Christine Haug

Christine Haug (born March 1, 1962 in Ulm ) is a German book scholar .

Life

She completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Ulm and acquired the general university entrance qualification through a second educational path. From 1983 to 1989 she studied German and history at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . In 1995 she received her doctorate and worked as a research assistant at the Universities of Giessen and Mainz. Since 2006 she has held the professorship for book studies at the University of Munich and head of the book studies course. Since 2003 she has been co-editor of the Leipziger Jahrbuch für Buchgeschichte (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), second chairwoman of the International Society for Book Studies (since 2007), member of the board of the Wolfenbüttel working group for library, book and media history (since 2009) and corresponding member of the historical Commission of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels .

Research area

Her fields of work are book trade and publishing history from the 18th to the 20th century, especially bookselling secondary markets, history of the station book trade (Habilitation 2004), department store book trade as well as secret literature in the 18th century (including erotica and pornography) and censorship history. Christine Haug has been working on the edition project Gutzkow's Works and Letters since 1998 . Annotated digital complete edition with and here in 2013, together with Ute Schneider, published a volume of Gutzkows with writings on the book trade and literary practice , the first collection of texts by a 19th century author on book trade issues.

Fonts

As an author

• Christine Haug: Traveling and Reading in the Age of Industrialization. The history of the train station and traffic book trade in Germany from its beginnings around 1850 to the end of the Weimar Republic. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2007 (writings and testimonials on book history. Vol. 17).

As editor

• Uta George / Christine Haug / Rainer Kah (eds.): The other perspective. A historical look back at Gießen in the 20th century. Giessen: Ricker'sche Universitätsbuchhandlung 1997.
• Christine Haug / Natalie Kruse: The history of the mail order book trade from its beginnings in the 1860s to the present day. Edited by the Federal Association of German Mail Order Booksellers eV Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2004.
• Christine Haug / Franziska Mayer / Madleen Podewski (eds.): Popular Judaism. Media, debates, reading material. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2009 (Conditio Judaica. Studies and sources on German-Jewish literary and cultural history 76).
• Christine Haug / Franziska Mayer / Winfried Schröder (eds.): Secret literature and secret book trade in Europe in the 18th century. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2011 (Wolfenbütteler Schriften zur Geschichte des Buchwesen 47).
• Christine Haug / Anke Vogel (eds.): Quo vadis, children's book? Present and future of literature for young readers. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz 2011 (Book Studies Research 10).

Web links

• Literature by and about Christine Haug in the catalog of the German National Library
• Study courses in book studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich