Dr. Márta Fata

Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies (IdGL)
Mohlstr. 18
72074 Tübingen

+ 49 (0)7071/9992-500
poststelle(at)idgl.bwl(dot)de

marta.fata(at)uni-tuebingen(dot)de

Institut für donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde (IdGL)
Mohlstr. 18
72074 Tübingen

+ 49 (0)7071/9992-500
poststelle@idgl.bwl.de

Marta Fata studied history and German in Greifswald and Freiburg im Breisgau and completed a degree in journalism in Budapest. She then worked as a journalist and secondary school teacher in Hungary. She completed her doctorate at the University of Freiburg with a thesis on the German minority in Hungary in the interwar period and habilitated in Tübingen in 2011 with a thesis on Emperor Joseph II's cameralistic migration policy in the Habsburg Monarchy. She was awarded the venia legendi for the subject of modern history. She has worked at the Institute since 1991, since then also as a lecturer at the Department of Modern History. She has been an associate professor since 2015. 

Her research focuses and interests include early modern history, migration history, Reformation and confessional history, education, knowledge and cultural transfer, minority history, remembrance culture, the history of the Habsburg Monarchy, Hungary and the Danube Swabians.