Tanja Penter

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Tanja Penter (* 1967 in Iserlohn ) is a German historian and professor of Eastern European history at Heidelberg University .

biography

From 1987 to 1995, Penter completed a degree in Eastern European History, Medieval and Modern History, German and Slavic Studies at the University of Cologne , from which she graduated with a master's degree. From 1992 to 1996 she was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Odessa and Volgograd , in the last two years as part of a DAAD scholarship for doctoral candidates in Odessa, Kiev and Moscow . Then Penter worked as a research assistant at the seminar for Eastern European history at the University of Cologne, where she received her doctorate in 1999 with a thesis on Odessa in the revolutionary year 1917 , supervised by Andreas Kappeler . From 2001 to 2003 Penter was a research assistant at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum in the research project Forced Labor in Coal Mining . From 2004 to 2005 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC , then represented the Academic Council for East and East Central European History at the Ruhr University in Bochum, before she was director of the international from 2007 to 2010 research project was at the Institute of Contemporary history at the University of Bochum to compensate former Nazi forced laborers, where they in 2008 with a study on the work and everyday experiences of the population in the Ukrainian Donets Basin under Stalinist and Nazi rule habilitated . In the 2008/09 winter semester, Penter held a substitute professorship for the Chair of Eastern European History at the Humboldt University in Berlin and from 2010 to 2013 a substitute professorship for the history of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe, at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg . Since October 2013 Penter has been Professor of Eastern European History at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.

Research priorities

Penter's research interests include:

  • History of Russia, Ukraine and the Soviet Union in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Comparison of dictatorships between Stalinism and National Socialism
  • Occupation experience, forced labor, collaboration and the Holocaust, diaries during the occupation
  • Transitional justice, cultures of justice and justice, politics of the past in Eastern Europe
  • History of knowledge / science: The knowledge about the "Gypsies" in the Russian Empire
  • Russian Revolution 1917


Research projects

Penter is involved in several international research projects (selection):

  • Violence Against Civilian Victims on the Eastern Front of World War II (Trilateral research cooperation funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, duration: 2016–2018)
  • Nuclear technopolitics in the Soviet Union (DFG research cooperation with the universities of Tübingen and Bern, funded by the DFG, duration 2017-2020)
  • Community buildings as a common heritage: Transylvanian-Saxon school, parish and community buildings around 1900 and after emigration (funded by the BKM, duration 2016–2017)

Awards

Penter received the René Kuczynski Prize 2011 for her book Coal for Stalin and Hitler. Working and living in Donbass 1929–1953 .

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Odessa 1917. Revolution on the periphery (= contributions to the history of Eastern Europe. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2000, ISBN 3-412-02200-4 (= at the same time: Cologne, university, dissertation, 1999)
  • Coal for Stalin and Hitler. Working and living in Donbass 1929 to 1953. Klartext, Essen 2010 ISBN 978-3-8375-0019-6 .

Editorships

  • Penter, Tanja and Cadiot, Juliette (eds.): Special issue of the year books for the history of Eastern Europe: "Law and Justice in Wartime and Postwar Stalinism", Vol. 61, H. 2 (2013).
  • Penter, Tanja and Meier, Esther: Sovietnam. The USSR in Afghanistan 1979–1989. Schöningh, Paderborn, 2017. ISBN 978-3-506-77885-7 .

Articles (selection)

  • Compensation for Nazi Forced Labor in Post-Soviet Russia and Belarus, in: Constantin Goschler (ed.): Compensation in Practice. The Foundation 'Remembrance, Responsibility and Future' and the Legacy of Forced Labor during the Third Reich. 2017. ISBN 978-1-78533-637-9
  • Staggering historical images. in DAMALS 8/2017, pp. 28–31.
  • The knowledge about the "Gypsies" (cygane) in the Tsarist Empire, in: Andreas Wirsching and Aleksandr Čubar'jan (eds.): Empires, Nations, Regions. Imperial Conceptions in Germany and Russia at the Beginning of the 20th Century (Communications from the Joint Commission for Research into the Recent History of German-Russian Relations) Berlin / Boston 2018, pp. 91-108.
  • The Unemployed Movement in Odessa in 1917: Social and National Revolutions between Petrograd and Kiev, in: S. Badcock / L. Novikova / A. Retish (eds.): Russia's Revolution in Regional Perspective (Russia's Home Front in War and Revolution, Vol . 1), Bloomington, Indiana 2015, pp. 267-296.
  • The Belarusian Foundation “Understanding and Reconciliation” - Compensation for Forced Laborers in the Shadow of the Lukašenka Rule, in: C. Goschler (ed.), Compensation for Nazi Forced Labor at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Vol. 4: Heroes, Victims, Eastern Workers. The Payout Program in the Former Soviet Union, Göttingen 2012, pp. 104–193.
  • Local Collaborators on Trial. Soviet war crimes trials under Stalin (1943–1953), in: Cahiers du Monde russe, 49 / 2-3 (2008), pp. 341–364.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Penter: Vita
  2. ^ Penter: Research priorities
  3. Violence Against Civilian Victims on the Eastern Front of World War II
  4. Nuclear Technopolitics in the Soviet Union
  5. Community buildings as common building heritage. Transylvanian-Saxon school, parish and community houses around 1900 and after emigration
  6. ^ René Kuczynski Prize 2011