Beatrix Bouvier

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Beatrix Bouvier , married name Beatrix Wrede-Bouvier (born December 2, 1944 in Teterow ) is a German historian .

Life

Beatrix Bouvier was born in Mecklenburg and spent her childhood in Frankfurt am Main . After graduating from high school, she studied history and political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in her hometown. With the font Die Deutsche Freiheitspartei (DFP): a contribution to the history of the opposition to National Socialism. She received her doctorate in philosophy in 1969 in Frankfurt . After working for several years in the Federal Archives in Koblenz, she worked as a research assistant at the "Institute for Social History Braunschweig-Bonn" in Bonn.

In 1993 she completed her habilitation in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the TU Darmstadt and became a member of the editorial team of the journal Archiv für Sozialgeschichte . Beatrix Bouvier has been a member of the “Franco-German Committee for Research into German and French History of the 19th and 20th Centuries” since 1994. From 1996 to 1998 she was chairman and then general secretary of the committee until 2000. In 1998 she was appointed adjunct professor at the TU Darmstadt.

From 2003 to 2009 Bouvier was the director of the museum and the research center Karl Marx House in Trier. There it was adopted on February 18, 2010 with a symposium on the topic of "New Perspectives on the History of the Workers and Labor Movement". She had redesigned the museum and thereby managed to double the annual number of visitors. After her departure, the position was not filled.

She continues to work in the science department of the Federal Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship . Even after retirement, Beatrix Bouvier is still active on the board of the International Marx-Engels Foundation . In Trier she was a founding member of the German-Chinese Society, of which she continues to be a member.

Research priorities

Beatrix Bouvier did research in particular on the social history of the 19th and 20th centuries and German-French relations. Further focal points are research on the history of the Federal Republic and the GDR and on the history of the German labor movement.

Works (selection)

As an author

As (co) editor

  • with Horst Peter Schulz: "... but the SPD has ceased to exist" , Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. Bonn, 1991, ISBN 3-8012-0162-7
  • Reopening of the Karl Marx House Trier: June 9, 2005 , Study Center Karl Marx House of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Trier, 2005, ISBN 3-89892-424-6
  • On the social and cultural history of football , study center Karl-Marx-Haus of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Trier, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89892-572-3
  • with Michael Schneider : History politics and democratic culture: Balance sheet and perspectives , Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. Bonn, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8012-4183-4
  • What remains? Karl Marx today , Study Center Karl Marx House of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Trier, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86827-063-1
  • with Mario Bungert: Karl Marx (1818 - 1883): Life - Work - Effect up to the present; Exhibition in the birth house in Trier , study center Karl-Marx-Haus of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Trier, 3rd edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-86498-607-9
  • with Rainer Auts: Karl Marx 1818 - 1883: Life. Plant. Time. Big state exhibition 2018 in Trier. Theiss Verlag in the WBG, Darmstadt 2018, ISBN 978-3-8062-3702-3

Web links

Short biography and reviews of works by Beatrix Bouvier at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Short biography on the occasion of the exhibition Motorcycle: Acceleration and Rebellion? of the University of Trier and the European Art Academy from May 28th - June 27th 2009 (pdf)
  2. ↑ a b c d Biography at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
  3. ↑ a b c Trierischer Volksfreund : Beatrix Bouvier: Mission accomplished , 5th November 2009
  4. ↑ Link to the dissertation in the German National Library
  5. ↑ Overview of the board members on the website of the Historians' Commission
  6. ↑ Anja Kruke: Farewell to Beatrix Bouvier and Friedhelm Boll , website of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
  7. ↑ Short biography on the website of the Federal Foundation
  8. ↑ List of board members
personal data
SURNAME Bouvier, Beatrix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wrede-Bouvier, Beatrix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Teterow