Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe

Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe

Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, 2012
Born 1979
Zabrze, Poland
Nationality German, Polish
Education Viadrina European University, University of Hamburg
Occupation Historian
Known for study of Nationalism, World War II, Holocaust, Fascism, Eastern Europe

Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe (born 1979 in Zabrze, Poland as Grzegorz Rossoliński)[1] – is a German–Polish historian based in Berlin, associated with the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin. He specializes in the history of the Holocaust and East-Central Europe, fascism, nationalism, the history of antisemitism, the history of the Soviet Union, and the politics of memory.[2]

Career

Rossoliński-Liebe studied cultural history and East European history at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder) from 1999 to 2005. He worked on his doctoral dissertation about Stepan Bandera and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists at the University of Alberta and the University of Hamburg from 2007, and defended his PhD at the University of Hamburg in June 2012.[3][4] Between 2012 and 2014, he worked on a post-doctoral project at the Free University of Berlin on the Ukrainian diasporic memory of the Holocaust.[3] He also worked as a research assistant at the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies.[5] He is the author of Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist. Fascism, Genocide, and Cult,[6] a scholarly biography of Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera, and an in-depth study of his political cult.[6]

Political reactions

Rossoliński-Liebe was invited in late February and early March 2012 by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the German embassy in Kiev, to deliver six lectures about Bandera in three Ukrainian cities. The lectures were scheduled to take place in February and March 2012 in Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kiev. The organizers, however, were unable to find a suitable venue in Lviv, and also, three of the four lectures in Dnipropetrovsk and Kiev were canceled a few hours prior to the event. The only lecture took place in the German embassy in Kiev, under the protection of police.[7] In front of the building, approximately one hundred protesters, including members of the radical-right Svoboda party, tried to convince a few hundred interested students, scholars, and ordinary Ukrainians not to attend the presentation, claiming that Rossoliński-Liebe was "Joseph Goebbels' grandchild" and a "liberal fascist from Berlin."[8][9] In response to the harassment of his lectures and the threats made towards him during his lecture trip in Ukraine, the petition "For Freedom of Speech and Expression in Ukraine" was signed by 97 persons, including scholars including Etienne François, Alexandr Kruglov, Gertrud Pickhan, Susanne Heim, Alexander Wöll, Dovid Katz, Delphine Bechtel, Per Anders Rudling, and Mark von Hagen.[10]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Yearbook for Research on Antisemitism 22 (2013): 293. The Technical University Berlin" (in German). Humanities Faculty, Technical University Berlin. 2013.
  2. ↑ "Dr. Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Department of History and Cultural Studies, Friedrich Meinecke Institute" (in German). The Free University, Berlin. 2013.
  3. 1 2 Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe "Workspace for Prof. Arnd Bauerkämper, Dr. Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Friedrich Meinecke Institute" Check |url= value (help) (in German). The Free University, Berlin. 2012.
  4. ↑ Christopher Hale (15 March 2012). "Distorted Nationalist History in Ukraine -Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe interviewed by Christopher Hale". Defending History, Vol. VI, No. 2091, reprinted 2 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "Every person has a name – Research guidelines for the VWI-full operation in preparation, "VWI Focus 2011 13" (PDF) (in German). In Focus 2011. 2011.
  6. 1 2 "Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist. Fascism, Genocide, and Cult.". Synopsis. Book reviews by Omer Bartov from Brown University, John-Paul Himka from University of Alberta, Antony Polonsky from Brandeis University, Arnd Bauerkämper from Free University of Berlin, and others. Ibidem Press, Stuttgart. 2014. ISBN 978-3-8382-0604-2.
  7. ↑ Pavlo Solodko (7 March 2012). "Wykład Grzegorza Rossolińskiego-Liebe w Kijowie" [Lectures by Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe in Kiev] (in Polish). Translated into Polish by Wiesław Tokarczuk. Kresy.pl.
  8. ↑ "Ukrainian Academic Freedom and Democracy Under Siege". Algemeiner.com. 1 March 2012.
  9. ↑ Christian Ganzer (23 March 2012). "Viel Aufmerksamkeit für historische Vorlesung in Kiev" [Historical lecture in Kiev receives much attention] (in German). Ukrainian-news.de.
  10. ↑ Delphine Bechtel (2012). "Freedom of Speech on Collaboration by Ukrainian Nationalists against Jews under threat in Ukraine". WinnipegJewishReview.com.

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