Monica Rüthers

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Monica Rüthers (* 1963 in Münster ) is a Swiss historian .

Monica Rüthers, born in Münster in 1963, daughter of the marriage of the German legal scholar Bernd Rüthers and the Rhaeto-Romanic poet Tresa Rüthers-Seeli, grew up in West Berlin and on Lake Constance. From 1984 to 1989 she studied history and German at the University of Basel . From 1991 to 2001 she was assistant at the chair for Eastern European and Modern General History with Heiko Haumann at the Department of History at the University of Basel. In 1995/96 she received her doctorate in Basel from Haumann on the life plans of Eastern Jewish women in the 19th century. Using three autobiographical texts by women, she examined the changes in Eastern Jewish worlds as well as their perception and interpretation by Jewish women. Rüthers held teaching positions in Basel, Zurich, Bern and Lucerne. From 1997 to 2001 she was commissioned by the city of Kreuzlingen director of the research project City history Kreuzlingen. In 2006 she completed her habilitation in Basel with a study on public space and social utopia. Urban planning, communication and staging of power in the Soviet Union using the example of Moscow, 1917–1964 .

From 2006 to 2008 she was associate professor for contemporary history at the University of Friborg . In 2008/09, Rüthers was a deputy professor for Eastern European history at the University of Konstanz . In 2010 she accepted a professorship for European History with a focus on Eastern Europe at the University of Hamburg . Rüthers was a research fellow at the Historical College in Munich from October 2017 to September 2018 . In the 2017/2018 college year, the focus was on the iconography of Soviet childhood.

Rüthers' main research areas include Soviet childhood, the history of consumption in societies of the Soviet type, the history of Eastern European Jews and visual worlds under socialism .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Jews and Gypsies in the European theater of history. "Jewish Spaces" / "Gypsy Spaces" - Kazimierz and Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in the new folklore of Europe. transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2062-7 .
  • Moscow build from Lenin to Chruščev. Public spaces between utopia, terror and everyday life. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77490-7 (at the same time: Basel, University, habilitation paper, 2006), ( technical review ).
  • Tevye's daughters. Life plans of Eastern Jewish women in the 19th century (= life worlds of Eastern European Jews. Vol. 2). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1996, ISBN 3-412-03796-6 (At the same time: Basel, Universität, Dissertation, 1995).

Editorships

  • with Carmen Scheide , Julia Richers and Eva Maurer: Soviet space culture. Cosmic enthusiasm in socialist societies. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 2011, ISBN 978-0-230-27435-8 .
  • with Carmen Scheide: Moscow. People, myths, places. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2003, ISBN 3-412-04703-1 .
  • with Michael Bürgi and Astrid Wüthrich: Kreuzlingen. (Children, Consumption, and Careers. 1874–2000). With contributions by Eva Büchi, Michael Bürgi, Diane Fischer, Patrick Kupper, Martin Leschhorn, Barbara Rettenmund, Monica Rüthers, Sabine Strebel, Werner Trapp, Reto Wissmann, Astrid Wüthrich and Thomas Zürcher. Wolfau-Druck Rudolf Mühlemann, Weinfelden 2001, ISBN 3-85809-124-3 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Professor Dr. Monica Rüthers. Research grant 2017/2018
personal data
SURNAME Rüthers, Monica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster