Miriam Gebhardt

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Miriam Gebhardt

Miriam Gebhardt (born January 28, 1962 in Freiburg ) is a German historian , author and journalist .

Life

Gebhardt was born in Freiburg in 1962 . After training as a journalist , she worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Zeit and various women's magazines, among others . From 1988 to 1993 she studied social and economic history , regional history and modern German literature at the University of Munich .

In 1998 she did her doctorate in modern history with Clemens Wischermann at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster . Her dissertation is entitled "Family Memory: Memory Strategies in the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie 1890–1932". In 2003 Gebhardt became a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 485 (“Norm and Symbol”) at the University of Konstanz . There she completed her habilitation in July 2008 for Modern and Contemporary History with a thesis on “The Fear of Child Tyrants: A History of Upbringing in the 20th Century”.

Gebhardt is now an adjunct professor at the University of Konstanz. Her work focuses on the history of the women's movement, historical research on socialization and modern German-Jewish history. In addition to her academic work, Gebhardt continues to work as a journalist and publicist, including for Die Zeit .

Gebhardt lives in Ebenhausen near Munich.

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In 2002 “Sin, Soul, Sex: The Century of Psychology” was published. In it she puts forward the thesis that popular psychological thinking shapes all areas of society. Reviewers considered the statement of the non-fiction book to be valid, but also judged that the author was only concentrating “on the tip of the iceberg”.

In 2009 Gebhardt published the work "Fear of the Child Tyrant: A History of Upbringing in the 20th Century". In it, she uses historical parents' diaries to examine the history of infant care and early childhood education in the 20th century. In doing so, she reconstructs the influence of well-known historical educational guides ( Johanna Haarer for a typically German development, as well as Benjamin Spock for modern liberal education) and recognizes a "longing for orientation of numerous mothers and fathers".

Reviewers judged the non-fiction book to be a "means of educating against the expert hearing", while the title and cover are off-putting. It is not only readable for scientists, the author's approach is nevertheless “original and important”. The habilitation in book form is "very informative" and "well researched", but also reads like academic specialist literature.

In 2011 Gebhardt published "Rudolf Steiner: A Modern Prophet". It deals with the founder of anthroposophy and Waldorf education . Reviewers described the biography as "refreshingly disrespectful", but also "cleverly pointed" and "differentiated judgment" representation of Rudolf Steiner .

In 2012 “Alice in No Man's Land: How the German Women's Movement Lost Women” was published. In it Gebhardt attests to the German women's movement “backwardness”, “theoretical distance” and “ossification”. Like in no other country, this is determined by a single person. Alice Schwarzer is “ideologically immobile” and, like a “matriarch”, always spreads the same truths. In the opinion of reviewers, the author is neither “rioting against blacks”, nor does she lose sight of the context. Individual reviewers were only irritated by the first chapter of the non-fiction book.

In 2015, when the soldiers came: The rape of German women at the end of World War II. Rape by Western allies is discussed in particular , which triggered a controversial debate about the work. Gebhardt calls, among other things, to come to terms with rape after the war. Reviewers praised Gebhardt's goal of “strengthening the public's empathy skills”. In the professional world, however, the book met with some fierce criticism. Klaus-Dietmar Henke attested the book “methodical carelessness” and “mental confusion”.

In her study on the psychology of the members of the White Rose (“The White Rose: How Ordinary Germans Became Resistance Fighters”, 2017), she describes how, on the one hand, a supporting family in a democratic era can be identified as the common basis of the later resistance fighters; At the same time, however, she finds considerable disharmony in their family circumstances in the form of fears of loss and extreme father conflicts. In a review, however, the Süddeutsche Zeitung criticized the numerous "speculations" by Gebhardt that were not backed up by sources and came to the conclusion: "The claim that the resisters were 'completely normal Germans' cannot be entirely redeemed."

Publications

Monographs
  • The family memory . Remembrance in the German-Jewish bourgeoisie, 1890–1932. Steiner, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07560-7 .
  • Sin, soul, sex . The century of psychology. DVA, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-421-05641-2 .
  • The fear of the child tyrant . A History of Education in the 20th Century. DVA, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-421-04413-6 .
  • Rudolf Steiner . A modern prophet. DVA, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04473-0 .
  • Alice in no man's land . How the German women's movement lost women. DVA, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-04411-2 .
  • When the soldiers came . The rape of German women at the end of World War II. DVA, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-421-04633-8 .
  • The white rose . How normal Germans became resistance fighters. DVA, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-421-04730-4 .
  • We children of violence . How women and families suffer from the consequences of mass rape at the end of the war to this day. DVA, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-421-04731-1 .
Anthologies
  • with Clemens Wischermann (ed.): Family socialization since 1933 - negotiations about continuity . Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-08827-5 .
  • with Katja Patzel-Mattern, Stefan Zahlmann (ed.): The integrative potential of elite cultures . Festschrift for Clemens Wischermann. Steiner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-515-10070-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwarzer's critic . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . February 9, 2013, p. 40 .
  2. ↑ a b Miriam Gebhardt. Random House Publishing Group, accessed July 13, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Prof. apl. Miriam Gebhardt. (No longer available online.) University of Konstanz, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on July 13, 2015 . 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.geschichte.uni-konstanz.de
  4. ↑ List of articles by Miriam Gebhardt. In: Zeit Online. Retrieved July 13, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Markus Mathys: How we are psychologized. In: spectrum. April 24, 2003, accessed July 13, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Miriam Gebhardt: The know-it-alls . In: Der Tagesspiegel . January 5, 2003, p. 7 .
  7. ↑ Andrea Rinnert: Worry, live later . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . January 2, 2003, p. 14 .
  8. ↑ Annett Klimpel: Test of strength with the offspring . In: Nassauische Neue Presse . December 31, 2009, p. 2 .
  9. ↑ Meredith Haaf: Müdebinichgehzurruh . In: SZ-Magazin . September 2, 2011, p. 10-14 .
  10. ↑ Adam Soboczynski: Fear of the child . In: The time . April 29, 2010, p. 53 .
  11. ^ Non-fiction books of the month of February . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 9, 2010.
  12. ↑ Nina Mackert: M. Gebhardt: The fear of the child tyrant. In: H-Soz-Kult . April 2010, accessed July 13, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Monika Jonasch: Education - Between Love and Discipline . In: Wiener Zeitung . March 4, 2011.
  14. ↑ Ernst Piper: Prophet in a frock coat. In: Der Tagesspiegel. February 20, 2011, accessed July 13, 2015 .
  15. ^ Bertram Müller: The controversial reformer Rudolf Steiner . In: Rheinische Post . January 17, 2011.
  16. ↑ Oliver Pfohlmann: Propagandist of the occult . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 17, 2011, p. 33 .
  17. ^ Sabine Pamperrien: On the misery of German feminism. In: Deutschlandfunk. September 17, 2012, accessed July 13, 2015 .
  18. ↑ a b Andrea Roedig : Please change yourself! In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 15, 2012, p. 64 .
  19. ↑ Miriam Gebhardt: Matriarch on the sidelines . In: Financial Times Germany . November 30, 2012, p. 26 .
  20. ↑ Yuriko Wahl-Immel: A life for women, despite criticism and malice . In: Aachener Zeitung . December 3, 2012, p. 3 .
  21. ↑ Melanie Mühl: The alpha animal drives history. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 6, 2012, accessed July 13, 2015 .
  22. ↑ Julian Rohrer: How Allied Soldiers Abused German Women. In: Focus Online. February 28, 2015, accessed July 13, 2015 .
  23. ↑ Not only Russians raped . In: Nürnberger Zeitung . March 24, 2015, p. 5 .
  24. ↑ Alexander Jürgs: "To set off guilt is the stupidest thing". In: The world. April 1, 2015, accessed July 13, 2015 .
  25. ↑ Sarah Judith Hofmann: Between flowers and Kalashnikov. In: Deutsche Welle. February 28, 2015, accessed July 13, 2015 .
  26. ↑ Heide Oestreich: Not just Veronika . In: The daily newspaper . March 7, 2015, p. 15 .
  27. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH: Sexual violence 1945: calculation errors and inconsistencies. May 18, 2015, accessed September 27, 2017 .
  28. ↑ Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss: It takes more than a key experience. In: Merkur.de. April 12, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2017 .
  29. ↑ Jakob Wetzel: Roots of Resistance . In: sueddeutsche.de . July 12, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed September 27, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Gebhardt, Miriam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau