Education
After his childhood in East Germany, Hasso Spode flew to West Berlin where he studied philosophy, history, theology and sociology.
historian sociologist university professor
After his childhood in East Germany, Hasso Spode flew to West Berlin where he studied philosophy, history, theology and sociology.
Today he is professor in Hanover and director of the tourism archive at the Technical University in Berlin The main focus of his research is on historical anthropology and cultural history, but he also works in the field of social and political history. He wrote over 200 articles, mostly in German, and wrote or edited more than a dozen books In 1989 he launched the "study-group for tourism history", the first institution of this kind.
Meanwhile he is a noted expert in the history and theory of tourism.
In this connection, he stresses the romantic character of the tourist comsumption and classifies tourist travel as "time travel aback" and, drwaing on Reinhart Koselleck and Michel Foucault, the touristic space as "chronotopia".