Verena Dohrn

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Verena Dohrn (born Oehlschläger, July 25, 1951 in Hanover ) is a German historian, Slavist and publicist who specializes in the modern history and culture of East Central and Eastern Europe, especially Jewish history and culture.

Life

Verena Dohrn is a daughter of Pastor Gerhard Oehlschläger and Elisabeth Wilkening. She grew up in Brelingen near Hanover and attended high school in Großburgwedel . From 1970 to 1977 she studied German studies and history with Hans Mayer at the Technical University of Hanover and graduated with a state examination; The second state examination followed in 1983. She completed postgraduate studies in Slavic Studies, including longer research stays in the Soviet Union, in 1986 with a doctorate on the early autobiographical prose of the Soviet literary theorist and writer Viktor Schklowski with Hans Günther at Bielefeld University . Until 1993 she worked as a freelance writer for NDR and Radio Bremen . During this time, she wrote her first books on cultural history on the past and present of the Jews in the multi-ethnic border landscapes in Eastern Europe Reise nach Galicia and Baltic Reise . Then she returned to academic work. From 1993 to 1995 she researched and taught at the Research Center for Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen and from 1997 to 1999 at the Georg-August University of Göttingen , where she qualified as a professor in 2002 with Manfred Hildermeier with a thesis on Jewish elites in the Russian Empire and in 2009 as an adjunct professor was appointed. 1996–2015 she worked as a lecturer at the Leibniz Universität Hannover . From 2001–2005 she was a freelance researcher and headed the edition project on the memories of the Russian-Jewish historian Simon Dubnow at the Simon Dubnow Institute at the University of Leipzig .

Dohrn initiated and coordinated the international and interdisciplinary research project Charlottengrad and Scheunenviertel from 2008-2011 . East European Jewish migrants in Berlin in the 1920s / 30s at the East European Institute of the Free University of Berlin with Gertrud Pickhan . In this project were Michael Brenner ( Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich ), Karl Schlögel ( European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) ), Matthias Freise ( Georg-August-University of Goettingen ) and Oleg Budnizkij (Higher School of Economics (Moscow)) involved. 2012–2015 she conducted research on Jewish migrants and economic citizens in the Russian Empire, in Germany, Europe, the USA and Palestine / Israel (1850–1950) at the historical seminar of the Leibniz University Hannover with Cornelia Rauh . This resulted in the family and entrepreneur biography The Kahans from Baku . Verena Dohrn has been married to Henning Dohrn since 1971. You have two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Literature Factory: VB Šklovskij's early autobiographical prose - an attempt to cope with the crisis of the avant-garde . Munich: Sagner, 1987 Zugl .: Bielefeld, Univ., Diss., 1986 ISBN 978-3-87690-384-2
  • Journey to Galicia: Frontier Landscapes of Ancient Europe . Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1991 ISBN 978-3-10-015310-4
  • Baltic trip: the multiethnic landscape of ancient Europe . Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1994 ISBN 978-3-10-015313-5
  • (Ed.): Simon Dubnow: Book of Life. Memories and thoughts . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1st volume 2004, 2nd volume 2005, 3rd volume 2005 ISBN 978-3-525-36953-1
  • Jewish Elites in the Russian Empire: Enlightenment and Integration in the 19th Century . Cologne: Böhlau, 2008 ISBN 978-3-412-20233-0 Zugl .: Göttingen, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2002
  • with Gertrud Pickhan (Ed.): Transit and Transformation: Eastern European Jewish Migrants in Berlin 1918 - 1939 . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2010 ISBN 978-3-8353-0797-1
  • with Anne-Christin Saß and Britta Korkowsky (eds.) "... the night swallowed us up". Poetry and prose of Jewish migrants in Berlin in the 1920s and 30s. An anthology . Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2018 ISBN 978-3-8353-3133-4
  • The Kahans from Baku: a family biography . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018 ISBN 978-3-8353-3342-0

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personal data
SURNAME Dohrn, Verena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oehlschläger, Verena (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover