Joachim Zeller (historian)

Joachim Zeller (born April 2, 1958 in Swakopmund , South West Africa , today Namibia ) is a German-Namibian historian and teacher.

Joachim Zeller is the son of the theologian and art historian Reimar Zeller and the writer Eva Zeller . Zeller studied history, art and German in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. In 1999 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin with the thesis Colonial Monuments and Awareness of History. A historical didactic investigation . He was active in the school service in Hesse and Berlin.

His main research interests are German colonial history and post-colonialism . He is co-editor of the colonial history book series: “Schlaglichter der Kolonialgeschichte” and “Studies on Colonial History”, both of which were published by Ch. Links Verlag in Berlin (2001–2016). He is also co-editor of the book series “Colonialism and postcolonial perspectives” at Solivagus Verlag in Kiel (from 2020).

His journalistic activities include the (post-) colonial culture of remembrance, visual colonialism, the African diaspora and the genocide of the Herero and Nama .

Zeller was a member of the advisory boards of the following exhibitions: “Namibia - Germany. A shared story. Resistance, Violence, Memory ”, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne (2004) and German Historical Museum in Berlin (2004/2005); “German colonialism. Fragments of its past and present ”, German Historical Museum in Berlin (2016/2017).

As a travel journalist, he writes articles about his bike tours at home and abroad.

Fonts

Monographs

• Colonial Monuments and Awareness of History. An examination of the colonial German culture of remembrance. IKO - Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-88939-544-9 (also: Berlin, Technical University, dissertation, 1999).
• Picture school of the master people. Colonial advertising collectibles. Ch. Links, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-499-0 (Licensed edition: Colonial worlds of images. Between cliché and fascination. Colonial history on early advertising photos. Weltbild, Augsburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8289-0918-2 ).
• White looks - black bodies. Africans in the mirror of everyday western culture. Pictures from the Peter Weiss collection. Sutton, Erfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-412-8 .
• Wild modernity. The sculptor Fritz Behn (1878–1970). Nicolai, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89479-952-6 .

Editorships

• with Ulrich van der Heyden : Colonial metropolis Berlin. A search for clues. Berlin-Edition, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8148-0092-3 .
• with Jürgen Zimmerer : Genocide in German South West Africa. The colonial war (1904–1908) in Namibia and its consequences. Ch. Links, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86153-303-0 (2nd edition 2004; 3rd edition 2016; in English: Genocide in German South-West Africa. The Colonial War of 1904–1908 in Namibia and its Aftermath . Translated and Introduced by Edward J. Neather. Merlin Press, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-85036-574-0 ).
• with Ulrich van der Heyden: "... power and share in world domination". Berlin and German colonialism. UNRAST, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-024-2 .
• with Ulrich van der Heyden: Colonialism in this country. A search for clues in Germany. Sutton, Erfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-269-8 .
• with Jean-Pierre Félix-Eyoum and Stefanie Michels: Duala and Germany - intertwined history. The Manga Bell family and looted colonial art. The Tangué of the Bele Bele. Douala et l'Allemagne. Une histoire croisée. La famille Manga Bell et l'œuvre d'art colonial pillé. Le "Tangué" des Bele Bele (= DEPO series of publications. No. 2). Schmidt von Schwind, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-932050-30-5 .
• with Oumar Diallo: Black Berlin. The German metropolis and its African diaspora, past and present. Metropol, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86331-132-2 (2nd, revised edition 2014).
• with Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst : Germany postcolonial? The present of the imperial past. Metropol, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86331-393-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Zeller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Joachim Zeller at perlentaucher.de
• Author profile

Remarks

1. ↑ See the reviews of Reinhart Kößler in: Peripherie . Journal of Politics and Economics in the Third World. Vol. 22, No. 87 (2002), ISSN  0173-184X , p. 397 ( budrich-journals.de [PDF; 270 kB, accessed on September 18, 2019]). -
   Peter-J. Schuler in: The Historical-Political Book . 49 (2001), p. 35.
2. ↑ Kerstin E. Finkelstein: In the slipstream of world history. Joachim Zeller, Swakopmund - Berlin. In: Kerstin E. Finkelstein: Emigrated. How Germans live all over the world. Ch. Links, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-348-0 , pp. 189-192. -
   Stephan Lahrem: "Picture School of Herrenmenschen ". The challenge of publishing colonial history titles. In: Christoph Links (Ed.): Surviving with links. 20 years of Ch. Links Verlag. Ch. Links, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-555-3 , pp. 49-53.
3. ↑ See Namibia - Germany: A Divided History. Resistance, violence, memory (= Ethnologica. N. F., Volume 24). Edited by Larissa Förster, Dag Henrichsen, Michael Bollig. Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-923158-40-8 , p. 4. -
   German colonialism. Fragments of its past and present. German Historical Museum Foundation (ed.). Berlin 2016, p. 332.
4. ↑ See Bike & Travel. Das Magazin für Radreisen, 6/2016, 2/2017, 2/2020, 4/2020, ISSN  2364-3846 ; BIKE tours. The bike travel magazine. 1/2018, 5/2018, 3/2020, ISSN  1439-0671 ; ( reformation-radtour.de ).