Funke, Benedikt

Curriculum vitae

Since 2019: Doctoral candidate and researcher, Chair of East European History and Culture, University of Bremen

2014–2018: Master’s in the History of Culture(s), University of Bremen. Master’s dissertation: The Original Image of the Society of the Future. Soviet Self-Presentation in International Travel Brochures of the 1920s and 1930s

2017: Studied at the Belarusian State University, Minsk

2015/2016: Studied at the University of Haifa

2014: Studied at the European Institute Klaus Mehnert, Kalingrad State Technical University

2013–2017: Student researcher, Research Centre for East European Studies, Chair of East European Contemporary History and Culture, University of Bremen

2010–2014: Bachelor’s, University of Bremen. Bachelor’s dissertation: “Because I’m German”. Constructs of the National Self in Peasants’ Petitions to the German Consulate in Kiev, 1932–1933

 

Current doctoral project

Cold War and Warm Handshakes. Transnational Encounters Across the Iron Curtain, 1960–1991.


Research foci

• East–West cultural encounters during the Cold War
• Tourism in the Soviet Union
• Cultural diplomacy in the Soviet Union