Bernd Lindner (cultural sociologist)

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Bernd Lindner, photo from March 2015

Bernd Lindner (born November 20, 1952 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg ) is a German cultural historian , cultural sociologist , author and curator .

Live and act

Bernd Lindner studied cultural studies , literary studies and sociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1974 to 1978 . He then worked from 1978 to 1990 as a research associate at the Central Institute for Youth Research in Leipzig in cultural and media research.

Lindner was promoted to Dr. phil. at the Humboldt University is doing her doctorate with a thesis on reading behavior of young people in the GDR (published 1989) From 1990 to 1992 he was a research assistant at the German Youth Institute in Munich / Leipzig branch, and from 1992 to 1994 he was a habilitation fellow from the German Research Foundation . In 1995 Bernd Lindner completed his habilitation at the University of Karlsruhe with a thesis on the reception of visual art in eastern Germany from 1945 to 1995 (published in 1998). In 2001, the University of Karlsruhe (now the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ) awarded Lindner the extraordinary professorship for cultural and youth sociology.

From 1994 to the end of 2015, Bernd Lindner was a research associate at the Contemporary History Forum Leipzig , which is part of the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany. There he worked as a curator of contemporary and cultural history exhibitions and was also responsible for the collection areas of photography, visual arts and commercial graphics.

Bernd Lindner is the author of numerous academic publications and non-fiction books with a focus on cultural history, GDR history and the sociology of art and youth. His research and publication activities focus on the generations of young people, the history of the Peaceful Revolution of 1989/90 in the GDR , street political culture, popular and everyday culture (with a focus on rock music and comics) as well as photography and art reception.

Lindner lives and works in Leipzig.

Publications

As an author

  • Proximity + distance, fine arts in the GDR. 183 pages, State Center for Civic Education Thuringia , Erfurt 2017. ISBN 978-3-946939-14-6
  • The three lives of the draftsman JoHANNES HEGENbarth . (Collaboration with Irene Kahlau and Rainer Kruppa). Tessloff Verlag, Nuremberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7302-2015-3 .
  • The democratic revolution in the GDR 1989/90. 5th updated edition. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-8389-7033-2 .
  • GDR rock & pop. 2nd Edition. Komet Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-89836-715-8 .
  • The generation of the unadvised. On the succession of generations in the GDR and its structural consequences for the period after the reunification. In: Annegret Schüle, Thomas Ahbe, Rainer Gries (eds.): The GDR from a generational perspective. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937209-60-3 .
  • “Build up, Free German Youth” - and what then? Criteria for a model of the youth generations of the GDR. In: Jürgen Reulecke (ed.): Generationality and life history in the 20th century. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56747-0 .
  • For autumn '89. Democratic movement in the GDR. Forum Verlag, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-86151-062-6 .
  • Disguised, open look. A History of the Reception of Fine Art in Eastern Germany 1945–1995. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-412-06198-0 .
  • FLASHBACK. Museum visitors and visitor research in the GDR. (= Karlsruhe writings on visitor research. Issue 2). Karlsruhe 1991. ISSN  0939-8031
  • Contemporary literature and young readers - a study of the sociology of literature. (= Series of publications on children's literature. Issue 23). Berlin (East) 1989.

As a co-author

  • with Günter Starke (photography): Open doors. Living and living in Dresden Neustadt from 1982 to 1996. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2016, ISBN 978-3-95462-732-5 .
  • with PM Hoffmann (draftsman): Autumn of the decision. A story from the Peaceful Revolution 1989. Graphic novel. 2nd, revised edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-775-5 .
  • with Mark M. Westhusen: From garbage station to megalomania. Punk in the province of Halle. (= Mitteldeutsche Kulturhistorische Hefte. No. 11). Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-939468-21-9 .
  • with Eckhart Gillen: knock. Art and culture of the 80s in Germany. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-932545-47-8 .
  • with Ralph Grüneberger: Dismantlers. Biographies of the Leipzig autumn. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 1992, ISBN 3-925670-69-6 .
  • with Imbke Behnken and Jürgen Zinnecker among others: STUDY STUDY ´90. Young people in the process of unification. Juventa, Weinheim / Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7799-0189-7 .
  • with Helmut Göhler and Dietrich Löffler: book - reading - reader. Explorations for reading. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1989, ISBN 3-351-01481-3 .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Dig, Dag, Digedag. GDR comic "Mosaic" from February 17 to May 28, 2012 in the Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig , from April 11 to August 3, 2014 in the museum in the Kulturbrauerei in Berlin and from September 27, 2014 to March 1, 2015 in the Dresden Transport Museum ; Cooperation.
  • At 17… being young in Germany. Leipzig and Bonn 2011 to 2012.
  • On the trail of the Digedags . First explorations. Leipzig March 17 to May 16, 2010; Cooperation.
  • Pictures of the Peaceful Revolution. Painting - graphics - plastic. Leipzig 2009.
  • Try to remember - Marius Müller-Westernhagen . Leipzig 2006.
  • Skirt! Youth and Music in Germany. Leipzig, Bonn, Berlin 2005 to 2007 (with companion volume: ISBN 978-3-86153-387-0 ).
  • Mauersprünge (partial exhibition of the exhibition project Klopfzeichen. Art and culture of the 80s in Germany). Leipzig, Essen, Berlin 2002 to 2003 (with accompanying band).
  • Photo stop. Four generations of East German photographers. Leipzig and Bonn 2001 to 2002 (with companion volume, ISBN 3-363-00758-2 ).
  • For autumn '89. Democratic movement in the GDR. Leipzig, Bonn, Bremen 1994 to 1996 (with accompanying band).

Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ christoph-links-verlag.de
  2. ↑ zeithistorische-forschungen.de
  3. ↑ hasenverlag.de
  4. ↑ http://www.lzt-thueringen.de/index.php?article_id=3&func=search&q=lindner
  5. ↑ http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/bilder-von-Stock-3832401.html
personal data
SURNAME Lindner, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural historian and cultural sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Lutherstadt Wittenberg