Brigitte Reinwald

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Brigitte Reinwald (born January 13, 1958 in Beindersheim ) is a German modern historian . She researches topics from the history of Africa .

Scientific career

Reinwald studied German , history , philosophy and educational science at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg , the University of Poitiers and the University of Hamburg . In 1984, in Hamburg, she passed the first state examination for teaching at upper secondary level at grammar schools. In the two following years she completed her legal clerkship there and in 1986 the second state examination. Reinwald's original professional plans were thwarted by the hiring freeze for teaching in Hamburg at the time. So she decided to do a PhD on an African topic instead. During her studies abroad in France, she first came into contact with the culture of the African continent through fellow students. From 1989 to 1990 she stayed in Senegal for research purposes and received her doctorate in 1993 in Hamburg with Leonhard Harding (The wealth of women. Life and work of the female population in Siin / Senegal under the influence of French colonization) .

This was followed by editorial and consulting activities for Südwestfunk Baden-Baden and the Brockhaus editorial team in Mannheim, as well as teaching assignments at the Universities of Hamburg, Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium) and the Leibniz University of Hanover . Reinwald was a research assistant at the Center for the Modern Orient in Berlin from 1998 to 2004 . She also went to France, Burkina Faso, London, Rome, Pune (India) and Zanzibar for her research.

In 2003 she completed her habilitation at the University of Vienna .

Since 2004 she has been the professor for African history at the historical seminar of the Leibniz University Hannover.

Memberships and other functions (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • The wealth of women. Life and work of the female population in Siin / Senegal under the influence of French colonization (= Studies on African History , Volume 9), LIT, Münster 1995, ISBN 3-89473-778-6 (Dissertation, Universität Hamburg 1994, 417, 121 Sides, 21 cm).
  • Ed. Together with Leonhard Harding: Africa - mother and model of European civilization? The rehabilitation of the African continent by Cheikh Anta Diop , Berlin 1990.
  • “The concern to give Africa back its reality” - Biographical notes on Cheikh Anta Diop , in: WerkstattGeschichte 9, 1994, pp. 7-14 ( as pdf ).
  • "Africa in this country". A history of images, texts and relationships (= samples. Wiener Zeitschrift für Kritische Afrikastudien , 10/2006).
  • Ed. Together with Laurence Marfaing : African networks, exchange and spatial dynamics - Dynamiques spatiales, réseaux et échanges africains , Münster, Hamburg 2001 (= Studies on African History ; Volume 28).
  • Between empire and nation: West African veterans of the French army in the late colonial Upper Volta , in: Gerhard Höpp and Brigitte Reinwald (eds.): Fremdeinsätze. Africans and Asians in European Wars (1914–1945) , Berlin 2000, pp. 227–252.
  • Traveling through the war: experiences and life strategies of West African World War II veterans of the French colonial army (= Center for the Modern Orient, Studies 18), Humanities Centers Berlin eV, Schwarz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-87997-620-1 (Habilitation University of Vienna 2003, 444 Pages, illustrations, cardboard, 21 cm).
  • Citadins au futur? L'insertion des anciens combattants dans l'espace urbain de Bobo-Dioulasso , in: Jean-Luc Vellut (ed.): Villes d'Afrique. Explorations en histoire urbaine , Tervuren and Paris 2007, pp. 179–199.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The biographical information in this paragraph comes from the website of the University of Hanover, as indicated in the web links.
  2. ↑ Conversation with Brigitte Reinwald in the “Avalist” ( memento of the original from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Student website of the historical seminar of the University of Hanover).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / avalistluh.wordpress.com
personal data
SURNAME Reinwald, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German modern historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Beindersheim