Dr. Malte Fuhrmann

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

Research and projects

Current position(s)

Researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
Lecturer at Turkish-German University, Istanbul
Member of DFG network "The Modern Mediterranean"

Current project(s)

“Developmentality in Southeastern Europe: The Evolution of a Paradigm on Progress in Bulgaria and Turkey in the Discussion on Traffic Infrastructure (1908-1989)” (DFG/German Research Foundation)

Former position(s)

Sept. 2016 – Aug. 2018 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University’s European Institute

Oct. 2014 – Sept. 2015 Visiting Assistant Professor for Cultural History of the Mediterranean at Ruhr University Bochum

Sept. 2009 – Aug. 2013 Research Fellow at Orient-Institut Istanbul

Publications

Monographs (and dissertation)

Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean. Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Pr., 2020.

Istanbul / Konstantinopel: Geschichte einer Stadt zwischen zwei Kontinenten und zwei Meeren, Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag, 2019.

Der Traum vom deutschen Orient. Zwei deutsche Kolonien im Osmanischen Reich 1851-1918 , Frankfurt: Campus 2006.

Articles

“Hattuscha gegen Hellas, Medina gegen Rom: Die nicht abgeschlossene Suche nach einem historischen Vorbild der türkischen Stadtentwicklung”, in Südosteuropa-Jahrbuch 45 (2019).

“Taksim Square and the Struggle to Rule Istanbul’s Past” in Critique & Humanism 44 (2016), 163-190.

“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.

“‘Western Perversions’ at the Threshold of Felicity: The European Prostitutes of Galata-Pera (1870-1915)” in History and Anthropology 21 (2/2010), 159-172.

„Down and Out on the Quays of İzmir: ‘European’ Musicians, Innkeepers, and Prostitutes in the Ottoman Port Cities“ in Mediterranean Historical Review 24 (2/2009), 169-185.

“The Late Ottoman Port Cities and their Inhabitants: Subjectivity, Urbanity, and Conflicting Orders. Editorial” in Mediterranean Historical Review 24 (2/2009), 71-78 (mit Vangelis Kechriotis).

“Anatolia in German Colonial Imagination and Practise, 1800-1918” in New Perspectives on Turkey 41 (2009), 117-150.

“Meeresanrainer – Weltenbürger? Zum Verhältnis von hafenstädtischer Gesellschaft und Kosmopolitismus” (The Seaside Resident – A Citizen of the World? On the Relationship between Port City Society and Cosmopolitanism) in Comparativ 17 (2007/2), 12-26.

“Hafenstädte in globaler Perspektive. Einleitung” in Comparativ 17 (2007/2), 7-11 (mit Lars Amenda).

“Das koloniale Erbe im deutsch-griechischen Verhältnis. Ein Plädoyer für die postcolonial studies in der südosteuropäischen Geschichte” in Jahrbücher für Geschichte und Kulturen Südosteuropas 7 (2005), 177-205.

“Cosmopolitan Imperialists and the Ottoman Port Cities: Conflicting Logics in the Urban Social Fabric” in Cahiers de la Mediterranée 67 (Dec. 2003), 150–163, also http://cdlm.revues.org/index128.html .

Edited volumes

Bursa und die Deutschen / Tarihte Bursa ve Almanlar, Bursa: Kültür A.Ş. 2016, mit Raoul Motika.

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

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

Comparativ – Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsgeschichte 17 (2007/2): Hafenstädte – Mobilität, Migration, Globalisierung, mit Lars Amenda.

List of publications (Url)

https://www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Inhalte/Personen/Fuhrmann_Publikationsliste.pdf

Areas of research

19th and 20th century political, cultural and social history; history of Southeast Europe; history of the Habsburg, Ottoman, and German Empires; Ottoman-European relations; urban history (especially port cities in Mediterranean and global perspective); urban planning; global cities and collective memory; postcolonial constellations in the Euro-Mediterranean region; transnational theory; nationalism; migration; marginality; railway history; World War I and militarism

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