Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

Professor Włodzimierz Borodziej †

Former Academic Staff Włodzimierz Borodziej

Director

(2010 - 2016)

 

Curriculum Vitae

  • October 2010-September 2016: director of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, together with Joachim von Puttkamer
  • 1996-present: professor at the Historical Institute of the University of Warsaw
  • 1999-2002: vice-president, University of Warsaw
  • 1997-2007: chair of the German-Polish Textbook Commission
  • 1992-1994: director-general at the Kancelaria Sejmu (parliamentary administration) of the Republic of Poland
  • 1979-1991: assistant (1985-1991) and subsequently assistant professor (post-doc) at the Historical Institute, University of Warsaw
  • 1991: completed postdoctoral professorial qualification
  • 1984: completed doctorate

Research project

  • Behind the Eastern Front, 1914-1918

Main areas of research

  • Resistance in the Second World War
  • International relations
  • Political and social history in the People´s Republic of Poland
  • Galicia in the period of autonomy

Positions/Honors/Membership

  • Chair of the Academic Committee of the House of European History to be established in Brussels
  • Editor-in-chief of the Polish diplomatic documents series (Polskie Dokumenty Dyplomatyczne), published by the Polish Institute of International Affairs (18 volumes as of 2013
  • 2006 Herder Prize awarded by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation
  • 2010 Carl von Ossietzky Prize awarded by the city of Oldenburg

Monographs (Selection)

Geschichte Polens im 20. Jahrhundert, München 2010.

Der Warschauer Aufstand 1944, Frankfurt am Main 2001. (engl. Übersetzung: The Warsaw Uprising of 1944, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.)

Terror und Politik. Die deutsche Polizei und die polnische Widerstandsbewegung im Generalgouvernement 1939-1944, Mainz 1999.

Od Poczdamu do Szklarskiej Poręby. Polska w stosunkach międzynarodowych 1945-1947, London 1990.

Edited Volumes

Monograph series of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena (Link noch setzen) 

Die Deutschen östlich von Oder und Neiße 1945-1950: Dokumente aus polnischen Archiven, 4 Bände, co-editor with: Lemberg, Hans, Marburg 2000-2004.

Kuchnia władzy. Księga pamiątkowa z okazji 70-tej rocznicy urodzin Andrzeja Garlickiego, co-editor with Kochanowski, Jerzy, Warszawa 2005.

Vertreibungen europäisch erinnern? Historische Erfahrungen – Vergangenheitspolitik – Zunkunftskonzeptionen, co-editor with: Binger, Dieter/Troebst, Stefan, Wiesbaden 2003

Okrągły Stół. Dokumenty i materiały, 4 volumes, co-editor with: Garlicki, Andrzej, Warszawa 2004.

Option Europa. Deutsche, polnische und ungarische Europapläne des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, 3 Bände, co-editor with: Durchhardt, Heinz/Morawiec,Małgorzata/Romsics, Ignác, Göttingen 2005.

(Ed.) Polska wobec zjednoczenia Niemiec 1989 – 1991. Dokumenty dyplomatyczne, Warszawa 2006.

Polish Documents on Foreign Policy, 24 October 1938 – 30 September 1939, co-editor with: Dębski, Sławomir, Warszawa 2009.

„Schleichwege”. Informelle Begegnungen sozialistischer Staatsbürger zwischen 1956 und 1989, co-editor with: Kochanowski, Jerzy/Puttkamer, Joachim von, Köln-Weimar-Wien 2010.

Hidden Paths within Socialism, co-editor with: Kochanowski, Jerzy/Puttkamer, Joachim von: Journal of Modern European History 8/2010/3.