Tessa Hofmann

I have been publishing since the age of 12: first short stories and feature articles, later travel manuals (Armenia, Georgia, Ireland), as well as non-fiction and technical books. I learned academic writing during my studies of Slavic, Sociological and Armenian Studies (1969-1974) and my PhD in Literary Studies (1976-1982).

I have traveled in Russia and the then still existing Soviet Union since 1972 and spent a year in Leningrad/Petersburg in 1974/75 as an exchange scholar. From 1979-1988 I led art-historical study trips to the South Caucasus, to Uzbekistan as well as to Eastern Siberia and Mongolia. From 1986 to 1999 I traveled Ireland (including Northern Ireland) very intensively. From December 1983 to April 2015, I worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Eastern European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.

My thematic focus as an author and editor is on the history, culture, and contemporary life of Armenia, and in the field of genocide studies, on the Ottoman genocide against Christians. Under my married name Savvidis, I published in the field of migration sociology on migration in the post-Soviet area.

Currently, I volunteer as a scholarly editor of the Virtual Genocide Memorial website (https://virtual-genocide-memorial.de/).

With such broad interests as well as over 50 years of writing, many texts have been produced. Not all of the books I have written or edited are still available in bookstores, but they are in libraries and antiquarian.

I am glad about a feedback of my readers.