DOCSLIB.ORG

1 PHILIPP STELZEL CURRICULUM VITAE Department of History

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

PHILIPP STELZEL CURRICULUM VITAE Department of History McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Duquesne University 600 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15282 August 2021 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Associate Professor, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 7/2020-present Assistant Professor, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 8/2014-6/2020 Member, Core Group, A German-American Dialogue of the Next Generation American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC 2018-2019 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 8/2012 – 7/2014 Co-Chair, German Study Group, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 8/2012 – 7/2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University, Durham, NC 1/2011 – 5/2012 Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 8/2010 – 5/2012 Visiting Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 1/2011-5/2011 EDUCATION University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill 2004 – 2010 Adviser: Konrad H. Jarausch Ph.D. August 2010 Dissertation: “Rethinking Modern German History: Critical Social History as a Transatlantic Enterprise, 1945-1989,” Dissertation committee: Konrad H. Jarausch (adviser), Dirk Bönker, Christopher Browning, Karen Hagemann, Donald Reid International University Bremen, Germany 2003 – 2004 Columbia University, New York 2002 – 2003 Adviser: Volker R. Berghahn M.A. May 2003 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany 1998 – 2002 AWARDS AND HONORS Wimmer Foundation Research Grant, Duquesne University 2018 Wimmer Foundation Research Grant, Duquesne University 2017 Research Fellowship, Mercator Foundation, Duisburg-Essen University 2016 Three-month residential fellowship 1 Wimmer Foundation Research Grant, Duquesne University 2016 Wimmer Foundation Research Grant, Duquesne University 2015 Edmund Spevack Award for Transatlantic Studies 2012 Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Munich July 2012 Finalist, Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize 2011 Research Associate, Lasky Center, University of Munich August 2011 – present Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant, American Historical Association 2010 Doctoral Fellowship, Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany 2007 Eight-month fellowship for archival research in Germany Doctoral Fellowship, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC 2006 Four-month fellowship for archival research in the United States George Mowry Dissertation Fellowship, History Dept., UNC Chapel Hill 2006 Students’ Undergraduate Teaching Award, UNC Chapel Hill 2005 University-wide award, selected entirely by undergraduate students Fulbright Scholarship (German Fulbright Commission/ZEIT Foundation) 2002/03 For one year of graduate study at Columbia University DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship 2002/03 For one year of graduate study at Harvard University (declined) Friedrich Ebert Foundation Undergraduate Fellowship 2000-2003 PUBLICATIONS Books: History after Hitler: A Transatlantic Enterprise (Intellectual History of the Modern Age Series of University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018) The Very Last Word: A Cocktail Guide For Academics (under contract with Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2022) Peer-reviewed articles: “The Second-Generation Émigrés’ Impact on German Historiography” in Andreas Daum, Hartmut Lehman, and James J. Sheehan (eds.), The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians (Berghahn Books, New York/Oxford, 2016), 287-303. “Transnationalism and the History of Historiography: A Transatlantic Perspective,” History Compass 13:2 (2015), 78-87. “Working Toward a Common Goal? American Views on German Historiography and German-American Scholarly Relations during the 1960s,” Central European History 41:4 (2008), 639-671. “Fritz Fischer and the American Historical Profession: Tracing the Transatlantic Dimension of the Fischer-Kontroverse,” Storia della Storiografia 44:1 (2003), 67-84. 2 Non-peer-reviewed articles: “Transatlantic Relations, the Liberal Democratic Order, and the Populist Challenge,” American Institute For Contemporary German Studies Policy Report 70 (2019), 7-13. Book Reviews: Heidi Tworek, News From Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900- 1945, Orbis 62:3 (2019). Jan Eike Dunkhase, Werner Conze. Ein deutscher Historiker im 20. Jahrhundert, German Studies Review 3/2014. Christoph Cornelissen (ed.), Geschichtswissenschaft im Geist der Demokratie. Wolfgang J. Mommsen und seine Generation, Francia Recensio 2/2013. Bettina Hitzer/Thomas Welskopp (eds.), Die Bielefelder Sozialgeschichte: Klassische Texte zu einem geschichtswissenschaftlichen Programm und seinen Kontroversen, H-Soz-u-Kult (June 2011) Steffen Kailitz (ed.), Die Gegenwart der Vergangenheit. Der „Historikerstreit“ und die deutsche Geschichtspolitik, and Volker Kronenberg (ed.), Zeitgeschichte, Wissenschaft und Politik. Der „Historikerstreit“ – 20 Jahre danach, H-Soz-u-Kult (May 2009) Gerhard A. Ritter (ed.), Friedrich Meinecke: Akademischer Lehrer und emigrierte Schüler, H- German (October 2007) Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Notizen zur deutschen Geschichte, H-Soz-u-Kult (June 2007) Wolfgang Hardtwig/Erhard Schütz (eds.), Geschichte für Leser: Populäre Geschichtsschreibung in Deutschland, H-German (May 2007) Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Eine lebhafte Kampfsituation: Ein Gespräch mit Manfred Hettling und Cornelius Torp, Sehepunkte 7 (2007), No. 2 (February) Karl Dietrich Erdmann, Towards a Global Community oF Historians: The International Historical Congresses and the International Committee oF Historical Sciences, 1898-2000, H- German, March 2006. Mario Keßler, Arthur Rosenberg: Ein Historiker im Zeitalter der Katastrophen (1889 – 1943), H-German, July 2005. Klaus Große Kracht, Die zankende Zunft: Historische Kontroversen in Deutschland nach 1945, H-Soz-u-Kult, June 2005. Claudia Fröhlich and Horst-Alfred Heinrich (eds.), Geschichtspolitik: Wer sind ihre Akteure, wer ihre Rezipienten?, H-Soz-u-Kult, October 2004. Steffen Kailitz, Die politische Deutungskultur im Spiegel des „Historikerstreits“. What’s right? What’s leFt?, H-Soz-u-Kult, May 2002. Seventeen book reviews for Literaturkritik.de (published by Philipps University, Marburg, Germany): 3 - on historiographical studies: Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Umbruch und Kontinuität, Hans- Ulrich Wehler, Historisches Denken am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts; Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust; Martin Sabrow, Das Diktat des Konsenses; Steffen Kailitz, Die politische Deutungskultur im Spiegel des „Historikerstreits“; Christoph Cornelissen, Gerhard Ritter; Nicolas Berg, Der Holocaust und die westdeutschen Historiker; Christoph Conrad/Sebastian Conrad (eds.), Die Nation schreiben; Martin Sabrow/Ralph Jessen/Klaus Große Kracht (eds.), Zeitgeschichte als Streitgeschichte; Stefan Berger, The Search For Normality. - on 20th century German history: Andreas Wirsching, Deutsche Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert; Michael Burleigh, Die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. - on Austrian history and politics: Evan Burr Bukey, Hitlers Österreich; Robert Menasse, Erklär mir Österreich. CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED TALKS “The Myth oF the ResentFul Émigré” invited talk at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, February 27, 2020. “Émigré historians in the Postwar Transatlantic: Rewriting Modern German History,” presented at the conference Dynamics of Emigration, Epistemic Repercussions: Émigré Scholars and the Production of Historical Knowledge in the Age of Extremes, Institut für Soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, September 19, 2019. “Transatlantic Relations, the Liberal Democratic Order, and the Populist Challenge,” presentation at the Policy Briefing “Global Responsibility: Finding German-American Solutions to International Problems,” Berlin, June 18, 2019. “The Myth oF the ResentFul Émigré: George L. Mosse and the Transatlantic Community oF Historians,” invited talk at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, April 8, 2019 Participant, “Global Responsibility: How Do Germany and the United States Engage with One Another to Address International Challenges,” Second Conference of the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies Conference “A Transatlantic Dialogue of the Next Generation,” Washington, DC, April 1-2, 2019 “History after Hitler: a Transatlantic Enterprise” (book presentation) Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, November 16, 2018 “History after Hitler: a Transatlantic Enterprise” (book presentation) Center for European and German Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, November 15, 2018 Participant, “Global Responsibility: How Do Germany and the United States Engage with One Another to Address International Challenges,” First Conference of the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies Conference “A Transatlantic Dialogue of the Next Generation,” Washington, DC, November 5-6, 2018 Participant, roundtable discussion “The Transatlantic Scholarly Community oF German History: History, Present, Perspectives,” German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September 28, 2018 4 Invited panelist at the Bundestag election 2017 discussion, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, September 19, 2017. “Deutsche Geschichte als transatlantisches Projekt nach 1945,” presented at Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, July 6, 2016 “Prof. Dr. Fischer, or: How German Historians Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Their American Colleagues,” presented at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt, May 30, 2016. Comment, Panel “Political Cultures and Political Institutions in the Berlin Republic: Legacies of the GDR, Weimar, and the Third
Recommended publications
  • Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films from the Weimar Period (1919-1933) Kester, Bernadette

    Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films from the Weimar Period (1919-1933) Kester, Bernadette

    www.ssoar.info Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films from the Weimar Period (1919-1933) Kester, Bernadette Veröffentlichungsversion / Published Version Monographie / monograph Zur Verfügung gestellt in Kooperation mit / provided in cooperation with: OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Kester, B. (2002). Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films from the Weimar Period (1919-1933). (Film Culture in Transition). Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univ. Press. https://nbn-resolving.org/ urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-317059 Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Dieser Text wird unter einer CC BY-NC-ND Lizenz This document is made available under a CC BY-NC-ND Licence (Namensnennung-Nicht-kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung) zur (Attribution-Non Comercial-NoDerivatives). For more Information Verfügung gestellt. Nähere Auskünfte zu den CC-Lizenzen finden see: Sie hier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.de * pb ‘Film Front Weimar’ 30-10-2002 14:10 Pagina 1 The Weimar Republic is widely regarded as a pre- cursor to the Nazi era and as a period in which jazz, achitecture and expressionist films all contributed to FILM FRONT WEIMAR BERNADETTE KESTER a cultural flourishing. The so-called Golden Twenties FFILMILM FILM however was also a decade in which Germany had to deal with the aftermath of the First World War. Film CULTURE CULTURE Front Weimar shows how Germany tried to reconcile IN TRANSITION IN TRANSITION the horrendous experiences of the war through the war films made between 1919 and 1933.
  • Whose Brain Drain? Immigrant Scholars and American Views of Germany

    Whose Brain Drain? Immigrant Scholars and American Views of Germany

    Harry & Helen Gray Humanities Program Series Volume 9 WHOSE BRAIN DRAI N? IMMIGRANT SCHOLARS AND AMERICAN VIEWS OF GERMANY Edited by Peter Uwe Hohendahl Cornell University American Institute for Contemporary German Studies The Johns Hopkins University Harry & Helen Gray Humanities Program Series Volume 9 WHOSE BRAIN DRAIN? IMMIGRANT SCHOLARS AND AMERICAN VIEWS OF GERMANY Edited by Peter Uwe Hohendahl Cornell University The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) is a center for advanced research, study and discussion on the politics, culture and society of the Federal Republic of Germany. Established in 1983 and affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University but governed by its own Board of Trustees, AICGS is a privately incorporated institute dedicated to independent, critical and comprehensive analysis and assessment of current German issues. Its goals are to help develop a new generation of American scholars with a thorough understanding of contemporary Germany, deepen American knowledge and understanding of current German developments, contribute to American policy analysis of problems relating to Germany, and promote interdisciplinary and comparative research on Germany. Executive Director: Jackson Janes Board of Trustees, Cochair: Fred H. Langhammer Board of Trustees, Cochair: Dr. Eugene A. Sekulow The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) alone. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. ©2001 by the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies ISBN 0-941441-55-5 This Humanities Program Volume is made possible by the Harry & Helen Gray Humanities Program. Additional copies are available for $5.00 to cover postage and handling from the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Suite 420, 1400 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
  • University of Queensland Press St

    University of Queensland Press St

    UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND PRESS ST. LUCIA The War Aims of Imperial Germany: Professor Fritz Fischer and his Critics by JOHN A. MOSES Price: $1.40 University of Queensland Papers Departments of Government and History Volume I Number 4 UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND PRESS St. Lucia 24 September 1968 WHOLLY SET UP AND PRINTED IN AUSTRALIA BY WATSON FERGUSON AND COMPANY, BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND 1968 REGISTERED IN AUSTRALIA FOR TRANSMISSION BY POST AS A BOOK FOREWORD The author's aim in presenting this monograph on the war aims of Imperial Germany is twofold : in the firstplace it is vitally necessary for Australian students to be informed of new developments in all branches of scholarly research performed overseas otherwise our standards will lag behind those of Europe and North America. As a student in German universities from 1961 to 1965 the author was able to witness the current war-guilt debate at first hand and was impressed by the fact that even in such a heavily worked over topic as the First World War, dramatic new evidence was still being unearthed. The second reason for this monograph on the debate is to point up its significance for the historical discipline in general. It shows that "facts" can be interpreted in many different lights and that as Oscar Wilde once pointed out the truth is rarely pure and never simple. In other words the debate shows that it is unwise to be dogmatic about anything in history if only because there is rarely a situation where all the relevant facts are available. And finally, the debate, since it is being carried on largely by German historians, represents a case study as to how false and incomplete images of the past can dominate people's beliefs, attitudes and behaviour, especially in political matters.
  • Bibliografie Zu „Good Bye Bayern – Grüß Gott America“ Auswanderung Nach Amerika

    Bibliografie Zu „Good Bye Bayern – Grüß Gott America“ Auswanderung Nach Amerika

    Bibliografie zu „Good Bye Bayern – Grüß Gott America“ Auswanderung nach Amerika Bass Michael: Das „Goldene Tor“: Die Entwicklung des Einwanderungsrechts der USA, Berlin 1990. (Gesetze) Nagler Jörg: Nationale Minoritäten im Krieg: „Feindliche Ausländer“ und die amerikanische Heimatfront während des Ersten Weltkriegs, Hamburg 2000. (Erster Weltkrieg, Kriege, Gesetze) Freeden, Hermann von / Smolka Georg (Hg.): Auswanderer. Bilder und Skizzen aus der Geschichte der deutschen Auswanderung, Weimar 1937 (Überblick) Oetgen, Jerome: An American Abbot. Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B. 1809-1997, 2. überarbeitete Auflage, o. O. 1997. (Benediktiner, Klöster, Kirchen, Biografien) Girgen, Incarnata: Behind the Beginnings. Benedictine Women in America, St. Joseph/Minn. 1981. (Benediktiner, Klöster, Kirchen, Frauen, Katholische Kirche) Hollermann, Ephrem: The Reshaping of a Tradition. American Benedictine Women, 1852- 1881. St. Joseph/Minn., 1994 (Benediktiner, Klöster, Kirche, Frauen, Katholische Kirche) Hennesey, James: American Catholics. A History of the Roman Catholic Community in the United States, New York 1981. (Benediktiner, Klöster, Kirchen, Frauen, Katholische Kirche) Längin, Bernd G.: Germantown – auf deutschen Spuren in Nordamerika. Wege und Wandlungen. Die Deutschen in der Welt heute, hg. vom Verein für das Deutschtum im Ausland e.V., Bonn 1983 (Schriftenreihe zu Fragen der Deutschen im Ausland 3) (Frankenmuth, München, deutsche Siedlungsgründungen, Städte, Germantown) Just, Michael / Bretting, Agnes / Bickelmann. Hartmut: Auswanderung und Schiffahrtsinteressen. „Little Germanies“ in New York, Stuttgart 1992 (Von Deutschland nach Amerika, Bd. 5) (New York, Reedereien, Agenturen, Vereine, Deutsche Stadtviertel, ) Zellfelder, Friedrich: Die Nordamerikaauswanderung aus Nürnberg im 19. Jh. bis 1871 unter personengeschichtlichen und quellentechnischen Aspekten, Zulassungsarbeit Bamberg 1987/88. (Nürnberg, Heimatstädte, Schriftquellen, Franken) Adams, Willi P. (Hg.): Die deutschsprachige Auswanderung in die Vereinigten Staaten.
  • Stunde Null: the End and the Beginning Fifty Years Ago." Their Contributions Are Presented in This Booklet

    Stunde Null: the End and the Beginning Fifty Years Ago." Their Contributions Are Presented in This Booklet

    STUNDE NULL: The End and the Beginning Fifty Years Ago Occasional Paper No. 20 Edited by Geoffrey J. Giles GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE WASHINGTON, D.C. STUNDE NULL The End and the Beginning Fifty Years Ago Edited by Geoffrey J. Giles Occasional Paper No. 20 Series editors: Detlef Junker Petra Marquardt-Bigman Janine S. Micunek © 1997. All rights reserved. GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE 1607 New Hampshire Ave., NW Washington, DC 20009 Tel. (202) 387–3355 Contents Introduction 5 Geoffrey J. Giles 1945 and the Continuities of German History: 9 Reflections on Memory, Historiography, and Politics Konrad H. Jarausch Stunde Null in German Politics? 25 Confessional Culture, Realpolitik, and the Organization of Christian Democracy Maria D. Mitchell American Sociology and German 39 Re-education after World War II Uta Gerhardt German Literature, Year Zero: 59 Writers and Politics, 1945–1953 Stephen Brockmann Stunde Null der Frauen? 75 Renegotiating Women‘s Place in Postwar Germany Maria Höhn The New City: German Urban 89 Planning and the Zero Hour Jeffry M. Diefendorf Stunde Null at the Ground Level: 105 1945 as a Social and Political Ausgangspunkt in Three Cities in the U.S. Zone of Occupation Rebecca Boehling Introduction Half a century after the collapse of National Socialism, many historians are now taking stock of the difficult transition that faced Germans in 1945. The Friends of the German Historical Institute in Washington chose that momentous year as the focus of their 1995 annual symposium, assembling a number of scholars to discuss the topic "Stunde Null: The End and the Beginning Fifty Years Ago." Their contributions are presented in this booklet.
  • Georg G. Iggers §

    Georg G. Iggers §

    ᐖಮጱࡒ਷੹ ጱ೚ి ¡ ¢ £¤ ¢ ¥ ¦ ¨ © Georg G. Iggers § ¦ !" # $ %%& Weinmann Lecture § ;< ,-./ 0 $ , $3 4 3 4 9 : = >? @A * + * 1 2+ % 8 B '( ) () 5 67 CD V D E GHI M N $OEP R 0ST SU Y Z % JKL WX *B F ) 7 Q D [ $ ,\ ^ _ ab c e $gh ijkl Ym Z [ $n o 12+ ] B 7` d f 7 D ,s ${ | } ~ s p + X y z 5 d 7 dr 7tu v w x Q 11 q ;< D p $ s $ -s L %% L ( 5 5 6 1945 D ;< < ¥ } $ i $¡ ¢ £ 8 X % ' 5 ¦ d¤ § ¨ 7 Q ;< , > $ ® $ S±²Y e 0 «0 ¬ & ´ * + % ­ ¯ ° 1 2 ©ª) ª f ³ w x 7 Q ;< µ {¶,· ¸s ¹ µ { $[º P P$p $¾ »p¼ X ´ L ½ ¨ ³ 1 Q D ¿ p Ä!" $Å Æ R ¬ ÊË É STS 1 2 ÀÁ ª È ÂÃu 7 Ç d Q Í ;< ¬Ì i$ 0 ¬ $¾¿ ÏÐ $ > Pp $ p ­ L Ñ Î ª 7 Ç d Q µ {¶,Õ ØÙ Ê > Ú oÚ É R ÒÓÔ 12 ´ X X12Ö × ª ' È dr Q ;< ÛT Ó [ Y X + ( Q CD D ;< s p ? > { ÞSÓÏ ßà áâ % 1 2 & ã1 2ä X ÁÜ Ý 7 ³ w x D å ç S è s P Ië P ./0s îâ P X % 2 ° í y æ ÁÜ é ê ì ï 7 Q $ðÆ P gh ô i P I ë S á ¸õs Pö ë í& ò % ° ã ° 1 2 1 2 ó ì § ñ ¨ 7 Q ÷ Pøùpõ ú s Pö ë÷û øùp îâ - ý | c ú¸õ µ 1 2 ÖüJ ­ 1 2ÿ þ t Q £ ¤ £§¨ £ s $Ù ô ùõ¡ J© 1 2 ¥ ¦ Ü Q 20 ¢ 20 p Ó $ ¦ 1 2 81 2 1 2+ § ¨ ¨ Q Jüdische Lehrhaus § ¦ -!" ¦ $ ¦ s Ö Ö J# Ö ¨ ¨ Q § § Jüdische Verlag § Philo Verlag Schocken Verlag 1933 D D % )* ô i ç Y Z - ® % 1 2 &'( & +, ° 1 2Ö × .
  • 1999 Fritz Stern FRIEDENSPREIS DES DEUTSCHEN BUCHHANDELS

    1999 Fritz Stern FRIEDENSPREIS DES DEUTSCHEN BUCHHANDELS

    1999 Fritz Stern FRIEDENSPREIS DES DEUTSCHEN BUCHHANDELS Bronislaw Geremek Außenminister der Republik Polen _________________________________ Laudatio Es ist mir eine besondere Ehre, heute aus konnte, oder dem Land, das mich gütigst aufge- Anlass der Verleihung eines der großartigsten nommen hat?«. Bei seiner Selbstbestimmung deutschen und europäischen Preise an den her- bezieht sich Fritz Stern auf Deutschland und vorragenden Historiker Fritz Stern vor diesem Amerika. Publikum sprechen zu dürfen. Ich halte es für Deutschland ist das Land seiner Kindheit. bedeutungsvoll und symbolträchtig, dass gerade Er wurde in Breslau in einer jüdischen Familie, jetzt, wo die Magie der runden Jahreszahlen uns die seit zwei Generationen assimiliert war, gebo- zur Reflexion über das nächste Jahrhundert und ren. 1938, im Alter von zwölf Jahren, verlässt Jahrtausend verleitet, ein Historiker mit diesem Fritz Stern mit seinen Eltern Deutschland und Preis ausgezeichnet wurde. Paul Valery sagte gelangt in die USA. Er bewundert die Dichtung einst, die Geschichte sei eines der gefährlichsten Heinrich Heines und spricht kein Wort Englisch. Gifte, die die Chemie des Intellekts erzeugt Wie seine Urgroßväter, Großväter und sein Va- habe. Diese bitteren Worte sind am Ende des 20. ter sollte er Arzt werden, »aber erlebte Ge- Jahrhunderts von einer gewichtigen Aussage- schichte, der Bann der Zeit« lenkten ihn in eine kraft. Der große Historikerstreit in Deutschland andere Richtung. Er wurde zum Historiker der und anderswo scheint sie zu bestätigen. Man- Selbstzerstörung Deutschlands, deren Ursprung cherorts erliegt manch einer der Versuchung, er in den Jahren, die dem Ersten Weltkrieg vor- sich von der Geschichte abzuwenden, keine Ver- angingen, erblickte. Vielleicht tat er dies, weil antwortung für die Vergangenheit zu überneh- der Historiker zugleich in der Gegenwart und in men, will sich mit der Suche, um das Gesche- der Vergangenheit zu leben versteht.
  • Download the Transcript

    Download the Transcript

    GERMANY-2021/03/09 1 THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION WEBINAR US-GERMAN AND TRANS-ATLANTIC RELATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: LAUNCH OF THE FRITZ STERN CHAIR Washington, D.C. Tuesday, March 9, 2021 PARTICIPANTS: Welcome and Introduction: JOHN R. ALLEN President The Brookings Institution Keynote Remarks: HEIKO MAAS Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Federal Republic of Germany Panel Discussion: EMILY HABER Ambassador Federal Republic of Germany FIONA HILL Robert Bosch Senior Fellow Center on the United States and Europe The Brookings Institution CONSTANZE STELZENMÜLLER Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Trans-Atlantic Relations Senior Fellow, Center on the United States and Europe The Brookings Institution SUZANNE MALONEY Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy The Brookings Institution * * * * * ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 1800 Diagonal Road, Suite 600 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 GERMANY-2021/03/09 2 P R O C E E D I N G S GENERAL ALLEN: Well good morning, to our dear friends coming to us from across the Atlantic in Germany, good afternoon. For those of you who I have not met, I'm John Allen and I'm the president of The Brookings Institution. And on behalf of The Brookings Institution it is my sincere pleasure to welcome you to this inaugural event for Brookings, the first event of the Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic relations. It's also my honor to introduce German foreign minister -- Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas, who in a few minutes we'll give the floor for a keynote address launching the Fritz Stern Chair.
  • 4. the Nazis Take Power

    4. the Nazis Take Power

    4. The Nazis Take Power Anyone who interprets National Socialism as merely a political movement knows almost nothing about it. It is more than a religion. It is the determination to create the new man. ADOLF HITLER OVERVIEW Within weeks of taking office, Adolf Hitler was altering German life. Within a year, Joseph Goebbels, one of his top aides, could boast: The revolution that we have made is a total revolution. It encompasses every aspect of public life from the bottom up… We have replaced individuality with collective racial consciousness and the individual with the community… We must develop the organizations in which every individual’s entire life will be regulated by the Volk community, as represented by the Party. There is no longer arbitrary will. There are no longer any free realms in which the individual belongs to himself… The time of personal happiness is over.1 How did Hitler do it? How did he destroy the Weimar Republic and replace it with a totalitarian government – one that controls every part of a person’s life? Many people have pointed out that he did not destroy democracy all at once. Instead, he moved gradually, with one seemingly small compromise leading to another and yet another. By the time many were aware of the danger, they were isolated and alone. This chapter details those steps. It also explores why few Germans protested the loss of their freedom and many even applauded the changes the Nazis brought to the nation. Historian Fritz Stern offers one answer. “The great appeal of National Socialism – and perhaps of every totalitarian dictatorship in this century – was the promise of absolute authority.
  • Fritz Fischer University of Northern Colorado College of Humanities and Social Sciences (970) 351-2263 Email: Fritz.Fischer@Unco.Edu

    Fritz Fischer University of Northern Colorado College of Humanities and Social Sciences (970) 351-2263 Email: [email protected]

    Fritz Fischer University of Northern Colorado College of Humanities and Social Sciences (970) 351-2263 Email: [email protected] Education PhD, Northwestern University, 1994. Area of Study: 20th Century U.S. Diplomatic/Cultural MA, Stanford University, 1985. Area of Study: 20th Century United States BA, Stanford University, 1984. Area of Study: U.S., Modern Europe Professional Academic Experience Professor, University of Northern Colorado. (2004 - Present). Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado. (1999 - 2004). Assistant Professor, University of Northern Colorado. (1995 - 1999). Seminar Moderator, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. (1992 - 1994). Lecturer, Northwestern University. (1992 - 1994). Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University. (1990 - 1992). Teacher, "I Have A Dream" Foundation. (1990). Teacher of History, Crystal Springs Uplands School. (1985 - 1989). Teaching Assistant, Menlo-Atherton High School. (1984 - 1985). RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP, AND CREATIVE WORKS Publications Juried Book Chapter Fischer, F. (2017). “Teaching Revolution, Reform and Rebellion (and those who seek to prevent it)”. In Gordon Andrews and Yosay Wangdi (Ed.), The Role of Agency and Memory in Historical Understanding. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. Klein, P., Fischer, F. (2000). The implications of new research and scholarship in history and geography for undergraduate and teacher education. In S. W. Bednarz and R. S. Bednarz (Ed.), Social Science on the Frontier: New Horizons in History and Geography (pp. 67–86). Boulder, CO: Social Science Education Consortium. Report Generated on July 16, 2018 Page 494 of 1526 Non-juried Journal Article Fischer, F. (2015). Student Protest, Historical Thinking and Anti-Historians: Some context on the Jeffco APUSH Debate. Social Education, 79(5). Fischer, F. (2013).
  • Ostpolitik Und Geschichtsbewußtsein in Deutschland Zu Reden

    Ostpolitik Und Geschichtsbewußtsein in Deutschland Zu Reden

    VIERTELJAHRSHEFTE FÜR ZEITGESCHICHTE 34. Jahrgang 1986 Heft 2 DIETRICH GEYER OSTPOLITIK UND GESCHICHTSBEWUSSTSEIN IN DEUTSCHLAND* Stuttgart ist kein schlechter Platz, um über Ostpolitik und Geschichtsbewußtsein in Deutschland zu reden. Hier, in der Stadt und im Land ringsum, gibt es viele Zeugnisse und Erinnerungen, die dazu verführen könnten, mein Thema in der württembergischen Landesgeschichte sozusagen aufzuheben - ich möchte nicht sagen: im Hegeischen Ver­ stande, denn das hieße, den Lokalpatriotismus übertreiben. Zu denken wäre vorab an die, die im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert als bäuerliche Kolonisten, Handwerker, Gelehrte, auch als Soldaten nach dem Osten und Südosten gingen. Zu denken wäre an die Kathari- nenstraßen, die Olgastraßen, Olgahöhen, Olgahaine, die Württemberg noch heute überziehen - Spuren aus einer Zeit, in der Stuttgart noch Prinzessinnen aus Rußland be­ zog und zwei von ihnen gar zu Königinnen machte: Ostpolitik als Heiratspolitik, in die Familiengeschichte der Herrscherhäuser eingelassen. Und eine Kaiserin aus Württem­ berg gab es in Rußland natürlich auch: Marija Fjodorovna, Prinzessin Sophie Dorothée, Tochter des Herzogs Friedrich Eugen, Gemahlin des unglücklichen Kaisers Paul, Mut­ ter zweier Zaren, Alexanders I. und Nikolajs L, Mutter auch der württembergischen Königin Katharina, die als Gemahlin Wilhelms I. nach Stuttgart kam1. Ungleich wichtiger aber wäre, das liberale Württemberg in Erinnerung zu rufen, Württemberg im Vormärz als Zentrum deutscher Polenschwärmerei und Russen­ angst. Die russischen Diplomaten und Agenten damals in Stuttgart kannten die auf­ sässigen Köpfe im Lande genau, auch verdächtige Professoren und Studenten der Tü­ binger Universität, ja sie kannten sie mitunter besser, als es der hiesigen Polizei eigentlich hätte lieb sein dürfen. Und später dann waren sogar die neuen, die im We- berschen Sinn modernen Revolutionäre hier: Lenins berühmtes Pamphlet „Was tun?" erschien in russischer Sprache 1902 im Stuttgarter Verlag von J.W.
  • CRITICAL SOCIAL HISTORY AS a TRANSATLANTIC ENTERPRISE, 1945-1989 Philipp Stelzel a Dissertatio

    CRITICAL SOCIAL HISTORY AS a TRANSATLANTIC ENTERPRISE, 1945-1989 Philipp Stelzel a Dissertatio

    RETHINKING MODERN GERMAN HISTORY: CRITICAL SOCIAL HISTORY AS A TRANSATLANTIC ENTERPRISE, 1945-1989 Philipp Stelzel A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of the Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History Chapel Hill 2010 Approved by: Adviser: Dr. Konrad H. Jarausch Reader: Dr. Dirk Bönker Reader: Dr. Christopher Browning Reader: Dr. Karen Hagemann Reader: Dr. Donald Reid © 2010 Philipp Stelzel ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ii ABSTRACT PHILIPP STELZEL: Rethinking Modern German History: Critical Social History as a Transatlantic Enterprise, 1945-1989 (under the direction of Konrad H. Jarausch) My dissertation “Rethinking Modern German History: Critical Social History as a Transatlantic Enterprise, 1945-1989” analyzes the intellectual exchange between German and American historians from the end of World War II to the 1980s. Several factors fostered the development of this scholarly community: growing American interest in Germany (a result of both National Socialism and the Cold War); a small but increasingly influential cohort of émigré historians researching and teaching in the United States; and the appeal of American academia to West German historians of different generations, but primarily to those born between 1930 and 1940. Within this transatlantic intellectual community, I am particularly concerned with a group of West German social historians known as the “Bielefeld School” who proposed to re-conceptualize history as Historical Social Science (Historische Sozialwissenschaft). Adherents of Historical Social Science in the 1960s and early 1970s also strove for a critical analysis of the roots of National Socialism. Their challenge of the West German historical profession was therefore both interpretive and methodological.