Frauke Volkland

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Frauke Volkland (* 1967 in North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German historian and author .

Life

Frauke Volkland grew up in Hemer , North Rhine-Westphalia. She studied history and Romance studies with a focus on French literature in Bonn and Konstanz , before she was accepted as an assistant and lecturer at the chair for Swiss and general history of the early modern period at the University of Zurich in 1994 . In 1998, Volkland moved to the University of Basel , where she completed her dissertation Confession and Self-Image: Reformed Rituals in the mixed-denominational town of Bischofszell in the 17th century in 2001 . Volkland spent a total of 8 years in Switzerland, part of which she lived in a valley in the Alps. Volkland has lived and worked in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse since 2001 , where she is also a member of the TeXtur literary network . In 2019 Volkland published her first novel Eisvogelblau , which is about a love story in Graubünden .

reception

Heike Bock from the University of Lucerne wrote about Volkland's dissertation that it was a concise and profound study that reflected on and interpreted the ongoing border negotiations of confessional self-understanding. The book follows a clear line of argumentation and is methodologically stringent. In addition, Bock found Volkland's concentrated language to be beneficial for the reader, as it contained hardly any redundancies. Nevertheless, Bock asks himself, as with all micro-studies , to what extent Volkland's results can be generalized.

Caroline Schnyder also commented on this book. She wrote that Volkland's microanalyses illustrate the different status of denominations in different contexts. In addition, Volkland offers a panorama of denominational frictions, intermingling and demarcation, which opens up entirely new “perspectives” on denominational research. And even if the pair of terms “denomination and self-image” remains unwieldy, Vokland shows how the meaning of denomination is decided based on specific life situations.

Works

Books

  • Denomination and self-image: Reformed rituals in the mixed denominational town of Bischofszell in the 17th century. Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht, 2005, ISBN 978-3-525-35863-4 .
  • Kingfisher blue . Kalliope Paperbacks, 2019, ISBN 978-3981495393 .

items

  • Denominational demarcation between violence, stereotyping and symbolism: mixed denominational areas of Eastern Switzerland and the Palatinate in comparison. Religion and Violence, pp. 343–365, 2007.
  • Majorities and minorities in mixed denominational communities in Thurgau . Neighbors, Community Members And The Others, pp. 255–263, 2004.
  • Confessional boundaries between dissolution and hardening: Biconfessional communities in the common bailiwick of Thurgau (CH) of the 17th century . Historical Anthropology, Volume 5, Issue 3, pages 370-387, 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BF Reading Night 2019 in Heidelberg. Retrieved August 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The members. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ BF Reading Night 2019 in Heidelberg. Retrieved August 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The members. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ VIEWPOINTS - Review of: Confession and Self-Understanding - Issue 5 (2005), No. 9. Accessed on August 23, 2019 .
  6. ^ Caroline Schnyder: Review of Confession and Self-Understanding. Reformed rituals in the mixed denominational town of Bischofszell in the 17th century . In: Journal for Historical Research . tape 34 , no. 4 , 2007, p. 735-738 .
personal data
SURNAME Volkland, Frauke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH North Rhine-Westphalia