Martina Hessler

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Martina Heßler (* 1968 ) is a German historian . She has been professor for the history of technology at TU Darmstadt since 2019 .

Life

Martina Heßler wrote her doctoral thesis as a fellow of the Graduate School Mechanization and Society at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at TU Darmstadt (January 1997 – December 1999) and with a research grant at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz (January – August 2000) . Modern Woman ‹. On the social and cultural history of household technology in Germany , with which she received her doctorate in August 2000 . At the University of Bielefeld , she did research from September 2000 to March 2001 with postdoctoral fellowship at the Graduate School social history of groups, strata, classes and elites . With a research project on science and technology cities in the 20th century, she worked from April 2001 to December 2002 as a researcher in the research group Interrelationships between Science and Technology. Forms of perception and effect in the 20th century at the Center for the History of Science and Technology in Munich . From January 2003 to April 2006, Heßler was a research assistant at the Chair of Modern History at RWTH Aachen University . After her habilitation with the work The Urban as a Metaphor. On the relationship between city and science in the 20th century in January 2006, she taught from May 2006 to December 2009 as a professor for the history of culture and technology at the Offenbach am Main University of Design . From January 2010 she was Professor of Modern Social, Economic and Technical History at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. She has been teaching history of technology at TU Darmstadt since February 2019.

Publications (selection)

  • “Mrs. Modern Woman «. On the social and cultural history of household technology (= Campus Research , Volume 827). Campus-Verl., Frankfurt am Main et al. 2001, ISBN 3-593-36880-3 (also dissertation, Darmstadt 2000).
  • as editor: Constructed Visibilities. Images of science and technology since early modern times . Fink, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7705-4211-8 .
  • »The creative city« To reinvent a topos (= urban studies ). transcript-Verl., Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 3-89942-725-4 .
  • as editor with Clemens Zimmermann : Creative Urban Milieus. Historical Perspective on Culture, Economy, and the City . Campus-Verl., Frankfurt et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38547-1 .
  • as editor with Dieter Mersch : Logic of the pictorial. On the criticism of iconic reason (= metabasis. Transcriptions between literatures, arts and media , volume 2). Transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 3-8376-1051-9 .
  • with Ralf Adelmann , Jan Frercks and Jochen Hennig : Datenbilder. For digital image practice in the natural sciences (= science studies ). Transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1041-3 .
  • with Miriam R. Levin , Sophie Forgan , Robert H. Kargon and Morris Low : Urban Modernity. Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution . MIT Press, Cambridge et al. 2010, ISBN 978-0-262-01398-7 .
  • Cultural history of technology (= historical introductions , volume 13). Campus-Verl., Frankfurt am Main et al. 2012, ISBN 3-593-39740-4 .
  • as editor with Günter Riederer : Car cities in the 20th century. Growth and contraction perspectives from a global perspective (= contributions to urban history and urbanization research , volume 16) Steiner, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 3-515-10692-8 .
  • as editor with Christian Kehre : The Hamburg storm surge of 1962. Risk awareness and disaster control from a contemporary, technological and environmental historical perspective (= Series Environment and Society , Volume 11) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen et al. 2014, ISBN 3-525-31716-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New appointment: Prof. Dr. Martina Hessler. hfg Offenbach , accessed on July 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Martina Hessler. Helmut Schmidt University , accessed on July 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Martina Hessler. Technical University of Darmstadt , accessed on August 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hessler, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1968