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Dr. Beáta Márkus

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

+49 (0)7071/9992-513
beata.markus(at)idgl.bwl(dot)de

Beáta Márkus studied liberal arts, film studies, and history at the University of Pécs and Regensburg. From 2014 to 2019, she completed her doctorate at the Andrássy Gyula German-Speaking University in Budapest with a project on the “Deportation of Civilians of German Origin from Hungary to the Soviet Union in 1944/1945,” which was supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research. The work was published in Hungarian in 2020 by Kronosz Press, the German version is currently in progress.

From 2018, she was an assistant and, from 2022, a senior lecturer at the Endowed Chair for German history and culture in southeastern Central Europe at the University of Pécs, where she also served as chair holder between 2022 and 2025. She regularly offered courses on the history of the Danube region, focusing on the coexistence of diverse linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. In addition to her postdoctoral project on the history of the ethnic German Waffen-SS members, she was involved in various research projects on the memorial culture of Germans in Hungary, the study of refugee movements during and after World War II, and current migration processes of Germans to Hungary.

Since February 2026, she has been a research associate at the Institut für donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde in Tübingen.

Research focuses

  • History of the German minority in the Kingdom of Hungary
  • (Forced) migration processes and forced labor in 20th-century Europe
  • Memorial culture of German minorities
  • Politics of memory and culture of remembrance in Hungary
  • Local history in rural Hungary