People

Dr. Malte Fuhrmann

Research Fellow

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-117Personal website: https://modernmediterranean.net/fuhrmann/
Current research: Developmentality in Southeastern Europe: The Evolution of Developmental Discourse in Bulgaria and Turkey in the Debate on Traffic Infrastructure (1908-1989)
Regional focus: Eastern Mediterranean; Southeast Europe; Habsburg, Ottoman, and German Empires and their successor states
Dr. Malte Fuhrmann
Dr. Malte Fuhrmann

Positions

Since Sept. 2018
Research Fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin, working on: “Developmentality in Southeast Europe: The Evolution of Developmental Discourse in Bulgaria and Turkey in the Debate on Transport Infrastructure (1908-1989)”
Sept. 2016 - Aug. 2018
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University’s European Institute, International Relations Department
Oct. 2014 - Sept. 2015
Visiting Assistant Professor for Cultural History of the Mediterranean at Ruhr University Bochum
Since Sept. 2013
Lecturer for the Social Science Master Studies Program Intercultural Management at the Turkish-German University Istanbul
Sept. 2009 - Aug. 2013
Research Fellow at Orient-Institut Istanbul, working on: “The European Habitus in the Ottoman City – Urban Planning, Cultural Practices, and Conflict in the 19th and 21st Century”; lecturer at Boğaziçi University History Department (2011)
Oct. 2008 - Aug. 2009
Assistant Professor for European History at Fatih University Istanbul
Jan. 2006 - Sept. 2008
Research Fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin, working on: “European and Balkan Migrant Workers in the Late Ottoman Port Cities”
May - Dec. 2005
Visiting Researcher at Orient-Institut Istanbul, working on: “The German-Ottoman Military Cooperation as an Intercultural Process”

Education

Oct. 1999 - Apr. 2005
Ph.D. at Freie Universität Berlin: “Constructing a German Orient – Germans in Western Anatolia/Izmir and Macedonia/Salonica 1851 to 1918“; advisors: Prof. Holm Sundhaussen and Prof. Karl Kaser (Graz)
Oct. 1991 - Sept. 1999
Studied History and Balkanology at Freie Universität Berlin; M.A. Thesis: “Housing Revolt and Butter Revolution – Collective Social Protest in the Founding Years of the Reich”; advisors: Prof. Heinrich Volkmann and Prof. Jürgen Kocka

Publications (Selected)

Monographs

Konstantinopel – Istanbul. Stadt der Sultane und Rebellen (Constantinople – Istanbul: City of Sultans and Rebels), Frankfurt (M.): Fischer 2019, 464 pages.

Der Traum vom deutschen Orient. Zwei deutsche Kolonien im Osmanischen Reich 1851-1918 (Imagining a German Orient: Two German Colonies in the Ottoman Empire 1851-1918), Frankfurt: Campus 2006, 419 pages.

Edited Volumes and Journals

Bursa und die Deutschen / Tarihte Bursa ve Almanlar (Bursa and the Germans in History), Bursa: Kültür A.Ş. 2016, together with Raoul Motika.

The City in the Ottoman Empire: Migration and the Making of Urban Modernity, London: Routledge 2011, together with Ulrike Freitag, Nora Lafi, Florian Riedler.

Mediterranean Historical Review 24 (2/2009, special edition): The Late Ottoman Port Cities: Subjectivity, Urbanity, and Conflicting Orders, together with Vangelis Kechriotis.

Comparativ – Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsgeschichte 17 (2007/2, special edition): Hafenstädte – Mobilität, Migration, Globalisierung (Port Cities – Mobility, Migration, Globalization), together with Lars Amenda.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

“Hattuscha gegen Hellas, Medina gegen Rom: Die nicht abgeschlossene Suche nach einem historischen Vorbild der türkischen Stadtentwicklung”, (Hattusha vs. Hellas, Medina vs. Rome: The Continuing Quest for a Historical Model of Turkish Urban Development) in Südosteuropa-Jahrbuch 45 (forthcoming 2019).

 “Taksim Square and the Struggle to Rule Istanbul’s Past” in Critique & Humanism 44 (2016), 163-190 (updated and much expanded version of “Istanbul’s Pasts: Raw Material for Constructing the City’s Future”, see Chapters).

“Beer, the Drink of a Changing World. Beer Consumption and Production on the Shores of the Aegean in the 19th Century” in Turcica 45 (2014), 79-123.

Complete list of publications

Talks (Selected)

Papers at Academic Meetings
June 13, 2019
“The Rise of Eastern Mediterranean Opera. A Study in Transmediterranean Cultural Exchange”, at Currents and Currencies. Cultural Circulations in the Mediterranean and Beyond, Koç Center for Mediterranean Civilizations, Antalya
Nov. 24, 2019
“The European Dream: A Source of Inspiration in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire”, at Visions of the Future in Ottoman Europe, Ruhr University Bochum
Oct. 12, 2018
“The Drink of a New Generation: Beer Production and Consumption in Late Ottoman Times”, at Alcohol and Anti-Alcoholism in Greece (1870-1940), RCH Athens
Aug. 31, 2018
“From a Fringe Activity to a Social Obsession. The Rise of Opera in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Nineteenth Century”, at European Association of Urban History Annual Meeting, Rome
June 29, 2018
“Celebrating Diversity Levantine Style: Identity Discourses in Eastern Mediterranean Cities around 1900”, at Port Cities in the Levant, Yaşar University Izmir
June 22, 2018
“Sykae-Galata-Pera: A Port District as Site of Otherness” at Mobilities and Borders around the Modern Mediterranean (convened by me at Orient Institut Istanbul)
Nov. 23, 2017
“Styling the Self: Identities in Flux in Nineteenth Century East Mediterranean Cities” at Port Cities and Migration in the Modern Era, Gothenburg University
Oct. 3, 2017
“Antiquity and Urban Planning in the Turkish Republic and Changing Ideologies” at Antiquity and Byzantium as Historical Legacy in Southeast Europe (19th to 21st Centuries), Tutzing
Invited Lectures
Jan. 19, 2018
“The Phantom of the Ottoman Opera: The Stage as Site of Transnational Appropriation”, Passau University
Oct. 7, 2017
“’A Bitter Friendship’? Turkish-German Relations and Transnational Entanglements since Abdülmecid I”, at Yunus Emre Institute, Cologne

Complete list of talks

Media Articles (Selected)

“An gute Zeiten anknüpfen. Ein historischer Überblick der deutsch-türkischen Beziehungen”, Politik und Kultur 4/2017, 19 (on the historical and current state of German-Turkish relations).

"The AfD and its Precursors. A History of the Right in (West) German Politics”, Germany Briefs.

“Das Glück liegt im Osten”, in Damals 1/2008, 41-42, (on German and Austrian labor migration to the Ottoman Empire).

“Deutsche Migration nach Makedonien 1850 bis 1918”, Goethe-Institut im Gespräch (reflections on talk given 21 Sept. 2007, see Presentations).

“Blonder Bosporus”, in Zenith 1/2007, 42, 43 (on the legacy of the German presence in Ottoman lands).

“Hexen, Madonnen und patriotische Jungfrauen” in Freitag, 14 January 2000, 18, also (on German wartime journalism during the Kosovo War).

Teaching

2019 Spring Semester
Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Intercultural History – The German-Turkish Example
2018/19 Fall Semester
Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Introduction to the Theory of Intercultural History
2018 Spring Semester
Istanbul Bilgi University International Relations (BA): Society and Politics: The Politics of Collective Memory International Relations (MA): Migration and the Mediterranean Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Intercultural History – The German-Turkish Example
2017 Spring Semester
Istanbul Bilgi University International Relations (BA): Society and Politics: The Politics of Collective Memory International Relations (BA): Europe and Migration Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Intercultural History – The German-Turkish Example
2016/17 Fall Semester
Istanbul Bilgi University International Relations (BA): Colonialism in the World International Relations (BA): Middle East History Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Introduction to the Theory of Intercultural History
2016 Spring Semester
Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Intercultural History – The German-Turkish Example
2015/16 Fall Semester
Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Introduction to the Theory of Intercultural History
2015 Spring Semester
Ruhr University Bochum History (BA/MA): Translocal Transgressions: Crossing Borders in the Mediterranean World since 1700 History (BA/MA): “Making History”: Enacting the Past in the Mediterranean Region, 18th Century until the Present History (Graduate Seminar): History of Europe and the Mediterranean in the 19th and 20th Century (with Fabian Lemmes) Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Intercultural History – The German-Turkish Example
2014/15 Fall Semester
Ruhr University Bochum History (BA/MA): Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 19th Century: A Refuge for Cosmopolitan Conviviality? History (BA/MA): Travelogues as Sources for a Transnational History of the Mediterranean History (Graduate Seminar): History of Europe and the Mediterranean in the 19th and 20th Century (with Fabian Lemmes) Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Introduction to the Theory of Intercultural History
2014 Spring Semester
Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Intercultural History – The German-Turkish Example
2013/14 Fall Semester
Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Introduction to the Theory of Intercultural History
2011 Spring Semester
Boğaziçi University Istanbul (BA/MA) History: Germany 1871–1918 – The Making of a Great Power and its Colonies
2009 Spring Semester
Fatih University Istanbul (BA) History: History of Modern Europe (BA) History: History of Colonialism/Introduction to Postcolonial Studies (BA) History: Historiography II (BA) History: History of the Balkan
2008/09 Fall Semester
Fatih University Istanbul (BA) History: History of Medieval Europe (BA) History: History of the Crusades/Christian and Muslim Holy War (BA) History: Selected Topics: New Approaches to the Study of Nationalism (MA) History: Studies in European History: Cultural Studies

Awards

My first monograph, Der Traum vom deutschen Orient. Zwei deutsche Kolonien im Osmanischen Reich 1851-1918 (Imagining a German Orient: Two German Colonies in the Ottoman Empire 1851-1918), Frankfurt: Campus 2006, received an award as best book on colonialism 2006/2007 (Damals 12/2007).

Memberships

  • DFG-funded research network The Modern Mediterranean: Dynamics of a World Region 1800 | 2000
  • Working Group Ottoman Europe:. Methods and Perspectives of Research on Early Modern Southeast Europe
  • Center for Mediterranean Studies Bochum
  • European Association of Urban History

Languages

  • English: fluent
  • German: fluent
  • Turkish: very good
  • French: good
  • Bulgarian: good