Brigitte Hamann

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the astrologer of the same name, see Brigitte Hamann (astrologer) .

Presentation of the honorary award of the Austrian book trade for tolerance in thought and action to Brigitte Hamann in the Vienna City Hall on November 22, 2012. On the left the laudator Gerald Stourzh , on the right city councilor Michael Ludwig

Brigitte Hamann's grave

Brigitte Hamann , née Deitert (born July 26, 1940 in Essen , † October 4, 2016 in Vienna ), was a German-Austrian historian and author .

Life

Brigitte Deitert studied German and history at the Universities of Münster and Vienna . In 1963 she passed the secondary school teacher exam in Münster, completed an internship at the German Press Agency in Essen and in 1964 became editor of the Neue Ruhr Zeitung . In 1965 she married the Viennese historian and university professor Günther Hamann (1924–1994), in addition to her German citizenship, from 1966 she also had Austrian citizenship and worked as an assistant for her husband. In 1978 she received her doctorate from Adam Wandruszka with a dissertation on the Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf . In the same year she published his biography under the title Rudolf. Crown Prince and Rebel . The book was a great success. Brigitte Hamann then worked as a freelance historian.

On November 22nd, 2012 she was awarded the honorary prize of the Austrian book trade for tolerance in thought and action in the Vienna City Hall, the laudation was given by Gerald Stourzh .

Brigitte Hamann was the mother of three children, including the journalist and feminist Sibylle Hamann .

Her final resting place is in the Grinzinger Friedhof (group 36, row 1, number 25) in Vienna.

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Hamann preferred to work on works on Austrian history and devoted himself to a biographical approach. Her special focus was on the history of the Habsburgs and the history of National Socialism . About her personal starting point, she said: "I (coming from Germany) had a different view of Austria and began to write with a certain distance."

Their publication Hitler's Vienna (cf. Hitler's Years in Vienna ) convinced by meticulously investigating new sources and vividly depicting the Christian-social and ethnic - anti-Semitic dominated political culture of Vienna in those years.

Fonts

• Rudolf. Crown Prince and Rebel. Amalthea, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-85002-092-4 (dissertation University of Vienna [1977], under the title: The life of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary according to new sources , two volumes).
  • revised and modernized version, as: Crown Prince Rudolf. One life. ibid 2005, ISBN 3-85002-540-3 .
• as editor: Crown Prince Rudolf. Majesty, I warn you ... Secret and private writings. Amalthea, Vienna et al. 1979, ISBN 3-85002-110-6 .
• Elisabeth. Reluctant Empress. Amalthea, Vienna et al. 1982, ISBN 3-85002-147-5 .
• as editor: Elisabeth. Pictures of an empress. Amalthea, Vienna et al. 1982, ISBN 3-85002-156-4 .
• as editor: With Kaiser Max in Mexico. From the diary of Prince Carl Khevenhüller 1864–1867. Amalthea, Vienna et al. 1983, ISBN 3-85002-169-6 .
• as editor: Empress Elisabeth. The poetic diary (= Fontes Rerum Austriacarum. Department 1: Scriptores. Vol. 12). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-7001-0659-9 .
• One heart and many crowns. The life of Empress Maria Theresa. Children's book, illustrated by Rolf Rettich . Ueberreuter, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-8000-2249-4 ; 1986, ISBN 3-492-03037-8 .
• Bertha von Suttner. A life for peace . Piper, Munich and Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-492-03037-8 ; New edition under the title Bertha von Suttner: Fighter for Peace . Image selection and editing by Georg Hamann. Brandstätter, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85033-755-7 .
• as editor: The Habsburgs. A biographical lexicon. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-492-03163-3 .
• Nothing but music in your head. The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-8000-2321-0 (children's book).
• as editor: My dear, good friend! Emperor Franz Joseph's letters to Katharina Schratt. From the possession of the Austrian National Library. Edited and annotated. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-8000-3371-2 .
• Hitler's Vienna. Apprenticeship as a dictator. Piper, Munich et al. 1996, ISBN 3-492-03598-1 .
• Winifred Wagner or Hitler's Bayreuth. Piper, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-492-04300-3 .
• The First World War. Truth and lies in pictures and texts. Piper, Munich et al. 2004, ISBN 3-492-04590-1 .
• The Wagner family (= Rowohlt's monographs, 50658). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-499-50658-0 .
• Mozart. His life and his time. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-8000-7132-0 .
• Hitler's noble Jew. The life of the poor doctor Eduard Bloch. Piper, Munich et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-05164-4 .
• Austria. A historical portrait. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59213-3 .

Awards

• 1978 Heinrich Drimmel Prize
• 1982 Premio Comisso
• 1986 DANUBIUS Donauland non-fiction book prize
• 1995 Anton Wildgans Prize
• 1997 Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book (main prize) for Ins undiscovered Austria for Hitler's Vienna
• 2002 “Book of the Year 2002” for Winifred Wagner or Hitler's Bayreuth , awarded by the magazine opernwelt
• 2002 “Historical Book of the Year 2002” also for Winifred Wagner or Hitler's Bayreuth , awarded by the magazine Damals
• 2002 Prize of Honor from the Concordia Press Club
• 2004 Prize of the City of Vienna for Journalism
• 2006 Silver Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna
• 2012 honorary award from the Austrian book trade for tolerance in thought and action

Web links

Commons : Brigitte Hamann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Brigitte Hamann in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Entry on Brigitte Hamann in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon ).
• Christine Haiden: Habsburgs uncoverer. In: World of Women . January 2013, archived from the original on January 14, 2013 ; Retrieved October 4, 2016 . 
• Heinz Janisch, Sandra Kreisler: Images of man - the broadcast of a successful life - myth and reality: the historian Brigitte Hamann . Ö1 broadcast series Menschenbilder , February 21, 1999 (mp3; 40.5 MB; 44:16 minutes).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lisa Mayr: Historian Brigitte Hamann has died . In: derStandard.at . 4th October 2016.
2. ↑ Brigitte Hamann in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Medal of Honor for Brigitte Hamann . In: orf.at . February 13, 2006, accessed October 4, 2016.
4. ^ C. Moos: Habsburg post mortem. Vienna u. a. 2016. p. 177.
5. ↑ Catalog of the University Library Volume 1 Volume 2 - the dates change between 1977 and 1978 (no information on the number of pages in the two volumes), numerous editions, paperback editions and translations.
6. ↑ Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book Prize winners 1993-2018 , renner-institut.at, accessed December 1, 2019
7. ↑ A high honor for Brigitte Hamann. City hall correspondence of the City of Vienna, February 13, 2006, accessed on October 4, 2016.
8. ^ Honorary award for Brigitte Hamann . In: kurier.at . November 23, 2012, accessed on October 4, 2016.
   Gerald Stourzh: Laudatory speech for Brigitte Hamann, held in the Vienna City Hall on the occasion of the award of the Austrian book trade's honorary award for tolerance in thought and action . November 22, 2012, accessed October 4, 2016.