Marcus Ventzke

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Marcus Ventzke (born April 29, 1970 in Altenburg ) is a German historian, history theorist and history teacher. He is a private lecturer at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and managing director of the Institute for Digital Learning, where Germany's first digital and multimedia textbook ( MBook project ) was developed.

Life and career

Ventzke studied history and philosophy at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena for teaching and passed the first state examination in 1997. In 1998, he became a member of the DFG special research area 482 “Weimar-Jena event” in the sub-project “Court, rule and political culture” . Culture around 1800 ”and was established in 2002 with the work“ The Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach 1775-1783. A model case of enlightened rule? " This was published in 2004 as volume 10 of the publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia (small series). In 2003 Ventzke was a trainee at the Museum for Communication Berlin and worked on the planning and implementation of the exhibition “Animal Communication. Animals listen, animals show their colors, animals don't lie ”along. From 2003 to 2005 Ventzke completed his legal clerkship and in 2005 obtained the second state examination for the higher teaching post at grammar schools. From 2005 to 2009 Ventzke was a high school teacher and boarding school mentor at the Saxon State High School St. Afra in Meißen . During this time he was also a member of the international research project for the promotion and development of reflective historical awareness (Comenius 2.1).

In 2009 he moved to the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt as a research assistant in the professorship for Theory and Didactics of History. Together with Florian Sochatzy and Waltraud Schreiber , he founded the Institute for Digital Learning in 2011, where he helped initiate and significantly drive the development of Germany's first digital and multimedia history textbook. In 2015 and 2016 he worked in the joint project Inclusive Learning and Life in School at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. In 2016 he went to Princeton (USA) for research purposes . In 2016 he completed his habilitation at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt with a thesis on the construction of time in history. He has been a private lecturer there since the 2016/17 winter semester.

Scientific work

In addition to specialist research on the early modern period (Reformation and the German Peasants' War, Thirty Years War, Enlightened Absolutism, Wettin regional history, reception history), Ventzke is engaged in research on didactic and history-theoretical research on historical conceptual concepts and categories, historical time constructions and applied history / public history . In addition, there is intensive work in the areas of media revolution and teaching as well as inclusive specialist teaching. Based on his extensive experience in research and communication (teaching, exhibition design, publication and lecture activities) Ventzke advocates a pragmatic turn in history didactics . In the area of competence orientation , for example, this means that the theoretical work on competence models must be more closely linked with curriculum work, teaching and learning material design, and long-term advanced training concepts.

Convinced of the disruptive character of the digital revolution, Ventzke mostly acts across topics and institutions. He is one of the major German innovators in the fields of new media and digital learning. In addition, he worked in his projects a. a. together with Medienberatung NRW, the Ministry of the German-speaking Community in Belgium and various research institutions. In his habilitation thesis he advocates a “temporal turn” in historical studies and illustrates the knowledge-enhancing effect of investigating time constructions - also using the example of the multimedia textbook (mBook).

Publications (selection)

  • Marcus Venzke (ed.): Court culture and enlightenment reforms in Thuringia. The importance of the court in the late 18th century. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002.
  • Marcus Ventzke: The Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach 1775-1783. A model case of enlightened rule? (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Small series, Vol. 10), Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004.
  • Marcus Ventzke, Sylvia Mebus: story for kids. Discover the past and experience history for yourself. Heidelberg 2008.
  • Marcus Ventzke, Sylvia Mebus, Waltraud Schreiber ( edit .): Thinking history instead of cramming in secondary level II. 20 years after the Peaceful Revolution: German and European perspectives in high school history lessons , ed. from the Saxon Education Institute, Radebeul 2010.
  • Marcus Ventzke, Florian Sochatzy, Waltraud Schreiber: mBook history - thinking history instead of drumming. History book for upper secondary level II and III of the German-speaking Community of Belgium, vol. 1–5, Eichstätt 2013.
  • Marcus Ventzke: Early Modern Times (= mBook history - think history instead of cramming. History book for secondary levels II and III of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. Ed. By Waltraud Schreiber, Florian Sochatzy and Marcus Ventzke, vol. 3), Eichstätt 2013.
  • Marcus Ventzke, Florian Sochatzy, Waltraud Schreiber: mBook history - thinking history instead of cramming. History book for secondary level I at grammar schools, North Rhine-Westphalia, Vols. 1–3, Eichstätt 2014.
  • Marcus Ventzke, Florian Sochatzy, Waltraud Schreiber: mBook-l: Thinking history instead of cramming. History book for secondary level I at grammar schools, North Rhine-Westphalia (teachers' book), Eichstätt 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Ventzke, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, history theorist and history educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg