Gorch Pieken

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Gorch Pieken (left) at the opening of the Military History Museum in Dresden (2011)

Gorch Pieken (born September 14, 1961 in Sanderbusch ) is a German historian and film producer . Pieken has been the chief curator of the Humboldt Laboratory at the Humboldt Forum since April 2018 , which is due to open on the first floor of the Berlin Palace at the end of 2019.

Life

Pieken comes from Friesland . In 1981/82 he did military service with the 3rd Air Defense Regiment 100 in Wuppertal-Ronsdorf. He then studied history, art history and Dutch philology at the University of Cologne (MA 1990). In 1994 he was in Early Modern researchers Johannes Kunisch at the Faculty with the thesis system of government and international conflict behavior on the example of the Republic of the United Netherlands from 1650 to 1672 to the Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1995 to 2005 he was a research assistant and curator, from 1998 responsible for the area of ​​new media at the German Historical Museum (DHM) in Berlin. From 2006 to 2011 he was project manager for the redesign and construction of the Military History Museum (MHM) in Dresden. From 2011 to 2017 he was scientific director and head of exhibitions, collections, education and research at the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden. In autumn 2017 he was seconded to the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr in Potsdam.

Since 1999, in addition to his book publications, he has been an author and producer of documentaries a . a. for arte , ZDF and ARD . In 2006 he became a member of the scientific advisory board of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge .

Awards

Filmography

  • 2000: Marie and Marie - The beautiful appearance of a forgery
  • 2002: The stuffed moor - the human being as an exhibit
  • 2003: Sold souls - The Great Elector and the Slaves
  • 2004: Hero's death - the myth of dying beautifully
  • 2004: Chronicle of an ordained death - The annihilation of a German family
  • 2007: Prussian love happiness - A German family from Africa
  • 2010: Sleepless in War - The Pharmaceutical Weapon

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Cornelia Kruse: The household book of Elsa Chotzen. The fate of a Jewish family 1937–1946 . Nicolai, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-89479-298-5 .
  • Prussian love luck. A German family from Africa . Propylaea, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-549-07337-7 .
  • Military History Museum Dresden. Architecture . Sandstein, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-95498-040-6 .

Editorships

  • ed. with Matthias Rogg : The Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr. Exhibition guide . Sandstein, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-69-7 .
  • ed. with Matthias Rogg, Jens Wehner: Stalingrad. An exhibition of the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr . Sandstein, Dresden 2012, ISBN 978-3-95498-009-3 .
  • ed. with Gerhard Bauer, Matthias Rogg: Bloody Romanticism. 200 years of wars of liberation. Essays and catalog . 2 volumes, Sandstein, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-95498-037-6 .
  • ed. with Matthias Rogg: Right-wing extremist violence in Germany. 1990–2013 (= Forum MHM. Series of publications by the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr, Volume 3). Sandstein, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-95498-014-7 .
  • ed. with Matthias Rogg: Shoes from the Dead. Dresden and the Shoah (= Forum MHM. Series of publications by the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr, Volume 4). Sandstein, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-054-3 .
  • ed. with Stephan Huck , Matthias Rogg: The fleet falls asleep in the port. Everyday life in the war 1914–1918 in sailors' diaries (= Forum MHM. Series of publications by the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr, Volume 6). Sandstein, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-095-6 .
  • ed. with Linda von Keyserlingk, Matthias Rogg: Assassination attempt on Hitler. Stauffenberg and more (= Forum MHM. Series of publications by the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr, Volume 8). Sandstein, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-121-2 .
  • Where from? Where? Martin Hertrampf. Pictures of the withdrawal of the Russian armed forces from Saxony. With texts by Durs Grünbein, ed. by Katja Protte (= Forum MHM. Series of publications by the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr, Volume 1). Sandstein, Dresden 2012, ISBN 978-3-95498-004-8 .
  • War and madness. Art from civil psychiatry to the military and World War I. Works from the Prinzhorn Collection , ed. by Sabine Hohnholz, Thomas Röske, Maike Rotzoll (= Forum MHM. Series of publications by the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr, Volume 7). Sandstein, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-88423-481-5 .
  • ed. with Gerhard Bauer, Matthias Rogg: 14 - people - war. Essays and catalog. 2 volumes, Sandstein, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-076-5 .
  • ed. with Matthias Rogg, Ansgar Snethlage: Schlachthof 5 - Dresden's destruction in literary evidence. An exhibition on February 13, 1945. [Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr, Dresden, February 6 to May 12, 2015] . Sandstein, Dresden 2015, ISBN 978-3-95498-139-7 .
  • ed. with Matthias Rogg: 60 years of the Bundeswehr . Sandstein, Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-95498-191-5 .
  • ed. with Matthias Rogg, Magnus Pahl : Watch out for spies! Secret services in Germany from 1945 to 1956 . Sandstein, Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-95498-210-3

Web links

Commons : Gorch Pieken  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Gorch Pieken becomes chief curator of the Humboldt Laboratory , accessed on April 29, 2018
  2. ↑ Dennis Schneider: Interview with the scientific director Gorch Pieken . streitkraeftebasis.de, November 25, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Pieken, Gorch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Sanderbusch