Anna Bergmann (cultural scientist)

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Anna Bergmann (born April 26, 1953 in Michelbach / Lower Franconia ) is a German cultural historian.

Career

After studying political and social sciences at the Otto Suhr Institute and obtaining a doctorate from the Department of Political Sciences at the Free University of Berlin and at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Free University of Berlin on the history of racial hygiene and eugenics in the German Empire , the habilitation followed at the Faculty of Cultural Studies of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) . She was visiting professor at the universities of Graz (1999–2000), Klagenfurt (2001), Braunschweig (2005–2006), Innsbruck (2007) and the University of Vienna (winter semester 2011/12).

Anna Bergmann researches and publishes on the topics of the cultural history of anatomy and medical human experiments and transplant medicine , the history of perception of the body and death, the history of gender relations, epidemic and quarantine politics, population theories, the history of racial hygiene, eugenics and human genetics .

As part of her research, together with Götz Aly , Gabriele Czarnowski, Annegret Ehmann and Susanne Heim, after a one and a half year block on the part of the university management, she initiated the installation of a memorial plaque on the building Ihnestraße 22 of the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University Berlin on September 15, 1987 without this assembly having been authorized. It was about the 60th anniversary of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (today Max Planck Society), which was located in this house between 1927 and 1945 and which was in the service of the National Socialist racial biology Research and extermination policy stood.

Fonts (selection)

  • Women, men, sexuality and birth control . The birth strike debate in Berlin in 1913 . In: Karin Hausen (Ed.): Women are looking for their story. Historical studies of the 19th and 20th centuries . CH Beck Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09276-4
  • Prevented sexuality. The beginnings of modern birth control . Rasch & Röhring Verlag, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-89136-452-0 (also phil. Diss., FU Berlin 1988)
  • Prevented sexuality. The medical empowerment of life . Structure of the Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-7466-1394-9
  • With Ulrike Baureithel: Heartless Death: The Dilemma of Organ Donation . Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1999/2001 (awarded as “Science Book of the Year 2000”), ISBN 3-608-91958-9
  • Fatal human experiments in colonial areas. The leprosy research of the doctor Eduard Arning in Hawaii 1883-1886 . In: Ulrich van der Heyden, Joachim Zeller (Ed.): Power and share in world domination. Berlin and German colonialism . Unrast, 2005, ISBN 3-89771-024-2
  • Bénédict Augstin Morel (1809–1873) . In: Personal Lexicon of Sexual Research. Edited by Volkmar Sigusch, Günter Grau, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-39049-9
  • The dismantled body in the field of tension between secularization and magic . Animistic Concepts in the Cultural History of Transplant Medicine. In: Hilmar Schramm, Hilmar, Ludger Schwarte, Jan Lazardzig, Jan (eds.): Traces of the avant-garde: Theatrum anatomicum. Early modern times and modern times in a cultural comparison. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2011, pp. 285-312, ISBN 978-3-11-022371-2
  • Genealogies of structures of violence in children's homes . In: Michaela Ralser, Reinhard Sieder (ed.): The children of the state. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2014, pp. 82–116, ISBN 978-3-7065-5334-6
  • The dead patient. Modern medicine and death . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-351-02587-4 . 2nd edition: Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-10760-0
  • 'Race' and space in Thilo Sarrazin's writing Germany abolishes itself. In: Claudia Bruns Claudia (Ed.): 'Race' and space. Topologies between colonial, geo and biopolitics: history, art, memory. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2017, pp. 311–335, ISBN 978-3-95490-036-7

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation [1]
  2. ^ Gabriele Goettle: Last twitches. Cultural scientist. In: dies .: The moment. Travel through the unknown everyday life. Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-88897-781-7
  3. ↑ to the person Archived copy ( Memento from December 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Organ Donation - Deadly Dilemma or Ethical Duty [2] [3]
  5. ^ Anna Bergmann, Gabriele Czarnowski, Annegret Ehmann: People as objects of human genetic research and politics in the 20th century. On the history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in Berlin-Dahlem (1927-1945). In: The Value of Man. Medicine in Germany 1918-1945. Edited by the Berlin Medical Association. Edited by Christian Pross / Götz Aly, Edition Hentrich Berlin 1989, pp. 121–142, ISBN 3-926175-62-1
  6. ^ Gerhard Kiersch: memorial plaque at the Otto Suhr Institute. In: FU-Info (6/1988), p. 10f.
  7. ↑ Note. Individual reference: Götz Aly, Volk ohne Mitte. The Germans between the urge for freedom and collectivism. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, pp. 239, 257, ISBN 978-3-10-000427-7
  8. ↑ Hans-Walter Schmuhl. Crossing boundaries. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics 1927-1945. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-799-3
personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Michelbach (Alzenau)