Jan-Pieter Barbian
Jan-Pieter Barbian (born July 20, 1958 in Saarbrücken ) is a German cultural historian and has been the director of the Duisburg City Library since 1999 .
Live and act
Barbian completed his studies in history , German and philosophy at the University of Trier in 1986 with a Magister Artium . In 1991 he started with a thesis on “Literary Politics in the Third Reich”. Institutions, competencies, fields of activity ”. From 1987 to 1991 Barbian Researcher of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Trier 1991-1998 Head of Department for Cultural Education at was adult education center of the city of Duisburg .
Since 1999 Barbian has been the director of the Duisburg City Library and honorary managing director of the Duisburg Literature Association and the Duisburg Library Foundation. Between 2010 and 2013 he was also a member of the board of the German Library Association and between 2011 and 2017 he was a member of the board of trustees of the German Literature Fund , of which he was chairman from 2014 to 2017. Furthermore, he has been a member of the librarianship advisory board of the ekz.bibliotheksservice in Reutlingen since 2017 .
In the course of his work as director of the Duisburg City Library, Barbian published between September and October 2009 for the "Librarian in Residence", a blog of the Goethe Institute , and received invitations to several lecture tours to Chengdu , Guangzhou, from 2010 to 2016 , Hangzhou , Hong Kong , Beijing , Shanghai and Wuhan as well as Moscow , Perm and Genoa .
Since 2011, Barbian has also been a lecturer at the Institute for Optional Studies (IOS) at the University of Duisburg-Essen .
Jan-Pieter Barbian has been married since 2017 and has one son.
research
Barbian has numerous publications on the literary and cultural policy of the Nazi era, on film and politics in the Weimar Republic, on the history and literature of the Ruhr area in the 20th century, on Franco-German relations in the field of mining in the 18th and early years 19th century, on German-Dutch relations in the Weimar Republic and on German-Polish relations in the 20th century.
Publications (selection)
As an author:
- Literary politics in the 'Third Reich'. Institutions, competencies, fields of activity. In: Archives for the history of the book industry . Volume 40. Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-7657-1760-6 , pp. 1–394 (also: Phil. Diss. Universität Trier 1991); Revised paperback edition: dtv, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-04668-6 ).
- (with Hans Georg Kraume and Sigurd Praetorius) Duisburg bibliography. Directory of the Duisburg publications for the period 1987–2001. Klartext, Essen 2004, ISBN 978-3-89861-306-4 .
- The perfect impotence? Writer, publisher and bookseller in the Nazi state. Selected essays. Klartext, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-894-6 .
- Literary politics in the Nazi state. From synchronization to ruin. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-16306-9 .
- The Politics of Literature in Nazi Germany. Bloomsbury, New York [et. a.] 2013, ISBN 978-1-4411-0734-3 .
- (with Wilfried Sühl-Strohmenger ) Information literacy . Key concept of library activity in the digital information world. Dinges & Frick, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-934997-85-1 .
As editor:
- (with Ludger Heid) Between yesterday and tomorrow. End of the war and reconstruction in the Ruhr area. Klartext, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-284-1 .
- (with Ludger Heid ) The discovery of the Ruhr area. The Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia 1946–1996. Klartext, Essen 1997, ISBN 3-88474-525-5 .
- (with Marek Zybura ) Experienced neighborhood. Aspects of German-Polish Relations in the 20th Century. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04149-8 .
- Jews in the Ruhr area. From the Age of Enlightenment to the present. Klartext, Essen 1999, ISBN 3-88474-694-4 .
- (with Werner Ružička ) Poetry and Politics. The documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens (1898–1989). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2001, ISBN 3-88476-489-6 .
- (with Hanneliese Palm) The discovery of the Ruhr area in literature (= writings of the Fritz Hüser Institute for literature and culture in the world of work. Vol. 18). Klartext, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0123-0 .
- (with Hans Georg Kraume and Sigurd Praetorius) National Socialism in Duisburg 1920–1945. An introduction with bibliography and photographs of the time. Klartext, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0124-7 .
- (with Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann and Hanneliese Palm) From river idylls and winding towers. Literature at the interface between the Ruhr and the Rhine. Klartext, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0524-5 .
- Literature as a matter of the heart. The Association for Literature and Art and the World of Books in Duisburg 1912–2012. Klartext, Essen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0717-1 .
- (with Reinhard Wittmann and Ernst Fischer ): History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume 3 Third Reich, Part 1. Published on behalf of the Historical Commission of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-598-24806-1 .
- From the “Sachsenspiegel” to the eBook. The Duisburg City Library as a municipal media, education and cultural center. Klartext, Essen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8375-1521-3 .
- (with Werner Ružicka): Eberhard Fechner. A German narrator. Klartext, Essen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8375-1993-8 .
- (with Erhard Schütz ) The Utopia of Everyday Thinking about Nicolas Born (1937–1979). Wehrhahn, Hannover 2019, ISBN 978-3-86525-736-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Publications by Jan-Pieter Barbian of the "Librarian in Residence"
- ↑ Events by Dr. Jan-Pieter Barbian as a lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barbian, Jan-Pieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarbrücken |