Miriam Gebhardt (born 28 January 1962) is a German

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

and writer.

Life

Gebhardt was born in

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

, Germany and trained as a journalist. From 1982, she worked as an editor. From 1988 to 1993 she studied

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and

economic history Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and i ...

, regional history and modern German literature at

Munich University The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous oper ...

. In 1988 she obtained a doctorate in Modern History under Clemens Wischermann at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of stud ...

with a thesis on family memories. From 2003 Gebhardt held an academic post at Collaborative Research Centre 485 (Norm and Symbol) at the

University of Konstanz The University of Konstanz (german: Universität Konstanz) is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is German ...

, where she obtained her

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in Modern and Contemporary History in July 2008. She currently lectures at the University of Konstanz as an

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and writes non-fiction books. Gebhardt also works as a journalist and publicist and has written for ''

Die Zeit ''Die Zeit'' (, "The Time") is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany. The newspaper is generally considered to be among the German newspapers of record and is known for its long and extensive articles. History Th ...

''. In a book published in 2015, ' (When the Soldiers Came), she drew attention to rapes committed by allied soldiers, including the western allies, in the aftermath of World War II. It drew media attention in Germany and abroad.

Publications

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As editor

* With Katja Patzel-Mattern and Stefan Zahlmann: ''Das integrative Potential von Elitenkulturen: Festschrift für Clemens Wischermann'' 'The Integrative Potential of Elite Cultures: Festschrift for Clemens Wischermann'' Steiner, Stuttgart 2013, .

Notes and references

External links

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Personal Web site

Miriam Gebhardt on the Web site of the University of Konstanz
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gebhardt, Miriam 1962 births Living people Writers from Freiburg im Breisgau German non-fiction writers 20th-century German historians 21st-century German historians Contemporary historians German newspaper journalists German women journalists University of Konstanz faculty 20th-century German women writers German women historians 20th-century German writers 21st-century German writers 21st-century German women writers