Heike Karge

studied History, East and Southeast European Studies, Sociology and Russian at the universities of Leipzig, Zagreb and Kaluga. After finishing her studies, she was a reasearch fellow at the Georg Eckert Institute, where she developed and supervised projects on textbook research and development in Southeastern Europe. She wrote her PhD thesis on ‘War Commemoration in Socialist Yugoslavia’ between 2002 and 2006 with the help of a DAAD research grant at the European University Institute in Florence. From September 2005 Heike Karge was an associate fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute in Vienna, where she did research to expand the geographical and thematic scope of her work. Building upon the topic of historical cultures in the area of Southeastern Europe, which had formed the framework of her research from 1999, she focused on the comparison of memory cultures in Europe during the period of the Cold War.
Ms Karge’s research focuses on the history of Southeastern Europe and the history of the twentieth century, as well as on historical cultures in Europe, forms and functions of collective memories of the Second World War, and the comparison of historical culture and the political implications of history in Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War.
During the summer term 2007, Heike Karge was lecturing at the Universität Leipzig. Ms Karge has been a research fellow at the Georg Eckert Institute from May 2007 to September 2008. In October 2008, she joined the faculty of the Department of History of the University of Regensburg.

Projects

At the Georg Eckert Institute Heike Karge worked on the project dealing with the coordination, development and comparison of textbook research in Southeastern Europe.

Selected publications

• Steinerne Erinnerung – versteinerte Erinnerung? Kriegsgedenken im sozialistischen Jugoslawien, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (2008, forthcoming).

•  ‘Im Reservat der Zeit. Kriegserinnerung und Schule im sozialistischen Jugoslawien’, in: Wolfgang Höpken (ed.): Kriegserinnerung und Kriegsverarbeitung in Südosteuropa. Zum Kulturellen Umgang mit Gewalterfahrung auf dem Balkan, Munich, 2007 (forthcoming).

• ‘Practices and Politics of World War Two Remembrance. (Trans-)National Perspectives from East and Southeast Europe’, in: Gosia Pakier and Bo Stråth (eds): Politics of Commemoration. The Search for the Past and the Shaping of a European Culture (2007, forthcoming).

•  ‘Dalla 'memoria congelata' allo scontro del ricordo: i monumenti commemorativi della II Guerra Mondiale nella Jugoslavia di Tito’, in: Memoria e ricerca. Rivista di storia contemporanea 21/2006, pp. 81-99.

• ‘Offizielle Narration trifft lokale Praktiken. Kriegsgedenken und Denkmalsbau in Jugoslawien’, in: Barbara Beyer and Angela Richter (eds.), Geschichte (ge-) brauchen. Literatur und Geschichtskultur im Staatssozialismus: Jugoslavien und Bulgarien, Berlin: Frank&Timme 2006, pp. 91-111.

• ‘Reading a Neighbourhood History. Where Are the Italians in the Textbooks?’, in: Povijest u nastavi, 1/2004 (3).