Interview

Carsten Jahnke, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

The Hanseatic League: a ‘secret superpower’

13 February 2023

(0:15 h)

Interview

Carsten Jahnke, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

The Hanseatic League: a ‘secret superpower’

“How and why do we remember history? And what has led Germans to remember the Hanseatic League as a ‘secret superpower’?

GHIL Research Fellow for Colonial and Global History Mirjam Brusius and PR Officer Kim König speak to Carsten Jahnke (Copenhagen) about his research on the history of the Hanseatic League and how historians have used it to shape Germans’ historical understanding.

Don’t miss Carsten Jahnke’s GHIL lecture for an in-depth discussion of the mnemonic strategies that took the Hanseatic League as a ‘half-forgotten antique’ (Georg Friedrich Sartorius) and firmly anchored it in the general consciousness.