Helmut Gold

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Helmut Gold in June 2012

Helmut Gold (born December 7, 1958 in Wetzlar ) is a German literary scholar and historian , director of the Museum for Communication Frankfurt and head of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications since May 1, 2017 .

Career

Gold studied history and German at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen from 1977 to 1983 and received his doctorate in 1989 from the Faculty of Modern Philology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt on “Findings underground. Mining Motifs in Romantic Literature ”. From 1985 to 1987 he was a research assistant at the German Literature Archive in Marbach , then until 1991 as a freelance manager of exhibition projects at the Transport Museum in Nuremberg and the German Post Museum in Frankfurt.

In 1993 he moved to the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA) in Cologne as head of exhibitions and personal communication . Since February 1997 he has been director of the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt, which belongs to the public museum foundation Post and Telecommunications . From January 2005 to April 2017, Gold acted as a permanent representative of the foundation management, on May 1, 2017 he replaced Lieselotte Kugler as curator of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications.

From 2007 to 2013 he was a board member of the German Museum Association . He is also a co-founder of the CECOM (European Communication Museum) and the NCM (Network Company Museum), member of the advisory board of the Technoseum Foundation in Mannheim and spokesman for the board of trustees of the German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven.

In addition, since 1998 he has been managing director of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Post und Telekommunikationsgeschichte eV , a history association for communication history with over 10,000 members, which publishes the quarterly magazine on communication history "Das Archiv".

Publications on the history of literature, media and technology come from Gold. He also had teaching positions at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen.

Exhibitions and catalogs (selection)

  • Literature in the industrial age (Marbach 1987)
  • Miss from Office (Frankfurt 1993)
  • LiebesLeben (Cologne et al. 1994ff)
  • Longing (Cologne et al. 1996ff)
  • Those who don't want to think are thrown out - Joseph Beuys postcards (Frankfurt / Hamburg / Berlin 1998ff)
  • Postmarked - anti-Jewish postcards (Frankfurt / Berlin / Hamburg 1999ff)
  • Human Telephone - Aspects of Telephone Communication (Frankfurt / Berlin / Nürnberg 2000ff)
  • Liebe.komm - messages from the heart (Frankfurt / Hamburg / Nuremberg / Berlin 2003ff)
  • Media tell stories. New permanent exhibition (Frankfurt 2004)
  • Globalization 2.0 (Frankfurt / Berlin / Nuremberg 2007f)
  • @ Absolutely private ?! From diary to weblog (Frankfurt / Berlin 2008f)
  • Full: cooking, eating, talking (Frankfurt / Berlin 2009f)
  • DO IT YOURSELF: The hands-on revolution (Frankfurt / Berlin 2010f)

Publications (selection)

  • Findings underground. Mining Motifs in Romantic Literature. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag 1989
  • LiebesLeben - Basics for the conception and implementation of a new exhibition on AIDS prevention. In: Exhibitions as a medium in health promotion. Publication series Science in the German Hygiene Museum, Vol. 6, Dresden 1997
  • The exhibited person. Exhibitions as a medium of health education. In: Mainly healthy. Health education between discipline and emancipation. Marburg: Jonas Verlag 1998
  • Feed it, watch it grow - digital souvenirs. In: The souvenir. Remembrance in things from relic to memory. Cologne / Frankfurt: Wienand Verlag 2006
  • Media tell stories. The Museum for Communication Frankfurt. In: Hilmar Hoffmann: The Frankfurt Museumsufer. Frankfurt aM: Societätsverlag 2009
  • (with Hartwig Lüdtke): Technology museums. In: Museums between quality and relevance. Memorandum on the state of the museums, Berlin: G + H Verlag 2012
  • Das Zeitsparbuch (with Klaus Beyrer), Mainz: Verlag Hermann Schmidt 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ April 20, 2017 - No. 14 - Museum for Communication Frankfurt. Retrieved May 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Gold, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar