Studied the history of Eastern and South Eastern Europe, political science and newspaper science in Bonn and Munich. From 1984 research assistant at the Eastern Europe Institute in Munich, from 1987 until now at the Göttinger Arbeitskreis e. V., 1990-2001 Managing Director of the Institute for Germany and Eastern European Research of the Göttinger Arbeitskreis e. V., 2002-2010 Deputy Director, 2011-2016 Research Associate at the Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Northeast Europe at the University of Hamburg. Chairman of the Scientific Commission for the Germans in Russia and in the GUS e. V. Member of several international scientific societies. Main research: History of the Russian Empire and its successor states, history, culture and present of the Russian Germans.
Die vergessenen Frieden: 100 Jahre später in den Blickpunkt gerückt
