
Martin Baumeister is the director of the German Historical Institute in Rome and holds the chair for Modern European History at LMU Munich. His research focuses on Southern Europe and the Mediterranean region (Italy and Spain in particular). He has worked extensively on the history of popular culture and theatre, but also on urban history and the history of religion. Martin Baumeister has published books on Catholicism in the German Kaiserreich, about agriculture and poverty in the Spanish Extremadura region, and about theatre in the First World War.