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Ulrich Pfeil (born 13 May 1966) is a German historian based in France.


Life

Born in Hamburg Pfeil grew up in Heide (Holstein) and took the
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at the in 1985. After his military service he studied
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,
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and history at the
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from 1987 to 1993. In 1989/90 he worked as Foreign Language Assistant in Lure in France. Between 1993 and 1995 he completed his legal clerkship at the Elsensee-Gymnasium in
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. After the second
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he taught at the grammar school
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in 1995/96. In 1995 he was appointed to the Department of History at the University of Hamburg with a dissertation on ''Vom Kaiserreich ins Dritte Reich. Die Kreisstadt Heide/Holstein 1890–1933''. From 1996 to 2002, Pfeil was a
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-Lektor at the Institut d'Allemand of
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) of the
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. A scholarship from the
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enabled him to study at the Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III in 2002 on the topic ''Die anderen deutsch-französischen Beziehungen. The DDR and France 1949-1990'' led him to
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. Between 2002 and 2009 he worked at the
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and in 2003 he took a visiting professorship at the 1st Franco-German cycle of the
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Paris in Nancy. Pfeil was Professor of German Studies at the
Jean Monnet University Jean Monnet University ( or ) is a public research university based in Saint-Étienne, France. It is under the Academy of Lyon and belongs to the administrative entity denominated University of Lyon, which gathers different schools in Lyon and S ...
in
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from 2005 to 2010. On September 1, 2010, he received a call to the University of Metz, which was merged with the
University of Lorraine The University of Lorraine (), abbreviated as UL, is a public research university based in Lorraine, Grand Est region, France. It was created on 1 January 2012, by the merger of Henri Poincaré University, Nancy 2 University, Paul Verlaine Un ...
in 2012. His main research interests in the field of modern and contemporary history are, besides studies on German and French Culture of Remembrance, the France-Germany relations in History and topicality the history of Europe, Germany in
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, the history of German and international
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and the
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Landesgeschichte in the 19th and 20th century. He has also co-edited the German-French History Book ''Histoire/Geschichte'' He is also interested in the history of football, especially for those of
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. He also writes in the press on current issues of Franco-German relations and the political development in France.Ulrich Pfeil: ''European Football Championship in France. Fairytale or nightmare''
in the ''
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'', 20 June 2016. Until its dissolution he was a member of the .


Publications

;Monographs * ''Vom Kaiserreich ins "Dritte Reich". Heide 1890–1933.'' Eigenverlag, Heide 1997 (Zugl. Dissertation,
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, 1996). * ''Von der roten Revolution zur braunen Diktatur. Heide zwischen 1918 und 1935. Quellen, Texte und Abbildungen für die Sekundarstufe I.'' Herausgegeben von der GEW Heide, Heide 1997. * ''« Comme un coup de tonnerre dans un ciel d’été ». Französische Reaktionen auf den 17. Juni 1953. Verlauf – Perzeptionen – Interpretationen'' (''Kleine Schriftenreihe der Historischen Kommission zu Berlin.'' Heft 8). Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2003, . * ''Die "anderen" deutsch-französischen Beziehungen. Die DDR und Frankreich 1949–1990'' (''Zeithistorische Studien des Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam,'' 26). Böhlau, Cologne 2004, . * ''Das Deutsche Historische Institut Paris und seine Gründungsväter. Ein personengeschichtlicher Ansatz.'' Munich 2007, . * ''Vorgeschichte und Gründung des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Paris. Darstellung und Dokumentation.'' Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, . * with : ''Eine Nachkriegsgeschichte in Europa 1945–1963.'' Deutsch-Französische Geschichte, 10.
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, Darmstadt 2011, . ** ''Entre guerre froide et intégration européenne. Reconstruction et rapprochement 1945–1963'' Histoire franco-Allemande, 10. Septentrion, Villeneuve d’Ascq 2012, . * with Corine Defrance: ''50 Jahre Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk / L’Office franco-allemand pour la jeunesse a 50 ans'', ed. DFJW, Berlin, Paris 2013, . ;Publisher * ''La RDA et l’Occident 1949–1990.'' PIA, Asnières 2000, . * ''Die DDR und der Westen. Transnationale Beziehungen 1949–1989.'' Ch. Links, Berlin 2001, . * with Corine Defrance: ''Der Élysée-Vertrag und die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen 1945–1963–2003.'' Oldenbourg, Munich 2005,
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auch auf französisch erschienen). * ''Deutsch-französische Kultur- und Wissenschaftsbeziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert. Ein institutionengeschichtlicher Ansatz.'' Oldenbourg, Munich 2007,
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. * ''Das Deutsche Historische Institut Paris und seine Gründungsväter. Ein personengeschichtlicher Ansatz.'' Oldenbourg, Munich 2007,
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. * ''Die Rückkehr der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft in die ›Ökumene der Historiker‹. Ein wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Ansatz.'' Oldenbourg, Munich 2008,
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. * with , Corine Defrance, Gilbert Krebs: ''Les jeunes dans les relations transnationales. L’Office franco-allemand pour la jeunesse 1963–2008.'' PSN, Paris 2008, . * with Jean-Paul Cahn: ''Allemagne 1945–1961. De la « catastrophe » à la construction du Mur.'' Septentrion, Villeneuve d’Ascq 2008, . * with Jean-Paul Cahn: ''Allemagne 1961–1974. De la construction du Mur à l’Ostpolitik.'' Septentrion, Villeneuve d’Ascq 2009, . * with Jean-Paul Cahn: ''Allemagne 1974–1990. De l’Ostpolitik à l’unification.'' Septentrion, Villeneuve d’Ascq 2009, . * ''Football et identité en France et en Allemagne.'' Septentrion, Villeneuve d’Ascq 2010, . * ''Mythes et tabous des relations franco-allemandes au XXe siècle / Mythen und Tabus der deutsch-französischen Beziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert.'' Peter Lang, Bern 2012, . * with Corine Defrance: ''La construction d'un espace scientifique commun? La France, la RFA et l'Europe après le « choc du Spoutnik ».'' Peter Lang, Bern 2012, . * with Corine Defrance: ''La France, l’Allemagne et le traité de l’Élysée, 1963–2013.'' CNRS Éditions, Paris 2012, . * with Françoise Lartillot: ''Constructions de l'espace dans les cultures d'expression allemande.'' Peter Lang, Bern 2013, . * with Nicole Colin, Corine Defrance, Joachim Umlauf: ''Lexikon der deutsch-französischen Kulturbeziehungen nach 1945.'' Narr, Tübingen 2013 (2nd edition 2015), . * with : ''Die DDR in den deutsch-französischen Beziehungen''. Peter Lang, Bern 2013, . * with Corine Defrance und Andreas Wilkens: ''Willy Brandt. Un projet pour l'Allemagne (1913–1992)'' (''Schriftenreihe der '', vol. 28). Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung, Berlin 2014, . * with Christin Niemeyer: ''Der deutsche Film im Kalten Krieg = Cinéma allemand et guerre froide''. Peter Lang, Bern 2014, . * with Dietmar Hüser: ''Populärkultur und deutsch-französische Mittler / Culture de masse et médiateurs franco-allemands. Akteure, Medien, Ausdrucksformen / Acteurs, médias, articulations'' (''Jahrbuch des Frankreich-Zentrums Saarbrücken'', 14/2014). Transcript, Bielefeld 2015, . * with Corine Defrance (ed.): ''Verständigung und Versöhnung nach dem „Zivilisationsbruch“? Deutschland in Europa nach 1945''. Peter Lang, Bern 2016 'Schriftenreihe der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung'', vol. 1731, Bonn 2016], . * with Nicole Colin, Corine Defrance, Joachim Umlauf (ed.): ''Le Mur de Berlin. Histoire, mémoires, représentations''. Peter Lang, Bern 2016, . * with Franziska Flucke, Bärbel Kuhn (ed.): ''Der Kalte Krieg im Schulbuch''. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2017, . * with Corine Defrance, Bettina Greiner (ed.): ''Die Berliner Luftbrücke. Memory space des Kalten Krieges''. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, .


References


External links

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Seite von Ulrich Pfeil an der Université de Lorraine, Metz

Page of Ulrich Pfeil in Clio-online
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pfeil, Ulrich 20th-century German historians 21st-century German historians Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians 1966 births Living people Writers from Hamburg University of Hamburg alumni