Ines Koeltzsch

Position: 
Visiting Professor
Rank: 
Visiting Professor

Contact information

Dr. Ines Koeltzsch is a historian working at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. Since 2023 she teaches as a Visiting Professor at the Jewish Studies Program at CEU Vienna. She previously worked as a research assistant at the Institute for East European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, at the Bohemicum at the Universities of Regensburg and Passau and a postdoctoral researcher at the Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. Her research and teaching activities focus on the history of Jewish/non-Jewish relations in Central and Eastern Europe in the modern age, especially on the history of cultural and literary translation, flight and migration, and everyday history. Her publications include the books Geteilte Kulturen. Eine Geschichte der tschechisch-jüdisch-deutschen Beziehungen in Prag 1918-1938 (Munich: Oldenbourg 2012) and Vor dem Weltruhm. Nachrufe auf Franz Kafka und die Entstehung literarischer Unsterblichkeit (Wien/Köln: 2024), as well as two book chapters together with Michal Frankl and Martina Niedhammer in Prague and Beyond. Jews in the Bohemian Lands (Penn Press: 2021, edited by Katařina Čapková and Hillel J. Kieval). 

 

 

Qualification

PhD., History, Freie Universität Berlin (2010)
M.A., History, Sociology and Philosophy, TU Dresden (2002)