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Marion Detjen

Germany
PhD in History 
Freie Universität Berlin
Marion Detjen attended the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, and then studied European history and German literature and linguistics in Berlin and Munich, where she received her MA and passed her first state exam. She worked for several years as a freelance curator, teacher, writer, and activist, before receiving her PhD from Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation on rescue helpers after the building of the Berlin Wall. 2009 - 2014 Marion worked and taught at Humboldt University Berlin, 2015 - 2107 on a DFG-position at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Center for Contemporary History) in Potsdam. She has been teaching migration history, German history and global history at Bard College Berlin since 2016, and is director of Bard College Berlin's „Program for International Education and Social Change“ (PIESC). She is currently writing a biography on the German-American publisher in exile Helen Wolff. Her historical interests include German post-war history, migration history, global history, the history of publishing and cultural transfer, biography and oral history, gender, and the relationship between the private and the public. Marion is a regular contributor to the column „10nach8“ at ZEIT-Online as part of its editorial team, she runs the „Real Talk“ series on diaspora discourse at the Volksbühne Berlin, and she is a co-founder and board member of "Wir machen das," a coalition of action focused on the migration crisis.

Publications

Monographs:
  • Helen Wolff, Hintergrund für Liebe. Das Buch eines Sommers, edited and with an essay by Marion Detjen, Bonn (Weidle Verlag) 2020.
  • Die Deutschen und das Grundgesetz. Geschichte und Grenzen unserer Verfassung, together with Max Steinbeis and Stephan Detjen, Munich (Pantheon) 2009, Schriftenreihe der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung Band 763.
  • Ein Loch in der Mauer. Die Geschichte der Fluchthilfe im geteilten Deutschland 1961-1989, Munich (Siedler Verlag) 2005.
  • „Zum Staatsfeind ernannt". Widerstand, Resistenz und Verweigerung gegen das NS-Regime in München, ed. by the City of Munich, Munich (Buchendorfer Verlag) 1998.
 
Essays/Articles/Book chapters (selection):
  • „The Germans’ ‚Refugee‘: Concepts and Images of the ‚Refugee‘ in Germany’s Twisted History Between Acceptance and Denial as a Country of Immigration and Refuge“, in: Erol Balkan and Zumray Kutlu-Tonak (Eds.), Global Refugee Crisis and Local Refugee Lives, Oxford & New York (Berghahn Books) - forthcoming.
  • „Patriotismus“, in: David Ranan (Ed.), Sprach Gewalt: Missbrauchte Wörter und andere politische Kampfbegriffe, Bonn (Dietz Verlag) - forthcoming. 
  • „‚At my death, burn or throw away unread!‘ Zum Hintergrund des Hintergrunds“, in: Helen Wolff, Hintergrund für Liebe. Das Buch eines Sommers, edited and with an essay by Marion Detjen, Bonn (Weidle Verlag) 2020, pp. 119-215.
  • „‚Wir schaffen das‘ oder ‚revolutionäres Bewusstsein‘? Überlegungen zur Willkommenskultur 2015“, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte,  30-32/2020, pp. 20-26, https://www.bpb.de/apuz/312830/ueberlegungen-zur-willkommenskultur-2015
  • "Tabubruch und phänomenologische Ähnlichkeiten. Zur Vergleichbarkeit der Fluchthilfe für DDR-Flüchtlinge nach dem Mauerbau und der Schleusertätigkeit heute", in: Zeitgeschichte-online, January 2017, https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/kommentar/tabubruch-und-phaenomenologische-aehnlichkeiten.
  • "Privatheit und Geschlecht in der Kulturverlagsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel des Verlegerehepaars Kurt und Helen Wolff", in: Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien (Ed.), Grenzziehungen von „öffentlich“ und „privat“ im neuen Blick auf die Geschlechterverhältnisses, Bulletin Texte 43(2017), pp. 182-194.
  • „Die ‚Mauer‘ als Erfahrung und Sujet. Deutung und Umdeutung zwischen Mauerbau und Mauerfall“, in: Franka Maubach and Christina Morina (Eds.), Das 20. Jahrhundert erzählen. Zeiterfahrung und Zeiterforschung im geteilten Deutschland, Beiträge zur Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vol. 21, Göttingen (Wallstein Verlag) 2016, pp. 328-385. 
  • „Helen and Kurt Wolff“, in: Immigrant Entrepreneurship. German-American Business Biogrraphies, 1720 to the Present, Vol. 5: From the Post-War Boom to Global Capitalism, 1945-Today, Online platform of the German Historical Institute Washington DC, Fall 2011, http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org.


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Dr. Marion Detjen
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Email: m.detjen[at]berlin.bard.edu
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