Cornelia Brink

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Cornelia Brink (* 1961 in Paderborn ) is a German historian . She is Professor of Modern History and Historical Anthropology at the University of Freiburg.

Life

After training as a bookseller and temporary employment in Paderborn and Breisach am Rhein, Brink studied folklore , modern German literary history, art history and economic and social history in Freiburg and Hamburg . She earned her master's degree in folklore. This was followed by a traineeship and scientific work at the German Watch Museum in Furtwangen.

In 1997, Brink obtained his doctorate on the subject of “Icons of Destruction. On the public use of photographs from National Socialist concentration camps ”. From 2000 to 2007 she was a research assistant at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg at the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History with a research project on the subject of “Psychiatry, Law and the Public. 1850-1980 ". During this time, she was employed as a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 541 “Identities and Alterities” from 2000 to 2003 and from 2003 to 2006 a fellow in the Margarete von Wrangell program of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science.

In 2008 he completed his habilitation at the University of Freiburg with the habilitation thesis “Institution walls and the public. A Social History of Placement in Mental Health Institutions. 1850-1980 ”and she was awarded the Venia Legendi for the subjects of Modern and Contemporary History and Historical Anthropology. From 2007 to 2012, Brink represented Ulrich Herbert's chair for modern and contemporary history at the Department of History at the University of Freiburg.

In October 2012, Brink took over the academic management and coordination of the Master’s program in Interdisciplinary Anthropology at the University of Freiburg.

Her main areas of work are visual history and media history, war photography, images of human beings, normality and normativity, cultural and social history of psychiatric knowledge and psychiatric practice.

The DFG currently lists two funded projects on the topics of war photography in World War II and patient experiences in German psychiatric hospitals since the early 1960s, in which Brink is involved.

Publications (selection)

  • Annihilation icons . Public use of photographs from National Socialist concentration camps after 1945 (=  series of publications by the Fritz Bauer Institute . Volume 14 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-05-003211-5 (additional dissertation).
  • "Auschwitz in the Paulskirche" . Politics of Remembrance in Photo Exhibitions of the Sixties. Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-89445-262-9 .
  • Limits of the institution . Psychiatry and society in Germany 1860-1980 (=  modern times. New research on the social and cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries . Volume 20 ). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0623-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data record on the person at DNB. In: Catalog of the German National Library. German National Library , accessed on October 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Cornelia Brink: Icons of Destruction . Public use of photographs from National Socialist concentration camps after 1945 (=  series of publications by the Fritz Bauer Institute . Volume 14 ). Akademie-Verlag edition. Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-05-003211-5 , pp. 7 .
  3. ^ Fellows and former fellows. PD Dr. Cornelia Brink. In: Homepage of the Margarete von Wrangell habilitation program. October 29, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Lara Wehler: The suffering of others. Cornelia Brink examines the hero image in crisis journalism and the role of war photographers. In: Online magazine for press and public relations work at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. University of Freiburg, June 5, 2019, accessed on October 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Professor Dr. Cornelia Brink. In: GEPRIS. Projects funded by the DFG. DFG, 2019, accessed on October 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Brink, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn