Dietrich Mühlberg

Dietrich Peter Otto Mühlberg (born February 29, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German cultural scientist , co-founder of the field of cultural studies in the GDR and professor emeritus at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Academic career

Dietrich Mühlberg studied philosophy , German and art history . Since 1962 he has been actively involved in developing the cultural studies course . From 1974 until the renewal of the university after German reunification , he held a professorship for cultural history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He researched and taught on cultural theory and, above all, on the cultural history of everyday life, the "little people" and their social movements. After 1990 he devoted himself increasingly to research on recent German cultural history. Among other things, he dealt extensively with the subtle differences in which one can identify the socialization of a person in the GDR or the former FRG .

Since 1998 he is u. a. active at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam.

Publications

• With Isolde Dietrich: Historical materialism and the concept of culture . Berlin 1977.
• Working life around 1900 . Author collective under d. Directed by Dietrich Mühlberg. Berlin: Dietz 1983.
• How do we know what culture is. Thoughts on the historical development of the current cultural conception. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften 1983.
• Literature and proletarian culture . Contribution to the cultural history of the German. Working class in the 19th century. By an author collective under the direction of Dietrich Mühlberg u. Rainer Rosenberg. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1983.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald Dehne: Dietrich Mühlberg turned 75. Kulturation, accessed September 23, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Stefan Berg: Spooning in East German. In: Der Spiegel. September 6, 1999. Retrieved February 16, 2015.