Dan Diner

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Dan Diner (2013)

Dan Diner (born May 20, 1946 in Munich ) is a German historian and political writer . He is emeritus professor for modern history at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and former director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish history and culture and professor at the historical seminar of the University of Leipzig . Diner is a full member of the philological-historical class of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Life

Dan Diner was born to Polish-Lithuanian displaced persons in the American zone of occupation . His parents managed to immigrate to Israel , from which the family finally emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany in the mid-1950s. Diner graduated from secondary school and then started an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic , after which he attended the advanced branch of the Ulrich von Hutten grammar school in Schlüchtern (with the Hof Reith student home, formerly: boys' rescue and educational institution), he was head of the school and deputy state school spokesman. Diner studied law and social sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . There he received his doctorate in international law in 1973 . In 1980 he completed his habilitation . From 1983 to 1985 he taught modern Arabic history at the University of Odense , Denmark ; In 1985 he was appointed to the chair for non-European history at the University of Essen . Since 1988 he has also been Professor of European History at Tel Aviv University and headed its Institute for German History from 1994 to 1999.

From 1999 to 2014 Dan Diner was director of the Simon Dubnow Institute (since 2018: Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow) and professor at the Department of History at Leipzig University. Since 2001 he has held a professorship for modern history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At the Saxon Academy of Sciences , he heads the project “European Traditions - Encyclopedia of Jewish Cultures” in the context of which the seven-volume “Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture” was produced and a series of editions primarily on the history of Jewish politics, law, institutions and diplomacy is published. Since 2014 he has chaired a European Research Council (ERC) -Advanced Grant JudgingHistories - Experience, Judgment and Representation of World War II in an Age of Globalization at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

In 2006 Dan Diner was awarded the Ernst Bloch Prize of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein for the recognition of a “voice of understanding and reason”, and in 2007 with the Italian Capalbio Prize. In the 2004/2005 academic year he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton. He was visiting professor at various universities and research institutions in Germany and abroad and is a member of scientific committees. In 2013 he was awarded the Leipzig Science Prize. In 2015 he was appointed judge of the Ludwig Börne Prize by the Ludwig Börne Foundation . In the same year, the Philosophy and Humanities Department of the Free University of Berlin awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2015 he was also awarded the Central German business and communication prize “Heiße Kartoffel”.

Act

In his work, Dan Diner thematically links strands of European history with those of the Near and Middle East as well as Jewish history with a universal historical intention. In doing so, he seeks epistemologically to transcend spatial and cultural distinctions by means of a peripheral perspective.

His work is also known for methodical questions relating to the relationship between history and memory, especially regarding the time of National Socialism . The epistemic concept of the “break in civilization” can be traced back to him.

His research is currently focused on two main topics: the conceptualization of a modern Jewish history and a global memory history of the Second World War . The complex of Jewish history emerged from the research agenda of the Leipzig Simon Dubnow Institute and is implemented in the project “European Traditions - Encyclopedia of Jewish Cultures”, which is funded by the Union of Academies and is based at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. As part of the ERC project JudgingHistories - Experience, Judgment and Representation of World War II in an Age of Globalization , under his leadership as Principal Investigator, the universalization capability of historical experiences in the Second World War is examined, by primarily comparing continental and colonial experiences of violence with one another . Historical understanding and moral judgment are depicted against the background of a globalizing culture of memory.

Diner is considered to be the author who coined the German word Narrativ to mean a meaningful narrative. Circuits in his collection of essays . He wrote National Socialism and Memory in 1995: "The mass extermination of European Jews has a statistic, not a narrative."

Publications

  • Clarifications. Paths to modernity. Reclam, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-15-019435-5 .
  • Understanding the Century - 1917–1989. A universal historical interpretation . Pantheon, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-570-55274-2 .
  • Ritual distance. Israel's German question . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-421-04683-3 .
  • Time threshold. Present questions to history. Pantheon, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-55129-5 .
  • Enlightenment: on variants of modernity , illustrated by Martial Leiter (= Vontobel series of publications , volume 1850). Vontobel Foundation, Zurich 2008, DNB 990760286 .
  • Contrasting memories. About the validity and impact of the Holocaust (= Toldot series. Volume 7). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-35096-6 .
  • Sealed time. About the deadlock in the Islamic world. Propylaea , Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-549-07244-9 .
  • as editor: Synchronous Worlds. Periods of Jewish History. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-525-35090-4 .
  • Memory times. About Jewish and other stories. Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50560-0
  • America as the enemy. About the persistence of resentment. Propylaea, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-549-07174-4 .
  • Beyond the Conceivable. Studies on Germany, Nazism and the Holocaust. University of California Press, Berkeley, CAL 2000, ISBN 0-520-21345-9 .
  • Understand the century. A universal historical interpretation. Luchterhand, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-630-87996-9 .
    • Translation into English: Cataclysms. A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe's Edge. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin 2008, ISBN 978-0-299-22350-2 .
  • as editor with Michael Stolleis : Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt. A juxtaposition (= series of publications by the Institute for German History , Volume 20). Bleicher, Gerlingen 1999, ISBN 3-88350-466-1 ( English ).
  • Cycles: National Socialism and Memory. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-8270-0157-9 .
  • World orders. About the history and effects of law and power. Fischer Taschenbuch 11736, Frankfurt am Main 1993, 2016, ISBN 3-596-11736-4
  • The war of memories and the order of the world (= Rotbuch-Taschenbuch , Volume 50). Rotbuch, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-88022-060-3 .
  • as publisher: civilization break: thinking after Auschwitz. (= Fischer Taschenbuch , 4398), Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-596-24398-X .
  • as Ed .: Is National Socialism History? On historicization and historians' dispute. Fischer Taschenbuch 4391, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-596-24391-2 .
  • Israel in Palestine. About exchange and violence in the Middle East. Athenaeum, Königstein im Taunus 1980, ISBN 3-7610-8219-3 (partly also habilitation thesis at the University of Frankfurt am Main , Faculty 03 - Social Sciences, 1979, under the title: Exchange and violence, on the Zionist structure of Israeli politics ).
  • The influence of the concept of war and the armistice treaty on the end of the war in modern international law . Frankfurt am Main 1973, DNB 740989650 (as Donald Diner, dissertation University of Frankfurt am Main , Faculty 01 - Law, 1973).

Editorships

  • Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). 7 volumes. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2011 ff., ISBN 978-3-476-02500-5 (all seven volumes).
  • Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2001–2014.
  • Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History , Bleicher, Gerlingen 1994–1999.

Co-editorships

  • Babylon. Contributions to the Jewish present
  • Sheets for German and international politics
  • History & Memory. Studies in Representation of the Past (1988–1998)
  • Jewish History Quarterly (Warsaw)
  • Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
  • Naharaim. Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
  • Storia della Shoah. La crisi dell'Europa, lo sterminio degli ebrei e la memoria del XX secolo
  • Taboo. Yearbook for European History, Society, Culture and Thought

Essays

Interviews

Festschrift for diner

  • Arndt Engelhardt, Lutz Fiedler, Elisabeth Gallas , Natasha Gordinsky, Phlipp Graf (eds.): A paradigm of modernity: Jewish history in key terms . Festschrift for Dan Diner on his 70th birthday , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2016, ISBN 978-3-525-30084-8 .

Web links

Commons : Dan Diner  - Collection of Pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On figures of thought and places of remembrance: The encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture presented. Announcement of the lecture on the website of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf on July 11, 2017, accessed on March 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ Klaus Pokatzky in conversation with Dan Diner , Deutschlandfunk Kultur , August 29, 2018 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Even small countries trigger a storm - Professor Dr. Dan Diner as a guest at the Ulrich-von-Hutten-Gymnasium in Schlüchtern , in: Gelnhäuser Neue Zeitung (GNZ), July 24, 2015, p. 29.
  4. ↑ Biography documentary about Dan Diner (3sat).
  5. ↑ Overview: Simon Dubnow Institute. Retrieved August 6, 2018 .
  6. ^ Ernst Bloch Center, Bloch Prize 2006 ( Memento from September 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Dan Diner awards Ludwig Börne Prize , in: Jüdische Allgemeine , accessed on February 3, 2015.
  8. ^ Dan Diner, 2015 awardee .
  9. ↑ European Traditions - Encyclopedia of Jewish Cultures - Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig .
  10. ^ Matthias Heine: Fashion word: The amazing career of the term "narrative" . In: THE WORLD . November 13, 2016 ( welt.de [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  11. ↑ How Adenauer lifted the Israeli ban , review by Richard Herzinger from March 7, 2015 on Welt Online .
  12. ↑ Review: Relentless Reflection. , in: DeutschlandRadio Kultur , July 18, 2010.
  13. ↑ Reviews: Norbert Frei , in: Die Welt , June 28, 2003 ; Willi Jasper in in: Die Zeit , No. 28, July 3, 2003 .
  14. ↑ Review in: FAZ , June 23, 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Diner, Dan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and political writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich