Karsten Brüggemann
Karsten Brüggemann is a German historian. Since 2024 he has been professor at Tallinn University, School of Humanities. His research interests include history, culture and society.
Topics of his publications include Baltic and Russian/Soviet common history, nationalism in empires, Stalinist culture, the history of sport and tourism, and memory conflicts between the Baltic states and the Russia.
Education
- 2012–2013: University of Giessen, Giessen Center for Eastern European Studies, habilitation with the study a study on the perception of the Baltic provinces in Russian imperial culture published in 2018 under the title Licht und Luft des Imperiums. Legimitations- und Repräsentationsstrategien russischer Herrschaft in den Ostseeprovinzen im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert
- 1994–1999: University of Hamburg, Faculty of Philosophy, History Department, PhD with Die Gründung der Republik Estland und das Ende des "Einen und Unteilbaren Russland". Die Petrograder Front des Russischen Bürgerkriegs 1918-1920
- 1986–1993: University of Hamburg, Faculty of Philosophy, MA in History and Slavic literature
Awards
- 2022: Estonian State Award in Humanities
- 2012: Special prize for best monograph "Tallinn Eine kleine Geschichte" by Tallinn University