Daniel Schönpflug

Daniel Schönpflug (born July 29, 1969 in Bochum ) is a German historian . He has been an adjunct professor of history at the Free University of Berlin since 2016 and scientific coordinator of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin since 2015 . His field of work is European history from the 18th to the 20th century.

Career

In 1988 Schönpflug passed his Abitur at the Lilienthal Oberschule in Berlin-Lichterfelde . The following year he began studying history and German (1989–1994) at the Free University of Berlin , which he continued from 1991 to 1992 at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier ( France ) and in 1995 at the Technical University of Berlin with a master’s degree completed. Based on the dissertation Der Weg in die Terreur. Radicalization and conflicts in the Strasbourg Jacobin Club , Daniel Schönpflug received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin in December 1999. phil. PhD. The work was supervised by Volker Hunecke; Etienne François was the second reviewer. In his habilitation thesis, the historian dealt with the history of Prussia: The marriages of the Hohenzollerns. Kinship, Politics and Ritual in a European Context 1648–1918 . The habilitation process was completed in 2009 at the Free University of Berlin.

From 1997 to 2001 Daniel Schönpflug worked at the department for Western European History at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin at the Chair for Western European History ( Gisela Bock ). A scientific assistant at the same chair followed (2001–2008). From 2008 to 2015 Schönpflug worked as deputy director of the Center Marc Bloch in Berlin. In the 2010/11 winter semester he also took over the position of the chair of 19th century European history at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since 2015 he has been working as a scientific coordinator at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

From 2012 to 2017 Daniel Schönpflug was the network coordinator of the Franco-German research project Saisir l´Europe - Europe as a Challenge , within the framework of which he led the urban violence working group together with Falk Bretschneider . Since 2015 he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center d'études interdisciplinaires sûr L'Allemagne in Paris and, since 2017, of the Advisory Board of the Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe project of the European Research Council , which is based at New Europe College is based in Bucharest . In addition, he has been a member of the Comité de lectur e of the magazine La Révolution française since 2002 (since 2002) and has been an editorial member of the magazine for the history of ideas since 2018 .

Scholarships and Awards

Daniel Schönpflug's commitment to German-French academic relations was awarded the prestigious Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Prize (Prix franco-allemand Gay-Lussac-Humboldt ) in 2010 , which has been awarded by the Humboldt Foundation and the Ministry for National Education, Higher Education since 1981 and research ( Ministère de la recherche et de l´éducation supérieure ) is awarded in France.

He was visiting professor at the Institut d´Histoire de la Révolution française of the Sorbonne in Paris (2003/2004), received a John F. Kennedy Memorial Scholarship at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University in Massachusetts / USA (2004/2005 ) and has received multiple scholarships at the German Historical Institutes in Paris and London.

Science communication

In 2010 Daniel Schönpflug's first work was published for a broad reading public: Luise von Preußen . Queen of Hearts . In the biography he drew a new picture of the queen, who died at the age of 34. The Australian historian Christopher Clark wrote in the ZEIT : “Queen Luise of Prussia was very different from what is often claimed. (...) As the Berlin historian Daniel Schönpflug explains in his elegant, intelligent biography of the Queen, she was an actress on the stage of power. ”For the scenic documentary film Luise. Queen of Hearts , which was broadcast for the first time on Arte in 2009 , he wrote the script together with director Georg Schiemann. In 2011 he wrote a comprehensive article about the Prussian Queen for the magazine Spiegel Geschichte entitled Luise von Prussia - a political queen .

Daniel Schönpflug wrote two more scripts: On the script for the documentary The Power of Passion. Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg he worked together with director Gordian Maugg . The film was produced by LOOKSfilm for Arte and NDR and first broadcast in 2011. 2013 followed in 1913: the last dance of the emperor (co-author: Henning Holsten) for the NDR and Das Erste . The film portrays Europe on the eve of the First World War. On the occasion of the wedding of his daughter Viktoria Luise invited Kaiser Wilhelm II European nobility to Berlin, including his cousins, the British king George V . and the Russian Tsar Nicholas II .

In autumn 2017 Daniel Schönpflug published Kometenjahre in S. Fischer Verlag . 1918: The world on the move towards the end of the First World War and the years of upheaval that followed. Daniel Schönpflug describes the struggle for the future that began with the end of the war in November 1918, following the lifelines of his protagonists. Kometjahre is the literary part of the multimedia project 18 - Clash of Futures under the leadership of Leipzig producer Gunnar Dedio ( LOOKSfilm ), which includes the eight-part documentary drama series War of Dreams by Jan Peter and Frédéric Goupil , which was released in autumn 2018 by Arte and in Das Erste is to be broadcast for the first time, as well as the play of the same name by the Salzburg State Theater (premiere on February 4, 2018), a four-part radio series (lead by SWR2 ), several exhibitions across Europe and an online project. Daniel Schönpflug worked as a historical consultant in the development of the TV series.

Since 2005 he has worked in several documentaries and documentary series of production companies such as LOOKSfilm and television stations such as Arte, Das Erste and ZDF as an expert and interview partner.

He was both a consultant and co-author of the script for the four-part documentary Napoleon and the Germans on the rise and fall of the French emperor for MDR , WDR and Arte (2006). He was interviewed in the scenic documentary series Women Who Made History , a production for Arte and ZDF , which was first broadcast in December 2013. Also in December 2013 Daniel Schönpflug was interview partner in the ten-part documentary series Geliebte Feinde - The Germans and the French with Annette Frier and Antonia de Rendinger at Arte. The series was nominated for the German Television Award in 2014 (category: Best multi-part documentary). The Arte four-part Paris - Berlin series followed. Neighborhood stories by Frédéric Wilner (2015), the ten-part series Oh, Europe! (2017) for Arte and ZDF - also with Annette Frier and Antonia de Rendinger - and in October 2017 Napoleon's German 007: Karl Ludwig Schulmeister (Arte).

Publications

Monographs

• The way to the Terreur. Radicalization and conflicts in the Strasbourg Jacobin Club 1790–1795 , R. Oldenbourg , Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-486565881
• Luise of Prussia. Queen of Hearts , CH Beck Verlag , Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-61664-8 .
• The marriages of the Hohenzollern. Kinship, Politics and Ritual in Europe 1640–1918 (= Critical Studies on Historical Studies , Volume 207), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-37030-8 .
• Cometary years. 1918. Die Welt im Aufbruch , S. Fischer Verlage , Frankfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-002439-8 (translations: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Russian, Chinese, Korean).

Editorships

• with Jürgen Voss: Révolutionnaires et Emigrés. Migration and transfer between France and Germany 1789–1806 , Jan Thorbecke Verlag , Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-7995-7450-1 .
• with Gisela Bock : Friedrich Meinecke in his time. Studies on life and work , Franz Steiner Verlag , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-515-08962-3 .
• with Martin Aust : Learning from the opponent. Hostilities and cultural transfer in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries , Campus-Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-359338442-9 .
• with Martin Schulze Wessel : Redefining the Sacred. Religion in the French and Russian Revolutions , Peter Lang , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-57218-4 .
• with Felix Heidenreich: Political Communication. From classical rhetoric to media democracy , Lit Verlag , Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11742-7 .
• with Oliver Janz : Gender History in a Transnational Perspective , Berghahn Books , New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-78238-274-4 .
• with Fabien Jobard: Political Violence in Urban Space , de Gruyter, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-065361-8 .

Web links

• Daniel Schönpflug in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Daniel Schönpflug at the Free University of Berlin
• Daniel Schönpflug at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
• Publications by Daniel Schönpflug , German National Library
• Daniel Schönpflug on academia.edu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Saisir l'Europe - Europe as a challenge | CIERA. Retrieved January 22, 2018 . 
2. ↑ History of ideas. Retrieved January 22, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Press release German award winners 2010: Attribution du Prix Gay-Lussac Humboldt 2010 - ESR: enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr. Retrieved January 24, 2018 (French). 
4. ↑ Schönpflug, Daniel | Luise of Prussia. Retrieved January 19, 2018 (German). 
5. ↑ Christopher Clark: Luise von Preussen: None of us . In: The time . July 15, 2010, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 9, 2018]).
6. ↑ programm.ARD.de: Luise - Queen of Hearts. Retrieved January 9, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Luise. Queen of Hearts | LOOKSfilm. Retrieved January 9, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Daniel Schönpflug: The beautiful patriot . In: Der Spiegel . March 29, 2011 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 19, 2018]).
9. ↑ programm.ARD.de: The power of passion. Retrieved January 19, 2018 . 
10. ↑ The power of passion | LOOKSfilm. Retrieved January 19, 2018 . 
11. ^ NDR: The last dance of the emperor. Retrieved January 19, 2018 . 
12. ↑ The Emperor's Last Dance | LOOKSfilm. Retrieved January 19, 2018 . 
13. ↑ S. Fischer Verlage - Comet Years (hardcover). Retrieved January 19, 2018 (German). 
14. ↑ War of Dreams | 04/02/2018 7:00 p.m. Retrieved January 19, 2018 . 
15. ^ Napoleon and the Germans | LOOKSfilm. Retrieved January 24, 2018 . 
16. Jump up ↑ Women Who Made History . ( zdf.de [accessed on January 19, 2018]).
17. ↑ programm.ARD.de: Neighborhood Stories: Paris / Berlin (1/4). Retrieved January 19, 2018 . 
18. ↑ Group 5 | Oh, Europe. Retrieved January 19, 2018 (German). 
19. ↑ Oh, Europe! ( zdf.de [accessed on January 19, 2018]). Oh, Europe! ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
20. ↑ programm.ARD.de: Napoleon's German 007 - Karl Ludwig Schulmeister. Retrieved January 19, 2018 . 
21. ^ Napoleon's German 007 - Karl-Ludwig Schulmeister Docstation. Retrieved January 19, 2018 (German).