Cordula Tollmien

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Cordula Tollmien (born November 18, 1951 in Göttingen ) is a German historian and children's book author.

Life

Cordula Tollmien was born in 1951 in Göttingen as the daughter of Walter Tollmien . From 1962 to 1970 she attended the old-language branch of the Max Planck Gymnasium there . One of their teachers was Wolfgang Natonek . She passed her Abitur in 1970 with distinction.

From 1970 to 76 she studied mathematics and physics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, among others with Egbert Brieskorn and Martin Kneser . 1974/75 she worked as a collaborator in the research project of the special research program "University Didactics" of the DFG at the IV. Physikalisches Institut of the University of Göttingen on the evaluation of learning processes and completed her studies in December 1975 with the development of a teaching unit for absorption spectral analysis (including the construction of a single-beam spectrophotometer and an educational film on the subject) in the context of this project with the state examination.

From 1976 to June 1977 she trained as a teacher in public schools (secondary level I and II) at the Scientific Institute for School Practice Bremen, Department Bremerhaven, and then worked again as a research assistant at the IV Physical Institute of the University of Göttingen until the end of 1979, Among other things, in the supervision of state examination theses and the evaluation of empirical didactic studies in the context of the aforementioned DFG project.

Her first literary attempts (publications in literary magazines and anthologies) and the first historical works were made in the first half of the 1980s. From this occupation arose the desire for a scientific foundation of historical interests and Tollmien therefore began studying Medieval and Modern History at the University of Göttingen in the summer semester of 1986 (with the minor subjects Philosophy and Pedagogy), in which she in particular the courses Helga Grebings , Ernst Schuberts and Rudolf von Thaddens had a lasting influence. During this course, Tollmien was funded by the German Study Foundation , as in her first mathematics and physics studies .

At the same time as she began studying history, Tollmien's first children's book La gatta means cat was published , for which she was awarded the Peter Härtling Prize in 1986 . Since then she has published a large number of books for children and young people. Her biography Fürstin der Wissenschaft about the mathematician Sofja Kowalewskaja made it onto the shortlist for the German Youth Book Prize in 1995 .

1991 interrupted Tollmien her studies and took over for two years as a research editor at the Hamburg Foundation for Social History (now in Bremen resident) editorial responsibility for the published by the Foundation Magazine 1999 - Journal of Social History of the 20th and 21st centuries (now Social History - Journal for Historical Analysis of the 20th and 21st Centuries ). Since 1987 numerous historical works by Tollmien have been published, including on the history of German aviation research , the participation of the Göttingen University in the propaganda battle of the First World War and the history of the Göttingen Jews, as well as biographies of the mathematicians Emmy Noether , Sofja Kowalewskaja and the chemists Julia Lermontowa and Marie Curie .

From 1994 Tollmien did research for a three-volume city history commissioned by the city of Göttingen on the subject of National Socialism in Göttingen . The result of this work was accepted as a dissertation by the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Göttingen and Tollmien received his doctorate summa cum laude in 1998 in Middle and Modern History . In 2000, Tollmien received an order from the City of Göttingen to research the “working and living conditions of foreign forced laborers employed in Göttingen between 1939 and 1945”. The results of their research are posted on the Internet as the “Forced Labor in Göttingen” website.

Today the freelance writer and historian lives in Hann. Münden . She is a member of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Natural Science and Technology eV , the Göttingen History Workshop , the German Schiller Society and the Friends of Rose Ausländer eV

Works

Children's books

  • La gatta means cat . Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 1987, ISBN 3-407-80166-1 .
  • A heart made of velvet and soap . Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 1999, ISBN 3-407-78348-5 .
  • Fundevogel or what was, doesn't just stop . Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 1990, ISBN 3-407-80044-4 .

Historical work

  • Cordula Tollmien: Princess of Science. The life story of Sofja Kovalevskaya . Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-407-80735-X .
  • Cordula Tollmien: The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Flow Research combined with the aerodynamic test facility . In: Heinrich Becker u. a. (Ed.): The University of Göttingen under National Socialism. The repressed chapter of its 250-year history . Saur, Munich-London-New York-Oxford-Paris 1987, ISBN 3-598-10676-9 , pp. 464-488 .
  • Cordula Tollmien: “Are we of the opinion that a female head can only be creative in mathematics in exceptional cases?” - a biography of the mathematician Emmy Noether (1882–1935) and at the same time a contribution to the history of women's habilitation at the University of Göttingen . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch . tape 38 , 1990, ISSN  0072-4882 , pp. 153-219 .
  • Cordula Tollmien: "The only thing left is for the state to take the pursuit of this important problem into its own hands." - The first scientific commission to deal with aviation problems in Prussia / Germany . In: Karsten Linne, Thomas Wohlleben (ed.): Patient history. For Karl Heinz Roth . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt 1993, ISBN 3-86150-015-9 , p. 100-116 .
  • Cordula Tollmien: The "War of the Spirits" in the provinces - the example of the University of Göttingen 1914-1919 . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch . tape 41 , 1993, ISSN  0072-4882 , pp. 137-209 .
  • Two first doctorates: the mathematician Sofja Kowalewskaja and the chemist Julia Lermontowa . In: Renate Tobies (Ed.): “All male culture in spite of”. Women in math and science . Campus, Frankfurt a. M./New York 1997, ISBN 3-593-35749-6 , pp. 83–130 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Cordula Tollmien: “The most expensive element in the world” - Marie Curie (1867–1934), Nobel Prize in Physics 1903, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 . In: Charlotte Kerner (ed.): Madame Curie and her sisters. Women who got the Nobel Prize . Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 1997, ISBN 3-407-80845-3 , p. 11-43 .
  • Cordula Tollmien: National Socialism in Göttingen 1933–1945 . In: Rudolf von Thadden , Jürgen Trittel (Hrsg.): Göttingen - The history of a university town . tape 3 : From the Prussian medium-sized town to the major town in southern Lower Saxony, 1866 to 1989. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-36198-X , p. 127–273 (supplemented by a detailed literature and research overview and a final analytical part, also published on the Internet ).
  • Cordula Tollmien: Jews in Göttingen: 1918 to 1933: Economic-cultural integration and increasing anti-Semitism (in it two sections on the socio-economic development and the personnel structure of the community by Matthias Manthey); 1933 to 1945: disenfranchisement, expulsion and murder; After 1945: organization of survival and the emergence of a new Jewish community . In: Rudolf von Thadden , Jürgen Trittel (Hrsg.): Göttingen - The history of a university town . tape 3 : From the Prussian medium-sized town to the major town in southern Lower Saxony, 1866 to 1989. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-36198-X , p. 688-760 .
  • Cordula Tollmien: Slawko, Stanislaw and France Marie. The maternal and children's camp at the Schneeweiß laundry in Göttingen in 1944/45 . In: Andreas Frewer, Günther Siedbürger (Hrsg.): Medicine and Forced Labor in National Socialism. Use and treatment of "foreigners" in health care . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37626-1 , p. 363-388 .
  • Cordula Tollmien: A nightmare is behind us and maybe it's not even over yet "- Lili Pollatz from the Netherlands to her American Quaker friends . In: Irene Below, Inge Hansen-Schaberg , Maria Kublitz-Kramer (eds.): The end of Exils? Letters from women after 1945. Edition text + kritik, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86916-373-4 , pp. 45-58 .
  • Cordula Tollmien: "Our children are brought up in hatred of England" - Two Dresden teachers against the decreed enemy propaganda " . In: Dresdner Geschichtsverein eV General editorship Hans-Peter Lühr (Ed.): Dresden in the First World War . Dresdner Hefte 119, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-944019-08-6 , pp. 48-58 .
  • Lisette Ferera and Cordula Tollmien: The Legacy of Max Raphael Hahn - Göttingen Citizens and Collectors. A story of life and death, courageous perseverance and the continuing force of family tradition . Hogrefe, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8017-2679-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dissertation by Cordula Tollmien
  2. ↑ Forced labor in Göttingen

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personal data
SURNAME Tollmien, Cordula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen