Hans Hesse (historian)

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Hans Hesse (* 1961 in Bremen ) is a German historian and author .

biography

Hesse studied modern history , ancient history and journalism at the Free University of Berlin . In 2005 he received his doctorate on denazification in Bremen and Bremerhaven , his doctoral supervisor was Wolfgang Wippermann . During his studies, Hesse published numerous glosses, satires and features in newspapers (including the Nordsee-Zeitung , Kieler Nachrichten , Spandauer Volksblatt ) and on radio (including SWF , Radio Bremen , Hessischer Rundfunk , Bayerischer Rundfunk and Radio ffn ). In the mid-1990s, his work focus shifted to historical topics, which resulted in numerous scientific projects and publications.

In 1993 he began researching the Nazi persecution of the Sinti and Roma in northwest Germany, at times as a project with the Bremen Sinti Association. 1995–1997 he carried out a two-year project at the Moringen Concentration Camp Memorial on the history of the early and women's Moringen concentration camp. During this time he published a. a. Hannah Vogt's correspondence with her parents from the judicial prison in Osterode and the Moringen concentration camp in 1933. An excerpt from it was read in a matinee at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen in 1997 . Since 1998, this has been followed by intensive research into the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses under National Socialism and in the GDR .

In 2001 Hesse published a monograph on Karin Magnussen . Since 2005 he has been working on various aspects of German memorial topography, especially the history of expellee monuments.

From 2008 to 2013 he was head of the project "Archive of Remembrance of the Nazi Era in the Rhineland" at the Art and Museum Library of the City of Cologne . In this context, he researched the biography and work of Willy Meller , one of the most famous Nazi sculptors.

In 2011, a stumbling block for Kurt Elvers was laid on Hesse's initiative in Bremen . In addition to a short story about the Elvers case, Hesse published numerous essays on the history of the Nordic Art Academy . He is currently researching the work and biography of Gunter Demnig with a focus on the “Stolpersteine” project and the Nazi persecution of the Sinti and Roma in north-west Germany.

Participation and curated exhibitions

  • 2009: Commemoration and Remembrance in the Rhein-Erft District - The Nazi Era as reflected in memorials, memorials and memorials . Exhibition of the art and museum library of the city of Cologne in the city archive Frechen. Texts by Elke Purpus and Hans Hesse. Other exhibition locations: Hürth, Brühl, Bergheim, Kerpen, Wesseling, Erftstadt.
  • 2010: Artists' Books: The Memorial Book . Participation in the exhibition with the memorial book for Nina Sawina. Exhibition of the art and museum library of the city of Cologne
  • 2010/2011: memorial rooms. The Nazi era in memorial art in Cologne . Exhibition of the Art and Museum Library of the City of Cologne in the EL-DE-Haus (2010) and in the Active Museum Siegen (2011). Authors: Elke Purpus and Hans Hesse
  • 2014: Willy Meller - An artist between dictatorship and democracy . A collection in the art and museum library of the city of Cologne.
  • 2016: Heroes Books, Iron Books, honor Chronicles - Books as monuments of the First World War . Exhibition in the art and museum library of the city of Cologne.
  • 2017: The project STOLPERSTEINE - an art monument as a citizens' movement . Exhibition in the art and museum library of the city of Cologne.

Publications (selection)

  • (Not) a reason for hysteria , in: Tondern / Ney (Ed.): What kind of times are these. Satires from the late 1980s , rororo-Tomate, Hamburg 1988, pp. 67–69.
  • The Moringen women's concentration camp 1933–1938. Verlag Lagergemeinschaft and KZ-Gedenkstätte Moringen, 2002, ISBN 978-3-8311-0633-2
  • The early Moringen concentration camp (April – November 1933) , “... a psychological experiment which is interesting in itself” , Moringen 2003, ISBN 978-3-8334-0429-0
  • " The most courageous were always the Jehovah's Witnesses". Persecution and resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses under National Socialism , Edition Temmen, Bremen 1998, ISBN 978-3-86108-724-3
  • with Jürgen Harder: " And if I had to stay in a concentration camp for life ..." The Jehovah's Witnesses in the women's concentration camps Moringen, Lichtenburg and Ravensbrück , Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2001, ISBN 978-3-88474-935-7
  • with Jens Schreiber: From the slaughterhouse to Auschwitz. The Nazi persecution of the Sinti and Roma from Bremen, Bremerhaven and Northwest Germany , Tectum Verlag, Marburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-8288-8046-7
  • Eyes from Auschwitz , Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2001, ISBN 978-3-89861-009-4
  • Constructions of Innocence. Denazification using the example of Bremen and Bremerhaven 1945–1953 , Verlag Staatsarchiv Bremen, 2005, ISBN 978-3-925729-46-1
  • with Elke Purpus : Memorial Guide Cologne , Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0168-1
  • Up to the Scar - A Story , Verlag Hochschule für Künste, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-033578-5
  • Stumbling blocks - Idea.Artists.History.Effect , Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8375-1547-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report in the TAZ of February 4, 2006
  2. ↑ History workshop Göttingen: series of events from November 9, 1997 to January 30, 1998
  3. ↑ Stephan Scholz: Gestures of Recognition or Instruments of History Politics? Conflicts of interpretation on societal issues around memorials for expellees in Westphalia , in: Matthias Frese / Marcus Weidner (eds.): Negotiated memories. Dealing with honors, monuments and memorial sites after 1945 , Paderborn 2018, pp. 115–133, p. 117.
  4. ↑ Susanne Labatzke: In memory of the Löwenhardt family. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Henning Bleyl: " Shaken as a historian" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . November 8, 2011, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 24 ( taz.de [accessed December 5, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Gerald Weßel: “There is still a lot to do in Bremen”. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Simone Schnase: Today in Bremen: “ Picked up at work” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . December 14, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 24 Bremen 45 ePaper ( taz.de [accessed December 5, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Susanne Neumann: Only a footnote in the history book. In: ksta.de (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger). March 30, 2008, accessed December 5, 2019 .
  9. ↑ art and museum library - art documentation center | 2009. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b art and museum library - documentation center art 2010. Accessed on December 5, 2019 .
  11. ↑ art and museum library - art documentation center | 2014. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  12. ↑ art and museum library - art documentation center | 2016 memorial books. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  13. ↑ art and museum library - art documentation center | 2017 Gunter Demnig. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  14. ↑ On the occasion of Gunter Demnig's 70th birthday - exhibition on the history of the “stumbling blocks”. In: report-K.de. September 21, 2017, accessed December 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hesse, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen