Weltoffenes Volkspolen? Reminiszenzen aus dem Kalten Kriegssommer 1976.

Abstract

Stefan Troebst, stellvertretender Direktor des GWZO und Professor für Kulturgeschichte für das östliche Europa an der Universität Leipzig, hat seine Reiseerinnerungen 2017 anlässlich einer Festschrift für Mark Zybura niedergeschrieben (erschienen 2019 in: Facetten der Nachbarschaft. Beiträge zur deutsch-polnischen Beziehungsgeschichte. Herausgegeben von Basil Kerski, Krzysztof
Ruchniewicz und Sabine Steke).

Biographical Note

Stefan Troebst (SFB1199 & GWZO Leipzig, Germany)

Stefan Troebst studied history and Slavic studies from 1975 on in Tübingen (then West Germany) and at the Free University of (then West) Berlin, Sofia (Bulgaria), Leningrad (today St. Petersburg, then Soviet Union, today Russian Federation), Skopje (then Yugoslavia, today Macedonia), Bloomington, Indiana (USA). In 1984, he obtained a PhD degree in Russian and East European history and Slavic studies at the Free University of Berlin where he also completed his habilitation in 1995. After terms as assistant and associate professor at the Free University of Berlin, in 1992 he left academia and became a German member in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) missions of long duration to former Yugoslavia and the former Soviet Union. In 1996, he was nominated founding director of the Danish-German European Centre for Minority Issues, and in 1999 a full professor at Leipzig University. His research focuses on the history of the subregions of Europe’s eastern half (Southeastern Europe, East-Central Europe, Northeastern Europe and Muscovy/Russia/Soviet Union), on the modern history of Europe, on the history of international relations and international public law, as well as on politics of history and cultures of remembrance in contemporary Europe.