Cyril Buffet

Cyril Buffet (born 1958) is a French historian of 20th century international relations, especially Franco-German relations, the history of Brandenburg, the German Democratic Republic, and of the city of Berlin.

Buffet was educated at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris and the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He worked at the Centre Marc Bloch and the Allied Museum in Berlin, and for several museum projects. He has taught at the Humboldt University Berlin; the INALCO, Paris; the University of Reading; and the École Supérieure de Journalisme, Lille. In 2009, he acquired a higher doctorate (Habilitation) at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Buffet is an independent researcher and makes and works as consultant for historical TV documentaries and virtual and actual exhibitions.

Filmography and exhibitions

 * TV documentary: Le Cinéma fait le mur (France: 2014).
 * TV documentary: Les meilleurs ennemis du monde: Des influences culturelles entre la France et l’Allemagne. Fremde Freunde. Wechselwirkungen französischer und deutscher Kultur (Arte: 1996), 60 min.
 * Exhibition: Der private Blick. Fotographien amerikanischer, britischer und französischer Soldaten von 1945, (Berlin, Alliierten Museum, 2005).
 * Exhibition: La crise des missiles de Cuba. Treize jours qui ébranlèrent le monde, Virtual exhibition (Caen, France: Mémorial de Caen, 2002).
 * Exhibition: Rideau de béton. Vie et mort du Mur de Berlin. Virtual exhibition (Caen, France: Mémorial de Caen, 1999).
 * Exhibition: With Uwe Prell: Die Berliner Luftbrücke, (Berlin- Tegel, 1987).