Eva Berger (historian)

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Eva Berger (born 1951 in Erlangen ) is a German historian and former museum director. From 2000 to 2016 she was director of the Osnabrück Cultural History Museum .

life and work

Eva Berger studied history and art history in Erlangen and Osnabrück. In 1991 she received her doctorate from the University of Osnabrück with a dissertation on the social history of the Osnabrück City Hospital . Your doctoral supervisor was Klaus Jürgen Bade .

From 1979 to 1982 Berger worked as a museum educator in the art and cultural education center of the museums in Nuremberg , and from 1983 she worked as a freelancer at the Osnabrück Cultural History Museum. In addition to the socio-historical topic of urban health care, the focus of her scientific work was the life and work of the painter Felix Nussbaum and the subject of the Westphalian Peace, which is relevant for Osnabrück . In August 1997 Berger was appointed deputy exhibition commissioner for the 26th Council of Europe exhibition , which was held in the cities of Münster and Osnabrück and held under the title 1648 - War and Peace in Europe , which took place from October 24, 1998 to January 17, 1999 in the Westphalian State Museum for Art and cultural history was shown in Münster and in the Museum of Cultural History and in the Osnabrück Art Gallery.

In 2000 Eva Berger succeeded Thorsten Rodiek as director of the Osnabrück Cultural History Museum, in dual leadership with Inge Jaehner , who took over the management of the Felix Nussbaum House . In 2016, Berger retired.

Eva Berger has a son (* 1977). She was married to Karl Georg Kaster .

Management of the museum

Berger and Jaehner's common goal was to design a coherent museum landscape for the museum visitor: the Felix Nussbaum House as the "House of Nussbaum's Pictures", the Museum of Cultural History as the "House of City and State History" and the Schlikker Villa - formerly that "Brown House" of the NSDAP district leadership - as the "House of Remembrance". With the opening of the new urban history department in 2004, Berger implemented this concern in the first steps.

Berger enabled conceptual exhibitions on the city's history with a low budget, which were created in cooperation with schools, the university or the University of Osnabrück, other institutions and companies. She took the point of view that the number of visitors alone did not determine the success of a house and was convinced that participation in projects means successful museum work and fulfills the educational requirements of a museum. In addition, this exhibition policy was intended to strengthen historical awareness of one's own responsible behavior.

Under her leadership there were three successful shows due to the high number of visitors: 2003 Albrecht Dürer: The great happiness , which she realized with the Dürer expert Thomas Schauerte , 2007 Geometry of the Figure - Luca Cambiaso and modern art , which was curated by Heribert Schulz; 2015 The new face of the euro . The European Central Bank was the cooperation partner of the traveling exhibition . The show referred to important collections of the museum.

When Berger retired at the end of 2016 after an extension of her tenure, Nils-Arne Kässens became director for both areas in 2017 . The Osnabrück Museum Quarter now includes the Felix Nussbaum House, the Museum of Cultural History with Villa Schlikker and Akzisehaus.

Conceptual exhibition policy (selection)

  • The history of the city:
    • In 2000: Houses without make-up: Ideal & Reality - Classicism in Osnabrück (cooperation partner University of Osnabrück ); From the rubble into the Capri sun: mobility and wanderlust in Osnabrück in the 1950s (cooperation partner Verkehrsverein Osnabrück).
    • 2001: Show me your shoes ... Anniversary exhibition for the 675th anniversary of the Osnabrück-Emsland shoemaker's guild (cooperation partner Osnabrück-Emsland's shoemaker's guild)
    • 2009: Garrison Project: drawdown - The trigger. Photo project by Nicole Blaffest and Franz Wamhof. (Cooperation partner members of the 4th Mechanized Brigade); 2016: Linen - true born Osnabrughs (cooperation partner University of Osnabrück)
  • As a supplement to the Felix Nussbaum collection:
    • 2005: Art in Auschwitz / Sztuka w Auschwitz 1940–1945 (cooperation partner Museum Education Service Berlin)
    • 2009: Laughing in the Dark - The Westerbork Camp 1942–1945 (Cooperation partner Westerbork Memorial Center)

Publications (selection)

Eva Berger's extensive journalistic work deals primarily with Osnabrück's urban history. She also contributed to the standard work Topografien des Terrors (editor: Thorsten Heese) published in 2015 on the time of National Socialism in Osnabrück.

Monographs

  • Felix Nussbaum. Ostracized art - exile art - resistance art. (= Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück [Hrsg.]:  Osnabrücker Kulturdenkmäler. Contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Osnabrück . Vol. 3) Rasch, Bramsche 1990. ISBN 978-3-922469-45-2 (Catalog book for the exhibition of the same name in the Museum of Cultural History Osnabrück from May 6th, July 22nd 1990 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the museum).
  • Who will guarantee the costs? On the social history of the hospital. 125 years of the Osnabrück City Hospital; 180 years of urban health policy. (= Städtische Kliniken Osnabrück [Hrsg.]: Osnabrücker Kulturdenkmäler. Contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Osnabrück . Vol. 4) Rasch, Bramsche 1991. ISBN 978-3-922469-50-6 .
  • The future of peace: 1648–1998. (= District Steinfurt, the district administrator [Hrsg.]: Social history contributions from the district: Steinfurt. The Thirty Years War and the hope for peace. ) Cramer, Greven 1998. ISBN 978-3-926619-58-7 .
  • Human dignity is inviolable. 200 years of psychiatry history in the former Kingdom of Hanover using the example of the Lower Saxony State Hospital Osnabrück. (= Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück [Hrsg.]: Osnabrücker Kulturdenkmäler. Contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Osnabrück . Vol. 9) Rasch, Bramsche 1999. ISBN 978-3-932147-99-9 .

Editorships

  • Susanne Tunn: Breath - Meta . Ed .: Eva Berger (= Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück [Hrsg.]: Osnabrücker Kulturdenkmäler: Contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Osnabrück . Volume 12 , part 1). Rasch Verlag, Bramsche 2004, ISBN 3-89946-018-9 (exhibition catalog).
  • Elke Hergert, Rome is everywhere , Osnabrück 2007.
  • "I paint how my beak has grown". In memory of the painter Theodor Fritz Koch. Rasch, Bramsche 2007. ISBN 978-3-89946-094-0 (exhibition catalog).
  • Christian Grovermann, Profile Neustadt. Photographs. Rasch, Bramsche 2007. (exhibition catalog)
  • Hella Hirschfelder-Stüve, artist of the forgotten generation. Life journey. Rasch, Bramsche 2010. ISBN 978-3-89946-145-9 (exhibition catalog).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Eva Berger (1951). Directory of authors . In: Thorsten Heese (Ed.): Topographies of Terror. National Socialism in Osnabrück (= Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück [Hrsg.]: Osnabrücker Kulturdenkmäler. Contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Osnabrück ). 2nd corrected edition. tape  16 . Rasch, Bramsche 2015, ISBN 978-3-89946-240-1 , pp. 437 .
  2. ^ Eva Berger, Inge Frankmöller, Peter Junk, Karl Georg Kaster, Manfred Meinz, Wendelin Zimmer: Felix Nussbaum. Ostracized art - art in exile - resistance art. The 100 most important works. Catalog book for the exhibition of the same name in the Museum of Cultural History in Osnabrück from May 6th to July 22nd 1990 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the museum building. (= Osnabrück cultural monuments. Contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Osnabrück . Ed .: Kulturgeschichtliches Museum. 1st edition. Volume 3) . Rasch, Bramsche 1990.
  3. ↑ Klaus Bußmann, Heinz Schilling (Ed.): 1648 War and Peace in Europe. 26th Council of Europe exhibition in Münster and Osnabrück October 24, 1998 - January 17, 1999 . Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-88789-127-9 .
  4. ↑ Contract of employment City of Osnabrück, August 1, 1997. BERGER personnel file. City administration Osnabrück, FB Personnel.
  5. ^ Stefan Lüddemann: Osnabrück Museum: Eva Berger adopted. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper. June 20, 2016, accessed March 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Registered entry Hackney Town Hall, London, October 26, 1994.
  7. ↑ A new standard work on the Nazi era in town and country has been published. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper. June 21, 2015, accessed March 1, 2020 .
  8. ^ A b Tom Bullmann: Osnabrück: Eva Berger is going into retirement. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper. August 16, 2016, accessed March 1, 2020 .
  9. ^ Eva Berger: The museum and its houses . In: MuseumsZeitung . No. 1 (2004) .
  10. ↑ exhibitions
  11. ↑ Harff-Peter Schönherr: "Art must open worlds for me". In: taz Nord. November 18, 2019, accessed on March 1, 2020 (interview).
  12. ^ Archive exhibitions of the Museum of Cultural History. Osnabrück Museum Quarter
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and former museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH gain