'Wallenstein. Life, Legend and Legacy' Following an interdisciplinary approach, the 28 essays in this volume focus on one of the most fascinating figures of the Thirty Years' War: Albrecht von Wallenstein. The everyday life during war and Wallenstein's role as a military contractor become as visible as the myth that the visual and performative arts, literature, music, film and contemporary marketing are continuously producing since the 17th century, forming this key figure of European history into an opalescent discourse phenomenon.

Birgit Emich studied History and Political Sciences in Freiburg. She received her PhD with a thesis on the administrative system of the Early Modern Roman Curia between bureaucratization and nepotism. Her habilitation treatise, which was awarded with the Prize of the Heidelberg Akademie der Wissenschaften, discussed problems of territorial integration in the Early Modern period. She has held a DFG-Heisenberg Fellowship and was interim professor in Münster, Dresden, and Freiburg. She held the chair of Early Modern History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 2010 until she transferred to Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main) at the beginning of 2017. Dirk Niefanger received his PhD from the University of Tübingen and his habilitation qualification from University of Goettingen with his thesis 'Historical Drama in the Early Modern Age 1495-1773'. Following research and teaching posts in Berlin and Brunswick, he took up the Chair in Literary Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2003. His main fields of research are early modern culture and the literature of Viennese modern age. Among his recent publications are an introduction in the literature of 'Barock' (2012) and an edition of Grimmelshausen's 'Simplicissimus' (2017). Dominik Sauerer graduated from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a degree in German Language and Literature Studies, Social Studies, and History. After having worked as a student research assistant and graduate research assistant, he started his DFG-funded PhD project 'Territorialization from below? Belonging and state-building in Leipzig (1485-1806)' at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2016. Since March 2017, he is a research associate to Prof. Dr. Birgit Emich at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt. His research focuses on state-building processes, the cultural history of administration, belonging and identity as well as space, spatial cognition, and territorialization. Georg Seiderer studied History and Philosophy in Heidelberg and Erlangen. He received his PhD with a thesis on enlightenment in the Franconian cities and territories Ansbach, Bamberg and Nuremberg. His habilitation thesis examines constitutional politics and administrative reform in the Habsburg Empire during the ministry of Alexander Bach 1848-1859. After an interim professorship in Augsburg, he is since 2008 a Professor for Modern Bavarian and Franconian History and Folkloristics at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

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