Bea Lundt

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Bea Lundt at the "Global Perspectives on Europe" conference at the University of Flensburg (2013)

Bea Lundt (born May 3, 1950 in Düsseldorf ) is a German historian .

Her research focuses on the gender history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, the Historical narrative research, the history of mentalities , gender in the historical culture , the history and culture of West Africa (especially Ghana ) and the Geschichtsdidaktik Middle Ages.

Professional background

Bea Lundt first studied social sciences and German at the University of Cologne . This was followed by work and study stays in West and East Africa, almost ten years of teaching at grammar school and comprehensive school in the Ruhr area. She then completed a second degree in history at the Ruhr University in Bochum . The doctorate took place there in 1989 on designs of female and male existence in narrative traditions from the 12th to 15th centuries.

In 1998 she completed her habilitation at the University of Basel on male gender concepts and discourses of wisdom in popular writings in the 12th to 16th centuries. From 1998 to 2015 she taught as a professor for history of the Middle Ages and for history didactics at the University of Flensburg .

Since 2009 she has been spending about three months in West Africa every year to develop collaborations with universities. In 2011 and 2012 she held a visiting professorship in history at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) in Ghana (for six weeks each). She lives in Berlin and Ghana, where she has held a visiting professorship in history at the University of Education, Winneba ( DAAD ) again since 2019 .

Since her retirement at the end of 2015, Lundt has also been cooperating in various Africa projects with the University of Flensburg, the Free University of Berlin , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Munich Art Academy .

Publications (selection)

Monographs:

  • Melusine and Merlin in the Middle Ages. Drafts and models of female existence in the relationship discourse of the sexes . Fink, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7705-2723-2 (dissertation, University of Bochum, 1990).
  • Wise and woman. Wisdom and gender using the example of the narrative tradition of the “Seven Wise Masters” (12th – 15th centuries) . Fink, Munich 2002 (habilitation thesis, University of Basel, 1998).
  • Europe's departure into the modern age 1500–1800. A history of culture and mentality . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-89678-647-0 .

Editorships:

  • In search of women in the Middle Ages. Questions, sources, answers. Fink, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7705-2722-4 .
  • with Helma Reimöller: Of new beginnings and utopia. Perspectives of a new social history in the Middle Ages. For and with Ferdinand Seibt on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Böhlau, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-412-10891-X .
  • Forgotten women in the Ruhr. Of rulers and servants, housewives and witches, 800–1800. Böhlau, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-412-10291-1 .
  • Northern lights. Historical awareness and historical myths north of the Elbe. Böhlau, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-412-10303-9 .
  • with Michael Salewski : Women in Europe. Myth and Reality. Lit, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-8665-4 .
  • with Bärbel Völkel : outfit and coming out. Gender worlds between fashion, laboratory and line (= historical gender research and didactics. Volume 1). Lit, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0491-6 .
  • with Wazi Apoh: Germany and its West African Colonies. "Excavations" of German Colonialism in Post-Colonial Times . Lit, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-90303-7 .
  • with Toni Tholen: “Gender” in teacher training. The examples history and German (= historical gender research and didactics. Volume 3). Lit, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12021-2
  • with Ulrich Marzolph: Narrating Histories in West Africa. Lit, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-90503-1 .
  • with Sophie Wulk: Global Perspectives on Europe. Critical Spotlights from Five Continents. Lit, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-90797-4 .
  • with Christoph Marx: Kwame Nkrumah 1909–1972. A controversial African Visionary. (= Historical communications of the Ranke Society , supplement 96), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-515-11572-8 .
  • Ananse and other stories from Africa. On the narrative culture of Africa from a German and African perspective . Lit, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-643-13913-9 .
  • with Henry Kam Kah: Polygamous Ways of Life Past and Present in Africa and Europe. Polygamous ways of life in the past and present in Africa and Europe. Lit, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-643-91142-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita. In: Prof. Dr. Bea Lundt. Retrieved June 28, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ Review by Marion Kobelt-Groch on H-Soz-und-Kult from May 19, 2004.
  3. ↑ VIEWPOINTS - Review of: Europe's Departure into the Modern Era 1500–1800 - Issue 11 (2011), No. 11. Accessed on January 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Review by Claudia Lenz on H-Soz-und-Kult from May 19, 2005.
  5. ↑ Jan Severin: Review of: W. Apoh u. a. (Ed.): Germany and its West African Colonies. Retrieved January 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Review by Carolin Stetter in: Center for transdisciplinary gender studies at the HU Berlin (ed.): Bulletin-Info. ISSN  0947-6822 , issue 47, 2003, pp. 68-73.
  7. ^ Review of the book by Uta-Reuster-Jahn in: Fabula. Journal of story research. Issue 1/2 (2016), pp. 162–165.
personal data
SURNAME Lundt, Bea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf