Atina Grossmann

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Atina Grossmann (born November 4, 1950 in New York ) is an American historian specializing in German-Jewish relations and gender relations in the 20th century.

Life

Atina Grossmann is the daughter of Jewish refugees from National Socialist Germany . Her maternal grandfather Heinrich Busse survived the last months of the German persecution of the Jews in a Berlin hiding place; her grandmother was deported and murdered during the factory operation . Her father's family had to sell the Hotel Astoria at Fasanenstrasse 2 in 1938 , and Gertrud Grossmann was murdered in Auschwitz .

Atina Grossmann studied history at City College in New York and later at Rutgers University in New Jersey . Here she completed her doctorate in 1984 with a thesis on the women's movement in Germany: When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany . From 1983 she was Assistant Professor , until 1988 at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts , then until 1996 at Columbia University in New York.

Grossmann's study on the sexual reform movement in Germany: Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920–1950 was published in 1995 and received wide attention.

She has been working at Cooper Union since 1996 , where she became Associate Professor in 2001 and later Full Professor of Modern European History and Gender Studies at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences.

In 2007 she published Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany, a “gender and physical history study” on the situation of Jews, Germans and occupiers in post-war Germany , which was awarded the “Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History” from the Wiener Library and was awarded the "George L. Mosse Prize" (2007) of the American Historical Association .

Fonts (selection)

  • Remapping Relief and Rescue , in: Rebecca Boehling u. a. (Ed.): Exposures: displaced persons; Life in transit: survivors between repatriation, rehabilitation and a fresh start . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2014, pp. 169–189 (first 2012)
  • Paths in a foreign country. German-Jewish encounter story between Feldafing, New York and Tehran. (= Jena Center History of the 20th Century. Lectures and Colloquia, Vol. 10), Göttingen 2012.
  • With Rita Chin, Heide Fehrenbach and Geoff Eley: After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe. 2009.
  • Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-691-08971-3 . 3rd printing and 1st paperback printing 2009
    • German edition: Jews, Germans, Allies: Encounters in occupied Germany . From the English by Ulrike Bischoff. Göttingen: Wallstein-Verl. 2012 ISBN 978-3-8353-0934-0 .
    • German edition: Unexpected Encounters: Jews, Germans and Allies in Occupied Germany , Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86601-288-2 .
  • “New Women” in Exile. German doctors and emigration. In: Kirsten Heinsohn , Stefanie Schüler-Springorum : German-Jewish history as gender history. Studies on the 19th and 20th centuries. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, pp. 133–156.
  • "The survivors were few and the dead were many." Jewish Identity and Memory in Occupied Berlin . In: Marion Kaplan, Beate Meyer (ed.): Jüdische Welten. Jews in Germany from the 18th century to the present , Göttingen, Wallstein-Verlag 2005, (Hamburg contributions to the history of German Jews 27) ISBN 3-89244-888-4 , pp. 317–335
  • With Omer Bartov and Mary Nolan : Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century. New Press, New York 2003, ISBN 9781565848146 .
  • Trauma, Memory, and Motherhood , in: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte , Volume 38 (1998), pp. 215-239
    • also in: Richard Bessel , Dirk Schumann: Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe during the 1940s and 1950s . Washington, DC: German Historical Inst., 2003, pp. 93-127
  • Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920–1950. New York 1995, ISBN 0-19-505672-8 .
  • With Renate Bridenthal and Marion A. Kaplan: When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany. New York 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Atina Grossmann: "The survivors were few and the dead were many." 2005, p. 319 f., P. 328 f.
  2. ^ Thomas Lackmann: Construction site reparation , in: Der Tagesspiegel , October 17, 2014
  3. ↑ Atina Grossmann: "The survivors were few and the dead were many." 2005, p. 331 ff
  4. ↑ Micha Brumlik : After all that had happened , review in: TAZ , March 23, 2013, p. 28
personal data
SURNAME Grossmann, Atina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 4th 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City