Christoph Hamann
Christoph Hamann (* 1955 in Nuremberg ) is a German historian and history teacher.
Life
Hamann studied history, German and politics in Erlangen and Berlin . He is the author of several specialist books on contemporary history, history didactics and image analysis, held teaching positions at the Technical University of Berlin and is currently working at the State Institute for School and Media Berlin-Brandenburg (LISUM).
Hamann deals intensively with the effect of images. In his dissertation (“Visual History and History Didactics”) he analyzes five “key images” of contemporary history and shows “how images develop a political power and how politics is made possible with images”. Hamann assumes that photography does not allow a completely faithful depiction of reality, since every image can be interpreted and manipulated and can be evaluated differently in different contexts. In “Weltbilder und Bilderwelten”, Hamann substantiates this thesis with examples from the history of photojournalism and explains “the power of images”.
Publications (selection)
- Democratic tradition and revolutionary spirit. Remember 1848 in Berlin . Centaurus, 2010 (with Volker Schröder)
- Visual history and history didactics: visual skills in historical-political education . Centaurus, 2007
- History - history of peace - life story . Centaurus, 2007 (with Judith Martin)
- The laborious one. Story of a family . Hentrich & Hentrich, 2005 (with Uschi Otten)
- Worlds of images and worldviews: photos that make (s) stories. Hentrich and Hentrich, Teetz 2002, ISBN 3-933471-37-0 .
- Democracy in Berlin . Hentrich and Hentrich, Teetz 2001, ISBN 3-933471-24-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Christoph Hamann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Visual history and history didactics Contributions to image competence in historical-political education (PDF; 9.8 MB). Online edition of the dissertation in the digital repository of the TU Berlin
- Homepage
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurt Schilde: Key Images - Analysis of Photographs of Contemporary History " . Book review at literaturkritik.de, No. 5, May 2008
- ↑ A photo and its viewer ( Memento from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Online version at Mediaculture-Online
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hamann, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German social scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |