Friederike Kind-Kovacs

Assistant Professor

Regensburg University
Department of Southeastern-and Eastern European History,

Fields of Expertise

Biography

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Since 02/2009 Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin) at the Department for the History of South Eastern- and Eastern Europe, University of Regensburg.

Since 12/2012 Associate Postdoctoral Researcher at the Graduate School of East and Southeast European Studies, Universiy of Regensburg/LMU Munich.

12/2008 Ph.D. in Modern History, University of Potsdam.

01/2004-12/2008 Doctoral studies at the Centre for contemporary history research (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF)), University of Potsdam, cosupervised at Central European University Budapest.

08/2002 Master of Letters (M.Litt.) in Modern History, St. Andrews University (UK).

04/1999-09/2001 Studies in Modern History, Art History, Spanish (Magister Artium), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg.

Bibliography

Books/Edited Volumes: 

  • "Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain." New York, Budapest: Central European University Press 2014.

  • (Hg. mit Jessie Labov) "Samizdat, Tamizdat and Beyond. Transnational media during and after socialism", New York: Berghahn Books 2013/paperback 2015.  

    https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=Kind-KovacsSamizdat
  • "The Great War, the Child’s Body and the ‘American Red Cross’”, (Special Issue on: ‘Humanitarianisms in Context: Histories of Non-state Actors, from the Local to the Global’,) European Review of History 2015 (in preparation).
Articles: 
  • "Compassion for the Distant Other: Children’s Hunger and Humanitarian Relief in Budapest in the Aftermath of WWI" in: Beate Althammer, Lutz Raphael, Tamara Stazic-Wendt: Rescuing the Vulnerable: Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe. New York: Berghahn Books 2014. (forthcoming)
  • “Crossing Germany’s Iron Curtain: Uncensored Literature from the GDR and the Other Europe,” East Central Europe 41, No. 2-3 (2014), 180-203.
  • "Forbidden Fruit: Smuggling and Publishing Across Borders in Ancien Régime France and Cold War Eastern Europe" (with Jessie Labov) in: Jan C. Behrends and Thomas Lindenberger (Ed.): Publishing and the Public Sphere. Transnational Perspectives. Berlin: Lit Verlag 2014, 257-289.

  • "Memories of Ethnic Cleansing and the local Iron Curtain in the Czech-German Borderlands", Nationalities Papers 42, No. 2, (2014): 199-222.

  • "The 'Other' Child Transports: World War I and the Temporary Displacement of Needy Children From Central Europe." Journal of the History of Irregular Childhood 15 (2013), 75-109.

  • "'Voices, letters, literature through the Iron Curtain': Exiles and the (trans-)mission of radio in the Cold War", in: Cold War History 13, No.2, 2013, 193-220.

  • "Samizdat-Tamizdat: an entangled phenomenon?" (mit Jessie Labov), in: Friederike Kind-Kovács and Jessie Labov (Hg.): Samizdat, Tamizdat and Beyond. Transnational media during and after socialism, New York: Berghahn Books 2013, 1-23. 

  • “Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty as the 'echo chamber' of tamizdat", in: Friederike Kind-Kovács and Jessie Labov (Hg.): Samizdat, Tamizdat and Beyond. Transnational media during and after socialism. New York: Berghahn Books 2013, 70-91.

  • "(Re)Joining the Community of Letters? The circulation of uncensored literature in/of Cold War Europe", in: Teresa Pinheiro, Beata Cieszynska and Eduardo Franco (2011): Ideas of/for Europe. An Interdisciplinary Approach to European Identity. Frankfurt et al.: Peter Lang 2012, 177-195.

  • "Historische Ambivalenzen von "Transfer"- und Grenzgeschichte(n): Bevölkerungsverschiebung und Literaturschmuggel im bayerisch-böhmischen Grenzraum", in: Markus A. Meinke (Hrsg.): Die tschechisch-bayerische Grenze im Kalten Krieg in vergleichender Perspektive. Politische, ökonomische und soziokulturelle Dimensionen. Regensburger Studien. Band 17. Regensburg 2011, S. 93-108.
  • "Die erzählten Grenzen. Geschichte von Unten - Lebensgeschichtliche Interviews im bayerisch-böhmischen Grenzraum" (gemeinsam mit Sabina Blomann, Roxana Hila, Julia Kling, Markus Meinke), in: Blick in die Wissenschaft 23 (2011), S. 3-10.
  • "Life stories reconnected: Publishing tamizdat as a symbolic act of recreating biographical coherence?", in: Sari Autio-Sarasmo and Brendan Humphreys: "Winter Kept us Warm: Cold War Interactions Reconsidered", Aleksanteri Cold War Series 1: 2010, Kikimora Publications, Helsinki 2010, S.170-191.
  • "An 'Other Europe' through Literature: Recreating a European literary "Kontinent" after Helsinki", in: Jose Faraldo/Paulina Gulinska-Jurgiel/Christian Domnitz, "Europa im Ostblock. Vorstellungen und Diskurse (1945-1991) / Europe in the Eastern Bloc. Imaginations and Discourses", Köln, Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2008, S. 267-299.
  • "Vom Untergrund in den Mainstream: Samizdat, Emigrationsliteratur und Tamizdat und die Neuerfindung Mitteleuropas in den achtziger Jahren.", zusammen mit Jan Behrends, in: "West-Ost-Verständigung im Spannungsfeld von Gesellschaft und Staat seit den 1960er-Jahren", Archiv für Sozialgeschichte (45) 2005, S. 427-448.