Ulrich Wyrwa

Ulrich Wyrwa (born June 5, 1954 in Leipzig ) is a German historian with a research focus on Italian and European history and anti-Semitism .

Life

From 1975 to 1978 Wyrwa studied history and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg . After studying in Rome in 1978, he completed his studies at the University of Hamburg with the first state examination. In 1988 he received his doctorate from Arno Herzig with a historical-cultural-anthropological study on alcohol consumption by workers in Hamburg in the 19th century. During his legal clerkship, he and the history teacher Ruben Herzberg led a teaching project on November 9, 1938 in Hamburg, which was awarded a prize at the 1988 German History Schoolchildren's Competition. This resulted in his second state examination paper on interviews with contemporary witnesses in history lessons. At the end of 1989 he went to Berlin and was a research assistant at the Historical Commission in Berlin from 1990 to 1992 and from 1994 to 1996 . From 1991 to 1994 he taught at the University of Potsdam , where he completed his habilitation in 2003 with a study on the emancipation of Jews in Tuscany and Prussia in comparison. Since 2002 he has been working at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin , where he heads since 2005, the International Research College to anti-Semitism in Europe (1879-1914 / 1914-1923).

In 2009 he was appointed associate professor for modern history at the university. He also took on visiting professorships at the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main (2008/09) and at the Center for Jewish Studies in Graz (2012).

Since 1992 he has been co-editor of the journal Werkstatt Geschichte , since 2003 co-editor and editor of the journal “ Transversal ” and since 2010 editor of the online journal Quest published by the Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea , Milan . Issues in Contemporary Jewish History .

Fonts (selection)

• Anti-Semitism in Central Europe. Germany, Austria and Switzerland from the 18th century to the present. (Together with Werner Bergmann) Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-22053-3 .
• (Ed.): Objection and defense. The reaction of European Jewry to the emergence of anti-Semitism (1879-1914) . 2010 yearbook of the Fritz Bauer Institute on the history and effects of the Holocaust. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / M. - New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39278-3 .
• Jews in Tuscany and Prussia in comparison. Enlightenment and emancipation in Florence, Livorno, Berlin and Königsberg i. Pr .. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-16-148077-5 ., (Excerpts - online)
• (Ed.): Judaism and Historicism. On the emergence of Jewish history in Europe. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-593-37283-5 .
• Brandy and "real" beer. The drinking culture of the Hamburg workers in the 19th century. Junius, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-88506-507-X .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Wyrwa in the catalog of the German National Library
• University of Potsdam: [1]
• Center for anti-Semitism research: [2]
• The International Anti-Jewish Congresses of 1882 and 1883 in Dresden and Chemnitz. On anti-Semitism as a European movement, in: European History Topic Portal (2009), URL: [3]
• The image of Europe in Jewish historiography of the 19th and early 20th centuries, in: Kerstin Armborst / Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele (eds.): The value of "Europe" and history. On the way to a European historical consciousness, Mainz 2007 (publications of the Institute for European History Mainz, supplement online 2), section 74-93. URL: [4]