David Schoenbaum

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David Schoenbaum (* 1935 in Milwaukee ) is an American journalist and historian. He is best known for his work on the history of Germany in the 20th century and music history.

Life

Schoenbaum received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin . He worked for several years as a journalist for the Waterloo Daily Courier and the Minneapolis Tribune. He later went to Oxford , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1965 . He then became a professor of history at the University of Iowa , where he worked until his retirement in 2008.

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Schoenbaum's work covers a number of different themes from recent and recent history . In particular, he dealt with American foreign policy, Europe, the Middle East and Israel.

One focus of his work is the history of Germany in the 20th century. He has published several books on this subject, some of which have also been translated into German. Based on his dissertation, he published Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939, a much-noticed book on the social history of the Third Reich in 1966 , which he interprets as a social revolution marked by contradictions. Under the title The Brown Revolution. A social history of the Third Reich was also published in a German edition in 1968, which was reissued in 1998 with a detailed afterword by Hans Mommsen .

David Schoenbaum, who has played the violin since his early youth, also dealt with topics and personalities in music history, including: a. with Joseph Joachim . With the violin. A Cultural History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument , he published an extensive, critically acclaimed work on the history of the violin that he had worked on for over 20 years.

Fonts

  • Hitler's Social Revolution. Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933–1939 . Doubleday, Garden City 1966.
    The brown revolution. A social history of the Third Reich . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1968.
  • The Spiegel Affair . Doubleday, Garden City 1968.
    An abyss of treason . Molden, Vienna 1968.
    The Spiegel Affair: An Abyss of Treason . Parthas, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-932529-53-7 (new edition with a foreword by Rudolf Augstein )
  • Zabern 1913. Consensus Politics in Imperial Germany . George Allen & Unwin, London 1982, ISBN 0-04-943025-4 .
  • The United States And The State of Israel . Oxford University Press, New York 1993, ISBN 0-19-504577-7 .
  • with Elizabeth Pond : The German Question and Other German Questions . St. Martin's Press, New York 1996, ISBN 0-312-16048-8 .
    Approaching Germany. The hardships of normality . Ullstein, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-548-33239-0 .
  • The violin. A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument , WW Norton & Company, New York 2012. ISBN 978-0-393-08440-5 .
    The violin. A cultural history of the most versatile instrument in the world . Bärenreiter Metzler, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-476-02558-6 .
  • Another Ovation for Joachim (Who?) . In: The New York Times, August 12, 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Riccardo Bavaj: Doubled contradiction: David Schoenbaum's theses on the "brown revolution" . In: Jürgen Danyel, Jan-Holger Kirsch, Martin Sabrow (eds.): 50 classics of contemporary history . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2007, pp. 93–97, accessed on January 15, 2015.
  2. ↑ See u. a. the following contemporary reviews: American Historical Review , Vol. 73, No. 4 (April 1968), pp. 1188-1189 ( Louis Leo Snyder ); Political Science Quarterly , Vol. 83, No. 4 (December 1968), pp. 619-620; Revue d'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale , vol. 20, no. 77 (January 1970), pp. 106-108; Histoire, Sciences Sociales , Vol. 24, No. 1 (January-February 1969), pp. 230-231; Journal of Social History , Vol. 3, No. 2 (Winter 1969/1970), pp. 171-180 ( Arthur Schweitzer ); World Affairs , Vol. 129, No. 4 (January-March 1967), pp. 265-267; International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs), Vol. 44, No. 1 (January 1968), pp. 71-73; The New York Review of Books , December 19, 1968; The mirror 36/1968 ( Hans Mommsen )
  3. ↑ Magnus Brechtken: The brown revolution. A social history of the Third Reich. With an afterword by Hans Mommsen . Quarterly journal for social and economic history, vol. 88, no. 2 (2001), pp. 215–216.
  4. ^ Another Ovation for Joachim (Who?) . In: The New York Times, August 12, 2007.
  5. ↑ Tim Page: The Violin. A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument By David Schoenbaum . Washington Post, December 14, 2012.
  6. ↑ Laurie Niles: Interview with David Schoenbaum: A Social History of the Violin on violinist.com, March 13, 2013.
  7. ↑ Eleonore Büning : She alone sings like a human voice. David Schoenbaum strolls through the history of the violin with enthusiasm, revealing a wealth of details and research results. As helpful as a manual, but easier to read . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 28, 2015, p. L19. ( Online copy )
personal data
SURNAME Schoenbaum, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee