Friederike Kind-Kovács

Special guest

Friederike Kind-Kovács is a contemporary historian and senior researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at TU Dresden and a lecturer at Regensburg University in Germany. She is author of Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain, which won the University of Southern California Book Prize in Cultural and Literary Studies in 2015. She is editor (with Machteld Venken) of the double special issue "Childhood in Times of Political Transformation in the 20th Century" in the Journal of Modern European History; (with Heike Karge and Sara Bernasconi) of From the Midwife's Bag to the Patient's File: Public Health in Eastern Europe; and (with Jessie Labov) of Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond: Transnational Media During and After Socialism. You can find her book "Budapest's Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War" (Indiana University Press, 2022) here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0253062160?ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&tag=indiunivpres-20

Friederike Kind-Kovács has been a guest on 1 episode.