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Dr. Maximilian Bushman

Research associate

Maximilian Buschmann works as a research associate at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine (IGEM) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in the research project "Brain Research at Institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the Context of National Socialist Injustice".

He studied Modern and Contemporary History, Medieval History, and Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, and most recently completed a DFG-funded project on the history of hunger strikes at the LMU Munich.

Previously, he was a Bavarian Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 2023, he published his dissertation on the transnational history of hunger strikes, which won the dissertation prize of the Bavarian American Academy and was shortlisted for the Hedwig Hintze Prize. His research and teaching interestsin include the history of biopolitics, psychiatry, prisons, eugenics, hunger and racism. He is particularly interested in the historicity of bodies and body practices and the history of knowledge.

  • History of psychiatry and the penal system
  • Medicine in National Socialism
  • History of hunger, nutrition and the body
  • History of forms of protest in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • History of human rights and humanitarianism

2023

Maximilian Buschmann, Die Erfindung des Hungerstreiks. Eine transnationale Geschichte, 1880–1950, Göttingen 2023.

2022

Maximilian Buschmann, Imprisoned Protest. The Body at Risk and Hunger Strikes in the United States in Transnational Perspective, 1968‒85, in: Martin H. Geyer (Hrsg.), Sites of Modernity – Places of Risk. Risk and Security in Germany since the 1970s, New York 2023, S. 128–149.

Annemarie Kinzelbach, Stefanie Neuner, Gerrit Hohendorf, Maximilian Buschmann u. Philipp Rauh, Zwischen Routinebetrieb, Erbgesundheitspolitik und NS-Krankenmord. Die Prosektur der Deutschen Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie (1926–1962), in: Medizinhistorisches Journal 57, 4 (2022), S. 332–362.

2021
Buschmann, Maximilian; (2021) Die Regierung des Hungerstreiks Protest, Gefängnis und Psychiatrie in Deutschland, 1913-1934, Westfälische Forschungen, 71, 209-224
2019
Buschmann, Maximilian; (2019) „Freiheit oder Hungertod“ Hungerstreiks als Protestform politischer Gefangener in der frühen Weimarer Republik, WerkstattGeschichte, 80, 17-35
Buschmann, Maximilian; (2019) Das Jahrzehnt des Hungerstreiks in der Ära der Menschenrechte Eine transnationale Perspektive auf eine riskante politische Protestform in den 1970er JahrenHaus der Geschichte Baden-Württembergs, ; , Hunger, Zur Geschichte einer existenziellen Bedrohung, Ubstadt-Weiher, 185-204
2018
Buschmann, Maximilian; (2018) The First Political Hunger Striker in America. Anarchistische Rebellen und die Geschichte des Nicht-Essens als Protestform im frühen 20. JahrhundertAselmeyer, N; Settele, V; , Geschichte des Nicht-Essens, Verzicht, Vermeidung und Verweigerung in der Moderne, Beiheft 73 der Historischen Zeitschrift, Berlin/Boston, 145-174
2017
Buschmann, Maximilian; (2017) „That Most Terrible Weapon“ Hungerstreiks und Zwangsernährung in der europäischen Geschichte des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts, Themenportal Europäische Geschichte, www.europa.clio-online.de/essay/id/fdae-1697
2015
Buschmann, Maximilian; (2015) Hungerstreiks Notizen zur transnationalen Geschichte einer Protestform im 20. Jahrhundert, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 65, 49, 34-40
  • Ethics and Palliative Care Seminar (Certificate of Achievement GTE) (WiSe 2021/22)

Maximilian Buschmann gives scientific and public lectures on the following topics:

  • History of hunger strikes and force feeding
  • Brain Research, Psychiatry and Biopolitics in 20th century Germany
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