Karl Schlögel
Germany
Born in 1948, the historian and commentator Karl Schlögel studied Easter European history, philosophy, sociology, and Slavic Studies at the Free University in Berlin and wrote his post-graduate thesis on labor conflicts in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union. He has often lived for periods of time in the United States and Eastern Europe. In 1990, he was appointed to a professorial chair in Eastern European history at the University of Constance, then he taught from 1994 to 2013 at the Europa University Viadrina. He lives in Berlin.
Karl Schlögel tells his stories along places and landscapes. Everything he describes he has observed several times in order to ‘create his own image of it.’ This way of working and narrating, this deep drilling into historical sediment construct the foundations for Schlögel’s particular, unmistakable style: he is the man of letters among the German-speaking historians.
Besichtigung einer Epoche (Survey of an Era) is the subtitle of his latest book,
29th Leukerbad International Literary Festival:
