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Schlögel, Prof. Dr. Karl
Born in 1948 in Hawangen near Memingen, Schlögel studied philosophy, history, sociology and Slavonic studies at the Free University of Berlin, and at Moscow and St. Petersburg. He completed his PhD in 1981.
In 1990, Karl Schlögel became Professor of Eastern European History at the University of Constance, and in 1994 followed his calling to join the Europa University Viadrina, Frankfurt-on-Oder. In 2003 he was made Dean of the Faculty of Cultural Studies.
Karl Schlögel already made a name for himself in the 1980s as an independent author and academic. Alongside works on the history of Eastern Europe, he was occupied by questions of cultural history. An earlier focus of his work was the confrontation with every day reality in Russia and the Soviet Union. In this, he followed an unusual path for a historian: rather than concentrate on written sources, his observations relied on his perception of built structures and the development of architecture and on his personal contacts in day-to-day life.
Earlier than his historian colleagues, he highlighted the fact that Eastern Europe and Russia belong to the fundamental stock of European culture. He studied politically and economically motivated migratory movements, as well as the every day life of minorities.
In the book “In Space, we Read the Time”, Prof. Karl Schlögel presented a systematisation of his work. In his understanding, alongside theoretical discourse, statistical empiricism and the history of events, the study of history should place more emphasis on descriptions of reality and how perceptions of reality are judged.

Prizes:
1986 Essay Prize of the “Tagesspiegel”, Berlin
1990 European Essay Prize, Charles Veillon
1999 Anna Krüger Prize of the College of Sciences, Berlin
2003 Anziferow Prize of the city of St. Petersburg
2004 Georg Dehio Book Prize of the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe

Publications (selection):
“Reading Moscow” (1984), “The Centre lies to the East” (1986), “The Other Side of the Great October, Petersburg 1909-1921” (1988), “The Crisis of Russian ” (1990), “The Great Exodus. Russian Emigration and its Centres 1917-1941” (1994), “Go East – or The Second Discovery of the East” (1995), “Russian Emigration in Germany. Berlin, the Eastern Railway Station for Europe” (1998), “Berlin and the Urban Network of the New Europe” (1999), “Promenade in Yalta and other Cityscapes” (2001), “Petersburg 1909-1921. Laboratory of the modern” (2002), “In Space, we Read the Time” (2003), “Marjampole, or Europe’s Return from the Urban Spirit” (2005)
Karl Schlögel is co-publisher of the magazines “East Central Europe/L’Europe du Centre Est” and “Rossica”.
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