Bernd Ulrich (historian)

Bernd Ulrich (born August 18, 1956 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German historian , curator and author.

Life

Ulrich grew up in Bremen (St.Magnus). After high school and military service (German Navy) he studied history and German at the Free University of Berlin . He completed his studies with the first state examination and a doctorate . His journalistic, scientific and curatorial work focuses on the military , cultural and social history of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was as Wiss. Employed at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute (1990–1995) and from 1999 to 2003 at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS). Since then, Ulrich has been working as a freelancer again for radio, museums and publishers. Since 2003 he has been a regular author and spokesman for the "Kalenderblatt" series on Deutschlandfunk. Ulrich is married to the author and archivist Angelika Tramitz and lives in Berlin.

Publications

Monographs:

• The eyewitnesses. German field post letters in the war and post-war period 1914–1933. Klartext, Essen 1997, ISBN 3-88474-590-5 (plus dissertation).
• with Thomas Flemming: In court. German trials in East and West after 1945. be.bra, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89809-063-9 .
• Stalingrad. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-50868-5 .
• with Thomas Flemming: Home Front. Between enthusiasm for war and famine - how the Germans experienced the First World War. Bucher, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7658-1850-9 .
• with Ursula Breymayer: Between death and freedom. Survivors tell of the last days as prisoners in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1944/45. Metropol, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86331-239-8 .
• with Christian Fuhrmeister, Wolfgang Kruse, Manfred Hettling: Volksbund deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge. Lines of development and problems. be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95410-254-9 .
• with Thomas Flemming, Gernot Schaulinski: Das Rote Rathaus Berlin. A political story . Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89773-871-3 .

Editions:

• with Angelika Tramitz: Dominik Richert, best opportunity to die. My experiences in the war 1914–1918. Knesebeck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-926901-15-2 .
• Everyday life at the front in World War I: madness and reality. Sources and documents. Edited by Bernd Ulrich and Benjamin Ziemann . Fischer p. 12544. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1994, ISBN 3-596-12544-8 . New edition: Everyday life at the front in World War I. A historical reader. Klartext, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8375-0015-8 . English edition: German Soldiers in the Great War. Letters and Eyewitness Accounts. Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, South Yorkshire 2010, ISBN 978-1-84884-141-3 .
• with Benjamin Ziemann: War in Peace. The embattled memory of World War I. Sources and documents. Fischer p. 13277. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1997, ISBN 3-596-13277-0 .
• with Benjamin Ziemann, Jakob Vogel: Subject in uniform. Military and militarism in the German Empire 1871–1914. Sources and documents. Fischer p. 14903. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2001, ISBN 3-596-14903-7 .
• with Rolf Spilker: Death as a machinist. The industrialized war 1914–1918. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Museum for Industrial Culture Osnabrück May - September 1998. Rasch, Bramsche 1998.
• with Ursula Breymayer, Karin Wieland: Willensmenschen. About German officers. Fischer p. 14438. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1999, ISBN 3-596-14438-8 .
• An exhibition and its consequences / exhibition War of Extermination. Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941 to 1944. To the reception of the exhibition “War of Extermination. Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941 to 1944 ”. Hamburg Institute for Social Research (ed.). Editor: Bernd Ulrich. Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-930908-48-4 .
• with Manfred Hettling: bourgeoisie after 1945. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-936096-50-3 .
• with Dorlis Blume, Ursula Breymayer: In the name of freedom. Constitution and constitutional reality 1849 - 1919 - 1949 - 1989. Sandstein, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-940319-47-0 .
• with Burkhard Asmuss: Germans and Poles - 1.9.39 - abysses and hopes. Sandstein, Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-940319-66-1 .
• with Ursula Breymayer: Under trees. The Germans and the forest. Sandstein, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-70-3 .

Articles (selection):

Field post letters in World War I - meaning and censorship, in: Peter Knoch (ed.), Kriegsalltag, Stuttgart 1989 (Metzler Verlag), pp. 40–83.

War volunteers - motivations, experiences, effects, in: August 1914. Ed. der Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt, Berlin 1989 (Nishen), pp. 232–241.

Together with Angelika Tramitz, a past that will not pass! The submarine bunker shipyard "Valentin" in Bremen-Farge (Photos: Thomas Hampel), in: Praxis Geschichte, issue 5 / Sept. 1990. pp. 62-66.

Together with Angelika Tramitz, "Only now after all these years do I think about it". An art teacher in England, in: W.Benz (ed.), The Exile of Little People. Everyday experience of German Jews in emigration, Munich 1991 (Beck), pp. 188–197.

The disillusionment of the war volunteers from 1914, in: W. Wette (ed.), The war of the little man. A military history from below, Munich 1992 (Piper / 2nd edition 1995) pp. 110–126.

Nerves and War - Sketching a Relationship, in: B. Loewenstein (ed.), History and Psychology. Approach attempts, Pfaffenweiler 1992 (Centaurus), pp. 163–192.

"... as if nothing had happened". Comments on the treatment of war victims during the First World War, in: G. Hirschfeld, G. Krumeich, I. Renz (eds.), Nobody feels themselves to be human any more. The experience of the First World War, Essen 1993 (plain text), pp. 115–130.

Combat motivations and mobilization strategies, in: Hv Stietencron, J. Rüpke (ed.), Killing im Krieg. Vol. 6 of the publications of the Institute for Historical Anthropology, ed. v. J. Assmann / R. Wedding slip, Freiburg, Munich 1995 (Verlag Karl Alber), pp. 399-420.

The German officer dies ..., in: U. Breymayer, B. Ulrich, K. Wieland (eds.), Willensmenschen. About German officers, Frankfurt am Main 1999 (Fischer Taschenbuch), pp. 11-20.

Stalingrad, in: H. Schulze / E. Francois, German Remembrance Places, 3 Vols., Vol. 2, Munich 2001 (Beck Verl.), Pp. 332–348, pp. 708–710.

In fun hopelessness. Thomas Mann and the federal republican bourgeoisie, in: Neue Rundschau, H. 3 / 112. Jg., 2001 (S. Fischer Verl.), Pp. 110–124.

When I didn't know him yet. About my father's military and war photos, in: Photo History, Issue 85/86, 2002, pp. 89–96.

The senator`s tale: the development of Bremen`s bourgeoisie in the post-45 era, in: Social History / Oct. 2003, pp. 303–321.

Forever suspended: The end of social mobility, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, July 2007, pp. 845–855.

The noise of World War II, in: Gerhard Paul, Ralph Schock (ed.): Sound of the century. An acoustic portrait 1900 to today, Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2013, pp. 240–245.

All weather - HafenCity. Reports from an unknown city, in: Thomas Hampel, Dirk Meyhöfer (ed.), 125 years of Speicherstadt. Hamburg's fascinating brick monument from the imperial era to today, Hamburg (Elbe & Flut Edition / Junius Verl.) 2013, pp. 181–187.

War of the Nerves - War of the Will, in: Handbuch First World War. Edited by Niels Werber, Lars Koch, Stefan Kaufmann, Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, pp. 232 - 258.

“Then it's back to the beautiful lice sloppiness” - Otto Dix in the First World War, in: O.Dix. The War - The Dresden Triptych, ed. by Birgit Dalbajewa, Simone Fleischer, Olaf Peters, Dresden 2014 (Sandstein Verl.), pp. 32–43.

"Military history from below". Notes on their origins, sources and perspectives in the 20th century, in: Wolfgang Kruse (ed.), Der Erste World War. (New ways of research), Darmstadt (Wiss. Buchges.) 2014, pp. 131–164.

"Hero's memory" - A Nazi holiday in the shadow of the coming war, in: Berlin 1937 - In the shadow of tomorrow. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Märkisches Museum / Stadtmuseum Berlin May 4, 2017 - January 14, 2018, ed. by the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation, Paul Spies and Gernot Schaulinski, Berlin 2017, pp. 130–139.

Add. with J. Schmidt, Pragmatic Pacifist and Democrat - Captain a. D. Willy Meyer, in: W. Wette (ed.), Pacifist officers in Germany 1871–1933, Bremen 2020 (Donat Verl.), Pp. 343–363.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd Ulrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Bernd Ulrich