The Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) is a research institute in the Leibniz Association, based in Potsdam. It focuses on contemporary German and European history during and after the Cold War and places special emphasis on the implementation of innovative theoretical and methodological approaches.

ZZF offers an inspiring academic environment and excellent support for currently more than 40 doctoral candidates. Most of them hold either third-party funded positions or fellowships.

The four departments’ central research themes include the history of communist societies, 20th century economic and social upheavals, cultural history of the political as well as the history of media and information societies. Its doctoral candidates are closely integrated into the departments and participate in their respective academic activities. They receive individual support from their particular departmental supervisors and benefit from the doctoral candidates support program which includes

In its doctoral supervision the ZZF cooperates closely with the HU Berlin, the FU Berlin and Universität Potsdam.

center Prof. Dr Frank Bösch Prof. Dr Martin Sabrow Dr Rüdiger Bergien programme organised Freie Universität Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Cold War, contemporary german history, contemporary european history, communist societies, history of media societys, history of information societies