Bettina Hitzer

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Bettina Hitzer (* 1971) is a German modern historian and university professor with a research focus on social , cultural and political history of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially the history of migration and emotions .

Life

From 1990 to 1999, Bettina Hitzer studied history, Romance studies, German language and literature as well as education and theater studies at the Free University of Berlin and at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne . In 1999 she passed her first state examination in Berlin.

After graduating, she went to Bielefeld University as a research assistant , where she received her doctorate in history in 2004. In her dissertation Im Netz der Liebe [...] she examined the history of migration to growing Berlin from 1849 to 1914. In 2007 she moved to the Berlin Max Planck Institute for Human Development , where she has been leading a Minerva research group since 2014 .

In 2017 habilitated them at the Free University of Berlin, which became instructor for Modern and Contemporary History and has since been there as a lecturer operates. Feeling cancer in her post-doctoral thesis . The history of emotions in cancer in the 20th century deals with the fear of cancer . The work was published in a shortened version by Klett-Cotta in 2020 and was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the category of non-fiction and essays in the same year .

Bettina Hitzer is the mother of three children (as of 2016).

Awards

Fonts

As an author

  • Key to two worlds. Political song and poem by workers and citizens 1848–1875 . Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Historical Research Center, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-89892-024-0 ( electronic resource at library.fes.de [accessed on February 11, 2020]).
  • In the web of love. The Protestant Church and its immigrants in the metropolis of Berlin (1849–1914) . In: (also dissertation, Bielefeld University 2004) (=  industrial world . Volume 70 ). Böhlau, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-412-08706-8 .
  • as co-author: emotional knowledge. A lexical search for clues in the modern age . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-41059-3 .
  • Feel cancer. The history of emotions in cancer in the 20th century . Berlin 2017, doi : 10.17617 / 2.2558364 (unpublished habilitation thesis, FU Berlin 2017).
  • Feel cancer. A story of emotions from the 20th century . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-608-96459-2 .

As editor

  • with Thomas Welskopp (ed.): The Bielefelder social history. Classical texts on a historical program and its controversies . Transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1521-0 .
  • with Michael Häusler (Ed.): Between dance floor and brothel. Life pictures of Berlin prostitutes from 1869 . Be. Bra Wissenschaft Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937233-72-7 .
  • with Alexa Geisthövel: In search of a different medicine. Psychosomatics in the 20th Century . Collection of articles. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-29864-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Thomas Fischl: Sympathy - Compassion - Mercy Approaches of empathy in the 12th century . Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8316-4608-1 , pp. 39 .
  2. Bettina Hitzer. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  3. a b c Walter de Gruyter Prize of the Academy 2016. In: bbaw.de. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2016, accessed on February 11, 2020 .
  4. Bettina Hitzer: In the network of love: the Protestant church and its immigrants in the metropolis of Berlin (1849-1914) (=  industrial world . Volume 70 ). Böhlau, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-412-08706-8 .
  5. VIEWPOINTS - Review of: Im Netz der Liebe - Issue 7 (2007), No. 2. Accessed on February 11, 2020 .
  6. PD. Dr. Bettina Hitzer. September 1, 2018, accessed February 11, 2020 .
  7. ^ Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair - Prize Winner 2020. Accessed on March 12, 2020 .
  8. Bettina Hitzer - 1 book - Perlentaucher. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .