Ines Koeltzsch is a cultural and social historian. Her research interests include the modern history of Jewish/non-Jewish relations, Holocaust studies, migration and refugee studies, and the cultural history of literature and translation in Central and Eastern Europe. She has taught (East) Central European history and Jewish history at the Free University of Berlin, NYU in Prague, the CET Academic Programs Prague and the University of Regensburg. Since 2023, she is visiting professor at the Jewish Studies Program at CEU Vienna, and since 2024 academic project collaborator of EHRI-IP at VWI.
She is the author of the books Geteilte Kulturen. Eine Geschichte der tschechisch-jüdisch-deutschen Beziehungen in Prag 1918-1938 (Oldenbourg 2012) [in Czech 2016] and Vor dem Weltruhm. Nachrufe auf Franz Kafka und die Entstehung literarischer Unsterblichkeit (Böhlau 2024). She is also a contributor to Prague and Beyond. Jews in the Bohemian Lands (ed. by Kateřina Čapková and Hillel J. Kieval, University of Pennsylvania Press 2021).
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2014/15 Research Fellowship, The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies
2012 PhD. award: Hedwig Hintze Frauenförderpreis 2012, Department of History and Cultural Studies, Free University Berlin
2011 PhD. award of the Schroubek-Fonds Östliches Europa, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
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