Christian Adam (Germanist)

Christian Adam (born Christian Härtel ; * 1966 in Lörrach ) is a German photographer and Germanist . Since 2015 he has been editor in the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr (ZMSBw) in Potsdam.

Life

Christian Adam grew up in Lörrach. From 1988 to 1990 he trained as a photographer at the vocational training center Lette-Verein in Berlin (journeyman's examination 1990) and then studied modern German literature and journalism at the Free University of Berlin . In 1998 he was a DAAD scholar at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace in Stanford, California. During his studies he worked as a photographer and was an assistant for advertising photography at Hans Pieler .

From 1998 to 2001 he was an editor at Ch. Links Verlag . From 2002 to 2007 he worked as a program manager for be.bra Verlag , where he built up be.bra Wissenschaft Verlag . In 2003 he was at the Humboldt University of Berlin about the Nazi author Wilfrid bath for Dr. phil. PhD.

From 2007 to 2014 Adam was a consultant or head of publications in the Education and Research Department of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records (BStU) in Berlin. Since 2013 he has been a lecturer in the Department of Edition Studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 2015 he became head of the editorial team at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr (ZMSBw) in Potsdam.

He researches and publishes on literature in the time of National Socialism , on the regional history of Berlin-Brandenburg and on German-German history .

as Christian Härtel :

with Christoph Links (Hrsg.): One can argue about our books. Ten years of Christoph Links Verlag (= library of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels ). Links, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86153-200-X .
Berlin. A little story . With the collaboration of the Preußischer Kulturbesitz picture archive , bebra-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89809-041-8 . (English, Italian and Spanish editions)
Streamlines. Wilfrid Bade - A career in the Third Reich. be.bra-Verlag Wissenschaft, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-937233-10-5 .
with Petra Kabus (ed.): The West Package. Gift shipment, no merchandise. Links, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-221-2 .

as Christian Adam :

Reading under Hitler. Authors, bestsellers, readers in the Third Reich. Galiani Verlag , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86971-027-3 .
with Martin Erdmann (ed.): Restricted areas in the GDR . An atlas of locations of the Ministry of State Security (MfS), the Ministry of the Interior (MdI), the Ministry of National Defense (MfNV) and the Group of Soviet Armed Forces in Germany (GSSD) (= BF . 34). Developed by Horst Henkel and Wolfgang Scholz, Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-942130-77-6 .
The dream of the year zero. Authors, bestsellers, readers. The reorganization of the book world in East and West after 1945 . Galiani, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86971-122-5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Adam, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Härtel, Christian (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH	1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Loerrach