Isolde Stark

Isolde Stark (born March 12, 1945 in Winterberg , Bohemia) is a German ancient historian and children's book author.

Isolde Stark studied history and German studies from 1964 to 1969 at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where she was also an assistant. After completing her diploma, she studied from 1969 to 1972 in the field of cultural theory / aesthetics, which she completed in December 1972 with a doctorate on the subject of The Comedies of Aristophanes and the Crisis of the Attic Polis. Possibilities, Development and Limitations of Old Comedy as a form of satirical, social self-criticism . Reviewers were Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf , Wolfgang Heise and Marie Simon . Afterwards it was not possible for Stark to become scientifically active in the area of ​​ancient history, because she was denounced as a non-Marxist and was not considered to be true to the line. In 1972 she was initially a lecturer at the children's book publisher in Berlin , in 1973 she was a research assistant at the German Studies section at Humboldt University and in 1976 she was chief curator for historical monuments at the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments in Berlin. In 1980, Stark became a research assistant at the Greek-Roman Cultural History department of the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology , and remained in this position until 1991. During the political change in the GDR, she participated in the round table of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and was at the beginning of the 1990s board member of the Independent Association of Historians .

From 1992 to 1996, Stark was employed as a research assistant at the Chair of Ancient History at the Institute for Historical Studies at Humboldt University as part of the Scientist Integration Program . From 1997 to 2000, Stark received a habilitation grant from the Ministry of Culture of Saxony-Anhalt at the University of Halle . She wrote her habilitation on the subject of social and mental dimensions of laughter in Greek comedy . The script broke with the usual view of Greek Comedy and was received in professional circles with interest, but also skepticism. The supervisor was Andreas Mehl . From 2001 to 2006, Stark was a research assistant in third-party funded projects on the subject of religious conflicts in Rome due to new gods and cults (from the emergence of the Roman Empire to late antiquity) and Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf and ancient history in the GDR at the University of Halle . From 2007 to 2010 she worked on the DFG project The Classical Philology at the Friedrichs Wilhelm and Humboldt University in Berlin between 1933 and 1989 at the Institute for Classical Philology at the Humboldt University. Initially as a private lecturer , since 2009 as an adjunct professor of ancient history, she continues to teach at the University of Halle. Since 2011, Stark has also received a grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation for the research project Between Duldung, Ban and Execution. State measures against foreign or new cult practices in ancient Rome .

Since the fall of the Wall, he has been particularly concerned with the history of the subject of Ancient History and its protagonists in the GDR. She is also dedicated to the history of humor in antiquity. Her children's books were published in several German editions and were also translated into other languages.

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Specialist literature

• with Rainer Eckert and Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (editor): Whore or muse? Klio in the GDR. Documents and materials from the Independent Association of Historians Berlin Debate, Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-929666-13-8
• The malicious muse. Mockery as social and mental control in Greek comedy , CH Beck, Munich 2004 ( Zetemata , no.121). ISBN 3-406-52347-1
• Editor: Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf and Ancient History in the GDR. Contributions to the conference from November 21 to 23, 2002 in Halle / Saale , Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 3-515-08457-6 Review by H-Soz-Kult

Children's books

• Kleine Ente namenlos , Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1976. ISBN 3-358-00112-1
• Vom Igel, who shouldn't be one anymore , Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1983. ISBN 3-358-00267-5

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 62.

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Halle, with a list of publications
• Literature by and about Isolde Stark in the catalog of the German National Library