Martina Kessel

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Martina Kessel (born September 11, 1959 in Werdohl , North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German historian .

Life

Martina Kessel studied history, political science and American studies in Cologne, Munich and at the University of Maryland, College Park (Master of Arts) and did her doctorate in Munich. Her habilitation thesis ( FU Berlin 1998) was published in a slightly shortened version under the title boredom : dealing with time and feelings in Germany from the late 18th to the early 20th century . From 1996–97 she was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and in 1998 she became Professor of Modern History at Bielefeld University, with a visiting professorship for European and German History at the University of Toronto in 2005/2006 and a research grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation 2010/2011.

Martina Kessel is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Historical Institute in Paris . She is a board member of the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology and a member of the Network Women and Gender Studies NRW , in which she acted together with Wiebke Kolbe as the national coordinator of the working group historical women and gender studies from 2000 to 2003 .

Research priorities

Martina Kessel mainly works on German and European history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics: international relations in the 20th century, cultural history and gender history from the 18th to the 20th century, war and violence in the modern age, identity formation through inclusion and exclusion in modern societies as well as theoretical questions.

Publications

Books

  • (Ed. With Patrick Merziger): The Politics of Humor. Laugther, Inclusion, Exclusion in the Twentieth Century . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
  • Western Europe and the division of Germany. English and French policy on Germany at the Foreign Ministers' Conferences from 1945 to 1947. Oldenbourg, Munich 1989.
  • Boredom. On dealing with time and feelings in Germany from the late 18th to the early 20th century. Wallstein, Göttingen 2001.
  • (Ed., With Christoph Conrad): Writing history in postmodernism. Contributions to the current discussion. Reclam, Stuttgart 1994.
  • (Ed. With Christiane Eifert et al.): What are women, what are men? Gender constructions in historical change. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1996.
  • (Ed., With Christoph Conrad): Culture & History. New insights into an old relationship. Reclam, Stuttgart 1998.
  • (Ed.), Art, Gender, Politics. Constructions of masculinity and art in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic. Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 2005.

Essays

  • Die / Tod - Neuzeit In: Peter Dinzelbacher (Ed.): European Mentality History. Main themes in individual representations (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 469). 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-520-46902-1 , pp. 298-313 (1st edition 1993).
  • Mentality history. In: Christoph Cornelißen (Ed.): Historical sciences. An introduction. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2000, pp. 235-246.
  • The Art of Failure. English and French Politics towards Germany and the Council of Foreign Ministers 1947. In: Ennio di Nolfo, Antonio Varsori (Ed.): The Failure of Peace in Europe 1943-1947. Macmillan, Basingstoke 2001, pp. 261-277.
  • The 'whole man'. The longing for a masculine world in Germany in the nineteenth century. In: Gender & History. 15 (2003), pp. 1-31.
  • Emotions and History. In: Rainer Schützeichel (Ed.): Emotions and social theory. Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 2005, pp. 29-47.
  • Laughing about death ?, German humor 'and death in the two world wars. In: Paul Betts, Alon Confino, Dirk Schumann (Eds.): Mass death and individual loss in modern Germany. Berghahn, New York 2008, pp. 197-218.
  • No home for hybrids. Mamitschka and the Politics of Emotions in Fifties Film. In: Tel Aviver yearbook for German history. 38, 2010, pp. 183-198.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martina Kessel: Boredom . On dealing with time and feelings in Germany from the late 18th to the early 20th century. Wallstein, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-382-3 .
  2. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board. (No longer available online.) German Historical Institute Paris, archived from the original on February 16, 2016 ; accessed on February 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dhi-paris.fr
  3. ↑ The scientist. Science public, April 4, 2005, p. 1.5 , accessed November 1, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Kessel, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Werdohl , NRW