Monograph reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult (3.11.2025). Summary: Kloiber does a particularly good job using a commodity history of coffee to link together East-West conflict and North-South relations, domestic and international politics, state policies and citizen responses, and the GDR’s four decades of existence with pre-1945 and post-1989 continuities. This concise, engaging monograph thus manages to be…
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Online-Beitrag (Projektbeschreibung) für das Themenportal der Max-Weber-Stiftung Die sozialistische Integration Osteuropas wird im Nachhinein oft als gescheitert betrachtet – doch was bedeutete sie für Zeitgenoss*innen? Besonders zwischen der DDR und Polen gab es komplexe wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Verflechtungen. Der Zoll spielte dabei eine zentrale Rolle: Er kontrollierte, regulierte und beeinflusste den Austausch zwischen beiden Ländern…
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Article published in Central European History 56 (2023), Special Issue ‘Everyday Transnationalism, Global Entanglements and Regimes of Mobility at the Edges of East Germany’, pp. 173-195. doi:10.1017/S0008938922001029. Abstract: The 1945 Potsdam Agreement established a new border between Poland and Germany at the so-called “Oder-Neisse line,” but it left unsettled the question of the maritime boundary…
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Monograph reviewed for German Studies Review 44 (1), 2021 (pp. 208-210). Summary: Taking on Technocracy covers a broad range of developments in the domains of technology, policy, and protest, analyzing them with nuance in the different contexts of East and West Germany. For those wanting to understand why the issue of nuclear power has remained…
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Prezentacja w seminarium naukowym Ośrodku Badań Regionalnych i Obszarów Pogranicza (OBROP) w Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim Pomimo, że NRD zdecydowało o zamknięciu granicy z PRL w 1980 r., a w kolejnym roku został w Polsce ogłoszony stan wojenny, tysiące Polek i Polaków nadal codziennie przekraczało granicę w latach osiemdziesiątych, żeby pracować we wschodnioniemieckich fabrykach. Dla nich praca…
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Project outline presented for DAAD PRIME seminar in Bonn. See also the page devoted to this research project.
Presentation at the “New Transnational and Global Approaches to the GDR Border” international workshop at the University of Erfurt, 10 July 2019.
Gastvortrag für das “Research Factory” des Viadrina-Centers B/orders in Motion.
Presented at the 2018 annual conference of the German Studies Association in Pittsburgh, PA
I designed and regularly teach this second-year module on post-war German history. It examines the social, political, and cultural history of East and West Germany in comparative and transnational perspective.