Michael Hagemeister

Michael Hagemeister ( born January 9, 1951 in Ellwangen ( Jagst) ) is a German historian and Slavic studies.

Life

He studied history, Slavic, German and Philosophy in Basel and Marburg and received his doctorate with a thesis on Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov. He worked as a research assistant, guest lecturer and lecturer at the Slavic faculty at Marburg, the Slavic faculty and at the Department of Comparative Literature ( Comparative Literature) in Innsbruck, at the Lotman Institute for Russian and Soviet culture of the Ruhr- University Bochum, at the Eastern Institute of free University of Berlin and the History Department in Basel.

From 2000 to 2006 he was a research assistant at the Chair of East European History at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt ( Oder). From 2006 to 2009 he was a research assistant at the Department of History at the University of Basel, where he worked from Zion to a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation project an annotated edition of the Protocols and materials of the Bernese process to the Protocols of the Elders. From April 2009 to March 2011 he represented in Munich Martin Schulze Wessel and in the summer semester 2011 Karl Schlogel at the Viadrina. Since the winter semester 2012 Teacher for special tasks at the Department of East European History at the Heinrich -Heine- University Dusseldorf. Since WS 2013/2014 Visiting Professor for East European History at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt ( Oder).

Research

His main research interests are: Russian philosophy and intellectual history, utopian and apocalyptic thinking in Russia, anti-Semitism (particularly the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which he presented more than thirty scientific papers ), Russian biopolitical Utopias and philosophical aspects of the Soviet space program. He is considered an expert Sergei Alexandrovich Nilus and Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky. In this Zusammemhang also his work on Imjaslavie, the Adoration of the Name of God in the Russian Orthodoxy can be seen.

Publications (selection )

  • Nikolaj Fedorov. Studies on the life, work and impact. Sagner, Munich, 1989, ISBN 3-87690-461-7 (Dissertation, University of Marburg, 1989; Full text).
  • The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Some remarks on the origin and the current reception. In: Erhard Hexelschneider (ed.): Russia and Europe. Historical and cultural aspects of a century problem. Rosa - Luxembourg - club, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-929994-44-5, pp. 195-206.
  • Materials to Pavel Florensky. 2 vols. Context, Berlin.
  • As editor: History of utopia in Russia. Tertium, Bietigheim- Bissingen 2003, ISBN 3-930717-56-5.
  • Publisher zus with Boris Groys: the new humanity, biopolitical utopias in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-518-29363- X.
  • The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Between History and Fiction. In: New German Critique. Vol 35 (2008), Vol 103, doi: 10.1215/0094033X-2007-020 ( full text, PDF; 4.1 MB).
  • Publisher zus with Eva Horn: The Fiction of the Jewish world conspiracy. For text and context of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Wallenstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-0498-7.
  • Publisher zus with Birgit Menzel and Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal: The New Age of Russia. Occult and Esoteric Dimensions. Otto Sagner, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86688-197-6.
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