Eckhard Bolenz

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Eckhard Bolenz (born August 14, 1955 in Bückeburg ) is a German historian and museologist .

Working life

From 1976 to 1983 he studied history and sociology at Bielefeld University . After completing his doctorate , he worked as a research assistant at the Berlin Science Center for Social Research , the popular science museum Cité des sciences et de l'industrie in Paris and most recently at the Chair for Economic and Technical History at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1992 he became the museum director of the Cromford textile factory in Ratingen, which is currently being set up as the venue for the LVR industrial museum . The building ensemble of the museum is considered to be the first factory on the European continent . Since 2002 Bolenz has been deputy director and since 2005 provisional director of the LVR industrial museum in Oberhausen . Since 2007 he has headed the LVR Institute for Regional Studies and Regional History in Bonn .

Exhibitions

In 1997, he made a special exhibition under the title Fadenwerk - Web, Structure, Installation at the Cromford Industrial Museum in Ratingen, which went beyond normal thread production and thus attracted attention.

Works

  • Technical standardization between "market" and "state". Investigations into the function, development and organization of technical standardization in Germany. (= Science Studies Report. 32). Bielefeld 1987, ISBN 3-88302-111-3 .
  • From construction officer to freelance architect. Technical occupations in construction. Prussia / Germany, 1799–1931. Frankfurt / New York 1991, ISBN 3-631-43682-3 .
  • with Brigitte Schröder-Gudehus and Anne Rasmussen (eds.): La Société industrial et ses musées. Demande sociale et choix politiques, 1890–1990. Paris 1992.
  • Johann Gottfried Brügelmann. A Rhenish entrepreneur at the beginning of industrialization and his bourgeois life. Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7927-1372-1 .
  • with Erika Münster-Schröer and others: Ratingen. History 1780–1975. Essen 2000, ISBN 3-88474-943-9 .
  • Cromford textile factory in Ratingen. The oldest factory on the continent. Catalog. Munich 2002, DNB 965777138 . (English edition 2004)
  • with Oliver Schöller (Ed.): Go West. Utopia and reality of the satellite town Ratingen-West. Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-628-7 .
  • with Markus Krause (text) and Florian Monheim (photos): The other beauty. Industrial culture in North Rhine-Westphalia. Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7743-0466-6 .
  • with Lina Franken and Dagmar Hänel (eds.): When the legacy comes into the cloud. Digitization and cultural heritage. Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1456-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Office for Rhenish Cultural Studies under new management ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on May 10, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lvr.de
  2. ↑ Greven Verlag Cologne ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2016 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. accessed on May 10, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.greven-verlag.de
  3. ↑ Works of art made from a thousand threads, exhibition in the industrial museum: fabric production and crosshairs, accessed on May 10, 2016.

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personal data
SURNAME Bolenz, Eckhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and museologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Buckeburg