Karin Falkenberg

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Karin Falkenberg Pellengahr Frfr. v. Freusberg-Steinhorst (born 1969 in Nuremberg ) is a German media and economic historian . She heads the Nuremberg Toy Museum . Since 2017 she has been an honorary professor of museology at Kadir Has University in Istanbul.

Life

Falkenberg grew up in Nuremberg, Fürth and Austria. After graduating from Dürer-Gymnasium Nürnberg and completing a commercial training with Nürnberger Nachrichten , she studied economic and social history , media studies and European ethnology (folklore) at the Philipps University of Marburg , the University of Vienna and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. .

After completing his studies, Falkenberg worked in the radio editorships for culture and Bavaria at Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich, lecturer at Sutton Verlag Erfurt and research assistant at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony and at the technology transfer office of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg . She worked in the Munich City Museum and the Chocolate Museum in Cologne. In 2004, parallel to her professional activity, she did her doctorate in radio reception between 1933 and 1950 at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg (Saale). phil.

From 2006 to 2014 Karin Falkenberg was the deputy museum director at the Rundfunkmuseum Fürth . From 2007 to 2012, Falkenberg was a research assistant and lecturer for media history at the Hacettepe University Ankara / Turkey ; since 2012 she has been a lecturer in museology at the Kadir Has University Istanbul / Turkey. 2013 habilitation them with a research publication for the theme Museum and emotion.

In 2014 Karin Falkenberg moved to the Toy Museum in Nuremberg as the new manager of the house at Karlstrasse 13-15. Parallel to her work in Nuremberg, she was appointed honorary professor at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Kadir Has University of Istanbul in 2017.

Quotes

  • Art and literature can reproduce 'history' much more accurately than any science, no matter how ambitious and precise.
  • A museum has to be able to tell stories.

Awards

  • Inclusion of the UNESCO application "Board games" in the state register of good practice examples (2019)
  • Honorary examiner for the Nuremberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK)
  • Godmother for “School without Racism - School with Courage” at the Maria Ward Gymnasium in Nuremberg
  • Liaison lecturer at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • Full study scholarship with doctoral scholarship
  • Scholarship from the German Bundestag and the US Congress for a one-year guest school stay in the USA

Local reporting

  • Gabriele Koenig: Is everyone actually allowed to participate? Participation is expressly desired in the toy museum. Interview with Karin Falkenberg. In: Mein Spielzeugmuseum 5 (2018), pp. 32–33.
  • Matthias Boll: The toy museum is calling . In: Fürther Nachrichten of December 19, 2013.

Publications

  • Nuremberg has what it takes to play! To the DNA of the Franconian toy town. In: Nuremberg City of Culture. Origin and future in Europe. Nuremberg 2019, pp. 127 - 146.
  • Buy me a colorful balloon! To the story of a short-lived childhood happiness. In: My Toy Museum 6/2019, pp. 22–31.
  • Hermann Glaser, the toy museum and the 1968 revue . In: Thorsten Brehm / Michael Ziegler (eds.): … Make the situation dance. Hermann Glaser - last memories - last words . Nürnberg / Fürth 2018, pp. 33–35.
  • Red and white - full of charm, wit and emotion. On the music biography of Conny Wagner. In: Franken - Sternen-Herzschlag, booklet for the CD "The Who is Who 'of the Franconian music scene", 3rd part, Fürth 2017, p. 3.
  • Conny Wagner and the toy museum . In: My Toy Museum 1/2016, p. 33.
  • Strumming, squeaking, trumpeting with toy instruments. Karin Falkenberg, Urs Latus, Christiane Reuter. In: My Toy Museum 1/2016, pp. 12–13.
  • Emergency toys. The post-war fantasy . Nuremberg 2015
  • Grundig AG . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . Munich 2012.
  • Children's art . Maxie Pellengahr, Karin Falkenberg. Fuerth 2009.
  • The radio criminal Willi Mühlhofer . Gerd Walther, Karin Falkenberg, Andreas Christ. Fuerth 2006.
  • Listen to the radio. A story of consciousness from 1933 to 1950 . With a foreword by Reinhold Viehoff. Nuremberg 2005.
  • Companero Eppelein and the revolution on the Rio Pegnitz . Rainer Huhle, Karin Falkenberg, Karin Gleixner. Nuremberg 2004.
  • The gunsmith in Suhl. The only Japanese restaurant in the GDR . Wuerzburg 2000.
  • Rituals of listening to the radio . In: Margot Hamm / Bettina Hasselbring / Michael Henker (eds.): The tone. The picture. Bavaria and its radio. Book accompanying the exhibition of the House of Bavarian History and Bavarian Broadcasting. Augsburg 1999, pp. 275-279.
  • Rock'n'Roll in a hoop skirt: experiences of an exchange student . 1st edition Nuremberg 1987, 2nd edition Munich 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sz.de Newspaper article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung “A good train” from December 20, 2019, accessed on June 21, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Falkenberg, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media and economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg