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Dr Stefan Manz

Senior Lecturer and Director of German Studies

Room: MB767
Phone: 0121 204 3771
Fax: Fax: 0121 204 3788
Email: S.Manz@aston.ac.uk

 

 

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Qualifications

I. Staatsexamen, Freiburg University: History, German, Pedagogics
PhD Durham, German Department

Teaching

  • German Language Skills
  • German History and Society
  • Contemporary Germany
  • Diplomarbeit
  • MPhil/PhD supervision:
  • Alexander Burdumy, The Welfare State in the GDR
  • Theresa Zuhl, The German Migrant Community in Richmond since 1945

Membership of Professional Bodies

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (elected)
Conference of University Teachers of German

Research Interests

Migration Studies, Anglo-German Relations, German History/Politics/Area Studies

Publications

Books

  • Migranten und Internierte. Deutsche in Glasgow 1864-1918, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2003, (Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke Gesellschaft/Publications of the Ranke Society vol. 52)
  • With Andreas Musolff, Jonathan Long, Ljiljana Saric (eds.), Discourses of Intercultural Identity in Britain, Germany and Eastern Europe, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters 2004 (Special Issue of the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, vol 25: 5&6, 2004)
  • With John Davis, Margrit Schulte Beerbühl (eds.), Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660-1914, Munich: Saur (Prince Albert Research Publications) 2007
  • With Ljiljana Saric, Andreas Musolff, Ingrid Hudabiunigg (eds.), Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim.  Cultural Identities in Public Discourse, Multilingual Matters (forthcoming 2009)
  • with Panikos Panayi (eds.), Refugees in Britain. Cultural and Political Transfers since c1830, Routledge, (Special Issue of Immigrants and Minorities), forthcoming 2011

Articles

  • Technologietransfer und Spezialistenwanderung. Eine Augsburger Lagerbrauerei in Glasgow, 1889-1956, in Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 2/2000, pp. 225-247
  • ‘Wir stehen fest zusammen/Zu Kaiser und zu Reich!’ - Nationalism among Germans in Britain, 1871-1918, in German Life and Letters, 55/4, October 2002, pp. 398-415
  • New Evidence on Stobs Internment Camp, 1914-1919, in Hawick Archaeological Society Transactions 2002, pp. 259-269
  • Entry on 17 June 1953 Uprising, in German Culture and Society. The Essential Glossary, ed. by H. Briel, Arnold Publishers, London 2002, pp. 74f.
  • ‘Our sworn, subtle, savage, implacable and perfidious foe!’ - Germanophobia and Spy-fever in Scotland, 1914-1918, in Pol O’Dochartaigh et al. (eds.), Irish-German Studies 1/2004, pp. 28-37
  • With Andreas Musolff, Jonathan Long, Ljiljana Saric, Introduction, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, vol 25: 5&6, 2004, pp. 361-368
  • Constructing a Normative National Identity: The Leitkultur-Debate in Germany, 2000/2001, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, vol 25: 5&6, 2004, pp. 481-496
  • ‘Enemy Aliens’ in Scotland during the First World War, in Richard Dove (ed.), 'Totally Un-English?': The Internment of Enemy Aliens in Britain in Two World Wars, Yearbook of the Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies 7 (2005), pp. 83-100
  • Peacemaker and Warmonger. Alexander Tille and the Limits of Anglo-German Intercultural Transfer, in Fred Bridgham (ed.), World War I as a Clash of Cultures, New York: Camden House 2006, pp. 215-230
  • Also published as: Translating Nietzsche, Mediating Literature. Alexander Tille and the Limits of Anglo-German Intercultural Transfer, in Neophilologus 91 (2007), pp. 117-134
  • Deutsche Unternehmer und Ingenieure als Reisende zur Marktorientierung und zur Industriespionage in Groβbritannien im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, in Klaus J. Bade et. al. (eds.), Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa. Vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Wilhelm Fink Verlag/Ferdinand Schoeningh, 2007, pp. 523-525; English translation Cambridge University Press 2008
  • With John Davis, Margrit Schulte Beerbühl, Introduction: Towards an Anglo-German Histoire Croisée. Migrants, Transfers and Cross-national Entanglements, in idem. (eds.), Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660 to 1914, Munich: Saur 2007, pp. 9-18
  • Management Transfer in the Textile Industry: Otto Ernst Philippi at J. & P. Coats, 1878-1917, in Stefan Manz, John Davis, Margrit Schulte Beerbühl (eds.), Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, c.1660 to 1914, Munich: Saur 2007, pp. 161-174
  • Expellees, Counterfactualism and Potatoes. Enlargement and Cross-national Debates in Polish-German Relations, in Ljiljana Saric, Andreas Musolff, Ingrid Hudabiunigg, Stefan Manz (eds.). Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim.  Cultural Identities in Public Dicourse, Multilingual Matters (forthcoming 2009)
  • With Panikos Panayi, Refugees in Britain: Cultural and Political Transfers Since c1830, in Immigrants and Minorities, forthcoming 2011
  • Joseph Mainzer (1801-1851) and the Popularisation of Choral Singing in Britain, in Immigrants and Minorities, forthcoming 2011

Reviews

For Debatte, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, geschichte.transnational, Historische Zeitschrift, Vierteljahreshefte für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte