Hans-Jürgen Derda

Hans-Jürgen Derda (born June 5, 1955 in Duisburg ) is a German historian .

Career

Derda studied history , German and philosophy at the universities of Hanover and Cologne . He completed his studies in 1986 with a Magister Artium . At the University of Hanover he started working on the subject of Vita communis in 1990 . PhD studies on the history of a way of life in the Middle Ages and modern times . In 1989 Derda became a volunteer at the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum . As a research assistant, he took over the management of the Middle Ages, Early Modern Times and Jewish Museum departments in 1991 . After Gerd Biegel left on December 31, 2008, he was acting director from 2009 until Heike Pöppelmann took office on October 1, 2010 and has been deputy director ever since. Between 1992 and 2010 he took on various teaching positions at the universities of Hanover, Braunschweig and Kassel.

Hans-Jürgen Derda was involved in several large exhibitions, including a. From 1991 he was the scientific project manager of the special exhibition “Age in Art and Culture. History of old age in its testimonies from antiquity to the present ”in collaboration with the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum . He worked on the state exhibitions “ Heinrich the Lion and His Time. Rule and Representation of the Welfs 1125–1235 ”- Nachleben (1995) and“ Troja - Dream and Reality ”(2001) - a joint project of the Archaeological State Museum Baden-Württemberg, the Institute for Prehistory and Archeology of the University of Tübingen, Braunschweig State Museum and the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum. Derda was the acting director of the Lower Saxony state exhibition " Otto IV. - Dream of the Guelph Empire" (2009). In 2009, this exhibition was one of the best-attended exhibitions in Lower Saxony with around 55,000 visitors .

Derda is married to the cultural journalist and radio writer Karin Dzionara , lives in Hildesheim and has a son.

Fonts (selection)

• Vita communis. Studies on the history of a way of life in the Middle Ages and modern times. Böhlau, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-412-00292-5 .
• with Gerd Biegel , Peter Bessin: Bloody course. Mass battle and power calculation at Sievershaus 1553. Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-927-93966-8 .
• Hornburg. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volume 1 and 2, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 .
• with Bernd Ulrich Hucker , Stefanie Hahn, Andreas W. Vetter, Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum (ed.): Otto IV. Dream of the Guelph Empire. Imhof, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-865-68500-1 . (Book accompanying the exhibition).
• with Meike Buck, Heike Pöppelmann , Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum (ed.): Tatort history. 120 years of searching for traces in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 3-865-68688-5 .

Web links

• Project documentation - students write history. on cjd-braunschweig.de (school project in cooperation with the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum)
• Literature by and about Hans-Jürgen Derda in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dirk Tils: The runes of life cannot be smoothed. "Age in Art and Culture" - Part I on history in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, in: Braunschweiger Zeitung , December 11, 1993.
2. ↑ Simon Benne: We are emperors. A large state exhibition in Braunschweig commemorates Otto IV - the only Guelph who made it to the emperor, in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , 7 August 2009.