Gundula Bavendamm

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Gundula Bavendamm

Gundula Bavendamm (* 1965 in Reinbek ) is a German historian and cultural manager . From 2010 to 2016 she headed the Allied Museum in Berlin. Since April 1, 2016, she has been the director of the Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation in Berlin.

Life

Bavendamm was born in 1965 as the daughter of the historian Dirk Bavendamm and his wife Mechthild. From 1985 to 1993 she studied modern and contemporary history, political science and German studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (MA) and in 2001 she started with Gerd Krumeich at the Philosophical Faculty IV with the dissertation espionage and betrayal. Conspiratorial war stories and French domestic politics, 1914-1917 to Dr. phil. PhD. She was a scholarship holder of the German Historical Institute Paris and the Center de Recherche des Historial de la Grande Guerre . In 2009 she acquired a certificate in cultural management from the Institute for Cultural Management at the Ludwigsburg University of Education .

From 1997 to 1999 she worked in the administration of the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology . From 2001 to 2004 she was a research assistant and curator at the German Historical Museum in Berlin. In 2005 she worked at the France Center of the Technical University of Berlin . In 2006/07 she was a curator at the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt and in 2007/08 she was deputy head of the public relations department there. This was followed by supervision of the exhibition Americans in Hesse - A Special Relationship through the Ages . From 2010 to 2016 she headed the Allied Museum in Berlin.

In February 2016 Bavendamm was elected as the new director of the Escape, Expulsion, Reconciliation Foundation (SFVV). Before taking office, she described her new area of ​​responsibility: She wanted to recruit scientists from Poland and the Czech Republic and perhaps “from Western countries” for the advisory board. Basically: "The expulsion of Germans is only one focus of the foundation's work , but it is the focus in the permanent exhibition ." She referred to the flight experiences in her family history: Her father fled the Soviet occupation zone to the West in 1946 .

She is u. a. Member of the scientific advisory board of the Our History Association. Nation's Memory, who oversees the Nation's Memory project . Bavendamm is also represented on the German Committee for World Document Heritage of UNESCO . She is a member of the Military History Working Group and the German Association of Museums .

Bavendamm has been married to the historian Sönke Neitzel since September 2006 and lives in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

Fonts (selection)

  • Espionage and treason. Conspiratorial war stories and French domestic politics, 1914–1917 (= writings of the library for contemporary history . NF, vol. 16). Klartext, Essen 2004, ISBN 3-89861-143-4 .
  • (Co-author, edited by Rainer Rother ): The World War 1914–1918. Event and memory. [Exhibition hall by IM Pei, May 13 to August 16, 2004, German Historical Museum, Berlin] . On behalf of the German Historical Museum, Ed. Minerva, Wolfratshausen 2004, ISBN 3-932353-89-7 .
  • (Ed. With Helmut Gold , Benedikt Burkard): Globalization 2.0. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name . Edition Braus published by Wachter Verlag, Heidelberg 2007.
  • (Ed.): Americans in Hesse. A special relationship through the ages. [On the occasion of the special exhibition "Americans in Hesse - a special relationship through the ages". Historisches Museum Hanau Schloss Philippsruhe, November 21, 2008 to March 29, 2009] . On behalf of the city council of Hanau and the Hanau History Association 1844 eV, CoCon Verlag, Hanau 2008, ISBN 978-3-937774-65-7 .
  • (Co-author, Stefan Brauburger ): Wernher von Braun. The German genius between delusion and rocket dreams . Pendo, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86612-228-4 .
  • (Ed.): Like a powder keg! Berlin crisis and building of the wall. [To the exhibition “Like a powder keg! Berlin Crisis and Building the Wall ”in the Allied Museum, Berlin, August 12, 2011 to January 8, 2012] . Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86368-025-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gundula Bavendamm: Espionage and treason . Essen 2004, p. 7.
  2. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : This woman is supposed to save the displaced persons foundation . Welt Online , February 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ Patrick Bahners : Historical Politics in the Refugee Crisis . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 23, 2016, p. 13.
  4. ↑ Advisory Board and Board of Trustees ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2015 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. , Memory of the Nation, accessed February 26, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gedaechtnis-der-nation.de
personal data
SURNAME Bavendamm, Gundula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Reinbek