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Martin Klimke

Research Fellow
German Historical Institute
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Washington DC 20009
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Publications

Books: Monographs
  • Fighting the Second Cold War: The Lives of Petra Kelly and Randall Forsberg (in preparation).
  • (with Maria Höhn). A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany. New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
  • The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Books: Edited Volumes
  • Accidental Armageddons: The Nuclear Crisis and the Culture of the Cold War in the 1980, with Eckart Conze and Jeremy Varon, eds. (forthcoming)
  • Der NATO-Doppelbeschluss und die Friedensbewegung der 1980er Jahre: Eine Einführung, with Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Wilfried Mausbach, and Marianne Zepp, eds. (forthcoming)
  • Blacks and Germans, German Blacks: Germany and the Black Diaspora, 1450-1914, edited with Mischa Honeck and Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov (forthcoming)
  • The 'Establishment' Responds: Power and Protest Since 1945, edited with Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Joachim Scharloth (New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2012).
  • Protest Cultures: A Companion, Vol. 1: Pragmatics of Protest, edited with Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Joachim Scharloth, (New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming)
  • Between Prague Spring and French May: Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-80, edited with Jacco Pekelder and Joachim Scharloth. (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2011).
  • Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Intercultural Identities in 1960/70s West Germany and the United States, edited with Belinda Davis, Carla MacDougall and Wilfried Mausbach. (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010).
  • 1968: Memories and Legacies of a Global Revolt, edited with Philipp Gassert, (Washington, DC: GHI Bulletin Supplement, 2009).
  • 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-77, edited with Joachim Scharloth. (New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Incl. Teaching and Research Guide.
  • 1968. Ein Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte, edited with Joachim Scharloth. (Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2007; new edition, Bonn: Bundeszentrale fuer Politische Bildung, 2008).

Journal Articles

  • (with Joachim Scharloth), "Utopia in Practice: The Discovery of Performativity in Sixties' Protest, Arts and Sciences," Historein, Special Issue: The Utopian Years: 1968 and Beyond. Movement Dynamics and Theoretical Implications (Athens: 2010)
  • "'We Are Not Going to Defend Ourselves Before Such a Justice System' - 1968 and the Courts." German Law Journal Vol. 10.3 (2009): 261-274.
  • "The African American Civil Rights Struggle and Germany, 1945-1989," Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 43 (Fall 2008): 91-106.
  • (with Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Joachim Scharloth), "Anti-Ritual, Medieninszenierung und Transnationalität: Kulturwissenschaftliche Aspekte von '68 und der Studentenbewegung," Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen, (3/2008): 106-117.
  • "1968 als transnationales Ereignis," Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 14-15 (2008): 22-27.
  • (with Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Joachim Scharloth), "'Macht Happening und schmeisst Genossen raus': Internationale Protestkulturen um 1968 und ihre kulturgeschichtlichen Folgen." Magazin der Kulturstiftung des Bundes 10 (October 2007).
  • (with Joachim Scharloth), "Interdisziplinäres Forschungskolloquium Protest-bewegungen / International Research Forum Protest, Protest Movements, Activism and Social Dissent," Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik (2005).
  • (with Carla MacDougall and Wilfried Mausbach), "Atlantic Crossings? Transcultural Relations and Political Protest in Germany and the United States, 1958-1977," Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, 34 (Spring 2004): 184-18.

Chapters in Edited Collections

  • "A ‘Serious Concern of U.S. Foreign Policy': The West German Student Movement and the Western Alliance." In Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Intercultural Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s, edited by Belinda Davis, Martin Klimke, Carla MacDougall, and Wilfried Mausbach, 105-131. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.
  • "Revisiting the Revolution: The Sixties in Transnational Cultural Memory." In Memories of 1968: International Perspectives, edited by Ingo Cornils and Sarah Waters, 25-47. Bern: Peter Lang, 2010.
  • "1968 als transnationales Ereignis." In Das Jahr 1968 - Ereignis, Symbol, Chiffre, edited by Oliver Rathkolb and Fritz Stadtler, 19-28. Göttingen: Vienna University Press, 2010.
  • "1968: Europe in Technicolour," in: Dan Stone, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
  • "Revisiting the Revolution: The Sixties in Transnational Cultural Memory," in: Ingo Cornils and Sarah Waters, ed., Memories of 1968: International Perspectives (Bern: Peter Lang, 2010), 25-47.
  • "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,  2009), 105-131.
  • Entries "America" and "1960s," in: Akira Iriye and Pierre Saunier, eds., The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 2-3, 33-36.
  • "Revisiting the Revolution: The Sixties in Transnational Cultural Memory," in: Ingo Cornils and Sarah Waters, ed., Memories of 1968: International Perspectives (2009).
  • (with Joachim Scharloth), "Utopia in Practice: The Discovery of Performativity in Sixties' Protest, Arts and Sciences," Historein, Special Issue: The Utopian Years: 1968 and Beyond. Movement Dynamics and Theoretical Implications (Athens: 2009).
  • "1968 en Allemagne," "Rudi Dutschke et le SDS," and "Berlin en 1968," in: Henri Rey and Jacques Capdevielle, eds., Dictionaire de 1968 (Paris: Larousse, 2008).
  • (with Joachim Scharloth), "1968 in Europe: An Introduction," in: Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth, ed., 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1965-77 (New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 1-9.
  • "West Germany," in: Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth, eds., 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1965-77 (New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 97-110.
  • "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.
  • (with Joachim Scharloth), "Interdisziplinäres Forschungskolloquium Protest-bewegungen / International Research Forum Protest, Protest Movements, Activism and Social Dissent," Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik (2005).
  • "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), "Remembering Global Protest: The Sixties in the U.S. and West Germany," in: Conference Proceedings, XIIIth International Oral History Conference, "Memory and Globalization," Rome, Italy, June 23-26, 2004.
  • (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.

Book Reviews in: International History Review, New Global Studies, H-Soz-u-Kult, The Sixties, Werkstatt Geschichte