GHI | Martin A. Klimke

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Dr. Martin A. Klimke

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Dr. phil., University of Heidelberg, 2005
Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow for North American History since August 2007

Current Research Project

The African-American Civil Rights Struggle and Germany after 1945
African American Gis and the Civil Rights Movement Abroad
(joint research project with Maria Hoehn, Vassar College)

Main Areas of Interest

20th-Century European & American History
History of Protest Movements and Dissent
Transnational History
Cultural Transfer

Publications

Books

The ‘Other’ Alliance: Global Protest and Student Unrest in West Germany and the U.S., 1962-1972 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, forthcoming).

Editions

with Joachim Scharloth, eds., 1968. Ein Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte (Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2007).
with Joachim Scharloth, ed., 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-77 (New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming April 2008).
with Belinda Davis, Carla MacDougall and Wilfried Mausbach, eds., Changing the World, Changing the Self: Political Protest and Collective Identities in 1960/70s West Germany and the United States (New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming 2008).
with Jacco Pekelder and Joachim Scharloth, eds., Between Prague Spring and French May: Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980 (New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming 2008).

Articles (selected)

"A ‘Serious Concern of U.S. Foreign Policy’: The West German Student Movement and the Western Alliance," in: Belinda Davis, Martin Klimke, Carla MacDougall and Wilfried Mausbach, eds., Changing the World, Changing the Self: Political Protest and Collective Identities in 1960/70s West Germany and the United States (New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming 2008)
"West Germany," in Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth, ed., 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1965-77 (New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming April 2008)
"1968 en Allemagne," "Rudi Dutschke et le SDS," and "Berlin en 1968", in: Henri Rey and Jacques Capdevielle, eds., Dictionaire de 1968 (Paris: Larousse, forthcoming February 2008)
with Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Joachim Scharloth, "'Macht Happening und schmeisst Genossen raus': Internationale Protestkulturen um 1968 und ihre kulturgeschichtlichen Folgen," in: Magazin der Kulturstiftung des Bundes 10 (October 2007)
"Sit-In, Teach-In, Go-In: Die transnationale Zirkulation kultureller Praktiken in den 1960er Jahren," in: Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth, eds., 1968. Ein Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2007), 119-135
with Wilfried Mausbach, "Die RAF und der Vietnamkrieg," in: Wolfgang Kraushaar, ed., Die RAF und die Reformzeit der Demokratie (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2006), 620-643
"Black Panther, die RAF und die Rolle der Black Panther-Solidaritätskomitees," in: Wolfgang Kraushaar, ed., Die RAF und die Reformzeit der Demokratie (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2006), 562-582
"Between Berkeley and Berlin, San Francisco and Frankfurt: The Student Movements of the 1960s in Transatlantic Perspective," in: Jim Downs and Jennifer Manion, eds., Taking Back the Academy: History As Activism (New York: Routledge Press, 2004), 35-56
with Belinda Davis, Carla MacDougall and Wilfried Mausbach, "Das Fremde im Eigenen: Interkultureller Austausch und kollektive Identitäten in der Revolte der 1960er Jahre," in Jörg Calließ, ed., Die Reformzeit des Erfolgsmodells BRD, Loccumer Protokolle, 19/03 (Pößneck: Bertelsmann, 2004), 173-195