About
From 2001 to 2009, Sabine Stach studied cultural studies, art history and Bohemian/Slovak studies in Leipzig and Prague (Magister). In 2014, she received her PhD from the University of Leipzig with a study on political discourses of martyrdom in late and post-socialism. From 2014 to 2015, she has held a teaching assignment at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and from 2015 to 2020 a researcher at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw in the research area »Functionality of History in Late Modernity«.
Sabine Stach has been a researcher at GWZO in the department »Culture and Imagination« since September 2020.
Work focus
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Public history & tourism
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History of tourism
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Performative and sensory approaches to historical culture (“Doing History”)
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Contemporary history of Poland, Czechoslovakia, GDR
Memberships
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Member of the editorial board and of the steering group [Steuerungsgruppe] of H-Soz-Kult
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Member of the Czechoslovak Studies Association
Teaching
Sabine Stach teaches at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Charles University in Prague, and University of Leipzig.