Almut Leh

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Almut Leh (2011)

Almut Leh (* 1961 ) is a German historian .

She is a specialist in the fields of oral history and biography research as well as the history of nature conservation in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

Almut Leh studied history and philosophy with a Magistra Artium (MA) degree . In 2006 she received her dissertation at the Distance University in Hagen with her dissertation Between Home Protection and Environmental Movement . The professionalization of nature conservation in North Rhine-Westphalia 1945–1975 as a Dr. phil. PhD .

Since 1994 she has been working in Lüdenscheid as a research assistant and head of the “German Memory” archive at the Institute for History and Biography of the Faculty for Cultural and Social Sciences at the Hagen Open University. In addition, she works under the direction of Lutz Niethammer at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena together with Karin Hartewig and Daniela Rüther on the Tengelmann research project in the Third Reich .

Almut Leh belonging editors and the editorial board of the journal BIOS - Journal of Biographierforschung, oral history and life course analysis on. At the international level, she is a member of the Council of the Oral History Association .

Research priorities

Almut Leh is primarily concerned with the history of German mentality in the 20th century . Her specialty is the history of nature conservation in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , which she has been researching for many years. In addition to her dissertation (2006), she and Hans-Joachim Dietz also put together the collection of biographies in the service of nature. Biographical reading and manual on the history of nature conservation in North Rhine-Westphalia (1908–1975) (2009). She also published individual works on trade unionists , soldiers in World War II and the Wehrmacht justice system . Leh was one of the employees working on Hitler's slaves. International biographical documentation project on slave and forced labor , the results of which were published in book form in 2008.

Leh closely links her work with biographical research and also uses oral history methods , especially interviews with contemporary witnesses. In this context, it deals with research ethical and methodological questions of oral history and the archiving of biographical interviews.

Fonts

  • As editor: My personal end of the war - experiences and stories at the end of the 2nd World War. Contributions to a writing competition , Lüdenscheid 1996 (own print).
  • together with Alexander von Plato : “An unbelievable spring”. Experienced history in post-war Germany 1945–1948 , Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 1997 ( ISBN 3-89331-298-6 ).
  • Between homeland security and environmental movement. The professionalization of nature conservation in North Rhine-Westphalia 1945–1975 , dissertation, Hagen 2006 (in print as Volume 5 of the series History of Nature and Environmental Protection , Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and New York 2006, ISBN 978-3-593- 38022-3 ).
  • as editor together with Lutz Niethammer : Critical experience and cross-border collaboration - The Networks of Oral History. Festschrift for Alexander von Plato , BIOS special issue, Budrich, Leverkusen 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-86649-103-8 ).
  • as editor together with Alexander von Plato and Christoph Thonfeld : Hitler's slaves. International biographical documentation project on slave and forced labor , Böhlau, Vienna, Cologne and Weimar 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-205-77753-3 ).
  • together with Hans-Joachim Dietz : In the service of nature. Biographical reading and handbook on the history of nature conservation in North Rhine-Westphalia (1908–1975) . Published by the Friends of the Museum for the History of Nature Conservation in Germany eV Klartext, Essen 2009 ( ISBN 978-3-8375-0016-5 ).
  • together with Alexander von Plato: An unbelievable spring. Experienced history in post-war Germany. 1945-1949 . Volume 1104 of the publication series of the Federal Agency for Political Education (Bpb). Bpb, Bonn 2011 ( ISBN 978-3-8389-0104-6 ).

In addition, she wrote the section on biography research in the interdisciplinary manual on memory and remembrance published by Christian Gudehus, Ariane Eichenberg and Harald Welzer (Stuttgart 2010).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vita at the Institute for History and Biography of the Faculty for Cultural and Social Sciences at the Distance University in Hagen; Retrieved August 19, 2012.
  2. ^ The research project at the "Jena Center History of the 20th Century" of the Historical Institute of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena; Retrieved August 19, 2012.
  3. ↑ Information on the BIOS magazine on the website of the Fernuniversität Hagen; Retrieved January 29, 2011.
  4. ↑ cf. for example Almut Leh: Problems with archiving oral history interviews. The example of the “German Memory” archive . In: Forum Qualitative Social Research / Forum: Qualitative Social Research , Vol. 1, No. 3 December 2000 ( online version ).
personal data
SURNAME Leh, Almut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1961