Clemens Zimmermann (historian)

Clemens Zimmermann (born October 24, 1951 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German historian .

Life

Zimmermann studied modern history, political science and German in Tübingen , Freiburg and Heidelberg . He received his doctorate in 1981 with a study of the reforms in the rural society of the Margraviate of Baden between 1750 and 1790. His habilitation took place in Heidelberg in 1990 with a thesis on housing issues and housing policy in Germany from 1845 to 1914. He held professorial positions in Heidelberg, Marburg and Darmstadt before taking on a professorship at Saarland University in 2000 .

Clemens Zimmermann's research focuses on the social and cultural history of town and country, the history of state practice and social and cultural policy, as well as the individual, group-specific and scientific perception of new technologies and media. In addition to context-oriented case studies, the focus is on comparative approaches.

Publications

• Reforms in peasant society. Studies on enlightened absolutism in the margraviate of Baden, 1750–1790 , Ostfildern 1983 (at the same time: dissertation, 1981).
• (with Birgit Meyer): Seminar: History. Family history. History of the women's movement. Women in National Socialism , Bonn 1985 (= working aids for political education ).
• From the housing issue to housing policy. The Reform Movement in Germany, 1845–1914 , Göttingen 1991 (= Critical Studies in History , Volume 90) (At the same time: Habilitation thesis, Heidelberg, University, 1990).
• The time of the metropolises. Urbanization and Urban Development , Frankfurt am Main 1996 (= Fischer History Europe ). 2nd increased edition Frankfurt am Main 2000; Italian, expanded edition: L´era delle metropoli. Urbanizzazione e sviluppo della grande città , Bologna 2004; Spanish edition: La época de las metrópolis. Urbanismo y desarrolo de la gran ciudad , Madrid 2012; E-book edition: Frankfurt am Main 2015.
• (Ed.): Saarland industrial photography. A picture archive guide. CD-ROM, Saarbrücken 2004.
• (with F. Démier, JC Farcy, G. Sanz-Lafuente, N. Vivier): Les sociétés rurales (1830–1930) , Paris 2005.
• (with Werner Troßbach ): The history of the village. From the beginnings in the Franconian Empire to the West German present , Stuttgart 2006.
• (Ed.): Centrality and spatial structure of large cities in the 20th century , Stuttgart 2006 (= contributions to urban history and urbanization research , volume 4).
• Media in National Socialism. Germany 1933–1945, Italy 1922–1943, Spain 1936–1951 , Vienna 2007.
• (Ed.): Fundamentals of German Agar History , Vol. 3, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2015.
• ( Co -Hrsg.): Basic features of the German agricultural history , volumes 1 and 2, Cologne 2016.
• (Ed. With Judith Thissen): Cinema beyond the City. Small Town and rural Film Culture in Europe , London 2016.
• (with Gabriele B. Clemens , Barbara Duttenhöfer, Dietmar Hüser, Aline Maldener, Gunter Mahlerwein, Michael Röhrig): Margraviate - Metropolis - Media. Crises, communication and politicization of European societies , Trier 2016.
• European media cities 1500–2000. Historical continuities and urban contexts of media production , St. Ingbert 2017.

Web links

• Website at Saarland University