Thomas Lahusen
Thomas Lahusen (born April 10, 1945 in Überlingen ) is a German-Canadian Slavist , historian and filmmaker.
Life
Lahusen, a grandson of Christian Lahusen , was born in Überlingen and grew up in French-speaking Switzerland . After graduating from high school, he studied Slavic literature in Lausanne, Geneva and Warsaw with the minor subjects history and linguistics and graduated in 1974 in Lausanne, where he also received his doctorate in 1982. From 1982 to 1988 he worked at the University of Lausanne , from 1988 he was a professor at Duke University . In 2001 he became Professor of History and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto .
Focus
In addition to numerous works on Russian literature and history, especially the Stalin era, he has also emerged as a filmmaker.
Publications
Autour de l '"homme nouveau". Allocution et société en Russie au XIXe siècle; essai de semiologie de la source littéraire. Lausanne 1982.
How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin's Russia. Ithaca 1997. ISBN 0-8014-3394-0
Harbin and Manchuria: Place, Space, and Identity . Duke University Press 2001. ISBN 0-295-95514-7
Web links
- Page from Thomas Lahusen at the University of Toronto
- short autobiography by Thomas Lahusen
- Thomas Lahusen in the film database IMDb
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lahusen, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Canadian Slavist, historian and filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Überlingen |