Kirstin Buchinger

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Kirstin Buchinger , née Schäfer (* 1973 ) is a German historian, art historian and freelance writer.

Life

Buchinger studied modern and contemporary history, art history and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin from 1993 to 1999 . Following a job as a research assistant at the Department of Hagen Schulze , she graduated with a biography of Werner von Blomberg to Dr. phil. She then worked as a scholarship holder of the German Historical Institute in London and as a research assistant at the Institute for European History in Mainz .

From 2005 to 2008 she was a research assistant at the France Center of the TU / FU Berlin, since then she has been an associate member at this institute. Her teaching and research focus are European history of the 19th and 20th centuries (with the main areas of work political and cultural history), Franco-German relations in the European context, history of intermediality and cultural transfer, history and memory, and historical visual studies.

In 2008 she took the name Buchinger, some earlier works have appeared under the name Kirstin A. Schäfer. Kirstin Buchinger has headed the Living Bauhaus Art Foundation since 2019, which was founded by the entrepreneur Maik Uwe Hinkel.

Works (selection)

Books

  • Werner von Blomberg. Hitler's first field marshal. A biography. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2006, ISBN 3-506-71391-4 .
  • with Claire Gantet and Jakob Vogel (eds.): European memory spaces . Circulations between France, Germany and Europe . Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3593388656 .
  • The Café Einstein Stammhaus. The history of the Berlin coffee house . Berlin (Nicolai) 2009, ISBN 978-3-89479-510-8 .
  • Napoléomania . Goldencalb Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3944546001 .

Articles and contributions in edited volumes

  • Chapeau! Napoleon's hat. A european image agent . In: Buchinger, Kirstin; Gantet, Claire; Vogel, Jakob: European spaces of memory. Circulations between France, Germany and Europe . Frankfurt am Main 2008; Pp. 296-321, ISBN 978-3593388656 .
  • The Battle of Nations. In: Etienne Franois / Hagen Schulze (ed.): German places of memory , vol. 2, Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47225-7 . Pp. 187-201.
  • Prisoners of war and the exchange of prisoners as a European transfer phenomenon (1750-1800) . In: Duchhardt, Heinz; Peters, Martin (ed.): Instruments of Peace. Diversity and forms of peace treaties in premodern Europe . Mainz June 25, 2008 (publications by the Institute for European History Mainz, supplement online 3). ( Pp. 94-108 online version ).
  • Can a European memory be imagined? . In: Volker Hassemer u. a. (Ed.): Giving Europe a soul. Cities and regions. Your shared cultural responsibility for Europe . 2008.

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personal data
SURNAME Buchinger, Kirstin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schäfer, Kirstin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, art historian and freelance writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1973