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Katharina Böhmer
Historian, translator
Editor of the historical journal "Historische Anthropologie" (http://historische-anthropologie.unibas.ch/)
M.A., History/French, Humboldt-University, Berlin, 2003

Email:katharina.boehmer@unibas.ch

Translations (from English to German):

Academic:

  • diverse texts for GHDI
  • Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings. Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010 (with Karl Heinz Siber)
  • various texts for "Europäische Geschichte online" (http://www.ieg-ego.eu/)
  • various publications of the SFB (collaborative research centre) "Kulturen des Performativen" ("Cultures of the Performative"), Free University Berlin

Literary:

  • Breece D’J Pancake, Stories. Frankfurt am Main: weissbooks, 2011
  • Vanessa F. Fogel, Sag es mir. Frankfurt am Main: weissbooks, 2010
  • Magnus Mills, Die Entdecker des Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2008 (Explorers of the New Century, 2005)
  • Magnus Mills, Ganze Arbeit. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2006 (The Scheme for Full Employment, 2003)
  • Magnus Mills, Zum König!. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2004 (Three to See the King, 2001)
  • Magnus Mills, Indien kann warten. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002 (All Quiet on the Orient Express, 1999)
  • Magnus Mills, Die Herren der Zäune. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2000 (The Restraint of Beasts, 1998)

Research Interests:
20th century relations and cultural transfers between Germany and Britain and Germany and France, political and cultural history in a (Western) European perspective (West Germany, France, Britain and Spain), history of the European integration.