Alexander Schubert (historian)

Alexander Schubert 2010

Alexander Schubert (born July 28, 1969 in Bayreuth ) is a German historian and cultural manager . He has been director of the Palatinate History Museum in Speyer since 2014 .

Life

From 1992 to 2001 Schubert studied history , German , political science and education in Bayreuth and Bamberg . With a scholarship from the Hanns Seidel Foundation , he received his doctorate from Bernd Schneidmüller in 2001 on the subject of the First South German Urban War . From 2002 to 2004 he was responsible for public relations at the museums of the city of Bamberg .

In 2004 he moved to the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg to prepare for the exhibition of the Council of Europe and the Saxony-Anhalt State Exhibition of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation , for which he conceptually supervised the late medieval departments as well as the area of public relations and marketing . In 2005/06 he also took on the teaching assignment for cultural history exhibitions as a professional field at the Institute of Art History at the Free University of Berlin together with Gabriele Köster.

In 2007, Schubert moved to the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums in Mannheim , initially as a personal advisor to Managing Director Alfried Wieczorek and responsible for public relations for the exhibition projects Alexander the Great and the Opening of the World (2009) and Die Staufer and Italy . Three regions of innovation in Medieval Europe (2010). In 2008 he also took over the management of the marketing department of the Reiss Engelhorn museums. Since 2009 he has been head of the entire press and public relations / marketing department. Schubert coordinated the 2010 Staufer Year for Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. From 2011 he was Scientific Director and responsible for the areas of major scientific projects, press and public relations, and marketing. He was also the managing director of Museums-Service GmbH. As a project manager he prepared the exhibition Die Wittelsbacher am Rhein. The Electoral Palatinate and Europe for 2013. Since 2013, Schubert has held a teaching position for cultural marketing at the Kufstein University of Applied Sciences .

On July 1, 2014, Alexander Schubert became director of the Historisches Museum der Pfalz Speyer .

Since 2018 he has been teaching cultural mediation at the Department of History at Heidelberg University.

Bodies

Schubert is chairman of the specialist commission of the Museums-PASS-Musées , which represents 320 museums in Germany, France and Switzerland, first spokesman for the network of museums and castles in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region and a member of the board of the Rhineland-Palatinate Museums Association.

He is a board member of the European Foundation Speyer Cathedral , the Kurt Beck projects and advisory board member of the national exhibition The Emperor and the pillars of their power in the Landesmuseum Mainz , the Prussia Museum Minden and the Center for Medieval exhibitions in Magdeburg.

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Schubert's academic focus includes topics from the medieval constitution, city, empire and mentality history . A special focus of his research is the history of the city of Nuremberg . He gives lectures in Germany and the USA on questions of cultural policy, in particular on the cultural-political significance of major historical exhibitions. He is one of the initiators of the Germany-wide tourism project Destination Culture . For the communication concept developed by Schubert for the exhibition Die Staufer and Italy , the Reiss Engelhorn museums were awarded the marketing prize of the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region in November 2011, chaired by Peter Wippermann . As a history expert, Schubert appears in programs on SWR television such as SonntagAbend and Planet Wissen . On September 28, 2013, Alexander Schubert was one of the people of the week in Frank Elstner 's SWR program of the same name .

Fonts

Monographs

The city's use or necessity? The imperial city of Nuremberg and the city war of 1388/89 . Husum 2003, ISBN 3-7868-1476-7
Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation: 962 to 1806; from Otto the Great to the end of the Middle Ages . Ed .: Matthias Puhle, Magdeburg 2005. ISBN 3-930030-78-0
From Otto the Great to close of the middle ages: 29th Council of Europe art exhibition, Saxony-Anhalt State Exhibition . Ed. by Matthias Puhle and Claus-Peter Hasse. (together with Gabriele Köster), Magdeburg 2006. ISBN 3-937602-79-8
From Otto the Great to the end of the Middle Ages: 29th exhibition of the Council of Europe, State Exhibition Saxony-Anhalt . Edited by Matthias Puhle and Claus-Peter Hasse. (Together with Gabriele Köster), Magdeburg 2006, ISBN 3-937602-78-X
The Hohenstaufen and Italy. Three innovation regions in medieval Europe, exhibition of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse . Edited by Alfried Wieczorek, Mannheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-927774-26-1
The Wittelsbachers on the Rhine. The Electoral Palatinate and Europe, 2nd exhibition of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse . Edited by Alfried Wieczorek, Mannheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-927774-43-8
Between guild battle and throne dispute. Nuremberg in the uprising 1348/49 Bamberg 2008. ISBN 978-3-923507-43-6

Essays (in selection)

Advertise for history - marketing concept of the Staufer exhibition , in: Alfried Wieczorek / Alexander Schubert (eds.): Exhibition and tourism. Balance of the exhibition of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse . Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-927774-41-4
History for 100 days - large-scale cultural-historical exhibitions in the field of tension between museum work and popular mediation , in: Klaus Arnold et al. (Ed.): History journalism. Between information and staging . Münster, 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10420-5 , pp. 10-23.
Three countries - one goal: cultural tourism in the Staufer year , in: land of possibilities. Art, culture and creative industries in Rhineland-Palatinate , ZIRP documentation 6, 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813889-1-6 , pp. 305–307.
Expectation of salvation and belief in return . In: The Hohenstaufen and Italy. Three regions of innovation in medieval Europe . Vol. 1: Essays ; Vol. 2: Objects. Catalog for the exhibition of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse , ed. v. Alfried Wieczorek, Bernd Schneidmüller and Stefan Weinfurter, Darmstadt 2010.
An Insight Into the 29th Council of Europe Art Exhibition: Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation 962–1806 . Journal of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Volume I, Spring, Santa Barbara / USA 2006. ISSN 1930-1375
Real power and false rule - On the influence of false rulers on the history of the empire , in: Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation 962–1806. From Otto the Great to the End of the Middle Ages , volume of essays for the 29th exhibition of the Council of Europe. Edited by Matthias Puhle and Claus-Peter Hasse, Dresden 2006, pp. 349–358. ISBN 3-937602-68-2 .
A “small town” with a great history - the Bamberg city model from the 19th century , in: Heimat Bamberger Land 2, 2003, pp. 53–56. ISSN 0937-5856
Europe and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Thoughts on the 29th exhibition of the Council of Europe in Magdeburg . In: Culture Report. Quarterly issues of the Central German Cultural Council 46, 2006, pp. 8–11. ISSN 0948-2288
The Hohenstaufen and Italy - Three regions of innovation in medieval Europe , in: The Münster. Journal for Christian Art and Art History 3/2010, 63rd vol., Pp. 236–237. ISSN 0027-299X
Resurrection of the medieval rulers? The Habsburgs in the Museum , in: Bernd Schneidmüller (Ed.): King Rudolf I and the Rise of the House of Habsburg in the Middle Ages , Darmstadt 2019. ISBN 978-3-534-27125-2
Lion and diamonds - success story in golden yellow, white and blue in: Wieczorek, Alfried et al. (Ed.): The Wittelsbacher on the Rhine. The Electoral Palatinate and Europe, catalog for the 2nd exhibition of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse, Regensburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-7954-2644-6
Thoughts on identity creation and mediation using the example of “Die Wittelsbacher am Rhein. The Electoral Palatinate and Europe ", 2nd exhibition of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse , in: Gabriele Köster (Hrsg.): History and cultural heritage of the Middle Ages: Dealing with history in Saxony-Anhalt , Regensburg 2014. ISBN 978 -3-7954-2846-4 pp

Editorships (a selection)

Valentinian I. and the Palatinate in late antiquity , Ubstadt-Weiher 2018. ISBN 978-3-95505-116-7
Richard the Lionheart. King - knight - prisoner. Catalog for the Rhineland-Palatinate State Exhibition , Regensburg 2017. 978-3-7954-3165-5
Maya - the riddle of the royal cities , Munich 2016. ISBN 978-3-7774-2603-7
Speyer World Stage. The era of great state visits , Heidelberg 2016. 978-3-89735-980-2