Ines Katenhusen

Ines Katenhusen (* 1966 in Gifhorn ) is a German historian and author . She researches and publishes on the context of art and politics in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as the history of European integration .

Academic career and achievements

Ines Katenhusen studied German and history at the University of Hanover . In 1997 she received her doctorate with a dissertation entitled Understanding a Time Perhaps best from her art . Since then, she has published articles on aspects of the cultural, art and social history of the 19th and 20th centuries as well as on the history of European integration as a scientific author and editor of anthologies. It has 30 products for urban art and cultural history of Hanover Stadtlexikon Hannover contributed. Ines Katenhusen also wrote articles for exhibition catalogs, including the volume accompanying the exhibition All Beginning is Merz. From Kurt Schwitters to today , which took place during Expo 2000 in the Sprengel Museum Hanover and in 2001 in the Haus der Kunst in Munich.

From 1999 to 2007 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Hanover, where she was the initiator and academic coordinator of the interdisciplinary postgraduate course in European Studies .

Ines Katenhusen has been working on the life and work of the German-American art historian and museum reformer Alexander Dorner since 2000 . In this context, she received numerous postdoctoral fellowships from German and American institutions such as the Fritz Thyssen Foundation , the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University , the Fulbright Commission , the Postdoctoral Fellowship 2004 of the German Historical Institute Washington DC and Terra Foundation for American Art / John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at FU Berlin . In 2005 she was visiting professor at the Université de Paris in the field of Civilization allemande / L'Allemagne et l'Europe . She has published articles and essays on Dorner in German, US, French and Russian journals and books. She worked on concepts for art exhibitions in various museums as well as on national and international conferences. Among other things, she held the international conference Visual Culture Revisited , which she co-organized in 2005 . German and American Perspectives on Visual Culture (s) in Berlin gave the lecture The ›Living Museum‹. The Work of Alexander Dorner (1893-1957) , which appeared in 2007 in the conference proceedings of the same name, co-edited by Katenhusen. In it she sheds light on "the different contexts from anti-German politics to personal disputes that led to Dorner's failure". At the International Conference on Museums and Restitution of the University of Manchester in July 2010, she gave a lecture on the works of Kasimir Malewitsch in the Provincial Museum in Hanover . This contribution appeared in the 2009 catalog for the exhibition Kabinett der Abstrakten at the Museum of American Art Berlin.

Ines Katenhusen has been a consultant for research and fundamental issues in the Dean's Office of the Philosophical Faculty of Leibniz University Hannover since 2007. Currently (as of 2013) she is working on a monograph about Dorner and a documentary film project with the working title Alexander Dorner. Art and Consequences .

reception

Under the title Art and Politics. Hanover clashes with modernity in the Weimar Republic the dissertation by Ines Katenhusen in 1998 as the fifth volume in the series Hannoversche studies , Series of the City Archives Hannover published. In his review for the FAZ , Peter Kropmanns praised it as an extremely useful reference work. Ines Katenhusen has succeeded in "almost exhaustively presenting the confrontations with modernity that brought about heavy fighting in Hanover during the Weimar Republic". Her merit of her interdisciplinary study is "to take into account cultural achievements that are often one-sided modernist perspectives and thus to avoid all black and white painting".

Award

In 1998, Ines Katenhusen was awarded the prize for "particularly valuable work in terms of local science" by the German Institute for Urban Studies for art and politics .

Fonts (selection)

monograph

• Art and politics. Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic , at the same time a dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art , in the series Hanoverian Studies, series of the City Archives Hanover , Volume 5, Hanover: Hahn , 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 .

Contributions to cultural and art history

• Kurt Schwitters and Hanover Or about the changes and trade of the natives of the settlement in which Mr. Schwitters is forced to live. In: Every beginning is Merz. From Kurt Schwitters to today , companion volume to the exhibition of the same name during Expo 2000 in the Sprengel Museum Hannover, with essays by various authors, Sprengel Museum, Hannover 2000, ISBN 3-89169-154-8 , pp. 234–243. English edition: In the beginning was Merz - from Kurt Schwitters to the present day , Verlag Hatje Cantz , Ostfildern 2000, ISBN 3-7757-0951-7 .
• "Hanover has never been an Athens, rather than a Sparta" . Fine arts and politics in democracy and dictatorship, in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter NF 54, 2000, pp. 5-40.
• Women Artists of the 1920s in the Hannover Region. In: Ann Katherine Isaacs: Political systems and definitions of gender roles , Edizioni Plus - Università di Pisa 2001, ISBN 978-88-8492-072-0 , pp. 117-131, PDF .
• Alexander Dorner (1893–1957): A German Art Historian in the United States , Publication of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, The Johns Hopkins University 2002, PDF .
• Heide Grape-Albers (Ed.): The Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover, 2002 - 150 years of the museum in Hanover, 100 years of the building at the Maschpark , commemorative publication for the year of the double anniversary, with contributions by Julian Nida-Rümelin , Ines Katenhusen and Sid Auffarth , Hanover: Lower Saxony State Museum, 2002, ISBN 3-929444-29-1 .
• Love for life by council resolution: the street art experiment and the Nana scandal in Hanover in the 1970s. In: History as an experiment: studies on politics, culture and everyday life in the 19th and 20th centuries, Festschrift for Adelheid von Saldern , ed. by Daniela Münkel and Jutta Schwarzkopf, Frankfurt / Main; New York: Campus-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-593-37489-7 , pp. 307-319.
• Street art program and image politics (1969–1974). In: The 1960s in Hanover. Artists, Galleries and Street Art , ed. by Stephan Lohr and Ludwig Zerull in collaboration with the Sprengel-Museum Hannover, publication for the exhibition from December 2, 2007–30. March 2008, Hanover: Sprengel-Museum, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89169-206-6 , pp. 167-184.
• A museum director on and between the chairs. Alexander Dorner (1893–1957) in Hanover . In: Ruth Heftrig, Olaf Peters , Barbara Schellewald (eds.): Art history in the “Third Reich” , Oldenbourg Akademieverlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004448-4 , pp. 156–171
• "... the malevitch box could be a film manuscript". On the fate of Kazimir Malevich painting “Suprematic Compensation” . In: Uwe Fleckner (Ed.): The ostracized masterpiece: Paths of fate of modern art in the Third Reich , writings of the research center “Degenerate Art”, Vol. 4, Oldenbourg Akademieverlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-05-004360-9 , p 137-173.

As author and editor of anthologies on the subject of European integration

• With Wolfram Lamping (Ed.): Democracies in Europe. The influence of European integration on institutional change and the new contours of the democratic constitutional state [partly German, partly English], Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2003, ISBN 3-8100-3414-2 .
• With Christiane Lemke , Jutta Joachim (eds.): Constitutionalization and Governance in the EU. Perspectives of a European constitution [partly in German, partly in English], series: Europa als politischer Raum, Vol. 1, Lit Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-8258-8121-0 .
• With Heike Brabandt, Volker Epping, Jan Martin Hoffmann (eds.): Human rights and migration in Europe , series: Europa als politischer Raum, Vol. 2, Lit Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1648-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ines Katenhusen in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Literature by and about Ines Katenhusen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ines Katenhusen / book list on book-info.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Editor - authors. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 702-703.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Sybille Wenke-Thiem: Five works awarded: Result of the 1997 award
3. ^ Kurt Schwitters , exhibition March 9–27. May 2001, House of Art Munich; Exhibition catalog
4. ↑ Review: "All Beginning is Merz" Kurt Schwitter's work continues to this day . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine of March 13, 2001, last accessed on June 28, 2013.
5. ↑ GHI Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2004 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 2, 2013.  
6. ↑ Nicole Leonhardt: Visual Culture in focus , NEWSMAGAZINE OF THE GERMAN-AMERICAN FULBRIGHT COMMISSIONS. Winter 2005, p. 13, PDF
7. ^ Review of the volume by Hans J. Wulff in the journal Medienwissenschaft: Reviews, Reviews 8/2008, PDF
8. ^ Visual Culture Revisited. German and American Perspectives on Visual Culture (s), report by Petra Henninger, H-Soz-u-Kult
9. ↑ About Ines Katenhusen, Herbert von Halem Verlag
10. ↑ Biography Ines Katenhusen in the handbook for the international conference Museums and Restitution of the University of Manchester in July 2010, p. 20, PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ^ Ines Katenhusen: A Box in the Basement. On the works of Kasimir Malevich loaned to the Provincial Museum of Hannover , catalog for the exhibition Kabinett der Abstrakten , 2009, p. 20 ff., PDF ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Dr Ines Katenhusen, Institute for Political Science, University of Hanover
13. ↑ Biography Alexander Dorner, Institute for Political Science, University of Hanover  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ Peter Kropmanns: Hanover took the pill in the twenties , FAZ, August 21, 1999.
15. ↑ Difu reports 3/1998 - Results of the 1997 municipal science award tender
16. ↑ Review by Peter Paret: Three Perspectives on Art as a Force in German History. (Review Article). In: Central European History. Vol. 34, 2001, pp. 83-89, here pp. 85-86. ( JSTOR Stable URL ). Retrieved June 28, 2013.
17. ↑ Review by Thomas J. Saunders: The Postmodern Twenties? In: New Political Literature , vol. 46 (2001)
18. ↑ European Studies Hannover, Anthologies ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.