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Karl Schlögel
born 1948, studied philosophy and sociology in Berlin, Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Professor of Eastern European history at the University Frankfurt/Oder, Germany. His latest publications include: Promenade in Jalta und andere Städtebilder (2001), Die Mitte liegt ostwärts. Europa im Übergang (2003), Petersburg 1909-1921. Laboratorium der Moderne (2002) and Im Raume lesen wir die Zeit. Über Zivilisationsgeschichte und Geopolitik (2003).
Eurozine Articles
Archipelago Europe
Instead of two homogeneous European regions -- "the East" and "the West" -- there are now fragments, enclaves, and islands. From Baden-Baden to Bucharest, Majorca to Moscow, Karl Schlögel experiences Europe as a series of spaces both distinct and connected. [Hungarian version added] [more]
The futility of one professor's life
Otto Hoetzsch and German Russian studies
Otto Hoetzsch, eastern Europe scholar and founder of the journal Osteuropa, was defamed during WWII as a "parlour Bolshevik". His pan-European perspective suffered its final defeat with the division of Europe. [more]
Voyage to Brno
An archeology of the inter-war modern
Central eastern European modernism in the 1930s was an aesthetic declaration of war on the style of the defeated empires. With the resurgence of "civil Europe" after 1989, the White Modern has renewed significance. [more]
Europe tests its boundaries
A searching movement
With the disappearance of the Iron Curtain, the entire system of coordinates in Europe has changed. The East no longer exists; but what has emerged in its place is neither the old nor the new. [more]
Moscow and Berlin in the 20th century
The fortunes of two cities
Moscow and Berlin on their way to becoming global cities. [more]