Christa Ehrmann-Hämmerle

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Christa Ehrmann-Hämmerle (born Christa Hämmerle on October 31, 1957 in Schaffhausen am Rhein) is a Swiss-born Austrian historian . She is an associate professor for modern history at the University of Vienna . Her work focuses on military history , especially World War I , and women's and gender history in the 19th and 20th centuries.

life and work

From 1986 Christa Hämmerle worked for the documentation of biographical records at the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. In one of her first research projects, she dealt with a previously unexplored topic, childhood in the First World War . In it she argues that during the First World War there was a very extensive "abolition of childhood as a shelter and instrumentalization of childhood by the warring state".

She wrote her doctorate in 1996 with the work On forms of female war welfare in the First World War under the title "We are here for love work, we knit soldiers' stockings ..." . She obtained her habilitation in 2001 with her study Everyday - War - Gender . In the same year she became an associate professor at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna . Since then, Christa Ehrmann-Hämmerle has made a name for herself in international war research and "with her work contributed to a better understanding of gender roles during the First World War." ( Renata Schmidtkunz )

Between 2009 and 2012, Christa Hämmerle was a Humboldt fellow for experienced scientists and in 2013 she was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development , Berlin, in the research area “History of Emotions”.

With her work Heimat, Front , published in 2014 , she presents a gender history of the First World War in Austria-Hungary. In it, she deals with letters from the field post, war nurses and the hysteria at the outbreak of war.

Christa Ehrmann-Hämmerle is the head of the collection of women's estates at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna and has been the spokesperson for the Historical Peace Research Working Group and co-editor of the Peace & War series since 2011 . She has been co-editor of the scientific journal L'Homme since it was founded and has been on the scientific advisory board of Body Politics since 2012 . Body History Journal .

Awards

Bibliography (selection)

  • Home, front. Gender history (s) of the First World War in Austria-Hungary, Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2014.
  • Everyday life - war - gender. Studies on the history of the 19th and 20th centuries, Vienna 2001 ( Habil. Writing ).
  • "We are here to work with love, we knit soldiers' stockings ..." On forms of female war relief in World War I , Vienna 1996 (dissertation).

Editing

  • Gender and the First World War (with Oswaldübergger and Birgitta Bader-Zaar), Palgrave Macmillan , New York 2014.
  • The emperor's servants. Memories of the recruits in the k. (U.) K. Army 1868 to 1914 , Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2012.
  • Section Editor Home Front (together with Michael Geyer, University of Chicago, and Pierre Purseigle, University of Birmingham) in: 1914–1918 online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War .
  • Gender politics in central Asia. Historical perspectives and current living conditions of women (= L'Homme-Schriften , Vol. 18), Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2008.
  • Crisis of masculinity? (= L'Homme-Schriften , Vol. 18, with Claudia Opitz-Belakhal ), Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2008.
  • Letter cultures and their gender. On the history of private correspondence from the 16th century until today (with Edith Saurer ), Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2003.
  • Childhood in the First World War, with articles, a foreword and afterword by Christa Hämmerle, Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1993.
  • From the life of a midwife (with Maria Horner), Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1985, 2nd edition 1994.

Book contributions

  • Between Instrumentalization and Self-Governing: (Female) Ego-Documents in The European Age of Total War, in: Francois-Joseph Ruggiu (Ed.): The Uses of First Person Writings. Africa, America, Asia, Europe / Les usages des écrits du for privé. Afrique, Amérique, Asie, Europe, Lang, Bruxelles 2013, pp. 263–284.
  • "... there we were trained and secured and beaten ..." On the drill, disciplinary criminal law and soldier abuse in the army (1868 to 1914), in: Laurence Cole, Christa Hämmerle and Martin Scheutz (eds.): Shine - Violence - Obedience. Military and Society in the Habsburg Monarchy (1800 to 1918) , Klartext Verlagsgesellschaft, Essen 2011, pp. 31–54.
  • "It is always the man who decides the war and not the weapon ..." , in: Hermann JW Kuprian, Oswald Übergger: The First World War in the Alpine Region. Experience, interpretation, memory. La Grande Guerra nell'arco alpino. Esperienze e memoria, Innsbruck 2006.
  • On the relevance of Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity for "the military and masculinity / s in the Habsburg Monarchy (1868-1914 / 1918)", in: Martin Dinges (ed.): Men - Power - Body. Hegemonic masculinity from the Middle Ages to today, Frankfurt am Main 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ehrmann-Hämmerle, Christa, b. Hämmerle , in: Fritz Fellner, Doris Alice Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon , Böhlau, 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77476-1 , p. 110.
  2. ↑ Martin Haidinger: Childhood between Propaganda and Disenchantment , in: Ö1 Wissenschaft , November 7, 2013 .
  3. ^ Maureen Healy: Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire. Total War and Everyday Life in World War I , Cambridge University Press 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-04219-2 , p. 241.
  4. ↑ In conversation. The First World War disrupted the traditional gender order . Renata Schmidtkunz speaks with the historian Christa Hämmerle, in: OE1 , March 13, 2014.
  5. ↑ Christa Hämmerle, History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development .
  6. ↑ Review in the Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 26 / January 1995, pp. 303-304, doi: 10.1017 / S0067237800004744 .
personal data
SURNAME Ehrmann-Hämmerle, Christa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hämmerle, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian for new history, women's and gender history, military history of the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen