Alexandra Przyrembel

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Alexandra Przyrembel (* 1965 ) is a German historian . Since mid-2015 she has been Professor for the History of European Modernism at the Distance University in Hagen .

resume

Alexandra Przyrembel completed an apprenticeship as a publishing bookseller at Rowohlt Verlag in Reinbek near Hamburg from 1985 . Until 1995 she worked in this field for various publishers and literary agencies. From 1989 to 1995 she studied history and literature at Cornell University in New York State and at the University of Hamburg . From 1991, her doctorate was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Ernst Strassmann Foundation. Her studies were previously funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation .

From the end of 1996 to June 2001 she did her doctorate under Reinhard Rürup at the Technical University of Berlin ; the title of the work was “› Rassenschande ‹: On the historical effectiveness of a stereotype”. In 2002 she was a member of the research program “History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism”; in this context she published a study on Friedrich Glum and Ernst Telschow , the general secretaries of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society.

From October 2002 to mid-2009 she was a research assistant at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen at Rebekka Habermas's chair . In 2010 she qualified as a professor at the University of Göttingen for the subjects of Medieval and Modern History. Between 2006 and 2008 she carried out a research project “Verbote und Secrets. The taboo and the genesis of the European order ”. Since May 2010 she has been a private lecturer at the Department of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Göttingen, where she carried out the research project "Global Aid Cultures: Religious, Political and Humanitarian Practices, Motives and Strategies (1850-1930)".

From February 2012 to September 2014 she worked at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen (KWI). There she headed the research area “Global Cultural Conflicts and Transcultural Cooperation”. From October 2014 to mid-2015 she was the head of the research focus “Global Cultures of Knowledge” and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen . In the 2013/2014 academic year she was visiting professor for global history at the Free University of Berlin , where she represented Sebastian Conrad . Since mid-2015 she has been a professor at the Fernuniversität Hagen, where she is the successor to Peter Brandt .

Research priorities

Przyrembel's research focuses on: European and German history of the 19th and 20th centuries; History of imperialism and colonialism; Cultural history of knowledge and religion; History of Humanitarian Movements in the Modern Age.

Offices / memberships

Awards (selection)

  • Awarded a travel grant from the Thyssen Foundation for the project Global Moments and the Crisis of Humanitarian Aid: World Public, the Armenian Massacres and the "West" (1895-1925) , 11/2014.
  • 2003: Award of the dissertation Rassenschande. Purity myth and legitimation of destruction . with the 2nd place, historical book, category latest history, H-Soz-u-Kult

Publications

  • ed. with Rebekka Habermas : About beetles, markets and people: Colonialism and knowledge in modern times , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-30019-0 .
  • Prohibitions and secrets. The taboo and the genesis of European modernism , Frankfurt / Main 2011 (Campus Verlag).
  • ed. with Jörg Schönert: Joseph Suess Oppenheimer, called "Jud Suess": On the power of an iconic figure , Frankfurt / Main 2006 (Campus Verlag).
  • "Rassenschande". Purity myth and legitimation of extermination under National Socialism , Göttingen 2003 (series of publications by the Max Planck Institute for History 190).

Articles (selection)

  • Do animals have a story? European civilization missions for the protection of animals in the 19th century . In: History in Science and Education . No. 1 , 2013, p. 90-103 .
  • Colonialismo e psicoanalisi. Totem e tabu, Sigmund Freud e l'etnologia intorno al 1900 . In: Contemporanea . No. 2 , 2012, p. 337-372 , doi : 10.1409 / 37086 .
  • The London Missionary Society and the popularization of knowledge about the non-European world . In: Ulrich van der Heyden (Ed.): Mission history as a history of globalization . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10196-7 , pp. 307-318 .
  • The missionary Johann Hinrich Wichern, the sin and the unalterable misery of the urban lower classes around 1850 . In: WerkstattGeschichte . tape 57 , no. 1 , 2011, p. 53-67 .
  • "Knowledge on the move". British missionaries, ethnological knowledge and the thematization of religious self-esteem around 1830 . In: Historical Anthropology . tape 19 , no. 1 , 2011, p. 31-53 , doi : 10.7788 / ha.2011.19.1.31 .
  • Of exclamation marks, perpetrators and waves. Metaphors and images in German historiography of the Holocaust since 1989 . In: Historical Anthropology . tape 14 , no. 3 , 2006, p. 430-440 , doi : 10.7788 / ha.2006.14.3.430 .
  • Longing for Feelings: On the Boom of Emotions in History . In: L'Homme . tape 16 , no. 2 , 2005, p. 116–124 , doi : 10.7767 / lhomme.2005.16.2.116 .
  • Ilse Koch - "normal" SS wife or "Buchenwald Commander"? In: Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Gerhard Paul (Ed.): Careers of violence. National Socialist perpetrator biographies . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 978-3-534-16654-1 , pp. 126-133 .
  • “Rassenschande”: sexuality, “race” and the “Jewish” before Nazi courts . In: Historical Anthropology . tape 12 , no. 3 , 2004, p. 338-354 , doi : 10.7788 / ha . 2004.12.3.338 .
  • The spell of an image - Ilse Koch, the "Buchenwald commanding officer" . In: Insa Eschebach, Sigrid Jacobeit, Silke Wenk (eds.): Memory and gender . Campus publishing house, Frankfurt a. M. 2002, ISBN 3-593-37053-0 , pp. 245-267 .
  • From “race honor” to the topos of “indecency”: “racial disgrace” in court . In: Journal of History . tape 52 , no. 12 , 2004, p. 1091-1105 .
  • Transfixed by an Image - Ilse Koch, the "Commander of Buchenwald" . In: German History . tape 19 , no. 3 , 2001, p. 369-399 , doi : 10.1191 / 026635501680193915 .
  • Victor Klemperer's diaries and their impact on the German public . In: Johannes Heil, Rainer Erb (Hrsg.): History and the public. The dispute over Daniel J. Goldhagen . Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1998, ISBN 3-596-14065-X , pp. 312-327 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.transcript-verlag.de/author/przyrembel-alexandra-320023269/
  2. ↑ see results of Friedrich Glum and Ernst Telschow, PDF
  3. ↑ see page by Przyrembel at the KWI Essen
  4. ↑ Alexandra Przyrembel. Fernuniversität Hagen, February 11, 2020, accessed on February 24, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Alexandra Przyrembel. Fernuniversität Hagen, February 11, 2020, accessed on February 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Przyrembel, Alexandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1965