Katja Patzel-Mattern

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Katja Patzel-Mattern (* 1970 in Ratingen ) is a German social and economic historian .

After graduating from high school in Düsseldorf, she studied modern and contemporary history, journalism and political science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and the University of Barcelona . In 1998 the doctorate in Münster followed with a thesis on the theory of memory and the culture of remembrance , supervised by Clemens Wischermann and Hans-Ulrich Thamer , and in 2007 the habilitation with Clemens Wischermann at the University of Konstanz with a thesis on industrial psychotechnology in the Weimar Republic . Since May 2009 Patzel-Mattern has been teaching as professor for economic and social history at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Her research focuses on social and economic history, corporate history, crisis and communication research, the history of science, gender and body history and the history of memory and recollection. In her dissertation, she wants to work out the memory theoretical considerations of Henri Bergson , Sigmund Freud , Wilhelm Dilthey , Georg Steinhausen , William James and Georg Simmel in individual analyzes. She looks for “forms of appropriation, processing and evaluation of the past”. With her treatise she wants to make a contribution to the foundation of a memory-guided handling of history in the discussion about the concept of remembering and memory. Together with Clemens Wischermann, Katja Patzel-Mattern publishes the series “Perspektiven der Wirtschaftsgeschichte”.

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Monographs

  • History dedicated to memory. Subjectivity and cultural studies theory formation (= studies on the history of everyday life. Volume 19). Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08082-1 (also: University of Münster (Westphalia), dissertation, 1998).
  • Economic efficiency and social balance. Industrial psychotechnics in the Weimar Republic (= studies on the history of everyday life. Volume 27). Steiner, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-515-09324-8 .

Editorships

  • with Albrecht Franz: The time factor. Perspectives on cultural studies of time (= studies on the history of everyday life. Volume 30). Steiner, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-11016-7 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Katja Patzel-Mattern: History under the sign of memory. Subjectivity and theories in cultural studies. Stuttgart 2002, p. 202.
  2. ↑ Katja Patzel-Mattern: History under the sign of memory. Subjectivity and theories in cultural studies. Stuttgart 2002, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Patzel-Mattern, Katja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratingen