Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Director of the Jena Center for 20th Century History
Research project:
“Nobody wants to have been a Nazi”. The aftermath of the Third Reich
(“Nobody wants to have been a Nazi.” The Aftermath of the Third Reich)
Abstract
This monograph in progress is the final volume in the seven-volume series “The Germans and National Socialism”, which has been published by C.H. Beck Munich since 2015 under the editorship of Norbert Frei.
Events:
January 24, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Public lecture
“Nobody wants to have been a Nazi.” Reflections on the post-history of the “Third Reich”
January 25, 2019, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Masterclass
Germans and the Nazi past since 1945 Refusal, commitment and fatigue in the “service of remembrance”
25 February 2019, 7.30 p.m.
Book presentation
Zur rechten Zeit: Wider die Rückkehr des Nationalismus
With Dr. Christina Morina (Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Dr. Franka Maubach (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) and Dr. Maik Tändler (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
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Biografische Angaben
Prof. Dr. Norbert Frei is Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Director of the Jena Center History of the 20th Century. From 1979 to 1997, he was a research associate at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich, and subsequently held the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the Ruhr University Bochum until 2005. Prof. Frei has held numerous fellowships and visiting professorships, including at Harvard University, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Hebrew University Jerusalem. In 2010/11 he was Theodor Heuss Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. He was a member of several historical commissions, including the Independent Commission for Research into the History of Bertelsmann and the Commission on the History of the Federal Foreign Office appointed by Joschka Fischer in 2005. -
Publikationen
Der Führerstaat. Nationalsozialistische Herrschaft 1933 bis 1945. Zuerst erschienen 1987, in 13 Sprachen übersetzt, 8. Auflage München 2013 Vergangenheitspolitik. Die Anfänge der Bundesrepublik und die NS-Vergangenheit. (= Habilitationsschrift 1996) 4. Auflage München 2012 1945 und wir. Das Dritte Reich im Bewußtsein der Deutschen. München 2005, erweiterte 4. Auflage München 2009 1968. Jugendrevolte und globaler Protest. München 2008 (erweiterte und aktualisierte Neuausgabe 2017, 2. Auflage 2018)