Tatjana Tönsmeyer

Tatjana Tönsmeyer (* 1968 in Saarbrücken ) is a German historian .

Tatjana Tönsmeyer studied Eastern European history, political science and journalism at the Universities of Bochum and Marburg from 1990 to 1996 . Your most important academic teacher was Hans Lemberg . From 1996 to 1998 she was a research assistant at the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg. In 1997 Tönsmeyer had a research stay at the Historical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava . From 1998 to 2003 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Historical Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 2002 she received her doctorate there with a thesis on the Third Reich and Slovakia in the years of the Second World War. In the years from 2004 to 2006 research stays at the DHI London , at the Humanities Center for History in Leipzig, at the Institute for European History Mainz and at the Institute for Czech History at Charles University in Prague . From 2006 to 2009 she was a research assistant at the Berlin College for Comparative History of Europe. Since 2009 she has been a research assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2010 he completed his habilitation at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena with the thesis Noble rule in rural society. Comparison of Bohemia and England (1848–1918) . Tönsmeyer has been a professor of modern and contemporary history at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal since 2011 . She refused an offer to the University of Duisburg-Essen for a W2 professorship for modern and recent history.

Her main research interests are 19th and 20th century European history. In the 19th century, the focus was on social and cultural history as well as comparative research on nobility (Bohemia and England). In the 20th century, she mainly researches the history of National Socialism , the contemporary history of East Central and Southeast Europe, and the history of historiography and the history of cultures of remembrance .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Noble modernity. Large estates and rural society in England and Bohemia 1848–1918 (= Industrial World. Series of publications by the Working Group for Modern Social History. Volume 83). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20937-7 (also: Jena, University, habilitation paper, 2009).
• The Third Reich and Slovakia 1939–1945. Political everyday life between cooperation and obstinacy. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2003, ISBN 3-506-77532-4 (also: Berlin, Humboldt University, dissertation, 2002). ( Review )

Editorships

• Nobility and politics in the Habsburg Monarchy and the neighboring countries between absolutism and democracy (= studies on the Central European nobility. Volume 3). Meidenbauer, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89975-090-4 .
• with Annette Vowinckel, Jan-Holger Kirsch: Zeithistorische Forschungen 7 (2010), Issue 2: Security .
• with Michael Wildt, Jan-Holger Kirsch: Zeithistorische Forschungen 5 (2008), volume 3: Nazi research after 1989/90 .
• with Christoph Dieckmann, Babette Quinkert: Cooperation and crime. Forms of “collaboration” in Eastern Europe 1939–1945 (= contributions to the history of National Socialism . Vol. 19). Wallstein, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-690-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Tatjana Tönsmeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Tönsmeyer at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal
• Tatjana Tönsmeyer: Occupation Societies . Conceptual and conceptual considerations on the experience of everyday life under German occupation during World War II , version 1.0, in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte , December 18, 2015