Heinrich Theodor Grütter

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Heinrich Theodor Grütter

Heinrich Theodor Grütter (* 1957 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German historian and cultural scientist . He is director of the Ruhr Museum in Essen , member of the board of the Zollverein Foundation and honorary professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen .

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Heinrich Theodor Grütter studied history, German language and literature, education and archeology at the Ruhr University in Bochum from 1976 to 1986. In addition to academic positions at the University / GH Essen 1987 and the Ruhr University Bochum from 1989 to 1991, he was a research assistant at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen in 1997 .

From 1992 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2007 Heinrich Theodor Grütter was a research assistant at the former Ruhrland Museum in Essen and, as project manager, played a key role in the construction and permanent exhibition of the new Ruhr Museum at Zollverein from 2008 to 2011. Since January 1, 2012 he has been director of the Ruhr Museum and since October 1, 2017 board member of the Zollverein Foundation. Many internationally renowned exhibitions about the Ruhr area fall under his responsibility. B. “200 years of Krupp. A myth is visited ”,“ 1914 - In the middle of Europe ”or“ The age of coal. A European History ”.

In addition, Heinrich Theodor Grütter has been a permanent lecturer at the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen since 1986. In addition to the history of the Ruhr area, his research focuses on the subject areas of theory and didactics of history, museology, historical representation, and culture of history and remembrance. In 2013 Heinrich Theodor Grütter was appointed honorary professor from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

In addition to his full-time activities, Heinrich Theodor Grütter is a member of numerous committees, including the Board of Trustees of the NRW Foundation and the Board of Trustees of the Hamburg Museums Foundation, the scientific advisory boards of the History of the Ruhr Area Foundation, the Fritz Hüser Institute for the Literature of the Working World, of Gasometer Oberhausen GmbH as well as on the boards of the Forum Geschichtskultur an Ruhr and Emscher and the historical association Stadt und Stift Essen.

Exhibitions with catalogs (selection)

  • 1990/91: Forgotten times. Middle Ages in the Ruhr Area (together with U. Borsdorf and F. Seibt), (September 26, 1990 to January 6, 1991), Ruhrland Museum Essen
  • 1997: Transit Bruges - Novgorod. A road through European history (together with U. Borsdorf and F. Seibt), (May 15 to September 21, 1997), Ruhrlandmuseum Essen
  • 2000: The ball is round. The football exhibition (together with U. Borsdorf, FJ Brüggemeier, J. Müller, J. Steiner), (May 12 to October 15, 2000), Gasometer Oberhausen
  • 2002: Waterfalls on the Rhine and Maas (together with U. Borsdorf, U. Hermanns, J. Steiner), (June 15 to October 13, 2002), Düsseldorf harbor
  • 2008/9: gold over black. The Essen Cathedral Treasure at Zollverein (together with B. Falk), (October 20, 2008 to January 11, 2009), Ruhr Museum
  • 2010: Nature, culture and history of the Ruhr area (together with U. Borsdorf), permanent exhibition of the Ruhr Museum
  • 2012/13: 200 years of Krupp. A myth will be visited (March 30, 2012 to January 6, 2013), Ruhr Museum
  • 2014: 1914 - in the middle of Europe. The Rhine-Ruhr region and the First World War (together with W. Hauser) in cooperation with the LVR industrial museum in the mixing plant of the Zollverein coking plant (April 29 to October 26, 2014)
  • 2014/15: Chargesheimer. The discovery of the Ruhr area (May 26, 2014 to January 18, 2015)
  • 2015: Future Ruhr area. Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages on the Rhine and Ruhr (March 27 to August 23, 2015), Ruhr Museum
  • 2016/17: rock and pop in the pot. 60 Years of Music in the Ruhr Area, (May 5, 2016 to February 28, 2017), Ruhr Museum
  • 2017: The divided sky. Reformation and religious diversity on the Rhine and Ruhr (April 3, 2017 to October 31, 2017), Ruhr Museum
  • 2017: Green in the city of Essen. More than parks and gardens (May 21 to August 27, 2017), Zeche Zollverein
  • 2018: Josef Stoffels. Hard coal mines - photographs from the Ruhr area (with S. Grebe), (January 22nd to September 2nd, 2018), Ruhr Museum
  • 2018: the age of coal. A European History (with F.-J. Brüggemeier and M. Farrenkopf), a joint exhibition with the German Mining Museum Bochum in the mixing plant of the Zollverein coking plant (April 27 to November 11, 2018)
  • 2018/19: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Die Ruhrgebietsfotografien (with S. Grebe), (October 8, 2018 to February 3, 2019), Ruhr Museum
  • 2018: war. Power. Sense. War and violence in European memory as part of the UNREST project and in cooperation with the Ruhr University Bochum, the Institute for Social Movements, the University of Bath and Aarhus University (November 12, 2018 to June 10, 2019), Ruhr Museum
  • 2019/20: New departure in the west. The Margarethenhöhe artists' settlement (April 7, 2019 to January 5, 2020), Ruhr Museum

Publications (selection)

  • See story. Contributions to the aesthetics of historical museums, Pfaffenweiler 1988 (edited together with J. Rüsen and W. Ernst)
  • Museum Handbook Ruhr Area, Vol. 1: The historical museums, Essen 1989
  • History culture (Yearbook for History Didactics, Vol. 3), Pfaffenweiler 1992 (edited together with K. Fröhlich and J. Rüsen)
  • Museum Handbook Ruhr Area, Vol. 2: The Art Museums and Galleries, Essen 1993
  • Historical fascination. Historical culture today, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1994 (edited together with K. Füßmann and J. Rüsen)
  • Places of remembrance. Memorial, memorial, museum, Frankfurt a. M. / New York 1999 (edited together with U. Borsdorf)
  • Sense of antiquity. Orientation systems, models and value concepts in antiquity, Mainz 2003 (edited together with K.-J. Hölkeskamp, ​​J. Rüsen and E. Stein-Hölkeskamp)
  • Museum handbook Ruhr area. Art, culture and history, Essen 2003 (published on behalf of the Institute for Cultural Studies and Kultur Ruhr GmbH)
  • Appropriating the past. Museumization and History, Bielefeld 2004 (edited together with U. Borsdorf and J. Rüsen)
  • Founding years. 1150 years of the Abbey and City of Essen, Essen 2005 (edited together with U. Borsdorf and O. Scheytt)
  • The future was always. On the history of the Ruhr Metropolis, Essen 2007 (edited together with U. Borsdorf and D. Nellen)
  • Hiking guide through the Deilbachtal cultural landscape, Essen 2013 (published as Kleine Schriften des Ruhr Museum, vol. 1)
  • The garden city of Margarethenhöhe. Architecture and history, Essen 2014 (published as Kleine Schriften des Ruhr Museum, vol. 2)
  • From Haus Industrieform to the Red Dot Design Museum. A history of design in Essen, Essen 2015 (published as Kleine Schriften des Ruhr Museum, vol. 3)
  • Architectural guide through the garden city Margarethenhöhe, Essen 2016 (published as Kleine Schriften des Ruhr Museum, vol. 4)
  • Industrial nature at Zollverein, Essen 2017 (published as Kleine Schriften des Ruhr Museum, vol. 5)
  • The Halbachhammer in the Nachtigallental, Essen 2018 (published as Kleine Schriften des Ruhr Museum, vol. 6)
  • Art on the Margarethenhöhe, Essen 2019 (published as Kleine Schriften des Ruhr Museum, Vol. 7)
  • Time-Spaces Ruhr. Places of Remembrance of the Ruhr Area, Essen 2019 (edited with S. Berger, U. Borsdorf, L. Claßen and D. Nellen)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikolaos Georgakis: Heinrich Theodor Grütter becomes head of the Ruhr Museum. WAZ, accessed October 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ LVR: Reorganization of the Zollverein Foundation. In: www.lvr.de. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Eckhard Schinkel: Review - The Age of Coal. A European story. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
  4. ^ Ruhr University Bochum, personnel directory. In: http://www.uv.rub.de . Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
  5. ^ People in the Historical Institute: Prof. Heinrich Theodor Grütter. In: https://www.uni-due.de . Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
  6. ^ Editing: Beate H. Kostka: UDE awards head of the Ruhr Museum honorary professorship for Theo Grütter. University of Duisburg-Essen, accessed on October 21, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Boards of Trustees. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
  8. ↑ About the Foundation for Historical Museums. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Grütter, Heinrich Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen