Friedemann Pestel
Biographic Data
| ID | 323715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Friedemann Pestel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Friedemann |
| FAMILY NAME | Pestel |
| SIGNATURE | PESTEL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9481-4010 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Infrastructures of Musical Globalization, 1850–2000: Introduction
The introduction to this forum highlights infrastructures as crucial, yet often overlooked, enablers of musical globalization from 1850 to 2000, facilitating the creation, transmission, and transformation of music across diverse contexts. By framing infrastructures as both material and relational constructs, we argue that they underpin connections between musical practices, genres, and institutions while also reflecting power dynamics and exclusi…
“He is Not an Artist But a Trust”: Herbert von Karajan’s Global Career and the (A)political Economy of Classical Music
The career of conductor Herbert von Karajan (1908–89) is often considered exemplary for twentieth-century classical musicianship. At the same time, Karajan remains a controversial figure both with regard to his affiliation with National Socialism and his role in the commercialization of classical music. Going beyond biographical approaches, this article argues that Karajan’s appearances in Europe, North America, East Asia, and the Middle East, to…
Eva Zimmermann, Baden-Baden, Sommerhauptstadt Europas. Eine deutsch-französische Beziehungsgeschichte, 1840–1870. Heidelberg, Heidelberg University Publishing 2024
Article Eva Zimmermann, Baden-Baden, Sommerhauptstadt Europas. Eine deutsch-französische Beziehungsgeschichte, 1840–1870. Heidelberg, Heidelberg University Publishing 2024 was published on June 2, 2025 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 320, issue 3)
Mobile Propaganda and Musical Occupation: German Symphony Orchestras Touring Nazi ‘New Europe’ During the Second World War
Austrian World Practices: The Vienna Philharmonic and the Global History of Austrian Culture in the Twentieth Century
Over the twentieth century, the Vienna Philharmonic—Austria’s flagship musical institution—became a leading player in global musical life through intercontinental touring, the distribution of recordings, and the establishment of “Austrianness” as a global brand. By framing the mobility of musicians as “world practices,” this article investigates the driving forces behind an Austrian ensemble going global. It understands the Philharmonic’s relatio…
New Histories of and for Europe: Narrating the European Project
Approaching Europe's historical trajectories to explain its present condition is an ever-growing genre. More than 200 years after the Congress of Vienna, more than 100 years after the First World War, more than sixty years after the Treaty of Rome, more than half a decade after the Brexit referendum – and after more than a year of open warfare in Ukraine, the European project remains in constant flux. A seemingly endless sequence of junctures ove…
Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions: A Global History, c. 1750–1830
The political upheavals and military confrontations that rocked the world during the decades around 1800 saw forced migrations on a massive scale. This global history brings this explosion into full view. Rather than describing coerced mobilities as an aberration in a period usually identified with quests for liberty and political participation, this book recognizes them as a crucial but hitherto under-appreciated dimension of the transformations…
(Un-)Settling Exile: Imagining Outposts of the French Emigration across the Globe
This chapter explores a global panorama of settlement projects by French émigrés in the 1790s. These projects – partly realized, planned, or imagined – aimed at transforming the émigré diaspora into defined territories. Situated between the Americas, the Caribbean, North Africa, the Russian Empire, and Australia, these projects allow, on the one hand, for analysis of the émigrés’ political options and spatial imaginaries of exile in relation to p…
The Political Force of Memory: The Making and Unmaking of Brexit as an Event
What qualifies as a political event is a core question for social and historical research. This article argues that the use of temporal structures in narratives of political and social developments contributes significantly to the making and unmaking of events. We show how arguments that draw upon history play a particularly important role in transforming the everyday unfolding of politics into discernable events with a clear time bracket. Throug…
Johannes Großmann, Zwischen Fronten. Die deutsch-französische Grenzregion und der Weg in den Zweiten Weltkrieg. (Moderne Zeit. Neue Forschungen zur Gesellschafts- und Kulturgeschichte des 19. und 20. …
Bernd Klesmann, Die Notabelnversammlung 1787 in Versailles. Rahmenbedingungen und Gestaltungsoptionen eines nationalen Reformprojekts. (Beihefte der Francia, Bd. 83.) Ostfildern, Thorbecke 2019
Article Bernd Klesmann, Die Notabelnversammlung 1787 in Versailles. Rahmenbedingungen und Gestaltungsoptionen eines nationalen Reformprojekts. (Beihefte der Francia, Bd. 83.) Ostfildern, Thorbecke 2019 was published on December 1, 2020 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 311, issue 3)
The “first crowned monarch of the New World”: Monarchical legitimation and symbolic politics of Henry I of Haiti (1811–1820)
This article analyses the relationship between the postcolonial condition and monarchical legitimation in North Haiti during the reign of King Henry I (1811–1820). For Henry and the North Haitian elites, the choice of monarchy represented an attempt at postcolonial socio-political consolidation inasmuch as a strategy towards the recognition of independence by European powers which themselves underwent a monarchical reconstruction after 1814. Far …
Revolution on Trial
The Mémoires de Wéber, concernant Marie-Antoinette were of central importance to the wave of memoirs of the French Revolution published during the Restoration period. Commonly attributed to Joseph Weber, Marie-Antoinette's foster brother, the Mémoires' authorship has always remained doubtful. This article discusses the text's complex origins in the London émigré community around 1800 and analyzes the process by which it became a canonic eyewitnes…
Europe’s Europes: Mapping the conflicts of European memory
Debates about ‘European memory’ are frequent in public and political discourse. With the fundamental challenges the European project now faces, such debates exemplify changes in what Europe means and implies politically. Drawing on a large corpus of press articles from six EU member states and employing qualitative and quantitative methods of discourse analysis, the article examines the fields and logics of conflict about the meaning of Europe be…
R. J. Arnold, Musical Debate and Political Culture in France, 1700–1830
Une restauration atlantique: Légitimations politiques, cultures matérielles et mobilité entre les pays germaniques et haïti, 1804-1825
Au début du XIX e siècle, Haïti postcolonial jouit d’une couverture médiatique importante dans la presse allemande. En analysant le discours politique, les migrations et les relations commerciales entre les pays germaniques et les différents régimes haïtiens rapportés dans la presse, cet article inscrit ces échanges dynamiques dans la double situation postrévolutionnaire en Haïti et en Allemagne après la chute de Napoléon et la fin de la dominati…
Threshold of Post-Revolutionary Experience. Introduction
The Impossible Ancien Régime colonial: Postcolonial Haiti and the Perils of the French Restoration
The Impossible Ancien Régime colonial: Postcolonial Haiti and the Perils of the French Restoration This article discusses the consequences of Napoleon's downfall for the world's first modern post-slavery state, Haiti. It focuses on the interplay between the French colonial office's diplomatic missions that were lobbied by dispossessed planters to recover the lost colony and the Haitian propaganda to guarantee national independence. These relation…
Promise and challenge of European Memory
This introduction identifies the ubiquitous, but controversial, public and academic debate on European Memory as a key for articulating assumptions and expectations about an enhanced process of European integration via references to Europe’s past. The authors outline contradictions that constitute this discourse by pointing to its inherently conflictive potential and carve out the implicit and explicit normative assumptions of European Memory. Al…
Memory that governs by itself? Appropriations of Versailles memory
Versailles memory has been a cornerstone of the traditional paradigm of lieux de mémoire. However, its transnational dimension has never been fully explored. Covering more than three centuries, this article identifies three antagonistic patterns of transnational Versailles memory that carry ambivalent references to ‘Europe’: war versus peace; monarchical versus republican legitimization; and universalistic versus particularistic conceptions of po…
Educating against Revolution: French Émigré Schools and the Challenge of the Next Generation
The education of children as future elites after the Restoration was a persistent concern for French émigrés after the Revolution of 1789. Focusing on discourse on émigré education and émigré schools in Britain and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, this article examines how, in the 1790s, the émigrés' rejection of the Republic and their quest for monarchical restoration resonated in pedagogical activities. Under difficult living conditi…
On Counterrevolution
After 1789, counterrevolution emerged as revolution's first counterconcept in French political discourse. While scholars of the French Revolution commonly associate counterrevolution with a backward-oriented political program, often with the restoration of the ancien régime, this article challenges such a retrograde understanding. Drawing on a broad corpus of sources, it emphasizes the flexible and pluralistic meanings of counterrevolution during…
Kosmopoliten wider Willen: Die "monarchiens" als Revolutionsemigranten
Using the example of the Monarchiens , a group of constitutional monarchists, Friedemann Pestel examines how émigrés moved from being on the defensive to political action in the 1790s. Their pan-European connections gave them extensive visibility. The study shows the interconnections between lands of origin and exile. It corrects the prevalent view of emigrants as historical losers
Geschichtspolitik in Europa seit 1989 (Moderne europäische Geschichte 3): Modern History—Histoire Contemporaine
A book entitled ‘Politics of history in Europe since 1989’ can be expected to have three entwined objectives: conceptual refinements, in particular on the contested concept of ‘Geschichtspolitik’
Entangled Memory: Toward a Third Wave in Memory Studies
This essay takes up the call for a "third phase" in memory studies and makes theoretical and methodological suggestions for its further development. Starting from an understanding of memory that centers on memory's temporality, its relation to language, and its quality as a social action, the essay puts forward the concept of "entangled memory." On a theoretical level, it brings to the fore the entangledness of acts of remembering. In a synchroni…
Entangled Memory: Toward a Third Wave in Memory Studies
This essay takes up the call for a "third phase" in memory studies and makes theoretical and methodological suggestions for its further development. Starting from an understanding of memory that centers on memory's temporality, its relation to language, and its quality as a social action, the essay puts forward the concept of "entangled memory." On a theoretical level, it brings to the fore the entangledness of acts of remembering. In a synchroni…
The Impossible Ancien Régime colonial: Postcolonial Haiti and the Perils of the French Restoration
The Impossible Ancien Régime colonial: Postcolonial Haiti and the Perils of the French Restoration This article discusses the consequences of Napoleon's downfall for the world's first modern post-slavery state, Haiti. It focuses on the interplay between the French colonial office's diplomatic missions that were lobbied by dispossessed planters to recover the lost colony and the Haitian propaganda to guarantee national independence. These relation…
Europe’s Europes: Mapping the conflicts of European memory
Debates about ‘European memory’ are frequent in public and political discourse. With the fundamental challenges the European project now faces, such debates exemplify changes in what Europe means and implies politically. Drawing on a large corpus of press articles from six EU member states and employing qualitative and quantitative methods of discourse analysis, the article examines the fields and logics of conflict about the meaning of Europe be…
Une restauration atlantique: Légitimations politiques, cultures matérielles et mobilité entre les pays germaniques et haïti, 1804-1825
Au début du XIX e siècle, Haïti postcolonial jouit d’une couverture médiatique importante dans la presse allemande. En analysant le discours politique, les migrations et les relations commerciales entre les pays germaniques et les différents régimes haïtiens rapportés dans la presse, cet article inscrit ces échanges dynamiques dans la double situation postrévolutionnaire en Haïti et en Allemagne après la chute de Napoléon et la fin de la dominati…
Austrian World Practices: The Vienna Philharmonic and the Global History of Austrian Culture in the Twentieth Century
Over the twentieth century, the Vienna Philharmonic—Austria’s flagship musical institution—became a leading player in global musical life through intercontinental touring, the distribution of recordings, and the establishment of “Austrianness” as a global brand. By framing the mobility of musicians as “world practices,” this article investigates the driving forces behind an Austrian ensemble going global. It understands the Philharmonic’s relatio…
Revolution on Trial
The Mémoires de Wéber, concernant Marie-Antoinette were of central importance to the wave of memoirs of the French Revolution published during the Restoration period. Commonly attributed to Joseph Weber, Marie-Antoinette's foster brother, the Mémoires' authorship has always remained doubtful. This article discusses the text's complex origins in the London émigré community around 1800 and analyzes the process by which it became a canonic eyewitnes…
Threshold of Post-Revolutionary Experience. Introduction
Promise and challenge of European Memory
This introduction identifies the ubiquitous, but controversial, public and academic debate on European Memory as a key for articulating assumptions and expectations about an enhanced process of European integration via references to Europe’s past. The authors outline contradictions that constitute this discourse by pointing to its inherently conflictive potential and carve out the implicit and explicit normative assumptions of European Memory. Al…
Memory that governs by itself? Appropriations of Versailles memory
Versailles memory has been a cornerstone of the traditional paradigm of lieux de mémoire. However, its transnational dimension has never been fully explored. Covering more than three centuries, this article identifies three antagonistic patterns of transnational Versailles memory that carry ambivalent references to ‘Europe’: war versus peace; monarchical versus republican legitimization; and universalistic versus particularistic conceptions of po…
Educating against Revolution: French Émigré Schools and the Challenge of the Next Generation
The education of children as future elites after the Restoration was a persistent concern for French émigrés after the Revolution of 1789. Focusing on discourse on émigré education and émigré schools in Britain and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, this article examines how, in the 1790s, the émigrés' rejection of the Republic and their quest for monarchical restoration resonated in pedagogical activities. Under difficult living conditi…
Geschichtspolitik in Europa seit 1989 (Moderne europäische Geschichte 3): Modern History—Histoire Contemporaine
A book entitled ‘Politics of history in Europe since 1989’ can be expected to have three entwined objectives: conceptual refinements, in particular on the contested concept of ‘Geschichtspolitik’
Entangled Memory: Toward a Third Wave in Memory Studies
This essay takes up the call for a "third phase" in memory studies and makes theoretical and methodological suggestions for its further development. Starting from an understanding of memory that centers on memory's temporality, its relation to language, and its quality as a social action, the essay puts forward the concept of "entangled memory." On a theoretical level, it brings to the fore the entangledness of acts of remembering. In a synchroni…
Kosmopoliten wider Willen: Die "monarchiens" als Revolutionsemigranten
Using the example of the Monarchiens , a group of constitutional monarchists, Friedemann Pestel examines how émigrés moved from being on the defensive to political action in the 1790s. Their pan-European connections gave them extensive visibility. The study shows the interconnections between lands of origin and exile. It corrects the prevalent view of emigrants as historical losers
Threshold of Post-Revolutionary Experience. Introduction
The Impossible Ancien Régime colonial: Postcolonial Haiti and the Perils of the French Restoration
The Impossible Ancien Régime colonial: Postcolonial Haiti and the Perils of the French Restoration This article discusses the consequences of Napoleon's downfall for the world's first modern post-slavery state, Haiti. It focuses on the interplay between the French colonial office's diplomatic missions that were lobbied by dispossessed planters to recover the lost colony and the Haitian propaganda to guarantee national independence. These relation…
Promise and challenge of European Memory
This introduction identifies the ubiquitous, but controversial, public and academic debate on European Memory as a key for articulating assumptions and expectations about an enhanced process of European integration via references to Europe’s past. The authors outline contradictions that constitute this discourse by pointing to its inherently conflictive potential and carve out the implicit and explicit normative assumptions of European Memory. Al…
Memory that governs by itself? Appropriations of Versailles memory
Versailles memory has been a cornerstone of the traditional paradigm of lieux de mémoire. However, its transnational dimension has never been fully explored. Covering more than three centuries, this article identifies three antagonistic patterns of transnational Versailles memory that carry ambivalent references to ‘Europe’: war versus peace; monarchical versus republican legitimization; and universalistic versus particularistic conceptions of po…
Educating against Revolution: French Émigré Schools and the Challenge of the Next Generation
The education of children as future elites after the Restoration was a persistent concern for French émigrés after the Revolution of 1789. Focusing on discourse on émigré education and émigré schools in Britain and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, this article examines how, in the 1790s, the émigrés' rejection of the Republic and their quest for monarchical restoration resonated in pedagogical activities. Under difficult living conditi…
On Counterrevolution
After 1789, counterrevolution emerged as revolution's first counterconcept in French political discourse. While scholars of the French Revolution commonly associate counterrevolution with a backward-oriented political program, often with the restoration of the ancien régime, this article challenges such a retrograde understanding. Drawing on a broad corpus of sources, it emphasizes the flexible and pluralistic meanings of counterrevolution during…
R. J. Arnold, Musical Debate and Political Culture in France, 1700–1830
Une restauration atlantique: Légitimations politiques, cultures matérielles et mobilité entre les pays germaniques et haïti, 1804-1825
Au début du XIX e siècle, Haïti postcolonial jouit d’une couverture médiatique importante dans la presse allemande. En analysant le discours politique, les migrations et les relations commerciales entre les pays germaniques et les différents régimes haïtiens rapportés dans la presse, cet article inscrit ces échanges dynamiques dans la double situation postrévolutionnaire en Haïti et en Allemagne après la chute de Napoléon et la fin de la dominati…
Bernd Klesmann, Die Notabelnversammlung 1787 in Versailles. Rahmenbedingungen und Gestaltungsoptionen eines nationalen Reformprojekts. (Beihefte der Francia, Bd. 83.) Ostfildern, Thorbecke 2019
Article Bernd Klesmann, Die Notabelnversammlung 1787 in Versailles. Rahmenbedingungen und Gestaltungsoptionen eines nationalen Reformprojekts. (Beihefte der Francia, Bd. 83.) Ostfildern, Thorbecke 2019 was published on December 1, 2020 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 311, issue 3)
The “first crowned monarch of the New World”: Monarchical legitimation and symbolic politics of Henry I of Haiti (1811–1820)
This article analyses the relationship between the postcolonial condition and monarchical legitimation in North Haiti during the reign of King Henry I (1811–1820). For Henry and the North Haitian elites, the choice of monarchy represented an attempt at postcolonial socio-political consolidation inasmuch as a strategy towards the recognition of independence by European powers which themselves underwent a monarchical reconstruction after 1814. Far …
Revolution on Trial
The Mémoires de Wéber, concernant Marie-Antoinette were of central importance to the wave of memoirs of the French Revolution published during the Restoration period. Commonly attributed to Joseph Weber, Marie-Antoinette's foster brother, the Mémoires' authorship has always remained doubtful. This article discusses the text's complex origins in the London émigré community around 1800 and analyzes the process by which it became a canonic eyewitnes…
Europe’s Europes: Mapping the conflicts of European memory
Debates about ‘European memory’ are frequent in public and political discourse. With the fundamental challenges the European project now faces, such debates exemplify changes in what Europe means and implies politically. Drawing on a large corpus of press articles from six EU member states and employing qualitative and quantitative methods of discourse analysis, the article examines the fields and logics of conflict about the meaning of Europe be…
Johannes Großmann, Zwischen Fronten. Die deutsch-französische Grenzregion und der Weg in den Zweiten Weltkrieg. (Moderne Zeit. Neue Forschungen zur Gesellschafts- und Kulturgeschichte des 19. und 20. …
Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions: A Global History, c. 1750–1830
The political upheavals and military confrontations that rocked the world during the decades around 1800 saw forced migrations on a massive scale. This global history brings this explosion into full view. Rather than describing coerced mobilities as an aberration in a period usually identified with quests for liberty and political participation, this book recognizes them as a crucial but hitherto under-appreciated dimension of the transformations…
(Un-)Settling Exile: Imagining Outposts of the French Emigration across the Globe
This chapter explores a global panorama of settlement projects by French émigrés in the 1790s. These projects – partly realized, planned, or imagined – aimed at transforming the émigré diaspora into defined territories. Situated between the Americas, the Caribbean, North Africa, the Russian Empire, and Australia, these projects allow, on the one hand, for analysis of the émigrés’ political options and spatial imaginaries of exile in relation to p…
The Political Force of Memory: The Making and Unmaking of Brexit as an Event
What qualifies as a political event is a core question for social and historical research. This article argues that the use of temporal structures in narratives of political and social developments contributes significantly to the making and unmaking of events. We show how arguments that draw upon history play a particularly important role in transforming the everyday unfolding of politics into discernable events with a clear time bracket. Throug…
Infrastructures of Musical Globalization, 1850–2000: Introduction
The introduction to this forum highlights infrastructures as crucial, yet often overlooked, enablers of musical globalization from 1850 to 2000, facilitating the creation, transmission, and transformation of music across diverse contexts. By framing infrastructures as both material and relational constructs, we argue that they underpin connections between musical practices, genres, and institutions while also reflecting power dynamics and exclusi…
“He is Not an Artist But a Trust”: Herbert von Karajan’s Global Career and the (A)political Economy of Classical Music
The career of conductor Herbert von Karajan (1908–89) is often considered exemplary for twentieth-century classical musicianship. At the same time, Karajan remains a controversial figure both with regard to his affiliation with National Socialism and his role in the commercialization of classical music. Going beyond biographical approaches, this article argues that Karajan’s appearances in Europe, North America, East Asia, and the Middle East, to…
Eva Zimmermann, Baden-Baden, Sommerhauptstadt Europas. Eine deutsch-französische Beziehungsgeschichte, 1840–1870. Heidelberg, Heidelberg University Publishing 2024
Article Eva Zimmermann, Baden-Baden, Sommerhauptstadt Europas. Eine deutsch-französische Beziehungsgeschichte, 1840–1870. Heidelberg, Heidelberg University Publishing 2024 was published on June 2, 2025 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 320, issue 3)
Mobile Propaganda and Musical Occupation: German Symphony Orchestras Touring Nazi ‘New Europe’ During the Second World War
Austrian World Practices: The Vienna Philharmonic and the Global History of Austrian Culture in the Twentieth Century
Over the twentieth century, the Vienna Philharmonic—Austria’s flagship musical institution—became a leading player in global musical life through intercontinental touring, the distribution of recordings, and the establishment of “Austrianness” as a global brand. By framing the mobility of musicians as “world practices,” this article investigates the driving forces behind an Austrian ensemble going global. It understands the Philharmonic’s relatio…
New Histories of and for Europe: Narrating the European Project
Approaching Europe's historical trajectories to explain its present condition is an ever-growing genre. More than 200 years after the Congress of Vienna, more than 100 years after the First World War, more than sixty years after the Treaty of Rome, more than half a decade after the Brexit referendum – and after more than a year of open warfare in Ukraine, the European project remains in constant flux. A seemingly endless sequence of junctures ove…
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