Dagmar Kift

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Dagmar Kift ( February 1, 1954 - April 23, 2020 ) was a German historian .

Life

Kift studied history history , German studies , sociology and law at the Free University of Berlin and history at St Anne's College and St Antony's College of Oxford University . In 1989 she did her doctorate at the Free University with a thesis on “Workers' Culture in Social Conflict. The English Music Hall in the 19th Century ”. From 1987 to 2019 she worked at the LWL industrial museum. As a scientific consultant and curator, she was there a. a. Project manager for the permanent exhibition of the Zeche Zollern museum in Dortmund (opening 1999), the exhibition “Aufbau West. New beginning between displacement and economic miracle ”(2005) and the EU project“ Work with Sounds (2013–2015); she also worked on the FRAUEN.ruhr.GESCHICHTE Internet portal. From 2013 until her retirement in 2019, she was in charge of the museum's scientific service and was deputy director. Until 2017 she was a board member of WORKLAB, the international association for workers' museums, and until 2019 a member of the board of the Fritz-Hüser- Gesellschaft.

Kift was married to British writer Roy Kift until 2014 ; they had two daughters together.

research

Kift researched the European social and cultural history of the industrial age. Her work and publication focuses were the workers , youth and district culture , mining , women's and leisure history as well as the topics of migration and cultural diversity .

Publications (selection)

  • (Editor, with Joachim Henneke and Thomas Schleper) rethink the world. Contributions from the opening symposium 100 years of Bauhaus in the west . Aschendorf, Münster 2019, ISBN 978-3-402-24648-1
  • (Editor, with Stefan Berger, Eckhard Schinkel and Hanneliese Palm) Mining cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective. Discourses and Imaginations . Klartext, Essen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8375-1290-8
  • The men's world of mining . Bochum 2011 (publications of the Ruhrgebiet Library Foundation, issue 32), ISBN 978-3-8375-0507-8
  • Buddy Anton, St. Barbara and the Beatles. Heroes and other models in the Ruhr area after 1945 . (Exhibition catalog). Klartext , Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0415-6
  • (Editor, with Dietmar Osses) Poland - Ruhr. Immigration between 1871 and today . Klartext, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-851-9
  • (Editor, with Hanneliese Palm) Work - Culture - Identity. On the transformation of work landscapes in literature. (= Writings of the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture in the Working World, Vol. 15) . Klartext, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-753-6
  • (Editor) Aufbau West. New beginning between displacement and economic miracle . (Exhibition catalog). Klartext, Essen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89861-542-6
  • Sunday pictures. Lay art from the Ruhr mining industry. (Exhibition catalog). Klartext, Essen 2003, ISBN 978-3-88474-753-7
  • "Musterzeche" Zollern II / IV. Museum for the social and cultural history of the Ruhr mining industry. Museum guide . Klartext, Essen 1999, ISBN 978-3-88474-819-0 (English translation: The Zollern II / IV "model" collery. The Museum of Social and Cultural History of Coal Mining in the Ruhrarea - museum guide . Klartext, Essen 2000 , ISBN 978-3-88474-904-3 )
  • (Editor, with Olge Dommer) No man's years. Youth in the Ruhr mining industry 1898–1961. The example of Zeche Zollern II / IV . Klartext, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-690-1
  • The Victorian Music Hall. Culture, Class and Conflict . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge u. a. 1996, ISBN 978-0-521-47472-6
  • (Editor) Fair, pub, cinema. Worker culture in the Ruhr area between commerce and control (1850–1914) . Schöningh , Paderborn 1992, ISBN 3-506-79579-1
  • Worker Culture in Social Conflict. The English Music Hall in the 19th century. (= Writings of the Fritz Hüser Institute for German and Foreign Workers 'Literature of the City of Dortmund, Series 2: Research on Workers' Literature Vol. 7. Klartext, Essen 1991. At the same time: Phil. Diss. Freie Universität Berlin 1989) ISBN 3-88474 -154-3
  • (Editor, with Karl Ditt ) 1889. Miners strike and Wilhelmine Society . Von der Linnepe, Hagen 1989, ISBN 3-921297-95-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ women / ruhr / history - women's and gender history of the Ruhr area. Retrieved on May 12, 2020 (German).
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personal data
SURNAME Kift, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1954
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2020