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Klaus Bachmann
editKlaus Bachmann (born 1963, Bruchsal, Germany), journalist, writer, historian and political scientist, author of many books on Central Europe, and on German-Polish and Polish-Ukrainian relations. He was born in Bruchsal (1963), a small German town near the French border. He studied history (especially, the history of Eastern Europe), political science and Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, and Serbo-Croatian) at the universities in Heidelberg, Vienna and Krakow. During that time he engaged in public service as a city councilor in Bruchsal.
In 1988, Bachmann settled in Poland and began to write on a regular basis for various newspapers in Austria and Germany (Die Presse, Der Falter, die Tageszeitung). Since 1989, he began to work as an accredited foreign correspondent based in Poland, and also from 1992, in Kiev, Minsk and Vilnius. During the mid-90s he worked for a Berlin newspaper, "Der Tagesspiegel", "Stuttgarter Zeitung" and "Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung", and for reputed Polish newspapers and weeklies (Rzeczpospolita, Polityka, Tygodnik Powszechny).
In 2000, Bachmann defended his doctoral thesis at Warsaw University (A Polish-Ukrainian conflict in Galicia between 1907 and 1914). That thesis was published in Austria and Germany. In 2001, he moved to Brussels where he worked for three years as a correspondent for German and Austrian newspapers in the Benelux countries.
In 2004, he returned to Poland and wrote a thesis on the European Convention and deliberative democracy whereby he earned a doctorus habilitatus degree at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wroclaw. He was appointed Chair of Political Science at the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wroclaw.
Between 2000 and 2001, and again since 2005, he has been a Member of the Governing Body of the Batory Foundation *[1]. In 2006, Bachmann became associate professor at the Institute of Political Science at the School of Social Psychology in Warsaw. He also lectures at the Institute for International Studies at the University of Wroclaw. He publishes his articles in Polish mainstream weeklies (Polityka) and newspapers (Gazeta Wyborcza), and also in diverse German and Austrian newspapers. In 2004, he delivered lectures as a visiting professor at the Institute of East European History, University of Vienna (on recent history of Poland) and the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) at the University of Bordeaux (2008). He pursued scholarly research at the People's University of China (Renmin) in Bejing 2007 and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC (2007) and also at the Faculty of Law at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa, 2009). He is a member of the Central European International Studies Association (CEISA) and the European Studies Association (EUSA). He is also a collaborator for The Center for International Relations based in Warsaw, and the Principal Officer of the Foundation for European Studies (FEPS).
He lives in Wroclaw.
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