29^th Leukerbad International Literary Festival

Authors

Karl Schlögel

Germany

Born in 1948, the historian and political commentator Karl Schlögel studied Eastern European history, philosophy, sociology, and Slavic studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on labor conflicts in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union. He had multiple residencies in the United States of America and Eastern Europe. In 1990, he was named professor of Eastern European history at the University of Konstanz, then taught at the European University Viadrina from 1994 to 2013. He lives in Berlin.
Karl Schlögel has often visited the sites he describes in his novels in order “to form his own picture of them.” This way of working and narrating, of drilling deep into historical sediment, creates the foundation of Schlögel’s particular, unique style: he is a man of letters among German-language historians.
His most recent book, American Matrix, is subtitled ‘Inspection of an Era.’ In it, Karl Schlögel compares the two territorial powers that are the United States and Russia in the 20^th century. His conclusions are remarkable and impress even American specialists.

American Matrix. Besichtigung einer Epoche. Hanser 2023
The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow. Translated by Jessica Spengler. 2021
Der Russland-Reflex. Einsichten in eine Beziehungskrise (with Irina Scherbakowa). edition Körber 2015, updated and extended 2022

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