Alf Lüdtke

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Alf Lüdtke (2008)

Alf Lüdtke (born October 18, 1943 in Dresden ; † January 29, 2019 in Göttingen ) was a German historian and representative of the international research field of everyday history . He named as his main research areas: work as a social practice, to link production and destruction through “work”; Forms of participation and acceptance in European dictatorships in the 20th century; and above all remembering and warning, forgetting and suppressing: the forms of dealing with war and genocide in modern times.

Life

Alf Lüdtke studied history in Tübingen , plus political science, sociology and philosophy (1965–1972, MA 1974). He received his doctorate in 1980 from the University of Konstanz . Lüdtke's doctoral thesis "Common Welfare", Police and "Fortress Practice" examined the state violence in Prussia in the early 19th century. In 1988 he completed his habilitation in the field of modern history and contemporary history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hanover , where he taught history from 1989 to 1999. In 1995 he became an adjunct professor in Hanover and in 1999 professor in Erfurt. There he was honorary professor for historical anthropology since 2008 .

From 1975 Lüdtke worked as a scientific advisor at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen. In 1999, together with Hans Medick , he founded the Department of Historical Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for History at the University of Erfurt .

Since the 1980s he had regular contacts in France and the USA, including through the International Round Table of History and Anthropology . Since the early 1990s he has been a regular visiting professor at the history department at the University of Michigan and Chicago .

At the end of the 1990s, the first contacts were made with South Korea, which developed into a regular academic exchange. Since 2005 he has participated in the conferences on the dictatorial rule of the masses ( Mass Dictatorship ) at the Research Institute on Comparative Culture and History (RICH) in Seoul . From November 2008 to August 2013 Lüdtke held seminars and workshops in South Korea as part of the World Class University program of the Korean National Research Foundation .

Since 2011 Lüdtke was a member of the working group “Erfurt RaumZeit-Research”. Since 2014, Lüdtke has been a Fellow at the International Humanities College “Work and CV in a Global Society Perspective” at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Alf Lüdtke was the founder and editor of the journal Sozialwissenschaftliche Informations (SOWI) as well as co-founder and co-editor of the journals WerkstattGeschichte (Hamburg / Berlin) and historical anthropology. Culture - society - everyday life .

He has linked questions from sociology and ethnology and anthropology with those from historical studies. His research into the worlds of industrial workers and the so-called “little” people gave impetus to German and international history. His last research projects included “Blockades and Passages: The GDR Border Crossing Points”, war as work and the current state of transnational historiography.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • "Common good", police and "fortress practice". Internal administration and state violence in Prussia, 1815–50 . (Revised Diss.), Göttingen 1982 ( Police and State in Prussia, 1815-1850 . Cambridge 1989).
  • Own sense. Everyday factory life, workers' experiences and politics from the German Empire to fascism . Hamburg: Results, 1993 (10 articles). New edition Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89691-975-5 .
Contains u. a .: wages, breaks, teasing. “Stubbornness” and politics among factory workers in Germany around 1900 (pp. 120–160), where was the “red glow”? Workers' Experience and German Fascism (pp. 221–282), “Ehre der Arbeit”. Industrial workers and the power of symbols. On the range of symbolic orientation in National Socialism (pp. 283–350) and the expanded, revised inaugural lecture of May 10, 1989: Work, Work Experience and Workers' Policy (pp. 351–440).
  • Des ouvriers dans l'Allemagne du XXe siècle. Le quotidien des dictatures . Paris 2000.

Published works

  • ( German Textile Workers 'Association , Main Board / Workers' Secretariat :) My working day, my weekend. Workers report on their everyday life . [Berlin, undated (1930?)]. Facsimile: Alf Lüdtke (Ed., Introduction). Hamburg: Results, 1991.
  • Record book from Paul Maik (worker in the cast steel factory Krupp in Essen, 1919–1956), cf. also Alf Lüdtke: Writing Time - Using Space. The Notebook of a Worker at Krupp's Steel Mill - an Example from the 1920s , in: Historical Social Research (HSR) Vol. 39 (2013), No. 3, pp. 216-228.

Anthologies

  • Everyday story. For the reconstruction of historical experiences and ways of life . Frankfurt, 1989 ( Histoire du quotidien . Paris 1994. History of Everyday Life. Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life . Princeton 1995. Ilsangsaran muotinga? Seoul 2002).
  • Domination as a Social Practice. Historical and social anthropological studies . Göttingen 1991.
  • Security and "welfare". Police, society and rule in the 19th and 20th centuries . Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  • Physical violence. Studies on the history of modern times . Frankfurt 1995 (with Thomas Lindenberger ).
  • What remains of Marxist perspectives in historical research? Göttingen 1997.
  • Files, submissions, shop windows. The GDR and its texts. Exploring rulership and everyday life . Berlin 1997 (with Peter Becker ).
  • The GDR in the picture. For the use of photography in the other German state . Göttingen 2004 (with Karin Hartewig).
  • The No Man's Land of Violence. Extreme Wars in the 20th Century . Göttingen 2006. (with Bernd Weisbrod ).
  • State violence. State of emergency and security regime. Historical perspectives . Göttingen 2008 (with Michael Wildt ).
  • Scholarly life. Scientific practice in modern times . Cologne 2008 (with Reiner Prass).
  • Colonial stories. Regional perspectives on a global phenomenon , Frankfurt am Main 2010 (with Claudia Kraft, Jürgen Martschukat).
  • Unsettling history. Archiving and Narrating in Historiography , Frankfurt am Main 2010 (with Sebastian Jobs).
  • Sounds, pictures, texts. Register of the archive , Göttingen 2015 (with Tobias Nanz).
  • Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship. Collusion and Evasion , London 2016.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/karriere-hochschule/zum-tod-von-alf-luedtke-forschung-zum-eigensinn-16025810.html
personal data
SURNAME Lüdtke, Alf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 29 January 2019
Place of death Goettingen