Dorothee Wierling
Dorothee Wierling (born March 10, 1950 in Essen ) is a German historian.
Life
Dorothee Wierling studied from 1968 at the Pädagogische Hochschule Ruhr and worked as an educator and secondary school teacher. She then studied history and English at the University of Bochum and received her doctorate in 1986 from the University of Essen with a thesis on the everyday and empirical history of maids . In 2000 she completed her habilitation at the University of Potsdam with the thesis Born in the year one. Born in 1949 in the GDR. Attempt a collective biography . The reviewers were Christoph Kleßmann , Konrad Jarausch and Detlef Pollack .
After German reunification, in 1990 she was given the task of setting up a branch of the Essen Institute for Cultural Studies in Leipzig . She then went to the University of Washington in Seattle with a DAAD program and was a fellow at Tel Aviv University , the Center for Contemporary History Research in Potsdam and the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor . From 2003 to 2015 she was deputy director of the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg (FZH) and professor at the University of Hamburg .
She works on the social and mental history of the late 19th and 20th centuries. She dealt with the problems of oral history . In 2013 she published her research on the poet Otto Braun , his parents Lily Braun and Heinrich Braun , and Julie Vogelstein during the First World War .
Wierling is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the journal Historische Anthropologie and the editorial boards of the journals History & Memory and WerkstattGeschichte .
Fonts (selection)
- Dorothee Wierling: Trade in green coffee . Hamburg coffee importers in the 20th century. 1st edition. Dölling and Galitz Verlag , Munich / Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86218-103-2 .
- A Family at War: Living, Dying, and Writing 1914–1918 . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1301-9 .
- Dorothee Wierling (Hrsg.): Finding home: life paths of Germans who come from Russia . edition Körber Foundation, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-89684-043-6 .
- Born in year one. Born in 1949 in the GDR. Attempt a collective biography . Ch. Links, Berlin 2002.
- with Lutz Niethammer , Alexander von Plato : The people's own experience: an archeology of life in the industrial province of the GDR. 30 biographical openings. Rowohlt, Berlin 1991.
- Dorothee Wierling: Girls for everything . Everyday work and life story of urban maids around the turn of the century. Verlag JHW Dietz, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0119-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Dorothee Wierling in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Dorothee Wierling in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Dorothee Wierling , at H-Soz-u-Kult
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dorothee Wierling , at FZH
- ↑ History & Memory , ISSN 0935-560X , at hsozkult
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wierling, Dorothee |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |