Florian

Völker
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Florian Völker

Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam

Office: Am Neuen Markt 1, room 2.17b
Phone: 0331/28991-27

Email: voelker [at] zzf-potsdam.de

Vita

08/2021-03/2022
PhD Fellow on a ZZF scholarship

10/2017 - 08/2021, since 04/2022
Associated PhD candidate at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
(First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Frank Bösch, Second Supervisor: PD Dr. Annette Vowinckel)

08/2018–07/2021
PhD Fellow on a scholarship by the Hans Böckler Foundation

08/2017 – 10/2017
Scholarship from the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam for the development of a PhD project to the 'cold snap' in German pop music since the late seventies

10/2013 – 04/2017
Studies of contemporary history at University of Potsdam, M. A. degree

10/2007 – 11/2013
Studies of history and religion at University of Potsdam, B. A. degree

born 1987

Projects

Ice Age. The "cold snap" in German (pop-)music since the end of the seventies

Associated PhD project

At the end of the 1970s, the Federal Republic of Germany was in a state of flux: Economic cuts and social transformation processes fundamentally changed the German working and living environment. The visible corporate failures and the growing,... » zum Projekt

Publications

Books

Projektgruppe des Belziger Forums e.V., Bad Belzig (Hrsg.): Jüdisches Leben im ländlichen Raum. Spurensuche in der Region Belzig 1933 - 1945, Berlin 2019.

Articles

„The cold German: The thermo-aesthetics of Kraftwerk. On the Obituaries on Florian Schneider“, in: Pop History Blog, 19.05.2020, https://pophistory.hypotheses.org/3378.

(German version also on Zeitgeschichte Online, 11.05.2020, https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/node/58187.)

„‘Für mich war Fotografieren immer Politik und politischer Kampf‘. Ein Interview mit dem Fotografen Paul Glaser in Berlin“, in: Visual History, 25.05.2015, www.visual-history.de/2015/05/25/fuer-mich-war-fotografieren-immer-politik-und-politischer-kampf.

Reviews and Reports

Together with Nikolai Okunew: TINA. Die unvollendete Befreiung einer Pop-Ikone, review of the documentary "Tina" (directors: D. Lindsay & TJ Martin, USA 2021), in: Zeitgeschichte-online, 09.06.2021, https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/film/tina.

Review: Simmeth, Alexander: Krautrock transnational. Die Neuerfindung der Popmusik in der BRD 1968–1978. Bielefeld 2016 / Adelt, Ulrich: Krautrock. German Music in the Seventies. Ann Arbor 2016, in: H-Soz-Kult, 14.09.2018, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-26305.

Conference report: The Afterlives of National Socialist Film, 20.04.2018 - 21.04.2018 Potsdam, in: H-Soz-Kult, 25.06.2018, www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-7766 (gem. mit Julius Redzinski).

Interviews

„Bauhaus ist Punk!“, in: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, 15.08.2019, S. 10.

Lectures