Anna Wolff-Powęska
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Anna Wolff-Powęska (born 1941) is a Polish historian and political scientist specialising in Polish-German relations. She was the director of the Western Institute in Poznań from 1990 to 2004.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>[1] A. Wolff-Powęska: Memory as Burden and LiberationRezensiert für H-Soz-Kult von Bill Niven, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University Anna Wolff-Powęska is a well-known Polish historian who for many years has specialised in the study of Polish-German relations. In 2011, she published in Poland a monograph on the history of German memory of World War Two.[1]</ref> She is one of the foremost authorities on Germany in Poland. <ref>Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945: (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner 2012, page 254</ref>
Career
In 1964, she graduated in history from the Philosophical-Historical Department of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. For a few years, she taught history in primary schools, until she was employed by the Western Institute in 1969. In 1970, she obtained a Ph.D., and in 1980 she completed her habilitation with a thesis on political and law doctrines at the same university. She became full professor in 1986 and was made director of the Western Institute in 1990. She left this post in 2004, but continues to work at the institute.
Areas of activity
Wolff-Powęska's main areas of interest are the history of German political thought and the political culture of Central-Eastern Europe.
Awards
In 2005, Wolff-Powęska received the Polish-German Award for special contribution to Polish-German relations.<ref>[2] Viadrina Award for Polish historian and political scientist</ref>
Publications
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