Eugene Kotte

Eugen Kotte (born December 30, 1964 in Ostbevern ) is a German historian and history teacher . He is currently working as a professor at the University of Vechta .

biography

Kotte completed a teaching degree for secondary levels I and II in the subjects of German, history and pedagogy. He received his doctorate in 1996 with a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster on the founding history of the USA in American school history books with Wolfgang Jacobmeyer and Karl-Ernst Jeismann . In 2005 he completed his habilitation thesis on national images of Europe in history lessons at the upper secondary level at the University of Augsburg .

In 1993 he stayed in the USA for research purposes as a fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States . In 1996 he was again in the United States on behalf of the German Historical Museum in Berlin . In the following year he went to the Uniwersytet im for five years as a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service . Adama Mickiewicza to Poznan in Poland.

In 2002, Kotte returned to Germany as an assistant at the chair for history didactics at the University of Augsburg. In 2005 he took over the representation of this chair. Since 2008 he has been Professor of History Didactics with a focus on modern and contemporary German and European history (since the late 18th century) at the University of Vechta.

Research priorities

Eugen Kotte's research focuses on historical myths and national stereotypes, international textbook analyzes, studies of historical narration and aspects of historical cultural studies.

Publications (a selection)

Monographs

• Not to Have Ideologies But to Be One. The founding history of the USA in American school history books from 1968–1985. (= Studies on international textbook research. 93). Hahn, Hannover 1997, ISBN 3-88304-293-5 .
• Times written in spaces. National images of Europe in history lessons at upper secondary level (= writings on history didactics. 20). Schulz-Kirchner, Idstein 2007, ISBN 978-3-8248-0524-2 .
• Nation building in the 19th century. The USA, Poland and Germany in comparison. (= Basic knowledge controversial ). Newsreel, Schwalbach / Ts. 2016, ISBN 978-3-7344-0231-9 .

Editorships

• with Jürgen Joachimsthaler: Theory without practice - practice without theory? Cultural studies in the field of tension between theory, didactics and cultural practice. (= Cultural studies as an interdisciplinary project. 2). Meidenbauer, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89975-175-8 .
• with Jürgen Joachimsthaler: Cultural Studies (s). Concepts of different disciplines. (= Cultural studies [s] as an interdisciplinary project. 3). Meidenbauer, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89975-224-3 .
• with Franz-Josef Arlinghaus and Bernd Ulrich Hucker : Constitutional history from an international and diachronic perspective . Meidenbauer, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89975-210-6 .
• Cultural studies and history didactics. (= Cultural studies as an interdisciplinary project. 4). Meidenbauer, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89975-256-4 .
• with Bernd Ulrich Hucker and Christine Vogel: The Marienburg. From the center of power of the Teutonic Order to a Central European place of remembrance . Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77617-4 .
• History in pictures - pictures in history. Case studies on historical image research. (= Cultural studies [s] as an interdisciplinary project. 7). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-631-65138-4 .
• Cultural studies: balance sheet - criticism - perspectives. (= Cultural studies as an interdisciplinary project. 12). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-631-67160-3 .
• with Helmut Lensing: The Grafschaft Bentheim in the First World War - "home front" on the German-Dutch border (= Das Bentheimer Land , 222). Publishing house of the Heimatverein der Grafschaft Bentheim eV, Nordhorn 2018, ISBN 978-3-9818211-3-0 .
• with Bernd Ulrich Hucker : Historical landscapes (= cultural studies [en] as an interdisciplinary project. 15). Lang, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-631-81857-2 .

line

• Cultural Studies as an interdisciplinary project. 12 volumes. Meidenbauer, Munich 2008–2011; Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011–2017.

literature

• Bernd Ulrich Hucker (Ed.): State history and regional culture of history. Hahn, Peine 2013, p. 256.
• Peter Nitschke (Ed.): Cultural Studies of Modernity. Volume 2: The 19th Century. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, pp. 267–268.

Web links

• Website at the University of Vechta