Christine Wittrock

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Christine Wittrock (born January 22, 1948 in Einbeck , Lower Saxony ) is a German historian who lives and works on La Palma .

Live and act

Christine Wittrock first studied social work at the Braunschweig University of Applied Sciences and graduated in 1973. She then went to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and studied history, German and philosophy. She received a scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation , put 1978 the exam for Master of Arts and was with a work on the image of women in fascism and its predecessors in the women's movement of the 1920s, in 1982 his doctorate . Wittrock was one of the first in the German-speaking area to draw attention to the ideological relationships between the bourgeois and fascist women's movement.

In the 1980s and 1990s she worked as a research assistant at the European Academy of Labor in Frankfurt and at the Frankfurt University. Wittrock developed documentary books on regional history in the 20th century for various locations in Hessen. Her approach - including the names of Nazi perpetrators in her books on regional history - has been subject to criticism since the 1980s because her approach was still completely unusual at the time.

Wittrock's book "Injustice goes hand in hand with a sure step ..." attracted nationwide attention, as a descendant of the military economics leader Wilhelm Kaus from Langenselbold sued its publication. Nevertheless, the publication of the book could not be prevented - the author had to accept blackening in the text.

Christine Wittrock is married to the architect Hans Gerber and has lived as a freelance writer in La Palma / Spain since 1999 .

Her current research interests are still: the history of the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of social movements and the regional history of National Socialism . Her concern remains to look at history from below. Wittrock writes for various newspapers and magazines, including the Frankfurter Rundschau and the young world .

Memberships

  • Association of German Writers in ver.di, Hessen

Fonts

Monographs

  • Abortion and Child Murder in Modern German Literature. Self-published, Frankfurt am Main 1978
  • Femininity Myths. The image of women in fascism and its precursors in the women's movement of the twenties. Sendler, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-88048-061-3
  • Words of comfort in times of change. Aphorisms - Proverbs - Quotes. VTK, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-88599-027-X
  • The “Academy of Work” in Frankfurt am Main and its graduates. Dipa, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-7638-0153-7
  • Egelsbach in politically turbulent times 1914-1950. Brandes and Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-925798-99-4 .
  • (with Katharina Lausche): My raccoon , Rororo, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-499-20742-7
  • Injustice comes with a sure step. Notes about National Socialism in Langenselbold and Schlüchtern. 1st edition CoCon, Hanau 1999, ISBN 3-928100-71-8 ; 2nd edition CoCon, Hanau 2017, ISBN 978-3-86314-290-2
  • Clean shops, white vests and Persil bills. The history of the soap factories in Schlüchtern and Steinau since 1825. CoCon, Hanau 1999, ISBN 3-928100-71-8
  • Loyal to the emperor and believing in the leadership. Impressions from the old Gelnhausen district 1918 - 1950. CoCon, Hanau 2006, ISBN 3-937774-27-0
  • Idyll and abyss. The history of the city of Einbeck from below 1900 - 1950. 1. Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-89144-455-9 and 2. 2013, ISBN 978-3-89144-465-8 (Pahl-Rugenstein); 3. 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-052639-8 .

as editor

  • (with Hannelore Vietze): The future will be terrible. Everyday history of National Socialism in the Vogelsberg. CoCon, Hanau 2005, ISBN 3-937774-15-7

Articles (selection)

  • Femininity myths, spirituality and the decline of the women's movement , in: Actuality of Communism , magazine for the Freiburg Congress 6. – 14. December 1985
  • The new chastity. in: Ulrike Heider (Ed.): Sadomasochists, chaste and romantics. From the myth of new sensuality. Rororo, Reinbek 1986, ISBN 3-499-17979 2
  • "Paul Levi" and "Wilhelm Liebknecht" , in: Lexikon left Leitfiguren , Frankfurt am Main, Vienna 1988 and 1989, ISBN 3 7632 3028 9
  • Now we are blissfully quiet ... From the bourgeois women's movement to fascism , in: Elisabeth Bütfering u. a. (Ed.): Frauenstadtbuch Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt am Main 1992
  • Albert Daudistel , in: Burned. Forget? , Ed .: VS - Association of German Writers, Berlin 2007

Literature (reviews)

  • (to the book "Femininity Myths" :) Irmgard Klönne: "Securing evidence of history - but how?" in: Kommune, June 1983; Gabriele Weiden-Sonn: "Femininity Myths", in: International Scientific Correspondence on the History of the German Labor Movement (IWK), January 1983; Reinhold Lütgemeier-Davin: "Weiblichkeitsmythen", in: Historische Zeitschrift 1984 / Bd. 239; Sibylle Raasch: "Weiblichkeitsmythen", in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, PVS-Literatur, 1985/1; Krista Federspiel: "Das Frauenbuch", in: Arbeiter-Zeitung Vienna January 12, 1985; Sigrid Jacobeit: "Weiblichkeitsmythen", in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 8/1985; Barbara Rohr: "Femininity myths", in: Das Argument , supplement 1986
  • Harald Freiling: "Notes from the Province", in: Hessische Lehrerzeitung (GEW), July 1999
  • Albrecht Werner-Cordt: "Injustice goes hand in hand with a safe step", in: Bulletin of the Association for Frankfurter Arbeitergeschichte No. 27, January 2001
  • (about the Einbeck book "Idylle und Abhaben” :) "Einbeck book by Dr. Christine Wittrock looks at the idyll and the abyss" in: "Einbeck City" from September 8, 2012; Gerhard Walentowitz: "Local history with a difference", in: E&W Education and Science 2/2013; Ewald Hein-Janke: "Idylle und Abgrund", in: Einbecker Jahrbuch Volume 52, 2014
  • (for the new edition of Injustice goes hand in hand with safe step , 2017) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 3, 2018: Against a distorted image of the past

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. also "Now the whole Nazi gang is sitting there together again" in: Frankfurter Rundschau of May 30, 2006 or " Helped Nazi criminals to escape. The Birstein noble family of Isenburg played a dubious role after World War II", in: Frankfurter Rundschau from August 31, 2006
  2. ↑ cf. also "When the nice neighbor became an informer", in: Langenselbolder Zeitung of November 10, 1998; "Who calls Nazis by their name ...", in: Gelnhäuser Neue Zeitung of February 4, 1999; "The unpleasant truth belongs", in: Kinzigtal-Nachrichten of June 21, 1999 and "Important to name the perpetrators", in: Frankfurter Rundschau of June 22, 1999
  3. ↑ cf. "Historians should abstain from the idiocy of daily politics", in: Frankfurter Rundschau of July 27, 1999; "Historian of family sued", in: Frankfurter Rundschau of November 12, 1998, as well as "Main-Kinzig District Administrator puts the book project on hold during the Nazi era", in: Frankfurter Rundschau of March 6, 1999
  4. ↑ cf. on this the daily press “Wittrock won before the regional court”, in: Frankfurter Rundschau of January 5, 2000; "Historian Christine Wittrock won a partial victory in court for her book", in: Main-Echo from January 11, 2000; "'NS study' may continue to be sold", in: Hanau-Post, May 2000; "NS chronicle of a city: Historian may call fellow travelers", in: Frankfurter Rundschau of May 26, 2000
  5. ↑ cf. also "Propaganda and Profiteurs", in: Die Eule from September 11, 2013; "Story from below - a difficult undertaking", in: Einbecker Morgenpost of October 24, 2013 or "Pogrom in the small town", in: Junge Welt, November 9, 2013
  6. ↑ cf. Directory of members of VS Hessen
  7. ^ Text online about "Historische Eschborn"
  8. ^ "Einbeck City" for the Einbeck book
personal data
SURNAME Wittrock, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Einbeck , Lower Saxony