Managing Director and Deputy Director

Private lecturer Dr. Daniela Simon

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

+49 (0)7071/9992-516
daniela.simon(at)idgl.bwl(dot)de

Daniela Simon studied modern and contemporary history, political science, and German studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. From 2012 to 2015, she earned her doctorate from the University of Tübingen with a thesis on "Religion and Violence in Eastern Croatia and Northern Bosnia 1941–1945," which analyzed the relationships between political actors and religious communities in a conflict-ridden context.

Between 2015 and 2020, she was an academic associate in the Collaborative Research Center 923 "Threatened Orders" and a board member from 2018 to 2020. Since 2021, she has been a research associate at the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, where she headed the institute's archive until 2023. Her habilitation, completed in 2022, and the publication "The (Threatened) Orders of Diversity. Hybridity in Istria 1870–1910," published in 2024, address the assertion of ethnic, linguistic, and national categories, as well as the role of hybridity.

Since 2024, she has been the managing director and deputy director of the IdGL. As a private lecturer at the University of Tübingen, she regularly offers courses on Southeast European history. She is particularly interested in the history of Germans in Southeast Europe in the context of war, flight, and the loss of belonging. She examines these experiences from a comparative perspective with other population groups and their coexistence in the culturally and historically diverse region of Southeast Europe.

Research focuses

  • History of Southeastern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • History and Culture of South Slavic Regions in the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • Diversity and Hybridity in the Habsburg Monarchy
  • Transformation Processes and Social Change in Yugoslavia