Dr. Malte Fuhrmann
Affiliated Researcher
Positions
Education
Publications (Selected)
Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire, Cambridge: University Press 2020, 480 pages.
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.
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.
“Europas Kontaktzone, nicht Europas Grenze. Plädoyer für eine verflochtene Perspektive des euromediterranen Raums” (Europe’s Contact Zone, not Europe’s Border: A Plea for an Entangled Perspective of the Euro-Meditteranean Region), H-Soz-Kult, 10. Sept. 2020.
“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 (2019), 183-199.
“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.
Talks (Selected)
Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2022 “‘Men and Women Without Qualities’ on the Eastern Mediterranean Shores: Identity and Gender Issues in the Late Ottoman Empire” at European Association of Urban History, Antwerp (planned)
Oct. 6, 2021 “Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism: Hollow Construct or Model for the 21st Century?“ at Historikertag, Munich (online, planned)
Sept. 29, 2021 “Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities and their Hinterlands Revisited” at An Archipelago of Connectivity: Port-Cities and Islands in the Modern Mediterranean, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice (planned)
Sept. 24, 2021 “Developmentality in Bulgaria and Turkey Legitimacy, Resistance, and Traffic Infrastructure” at Infrastructure in East and Southeast Europe in Comparative Perspective, Regensburg University (planned)
June 4, 2021 “Constantinople-Istanbul,” Terra Nobilis, Strasbourg (online)
May 20, 2021 “Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean,” book talk, Levantine Heritage Foundation, London (online)
April 28, 2021 “The Audio-Visual Battle for Istanbul,” Hamburg University (online)
March 1, 2021 “Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean,” book talk, Crete University, Rethymno; comment by Sakis Gekas (online)
Feb. 25, 2021 “Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean,” book talk, Hacettepe and Bilkent Universities, Ankara (online)
Feb. 19, 2021 “Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean,” book talk, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; comment by Adam Mestyan (online)
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
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
- German Historical Association
- Levantine Heritage Foundation (honorary member)
- 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