Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner

Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner (born July 30, 1942 in Hanover ; † July 18, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German historian , Germanist , writer and philosopher .

Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner began studying history , German and philosophy at the University of Tübingen in 1962 . In 1978 he did his doctorate with Jacob Taubes on the subject of nature intent and the invisible hand . From 1980 to 1983 Kittsteiner worked as a research assistant at the Philosophical Seminar of the Free University of Berlin with Michael Theunissen . From 1983 to 1985 he worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of History and Philosophy at Bielefeld University with Reinhart Koselleck . In 1988 he completed his habilitation with the work The History of Modern Conscience , with the book version of which he was the first winner of the Halberstadt Gleim Literature Prize in 1995 .

Kittsteiner has been Professor of Comparative European History of Modern Times at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) since 1993 , where he was also dean of the Faculty of Cultural Studies for two years.

After Kittsteiner had delivered the laudatory speech on July 15, 2008 when Viadrina President Gesine Schwan said goodbye , he died unexpectedly at the age of 65 in his Berlin apartment.

Because of his sudden death, a planned six-volume history of Germany from 1618 to 1945 remained unfinished. Only the first part of the volume was published posthumously, the work Die Stabilisierungsmoderne ( The Stabilization Modernity) , which Patrick Bahners called a "masterpiece of historiography".

The library and the academic estate of Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner are located at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and can be researched in the finding aid of the university archive or in the electronic catalog of the university library.

Fonts (selection)

• Awareness-raising, partiality, dialectical and historical materialism. On some categories of Marxist-Leninist methodology of history . In: International scientific correspondence on the history of the German labor movement. Vol. 10, 1974, ISSN  0046-8428 , pp. 408-430, (23 pages PDF download, 147 KB).
• "Logical" and "Historical". About the differences between the Marxian and Engelsian systems of science . In: International scientific correspondence on the history of the German labor movement , 13th year, 1977, pp. 1-47, (47 pages PDF download, 307 KB).
• 1980 Nature's intention and the invisible hand. On the critique of historical-philosophical thinking (= Ullstein book 35064 = Ullstein materials ). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1980, ISBN 3-548-35064-X (Revised and expanded version of the dissertation, Berlin, FU 1978: Karl Marx and the outcome of the classical German philosophy of history. ).
• 1991 The emergence of the modern conscience . Insel Verlag Frankfurt am Main et al., ISBN 3-458-16148-1
• 1998 Lists of Reason. Motives of historical-philosophical thinking (= Fischer pocket books. Forum Wissenschaft. Philosophy. 13951). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-596-13951-1 .
• 1999 (editor): Signs of history. Böhlau, Cologne et al., ISBN 3-412-16198-5 .
• 2001 The comma from SANS, SOUCI. A research report with footnotes. Manutius-Verlag, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-934877-08-7 .
• 2003 (co-author): Memory Policy. A critical interim balance. Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin, ISBN 3-927760-44-7 .
• 2004 (editor): What are cultural studies? 13 answers. Fink, Paderborn, ISBN 3-7705-3947-8 .
• 2004 With Marx for Heidegger - with Heidegger for Marx. Fink, Paderborn et al., ISBN 3-7705-3948-6 .
• 2004 Out of Control. About the unavailability of the historical process. Philo, Berlin et al., ISBN 3-8257-0344-4 .
• 2005 We are lived. Form problems of modernity. Philo, Berlin, ISBN 3-86572-537-6 .
• 2008 world spirit, world market, world judgment. Fink, Munich et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7705-4419-6 .
• 2010 The stabilization modern. Germany and Europe 1618–1715. Introduction by Jürgen Kaube . Hanser, Munich, ISBN 978-3-446-23580-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner  in the German Digital Library
• Obituary in the NZZ
• The outsider: On the death of Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner , obituary in the world
• Kittsteiner's estate in the online finding aid of the University Archives Frankfurt (Oder)
• Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner's library in the Frankfurt (Oder) University Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ FAZ, October 2, 2010.