Martin Rempe is a historian. He researches and teaches German, European and African history in the 19th and 20th centuries. His research focuses on the history of labour with a particular emphasis on the cultural and creative industries, European-African relations, and music history. Rempe's habilitation thesis, which received a positive echo from academics and the public alike, is dedicated to the working and living environments of musicians in Germany and traces the changes in this professional field between 1850 and 1960; an English translation was published by Brill and open access in 2023. His award-winning dissertation deals with the mechanisms and effects of development cooperation between the European Economic Community and Senegal. In both this and many other publications, transnational and global historical perspectives are in the foreground.
Since April 2020, Martin Rempe has been funded by the Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation. In the academic year 2021/22, he worked at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich in the winter semester as a representative of the Chair of 19th and 20th Century European History and in the summer semester as a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "global dis:connect". Rempe has also held professorships in Constance (Modern and Contemporary History), Freiburg (Non-European History) and Heidelberg (Modern History). Since 2017, Rempe also teaches regularly at the University of St. Gallen.