Women in the National Socialist Community (= contributions to the history of National Socialism . Vol. 23). Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0188-7 .
  • Transit US zone. Survivors of the Holocaust in Bavaria in the post-war period (= Dachau Symposium on Contemporary History , Vol. 13). Wallstein, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1344-6 .
  • with Frank Bajohr : "... testify to the last". Diaries and personal testimonies from the time of National Socialism and the Holocaust (= Dachau Symposia on Contemporary History. Vol. 15). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 3-8353-1742-3 .

literature

  • Ernst Bruckmüller : Sybille Steinbacher. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanac 2013/2014, 163/164. Volume, Vienna 2015, p. 239.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Conference volumes
  2. ↑ Sybille Steinbacher takes on the first Holocaust professorship nationwide. Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , December 16, 2016, accessed on February 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Steinbacher, Sybille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich