Lutz Niethammer, born 1939 in Stuttgart, studied Theology, History, and Social Sciences mainly at Heidelberg. Professor of Modern History at Essen 1973, Hagen 1982, and Jena 1993, Emeritus 2005. Senior advisor, Imre Kertész Kolleg on Europe’s East in the 20th Century. Visiting scholar at Oxford, Paris, both Berlins of the later Cold War, Basle, Florence, Vienna, and Warsaw. Founding director, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Essen), member, Kuratorium Buchenwald, and government advisor on compensation for Nazi forced labor. His fields include German and European transformations after 1945 and after 1989, social and urban history, oral history, memory and generational studies, and intellectual history.

• Contents: Ego-Histoire? Oral History in Germany West and East – The Perils of Collective Identity – The late Compensation for Nazi Slave Labour – Comparative Reflexions on Postwar German Labour – Soviet Special Camps in Germany – The Continuation of the German ‘Sonderweg’ – Posthistoire or the Post-totalitarian End of History.

Lutz Niethammer, born 1939 in Stuttgart, studied Theology, History, and Social Sciences mainly at Heidelberg. Professor of Modern History at Essen 1973, Hagen 1982, and Jena 1993, Emeritus 2005. Senior advisor, Imre Kertész Kolleg on Europe’s East in the 20th Century. Visiting scholar at Oxford, Paris, both Berlins of the later Cold War, Basle, Florence, Vienna, and Warsaw. Founding director, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Essen), member, Kuratorium Buchenwald, and government advisor on compensation for Nazi forced labor. His fields include German and European transformations after 1945 and after 1989, social and urban history, oral history, memory and generational studies, and intellectual history.

• Contents: Ego-Histoire? Oral History in Germany West and East – The Perils of Collective Identity – The late Compensation for Nazi Slave Labour – Comparative Reflexions on Postwar German Labour – Soviet Special Camps in Germany – The Continuation of the German ‘Sonderweg’ – Posthistoire or the Post-totalitarian End of History.