Detlef Hoffmann

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Detlef Hoffmann (born October 2, 1940 in Hamburg ; died June 10, 2013 in Hamburg) was a German art historian .

Life

Detlef Hoffmann studied art history and philosophy in Hamburg , Freiburg , Frankfurt am Main , Munich and Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1968 at the University of Freiburg under Willibald Sauerländer with a thesis on Alfred Rethel's Charles frescos . From 1968 to 1971 he researched the cultural history of playing cards with a grant from the DFG . From 1971 to 1980 he worked at the Historical Museum in Frankfurt am Main and as a lecturer at Frankfurt University .

Hoffmann received a professorship for art and design history at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in 1981, and from 1982 until his retirement in 2006 he taught as professor for art history at the University of Oldenburg . There, on his initiative, the master's degree in museum and exhibition was established. From 1991–1994 he was on leave from the Cultural Studies Institute in Essen (KWI), and from 1994–1995 to the Center for Interdisciplinary Research Bielefeld (ZIF) , where he researched and taught on the culture of remembrance. In 2007/2008 he was a member of the expert commission for museum registration in Lower Saxony and Bremen. Since 2006, in addition to his busy publishing and exhibition activities, he has been working as a consultant for the realignment of the Lüneburg museums. On March 1, 2015, he was posthumously honored with the medal of the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg .

For twenty years (1984–2004) he designed and moderated public colloquia with art historians and scholars from other disciplines at the Evangelical Academy Loccum and published a total of 19 conference volumes of the Loccum Protocols.

Hoffmann had been married to the psychological psychotherapist Maria Hoffmann-Lüning since 1965 , with whom he has two sons. Most recently he lived in Munich and in the Heidedorf Wesel .

Act

Detlef Hoffmann is considered to be one of the reformers of art history after 1968. He understood art history as intellectual and social history and campaigned for the reconciliation of high and popular culture in art history, which also included the mass production of images from photography, film, advertising and comics opened.

During his time in Frankfurt, he worked against fierce opposition in the realignment of the Historical Museum , in which everyday, women's and workers' history was included and the exhibition didactics were redesigned. From 1973 he was a member of the board of the Ulmer Verein and temporarily co-editor of the Critical Reports .

Hoffmann has published numerous articles on photography and the history of photography since 1970 . His research focused particularly on the discussion of the medium as a historical document and its function in the field of tension between reality, memory and memory .

1973 to 1995 Hoffmann was a scientific advisor to the German Playing Card Museum in Leinfelden-Echterdingen . From 1974 to 1977 he was president of the International Playing-Card Society (IPCS), curator of numerous exhibitions and published more than 50 publications on playing cards .

Since the 1990s, Detlef Hoffmann has been researching the politics of remembrance of the crimes of the National Socialism with particular interest . Together with Jonathan Webber, he led the EU project "Civil Society and Social Change after Auschwitz" in Oswiecim and Krakow . He curated a. a. the exhibition "Representations of Auschwitz", Kraków 1995 and was a member of the scientific advisory board of the 2001 touring exhibition of the War of Extermination. Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941-1944 . Hoffmann was a member of the board of trustees of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Foundation and advised the Neuengamme and Wewelsburg memorials . He was a member of the Guernica Society.

His last major exhibition, Lawrence of Arabia , was shown as a special exhibition in the State Museum of Nature and Man and in the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne .

Publications (selection)

Monographs
  • with Mamoun Fansa (Editor): Lawrence of Arabia. Genesis of a Myth. Exhibition catalog Oldenburg 2010
  • Determine contemporary history from traces. A plea for thinking from the object , in: Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History, online edition, 4 (2007) H. 1 + 2, URL
  • The memory of things: concentration camp relics and concentration camp monuments 1945-1995 . Frankfurt: Campus, 1997 (as editor)
  • Cultural and art history of the playing card . Marburg: Jonas-Verl., 1995
  • with Karl Ermert (Hrsg.): Art and Holocaust: visual witnesses of the end of Western culture . Rehburg-Loccum: Evangelical Academy Loccum, 1993.
  • with Almut Junker: Laterna magica. Light images from the human world and the world of gods . Berlin: Frölich and Kaufmann, 1982
  • with Doris Pokorny; Albrecht Werner-Cordt: Workers' Youth Movement in Frankfurt, 1904-1945: Material on a buried cultural history . Lahn-Giessen: Anabas-Verlag 1978
  • with Sabine Rauch (ed.): Comics: Materials for the analysis of a mass medium . Texts and materials for teaching literature, Frankfurt am Main: Diesterweg 1975
  • Alfred Rethel's Charles frescos . Freiburg i. B., 1968 (Diss. Freiburg 1968)
Anthologies
  • World - art - education - art mediation between western art concepts and global issues , in: Loccumer Protocol No. 29/04, Rehburg-Loccum 2005, ISBN 978-3-8172-2904-8
  • Art after the war , in: Loccumer Protokoll Nr. 72/03, Rehburg-Loccum 2004, ISBN 978-3-8172-7203-7
  • Art of the world or world art? The art of the globalization debate, in: Loccumer Protokoll Nr. 21/01, Rehburg-Loccum 2003, ISBN 978-3-8172-2102-8
  • Legacy of Absence - Traces of Traumatizing Events in Art , in: Loccumer Protokoll 22/00, Rehburg-Loccum 2001, ISBN 978-3-8172-2200-1
  • "The sculpture of the mentally ill" - art by outsiders in the field of tension of modern art , in: Loccumer Protokoll 70/99, Rehburg-Loccum 2001, ISBN 978-3-8172-7099-6
  • The dream of a total work of art , in: Loccumer Protocol No. 09/98, Rehburg-Loccum 1998, ISBN 978-3-8172-0998-9
  • Mourning and lament , in: Loccumer Protokoll Nr. 66/97, Rehburg-Loccum 1998, ISBN 978-3-8172-6697-5
  • Posture - Gestures - Body Language - The Human Body in Communication , in: Loccumer Protocol No. 75/96, Rehburg-Loccum 1997, ISBN 978-3-8172-7596-0
  • The attack of the present on the past - monuments on the site of former concentration camps , in: Loccumer Protocol No. 05/96, Rehburg-Loccum 1996, ISBN 978-3-8172-0596-7
  • The sacrifice of life - pictorial memory of martyrs , in: Loccumer Protokoll Nr. 12/95, Rehburg-Loccum 1996, ISBN 978-3-8172-1295-8
  • Places of Remembrance - How can we see what once was today? , in: Loccumer Protokoll Nr. 18/94, Rehburg-Loccum 1996, ISBN 978-3-8172-1894-3
  • Pictures of Germany - Or just pictures of Germany? , in: Loccumer Protokoll Nr. 65/90, Rehburg-Loccum 1991, ISBN 978-3-8172-6590-9

literature

  • Manfred Kittel : March through the institutions? Politics and culture in Frankfurt after 1968 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70402-0 , pp. 125-160, especially pp. 133-134.
  • Kia Vahland: A tracker. The art historian Detlef Hoffmann has died . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 13, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b A tracker , Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 13, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Obituary Detlef Hoffmann , at the University of Oldenburg, June 19, 2013.
  3. ↑ Detlef Hoffmann; Almut Junker; Peter Schirmbeck (Ed.): History as a public nuisance or: A museum for the democratic society: the historical museum in Frankfurt a. M. and the dispute over his conception . Anabas-Verlag Kämpf, Fernwald-Steinbach 1974, p. 298.
  4. ↑ Museum Lüneburg ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2013 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. , Press reports.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museumlueneburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 2013
Place of death Hamburg