Birte Förster
Birte Förster (* 1973 ) is a German historian and university professor.
Life
Birte Förster studied history, German philology and Anglo-American history at the University of Cologne and the Università degli Studi di Bologna . In 2008 she received her doctorate from the Justus Liebig University in Giessen with a thesis on the media history of the Queen Luise myth. In the same year she became a research assistant at the Institute for History at the TU Darmstadt , where she completed her habilitation. From 2017 to 2018 she represented the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Bremen .
From 2008 to 2016 Förster headed the editorial department of the magazine " Neue Politische Literatur ". From 2018 to 2019 Förster was a research assistant at the Humboldt University Berlin . Birte Förster has been a senior academic councilor at Bielefeld University with a focus on global history since 2020 .
Förster's research focuses on the global networking of European history, the history of decolonization, the history of technology, gender history, media history and research on nationalism.
Förster writes regularly for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , for which she blogged about Uwe Johnson's "Anniversaries" in 2017/2018, and for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . She can also be heard regularly on public radio. In 2015 she co-founded the blog gefluechtet.de.
Awards
In 2015/16 Förster was a guest researcher in the ENTRY research group at Bielefeld University as a research fellow . In 2000 she took part in the postgraduate studies at the International Women's University in Hanover. Förster has received scholarships from the Evangelische Studienwerk Villigst , the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service . In 2012 she received the Athene Prize for Good Teaching from the TU Darmstadt.
Publications (selection)
- 1919: A continent reinvents itself. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2018.
- as editor with Martin Bauch: Water Infrastructures and Power from Antiquity to the Present. Special issue of the "Historischen Zeitschrift" 63, Berlin 2014.
- The Queen Luise myth. Media history of the "ideal image of German femininity", 1860–1960, Göttingen 2011.
Web links
- Birte Förster at the Humboldt University Berlin
- Birte Förster on Speakerinnen.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birte Förster: The week with Mrs. Cresspahl. Reading blog on "Anniversaries" by Uwe Johnson .
- ↑ What does the Weimar Republic teach us? Birte Förster in conversation with René Aguigah .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forester, Birte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |