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Research Areas

History of Eastern Europe (since the 18th century): international relations between Russia, Poland, Germany, and Ukraine
History of Russia and the Soviet Union in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Religious cultures in Central and Eastern Europe since the 19th century
History of science in Central Europe after 1945
Political movements in the Soviet bloc
Transformation history
History of Ukraine.

Current Position

since 2003: Full Professor (C4; Chair) in History of Eastern Europe, LMU Munich.

Previous Positions

1996-2002 Assistant Professor Eastern European History, Univ. Halle (Saale)
1989-1996 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at Freie Universität (FU) Berlin

Education

2002 Habilitation / venia legendi in Modern History and History of Eastern Europe, Univ. Halle (Saale)
1994 Ph.D. in History, FU Berlin; summa cum laude
1989 M.A. in History, FU Berlin (History of Eastern Europe, Modern History, Slavonic literature)

Awards and Honourable Memberships

2022 Member of the Scientific Board of the Czech Academy of Science
2021/22 Richard von Weizsäcker-Fellow, St Antony's College, University of Oxford
2018 Research Fellow at Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UC Berkeley
2014 Visiting Professor at University of Aarhus, Denmark
2010/11 LMU Research Professor (awarded for outstanding performance)
2008 Full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2007 Member of the Centre for Advanced Study, LMU Munich
1994 Fellow at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Science

Active Research Grants

2017- DFG Research Group (FOR) “Cooperation and Competition in the Sciences”, Co-applicant and project leader (Speaker: Prof. Kärin Nickelsen). Subproject: “The Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP): Cooperation Between Ideological Rivals (1970s)”. Sept. 2020: positive evaluation; second funding period granted (2021-2024).
2019- DFG Collaborative Research Center (SFB) “Cultures of Vigilance. Transformations – Spaces – Practices”, Co-applicant and project leader (Speaker: Prof. Arndt Brendecke). Subproject “Guardian of Socialist Morality: Prostitution and Practices of Vigilance in Czechoslovakia (1945/48-1989)”, 2022 positive evaluation, second funding period granted (2023-2027).
2022- DFG Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences / DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe (KFG) “Universalism and Particularism in European Contemporary History” Speaker; with Prof. Dr. Kiran Patel and Prof. Dr. Andreas Wirsching.

Past Grants and Fellowships

2018-2022 DFG Research Grant: (with BSB Munich, Herder Institute and other partners):
“Forschungsdatendienst für die Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropaforschung“ (OstData) (Founding of a comprehensive platform for digitised resources for Eastern European Studies)
2012-2019 DFG Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies of the German Excellence-Initiative, LMU Munich/University of Regensburg (Speaker; DFG Graduiertenschule)
2011-2018 International DFG Research Training Group: “Religious Cultures in Europe, 19th-20th Century”, LMU Munich, Charles University Prague, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Tomáš Masaryk-University Brno (Speaker; DFG Internationales Graduiertenkolleg)
2008-2011 DFG Research grant: “Biographies of Violence: Mass Murder in Ukraine during the ‘Age of Extremes’”.
2007-2009 Research grant: “Migration and Transformation. Documents on the Course and Effects of Displacement, Forced Resettlement and Colonisation in the Czech Lands, 1945-1950”, funded by VolkswagenStiftung
2007-2009 BKM Research grant: “Discourses of Victims' Associations. Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia in Comparative Perspective”, Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media
2005-2009 DFG Research Grant: “State, Companies and Workers in Controlled Economies. Bohemian-Moravian Industry between National Socialism and People's Democracy (1938-1950)” (with Prof. Dr. Hans Günter Hockerts)
2004-2006 Research grant: “Religious and Church History of the Bohemian Lands in the 20th Century” (Renovabis)
2004-2006 Research grant: “European Identity and Eastern European Nation Building: Ukrainian Appeals to European Public Spheres in Comparative Perspective” (Bavarian Research Network for Eastern and Southeastern Europe, ForOst)
2002-2004 Research grant: “Discourse on Forced Migration in EU Accession Countries: Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia (1938-1950)” (Bavarian Research Network for Eastern and Southeastern Europe, ForOst)
2002-2004 Research grant “Czech Civil Society Concepts: Comparative Studies on Basic Concepts of Political Thought” (Bavarian Research Network for Eastern and Southeastern Europe, ForOst)

(In total: ca. 20 mio euro of third-party funding acquired. Grants for travel and conferences not listed.)

Academic Offices at LMU

2022-2023 Member of Support Programme for Ukrainian Scholars, History Department LMU: Fundraising for stipends and scholarships, finding accommodation in Munich for 14 Ukrainian refugee scholars and their families; placement for further ca. 40 scholars elsewhere in Germany.
2014- Member of Steering Committee for the Strategic Partnership Program LMU– UC Berkeley “Research in the Humanities”.
2005/6, 19/20 Acting Director of the History Department, LMU

Academic Functions as Director, Speaker, Board Member

2022 - Director of the Center for Advanced Study (DFG-Kollegforschungsgruppe) “Universalism and Particularism in Contemporary European History” at LMU Munich (with Prof. Kiran Patel and Prof. Andreas Wirsching)
The Center investigates how the interplay of universalist and particularistic concepts has shaped contemporary European history from the 1970s to the present day. It aims at revealing how these concepts have influenced how political and social change was conceived, justified, promoted or even prevented in three different areas: the economy, the religious and the secular, and human rights. The center accommodates annual groups of international scholars on the senior and junior level, who combine their expertise in order to arrive at answers that illuminate the past, the present and possibly the future.
2004 - Director of Collegium Carolinum: Institute for the History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
The institute’s research program covers a wide range of topics in the long history of the former Bohemian and Moravian Lands, today’s Czech Republic and Slovakia. Research staff includes eight senior fellows, six research positions acquired through third-party funding, and five positions for library staff and administration. The institute accommodates a substantial library, and further obligations include the editing of a scholarly journal and several long-term projects, such as handbooks and dictionaries. Its annual budget amounts to 1.3 million euros of regular funding; over the past ten years, this was complemented by successful third-party fundraising (300.000 EUR on average). In addition to the institute’s headquarters in Munich, since 2018 the institute has a branch in Prague (as a result of successful advocacy).
2016-2020 Chairman of the Scientific Board of Historisches Kolleg (IAS for History, Munich)
2014-2021 Co-Founder and Co-Speaker of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission (with Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak, Catholic University Lviv)
2014-2017 Chair: Network of Competence, “Historical Studies in Munich”
2013-2017 Member of the Board of Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau (GHI Warsaw).
2012-2016 Speaker of the German Historical Association (VHD)
2012 - Member of the Board of Deutsches Polen-Institut
2010-2016 Member of the Board of Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschungen
2008-2014 Member of the Board of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity
2008-2012 Member of the Board of Forschungsstelle Osteuropa Bremen
2005-2012 Co-Chairman of the German-Czech and German-Slovak Historical Commission
2004-2011 Head of the History Department of the Institute for East European Studies Regensburg

Editing Activity

2003 - Editor in Chief of Bohemia. A Journal of History and Culture in East Central Europe
2008 - Editor in Chief of Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas
2012 - Co-editor of Geschichte und Gesellschaft
2014 - Co-editor of Remembrance and Solidarity Studies
2013 - Co-editor of the book series “Schnittstellen. Studien zum östlichen und südöstlichen Europa“ (with Prof. Ulf Brunnbauer, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht)
2014 - Co-editor of Book Series “Religiöse Kulturen der Neuzeit“ (with Prof. Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Prof. Miloš Havelka, Prof. Przemysław Matusik, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht)
2018 - DigiOst (with Prof. Peter Haslinger and Prof.Guido Hausmann)
2008-2012 Co-editor of Book Series „Europäische Zeitgeschichte“ (with Prof. Thomas Mergel, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht)

Supervistion of Graduate Students (Pre- & Postdoc)

Ongoing

13 PhD theses as first supervisor)
1 habilitation thesis

Completed

31 PhD theses as first supervisor
3 habilitations as first supervisor

General Teaching Experience

35 years of teaching on undergraduate and graduate level; supervision of numerous BA and MA theses.

International Master's Program "Eastern European Studies"

Since 2003: Principal applicant, head, speaker and architect of a Master's degree program “Eastern European Studies”, which received long-term funding through the Elite Network of Bavaria (“Elite-Studiengang”; www.osteuropastudien.de).
The program is interdisciplinary (history, Slavic studies, social sciences, cultural studies), it is organized as a regional collaboration between LMU Munich and the University of Regensburg, and still ongoing. Since its inception, 330 students have graduated, and the placement record is excellent.
The program entails annual summer schools (2 weeks) in different Eastern European locations, which are often co-organised with local partners. The speaker so far has been responsible for 19 of these summer schools in total, and has designed, organized, and conducted five of them in particular:

Universalism and Particularism in the Foreign Policy of Eastern European Countries, Minsk, September 20 - October 3, 2019
(Post) Imperial turns, Bishkek, Karakol, Toktogul, Arslanbob and Osh Sept. 19 – Oct. 3, 2015
Uzbekistan: Islam in Central Asia from the 19th to the 21st century Tashkent / Bukhara / Samarkand (Uzbekistan), Oct. 1 - 13, 2012
Empires (2007), Vilnius and Nida (Lithuania), July 22. - August 5, 2007
Urban development and urbanization in Eastern Europe, Bratislava/Slovakia, Brno/Czech Republic, Budapest/Hungary, Vienna, Sept. 19 – Oct. 1, 2005

Integral part of the teaching program are project seminars, where students conduct research projects and present them in various genres, including exhibitions, radio features, websites etc. These seminars are taught by different PI, including the following designed and conducted by Martin Schulze Wessel:

Waldram/Föhrenwald (Museum): “Audio Guide for a Place of Remembrance with multiple layers”; October 2018 - October 2019 (see: https://www.osteuropastudien.uni-muenchen.de/lehrveranstaltungen/projektkurse/badehaus_2019/index.html).
Leap Into the Unknown - The Prague Spring as Reflected in the International Press; October 2017 - October 2018 (https://www.osteuropastudien.uni-muenchen.de/lehrveranstaltungen/projektkurse/projektkurs_jg_15/index.html)
Layers of Cultural Memory in Vilnius; October 2008 - Spring 2010 (https://www.osteuropastudien.uni-muenchen.de/lehrveranstaltungen/projektkurse/projektkurs_5_jahrgang/index.html)

Research Training Group "Religious Cultures in Modern Europe"

2009-2017: Co-Chair of DFG International Research Training Group “Religious Cultures in modern Europe” (with Prof. Miloš Havelka; Charles University Prague; since 2014 also with Masaryk University Brno and Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań; DFG Internationales Graduiertenkolleg). (See the website at: https://www.igk-religioese-kulturen.uni-muenchen.de/index.html)
First supervisor of 8 out of 19 doctoral theses completed in total.
Teaching program: joint seminars in methodology, colloquia, summer schools, conferences, workshops. Summer schools designed and organized by Martin Schulze Wessel:

“Collective Identities, Confessional Diversity, and Political Power”, Poznań, June 11-16, 2017.
“Religious Elites: Priests, Pastors, Bishops, Rabbis, and their Religious Capital”, Prague, May 23-28, 2016
“Social Groups and Religion, 19/20th Centuries: Bourgeoisie and Working Class”, Brno, Oct. 4-10, 2015
“Religion in European Democracies, State Socialism, and Empire”, Vilnius, Sept. 28 – Oct. 4, 2014
"Confessionalized Historiography", Poznań, Sept. 8-13, 2013
“Religious Diversity in Polyethnic Dominions in Transformation”, Istanbul, Sept. 9 - 16, 2012
“The Meanings of Religion in the Modern Age”, Olomouc, Sept. 18 - 23, 2011
“Religion and Modernity”, L’viv, September 20-26, 2010

DFG Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies

2014-2019 Speaker of DFG Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies (GS), which was successfully applied for in the German Excellence Initiative (https://www.gs-oses.uni-muenchen.de/index.html). The GS created a framework for graduate studies in historical, cultural, and literary studies as well as social science projects focused on Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and became one of the globally leading research centers in the field.
61 PhD theses were completed in total; 13 of these were supervised by Martin Schulze Wessel.
The GS hosted numerous workshops, seminars, working groups, and a series of annual international conferences; the following were co-organized by Martin Schulze Wessel:

“Studying Eastern and Southeastern Europe as Area Studies: Paradigms - Themes - Methods for the 21st Century”, Munich, October 25-27, 2018.
“The Culture of the Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact: Semantics – Performances – Functions”, Munich, June 2-4, 2016
“Cultural Hegemonies in Spaces of Diversity”, Regensburg, May 7-9, 2015
“Area Studies Revisited - Connectivity, Comparison, Laterality”, Munich, June 12-14, 2014

Activities as Co-Speaker of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission

After Russia had annexed Crimea in 2014, Martin Schulze Wessel initiated the founding of a German-Ukrainian Historical Commission, which started in Feb. 2015 (https://www.duhk.org).
Activities in line with other joint Historical Commissions included collaboration between historians in both countries and the promotion of early career scholars in both countries.
The Commission has organized annual international conferences, four of which were (co-)designed and conducted by Martin Schulze Wessel:

The Holodomor in Academia and in the Public: Ukrainian and European Perspectives, Berlin, 17.-18.9. 2021.
Germany and Ukraine during the Second World War, München, 22.-24. 10. 2018.
Reconciling Post-Dictatorial Societies 20th/21st cent.: Ukraine in International Context, Lviv, 14.-15. 1. 2016.
Revolution and War — Ukraine and the Great Transformations of Modern Europe, Lviv, 28. 5.2015.

Integral element of the Commission’s agenda has been the promotion of Early Career Scholars by means of stipends and workshops. (Co-)designed and (co-)organized by Martin Schulze Wessel:

“Genocide in History and Law”, with Prof. Gelinada Grinchenko, Prof. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz and Prof. Christian Walter, Wrocław, 5.-7. 10. 2023.

When Russia invaded Ukraine in Feb. 2022, Martin Schulze Wessel initiated a lecture series online, where internationally renowned historians have presented their views: “Historians and the War: Rethinking the Future”. The series included a total of 12 webinar events, which were attended by an international audience of several hundred listeners, and became a collaborative project with the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, and the Ukrainian Catholic Univ. of L’viv (see for full list: https://www.duhk.org/historians-and-war). Four of these featured Martin Schulze Wessel:

12. 1. 2023: Discussion with Timothy Garton Ash and Martin Schulze Wessel: “Historians and the War II”.
17.11.2023: Discussion with Ilya Gerasimov, Botakoz Kassymbekova, Yaroslav Hrytsak and Martin Schulze Wessel: "Empires and Nation-States of the Past, Present, and Future: The Russo-Ukrainian War and Debates on Decolonizing Eastern European Studies”.
29.9.2022: Discussion with Yaroslav Hrytsak, Tomasz Stryjek, Serhii Pahomenko, Denys Shatalov, Oleksandr Zaitsev and Martin Schulze Wessel: “Ukraine in Russia’s Historical Politics. Legitimizing Aggression".
9. 6. 2022: Discussion with Timothy Snyder” and Martin Schulze Wessel: “Historians and the War”

Engagement for International Collaboration in the Humanities

All of Martin Schulze Wessel's major research projects (see above; many of them major group initiatives) have aimed at fostering international collaboration in the field.
Martin Schulze Wessel has actively contributed to international historical commissions (German-Ukrainian and German-Czech-Slovak Historical Commission).
As Director of the Collegium Carolinum and Chair of the Historisches Kolleg, Martin Schulze Wessel has successfully internationalized the structures of both institutions, including international members to both institutions’ Scientific Advisory Board (See for Collegium Carolinum: https://www.collegium-carolinum.de/institut/verein/wissenschaftlicher-beirat; Prof. Diana Mishkova (Sofia) joined the Board of the Historisches Kolleg.)
As Chair of the German Association of Historians (VHK), Martin Schulze Wessel introduced the element of international panels, which were collaboratively organized with history associations from other countries. This included panels with British historians at the Historikertag in Göttingen 2014, and panels with India as international partner in Hamburg 2016. The partnership with the historians’ association in India (the first time that a Historikertag partnered with the global south) was initiated, and negotiated, by Martin Schulze Wessel in New Delhi. In 2017, he was invited to the Indian Historians' Convention in return (as keynote speaker).

Between History and Politics: Selected Interventions and Initiatives

2023: “We must do more”. Appeal for resolute support for Ukraine, signed by 70 prominent figures from science and politics, initiated by Claudia Major, Norbert Röttgen and Martin Schulze Wessel, in: ZEIT-online. https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2023-12/krieg-ukraine-unterstuetzung-aufruf-waffenlieferungen
2022: Statement for the German Bundestag on the question of classifying the Holodomor as genocide (https://www.zeit.de/politik/2022-11/bundestag-abstimmung-holodomor-genozid-faq) Public intervention about the Holodomor as Genocide: “Wie Stalin einst gegen eine ukrainische Nation kämpfte”, SPIEGEL Geschichte, 3. April 2022 (https://www.gs-oses.uni-muenchen.de/publications/inthemedia/2022/artikel_spiegel.pdf)
2020: Invitee to a Hearing of the Subcommittee on Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy (Unterausschuss Auswärtige Kultur- und Bildungspolitik ) of the German Bundestag on the establishment of a memorial to the Polish victims of the Second World War, Berlin, October 5. Public intervention on this topic: “Ein eigener Ort des Gedenkens. Warum Deutschland mit einem Denkmal an die polnischen Opfer des Vernichtungskriegs erinnern sollte“, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 27.6.2020 (https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/warum-polnische-kriegsopfer-ihr-eigenes-denkmal-brauchen-16834228.html).
2017 „Ukraine between West and East“: Lecture in the Bavarian State Parliament with State Parliament President Barbara Stamm, Prof. Andreas Kappeler and Martin Schulze Wessel (recorded by ARD-alpha, „Denkzeit“, August 12, 2017)
2017 “Appeal to European governments and the EU Commission to save the Central European University in Budapest”. Appeal organized by Martin Schulze Wessel, signed by 20 renowned academics, including presidents of German science organizations (DFG, Leibniz Association, etc.), published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 20.4.2017, S. 11. (https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/wissenschaftler-appell-eine-universitaet-wird-vertrieben-14978547.html)

Public statements on Hungarian university policy

Opfer im europäischen Machtspiel. Ungarn torpediert die Wissenschaftsfreiheit, und die Europäische Union schaut zu. Die Europäische Volkspartei hofiert Viktor Orbán, die Wissenschaft zahlt den Preis, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 10.07.2019, S. N4
Anschlag auf die europäische Universitätsidee. Den europäischen Universitäten in Sankt Petersburg und Budapest wird langsam die Luft abgedreht. Wo bleibt der Protest ihrer Partner?, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22.11.2017, S. N4
Die CEU in Ungarn. Scheitert der Europäische Wissenschaftsraum, scheitert Europa, in: Forschung & Lehre 5/2017. S. 410/11.
Orbáns Ethnisierung des Bildungswesens, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 5.4.2017

2012-2016 as Chair of the German Historians' Association

Symposia organized as well as public statements, appeals, and press releases published on science policy issues, including the law on temporary academic contracts in Germany, new archive legislation, the implication of ratings and rankings in German academia, etc.
Two conferences were held on the reform of job structure at universities in collaboration with the Junge Akademie, science journalists and politicians (see, e.g., https://www.diejungeakademie.de/media/pages/arbeitsgruppen/wissenschaftspolitik/4a6b753a81-1670257222/konferenz_neue_wege_jun14.pdf).

Selected Keynotes (2022-2023)

“New Paradigms in Ukrainian History”, Lecture at the Conference "Old Wars, New Stories: Ukraine in the Global World", Princeton University, September 20, 2024.
“Russia’s Historical Legacies in the Current War”, Keynote of the Symposium “Challenges of Russia’s War against Ukraine and the Ethical Principles of Sustainable Peace in Europe” organized in the Context of the Munich Security-Conference by Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), the University of Notre Dame (USA) and LMU Munich, Munich, February 12, 2024
“Russia and Ukraine in History and the Present” Lecture with Prof. Gwendolin Sasse at St Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, November 28, 2023.
“Traditions and Caesuras in Russia’s Foreign Policy”, Lecture at the Ceremony for the 75th anniversary of the Gesellschaft für Außenpolitik, Munich, November 30, 2023
„Religion in Ostmitteleuropa – Vehikel oder Hemmnis der Demokratie?“ Institut für Zeitgeschichte, February 2, 2023
„Krieg um die Geschichte: Russlands Angriff auf die Ukraine“, The President’s Lecture Series, Justus Liebig Universität Gießen, January 30, 2023.
„Putins Geschichte. Historische Obsession und gegenwärtige Strategien“, Keynote 52. Römerberg-Gespräche „Ist es das wert? Der Preis von Freiheit und Demokratie“, Frankfurt, Nov. 12, 2022.
„Der 24. Februar 2022 als Zäsur. Wie lässt sich fortan die Geschichte des östlichen Europa schreiben?“, Droysen-Lecture of the Deutsches Historisches Museum and Humboldt University, July,12, 2022 (published as: "Faschismus? Genozid? Vernichtungskrieg?", in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July, 25, 2022, p 6.)

Public Discussion and Outreach (Examples at LMU and Beyond, 2022-2023)

The “Historical Quartet”, where recent monographs in modern history are discussed, was initiated by Martin Schulze Wessel in 2016, in collaboration with the Literaturhaus Munich. Other members include Prof. Ute Daniel (Braunschweig), Prof. Andreas Wirsching (Munich), and a guest member, including Christopher Clark, Gesine Schwan, Herfried Münkler, Sonja Zekri, Jürgen Kaube and others. The event has been held twice a year since 2016 and attracts an average of two hundred visitors.
LMU Science Talk “Science and ‚Zeitenwende‘: The Role of Academia in Times of War”, Prof. Peter Strohschneider and Martin Schulze Wessel, Große Aula, LMU Munich, November 8, 2022.

Publications 2018-2023

Books

Schulze Wessel, M. (2018): Der Prager Frühling. Aufbruch in eine neue Welt, Stuttgart, Reclam-Verlag.
Czech translation: Pražské jaro. Průlom do nového světa, Praha, Argo, 2018.
Schulze Wessel, M. (2021): Zeitordnungen des Prager Frühlings: Erwartungshorizonte und Erfahrungsräume einer gescheiterten Revolution, Köln, Böhlau.
Schulze Wessel, M. (2023): Der Fluch des Imperiums. Die Ukraine, Polen und der Irrweg in der russischen Geschichte, München, C.H. Beck Verlag.

Edited Volumes

Schulze Wessel, M. (2019): The Prague Spring as a Laboratory, München, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht.
Schulze Wessel, M. (2020): Miloš Řezník, Dušan Kováč, Deutsche, Tschechen und Slowaken im 20. Jahrhundert. Materialien für den Geschichtsunterricht, Frankfurt a.M., Wochenschau Verlag.

Journal Papers

Schulze Wessel, M.: The Concept of Empire and German Sonderwege in the Historical Debate about Ukraine, in: Ab Imperio, 2022, 1, p. 91-100.
Schulze Wessel, M.: Osteuropäische Geschichte in der „Zeitenwende“. Konzepte und institutionelle Erfahrungen, in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 2021, p. 536 - 542.
Schulze Wessel, M.: Die Tschechoslowakei. Grundprobleme eines Staates (1918–1992), in: Osteuropa 4-6 (2021), p. 7–32.
Schulze Wessel, M.: Die Vertreibung der Deutschen aus der Tschechoslowakei, in: Einsichten und Perspektiven 1 (2021), p. 60-71.
Schulze Wessel, M.: Zur Singularität des Holocausts, in: Merkur 75 (Oktober 2021), 869, p. 18-26.
Schulze Wessel, M.: Verfassungsbruch und Vertrauenskrise. Ostmitteleuropa in der ersten Welle der COVID-19-Krise, In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft. 46 (2020), 3, p. 550-562.
Schulze Wessel, M.: Geteiltes Leid. Die Haltung der katholischen Kirche in Ostmitteleuropa zur Flüchtlingsfrage, in: Herder Korrespondenz 72 (2018), 5, S. 44-49.

Book Chapters

Schulze Wessel, M.: „Mit der Sowjetunion auf ewige Zeiten - aber keinen Tag länger!“. Emotionalisierung und Ernüchterung in den tschechoslowakisch-sowjetischen Beziehungen während des Prager Frühlings, in: Hélène Miard-Delacroix/Andreas Wirsching (Hg.), Emotionen und Internationale Beziehungen im Kalten Krieg, Berlin 2020, p. 63-74.
Schulze Wessel, M.: Böhmen, in: Andreas Fahrmeir (Hg.), Deutschland. Globalgeschichte einer Nation, München 2020, p. 133-138.
Schulze Wessel, M.: The Prague Spring as a Laboratory, in: Martin Schulze Wessel (Hg.), The Prague Spring as a Laboratory, Göttingen 2019, p. 1-6.
Schulze Wessel, M.: Temporal Orders in the Prague Spring, in: Martin Schulze Wessel (Hg.), The Prague Spring as a Laboratory, Göttingen 2019, p.7-18.
Schulze Wessel, M.: Inszenierte Loyalitäten: Tschechische Deutungen der Habsburgermonarchie und des tschechoslowakischen Nationalstaats am Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs, in: Helmut Rumpler und Ulrike Harmat (Hg.), Bewältigte Vergangenheit? Die nationale und internationale Historiographie zum Untergang der Habsburgermonarchie als ideelle Grundlage für die Neuordnung Europas, Wien 2018, p. 189-199.

Outreach / Science Communication

Russian-Ukrainian War (articles and interviews, refer to this page for links)

"Putin ist ein Gefangener seiner Ideologie"
[Interview mit Martin Schulze Wessel]
Frankfurter Rundschau, Ukraine Extra, 24./25. Februar 2024, S12
Alexandra Joepen Schuster: "Von Zar Peter zu Putins Angriffskrieg. Historiker bei Literarischer Gesellschaft über Russlands Angriffskrieg"
[Bericht über einen Vortrag von Martin Schulze Wessel in der Literarischen Gesellschaft Gräfelfing am 21.2.2024.]
Münchner Merkur, 23. Februar 2024, S. 32
Beitrag zu der japanischen Nachrichtensendung "News Watch 9"
[Interview mit Martin Schulze Wessel]
NHK News Watch 9, 23. Februar 2024
"Überleben: Krieg, Alltag und Hoffnung in der Ukraine"
[Talk-Runde mit Claudia Major, Denis Trubeckoj, Yevgenia Belarusets und Martin Schulze Wessel]
rbb / rbb-Dachlounge mit Natascha Freundel, 22. Februar 2024
"Alexej Nawalny: Er hatte keine Angst"
[Beitrag von Martin Schulze Wessel]
ZEIT Online / zeit.de, 17. Februar 2024
Thomas Thiel: "Ukrainische Nationalbewegung: Das Märchen von der Nazi-Bande"
[Artikel mit Zitaten von Martin Schulze Wessel]
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / faz.net, 8. Februar 2024 (aktualisiert am 18.2.)
"Ukrainekrieg: Putins Endkampf"
[Beitrag von Martin Schulze Wessel]
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / faz.net, 5. Februar 2024
„Deutschland und die Ukraine: Führung wäre jetzt verlangt“.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / faz.net, 2. Januar 2024
"Martina Scherf: Brücken bauen in Zeiten des Krieges. Zu Besuch im Historischen Seminar der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, wo Osteuropa-Experte Martin Schulze Wessel sich Gedanken über Putins Kriegspläne macht."
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 27. Dezember 2023, R 6
"Martin Schulze Wessel, Claudia Major, Norbert Röttgen: Wir müssen mehr tun. 70 Prominente aus Wissenschaft und Politik kritisieren den Ukraine-Kurs der Bundesregierung. Um die Freiheit des Westens zu sichern, sei mehr Unterstützung nötig – jetzt"
ZEIT Online / zeit.de, 14. Dezember 2023
"Konfrontation beim EU-Gipfel: Das wird Orbán nicht verhindern können"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
t-online / t-online.de, 14. Dezember 2023
"Wie sich die Ukrainistik seit Kriegsbeginn verändert hat"
[Feature with Martin Schulze Wessel]
Deutschlandfunk "Campus & Karriere", deutschlandfunk.de, 29. November 2023
"Holodomor in der Ukraine: 'Ein Verbrechen, das nicht vergeht'"
[Podcast with Martin Schulze Wessel]
SZ-Podcast "Auf den Punkt" / sueddeutsche.de, 27. November 2023
„'Putin ist in seinen historischen imperialen Denkmustern gefangen'“
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
LMU Newsroom / lmu.de, 23. August 2023
"Timothy Garton Ashs neues Buch: Am Küchentisch mit dem zukünftigen Präsidenten"
[Rewiew by Martin Schulze Wessel]
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / faz.net, 15. August 2023
"Frieden in der Ukraine? Ende des Korea-Kriegs: Modell für Ukraine?"
[with quotations from Martin Schulze Wessel]
zdf heute / zdf.de, 4. August 2023
"Putschisten ohne Glück". Söldnerführer Prigoschin wollte seinen Aufstand mit dem Verweis auf Motive historischer Rebellionen in Russland legitimieren. Putin konterte mit einer Geschichtslüge
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4. Juli 2023, S. 14
"'Ich halte eine Absetzung Putins durchaus für möglich'"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
Handelsblatt / handelsblatt.com, 28. Juni 2023
"Prigoschin legt Putins Machtverlust offen"
ZEIT Online / zeit.de, 25. Juni 2023
"Russischer Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine: Irrweg oder historische Konsequenz?"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
Das Erste / titel thesen temperamente, 11. Juni 2023
"Die Entdeckung der Ukraine"
ZEIT Geschichte 3/2023: Die Ukraine, Russland und wir, 23. Mai 2023, S. 14-19.
"Putin ist kein Betriebsunfall der russischen Geschichte"
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2. Mai 2023, S. 7
"Putin hat sich gigantisch verspekuliert"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
Handelsblatt / handelsblatt.com, 26. April 2023
"Putin hat eine furchtbare Drohung ausgesprochen"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
t-online / t-online.de, 6. April 2023
"Historiker über russischen Imperialismus: 'Russland betreibt Machtpolitik mit langem Atem'"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
SPIEGEL Geschichte / spiegel.de, 3. April 2023
DIWAN. Das Büchermagazin, über "Der Fluch des Imperiums. Die Ukraine, Polen und der Irrweg in der russischen Geschichte"
[Interview by Niels Beintker with Martin Schulze Wessel]
BR 2 / br.de, 31. März 2023, Minute 40-50
"Milde Blicke aufs Imperium. Russozentrismus? Osteuropahistoriker ziehen selbstkritisch Bilanz"
[with quotes from Martin Schulze Wessel]
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 28. März 2023, S. N4
"Schwachstellen von Demokratien: Macht Geschichte etwa dumm?"
[Conversation between Michael Thumann and Martin Schulze Wessel at the Literaturhaus München]
taz / taz.de, 27. März 2023
"Rückgriff auf vergangenen Glanz"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
Abendzeitung, 24. März 2023
"Russland-Deutungen: Schlausein für Anfänger"
[with quotes from Martin Schulze Wessel]
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 18./19. März 2023, S. 15
"Sollte die Ukraine aufgeben, damit es Frieden geben kann?"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
BR24, 17. März 2023
"Angst vor Russland"
[Podcast with Martin Schulze Wessel]
WDR 5 Politikum - Der Meinungspodcast, 16. März 2023
"Baltische Staaten und Russland: Misstrauen mit Geschichte"
[interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
ZDFheute, 14. Februar 2023
"Putins Strategie der Zermürbung"
Badisches Tagblatt, 31. Dezember 2022
"Vergessene Verbrechen: Welche Fragen die Resolution des Bundestags zum Holodomor aufwirft"
Die Zeit, 8. Dezember 2022
"Bundestag diskutiert über den Holodomor als Genozid"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
MDR AKTUELL / mdr.de, 30. November 2022
"Tod durch Hunger - Bundestag diskutiert über Holodomor"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
WDR 5 Scala - Hintergrund Kultur / wdr.de, 28. November 2022
"Niemand ist unschuldig, nichts ist heilig"
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 15. November 2022
"Faschismus? Genozid? Vernichtungskrieg? "
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 25. Juli 2022
"Lehren der Vergangenheit"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
DAAD / daad.de - Letter 1/2022
"Krieg und Frieden. Vergangenheit und Zukunft der Ukraine"
[Discussion with Kateryna Mishchenko and Andrii Portnov, moderated by Martin Schulze Wessel]
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin - Institute for Advanced Study, 13. Juni 2022
"Ukraine-Krieg: Wie funktioniert Putins Propaganda?"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
WDR 5 Scala - Hintergrund Kultur / wdr.de, 3. Juni 2022
"100 Tage Krieg in der Ukraine"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
BR24 / br.de, 3. Juni 2022
"Це війна не Путіна, а Росії". Німецький історик - про колективну відповідальність і досвід німців ["Nicht Putins, sondern Russlands Krieg". Ein deutscher Historiker über kollektive Verantwortung und die Erfahrung der Deutschen]
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
BBC News Україна / bbc.com, 3. Juni 2022
"LMU-Persönlichkeiten im Gespräch: Sonderveranstaltung zum Krieg in der Ukraine mit Prof. Dr. Martin Schulze Wessel"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
LMU Center for Leadership and People Management, 12. Mai 2022
"Es geht Putin um die Zerstörung der ukrainischen Nation"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
rbb inforadio / inforadio.de, 20. April 2022
"Die Geschichte der Ukraine bis heute: Online-Vortragsreihe für mehr Aufklärung"
[Interview with Franziska Davies und Martin Schulze Wessel]
Deutschlandfunk Kultur / deutschlandfunkkultur.de, 19. April 2022
"Ukrainisch ist ein blinder Fleck"
[Interview with Alexander Kratochvil und Martin Schulze Wessel]
Deutschlandfunk Kultur / deutschlandfunkkultur.de, 13. April 2022
"Historiker befürchten Zerstörung der Archive"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
Deutschlandfunk Kultur / deutschlandfunkkultur.de, 11. April 2022
"Russlandversteher verstehen"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
Bayern 2 kulturWelt / br.de, 10. April 2022
"Wie in Russland ukrainische Geschichte gelehrt wird"
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / faz.net, 7. April 2022
"Wie Stalin einst gegen eine ukrainische Nation kämpfte"
SPIEGEL Geschichte / spiegel.de, 3. April 2022
"Science Diplomacy in Kriegszeiten: Was tun für die Ukraine, wie weiter mit Belarus und Russland?"
[Panel Discussion with mit Martin Schulze Wessel]
DAAD / daad.de, 31. März 2022
"Jetzt geht Putin zu einem Vernichtungskrieg über"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
t-online / t-online.de, 24. März 2022
"Ukrainische Vorwürfe an Deutschland berechtigt?"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
NDR / ndr.de, 14. März 2022
"Krieg in Europa. Putins Angriff auf die Ukraine"
[Panel Discussion with Martin Schulze Wessel]
Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften / badw.de, 14. März 2022
"Putins Krieg - Geschichte als Waffe"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
Terra X, 13. März 2022
"Osteuropaexperte über Putin im Ukraine-Krieg: „Wir müssen uns auf Schlimmes einstellen“"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
Merkur / merkur.de, 10. März 2022
"Alle Projekte mit Russland werden gestoppt"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
Süddeutsche Zeitung / sz.de, 9. März
„Putin betreibt ein Retroprojekt“
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
LMU Newsroom, 2. März 2022
„Putin und die Wissenschaft: Die russische Staatszitadelle“
FAZ / faz.net, 1. März 2022
"Putin und die westliche Welt"
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel and Paul Nolte]
Bild am Sonntag, 27. Februar 2022
„Historische Uneinheiten. Russische Geschichtspolitik – und die Geschichte der Ukraine. Eine Ursprungsgeschichte“
Der Hauptstadtbrief / derhauptstadtbrief.de, 27. Februar 2022
„Krieg gegen die Ukraine. Stimmen zur Situation im Land“
[Podcast with Martin Schulze Wessel]
Bayern 2 Kulturjournal, br.de, 27. Februar 2022
„Putin zertrümmert Russlands Soft Power“
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
NZZ Magazin / magazin.nzz.ch, 26. Februar 2022
„Krieg gegen die Ukraine – Ein historischer Autodidakt, der die Freiheit fürchtet“
Die Zeit / zeit.de, 26. Februar 2022
„Putin wird nicht verhandeln“
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
WirtschaftsWoche / wiwo.de, 24. Februar 2022
„Putins Argumente im Russland-Ukraine Krieg - Possoch klärt“
[Podcast with Martin Schulze Wessel]
BR24 / br.de, 24. Februar 2022
„Was will Putin in Donezk und Luhansk?“
[Podcast with Martin Schulze Wessel]
Radio Detektor.fm, 22.02.2022
„Interview zur Ukraine-Krise: Gefährliches Geschichtsbild“
[Interview with Martin Schulze Wessel]
LMU Newsroom, 16.02.2022

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