Norbert Fischer (historian)

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Norbert Fischer (2015)

Norbert Bruno Joachim Fischer (born August 18, 1957 in Hemmendorf ) is a German social and cultural historian.

Life

From 1979 to 1986 Norbert Fischer studied folklore, social and economic history, sociology and philosophy at the University of Hamburg (Master of Arts degree). In 1994 he was awarded the dissertation “From the Gottesacker to the Crematorium. A social history of the cemeteries in Germany since the 18th century ”at the University of Hamburg

In 2004 he completed his habilitation with the work "Water distress and marshland society - On the history of the dykes in Kehdingen" at the University of Hamburg and became a private lecturer for social and economic history at the historical seminar of the University of Hamburg. In 2007 he became an honorary professor at the Institute for Folklore / Cultural Anthropology University of Hamburg appointed. Norbert Fischer has u. a. teaches at the universities of Hamburg, Vienna, Göttingen, Kiel and Murcia and works as a research assistant for the Landschaftsverband Stade eV. He held visiting and substitute professorships at the universities of Vienna and Eichstätt. In 2019, together with Michael Ehrhardt, he received the Hermann Allmers Prize for Regional Research in recognition of their multi-volume studies on the dike and coastal history in the Elbe-Weser region.

Research priorities

His research focuses on the history of death (cemetery history and mourning and burial culture) as well as memory and remembrance culture and landscape history and landscape theory. In addition, he researches urban-rural relationships (in particular the regional history of the Hamburg area and the Hamburg metropolitan region ) as well as the social and cultural history of the North Sea coast .

Cemetery, death and culture of mourning and burial - culture of remembrance and remembrance

One focus is the cemetery, mourning and burial culture. From 1992 he published research papers on this. With his dissertation from the church to the crematorium. A social history of cemeteries in Germany since the 18th century , he received his doctorate in 1994 at the University of Hamburg. He wrote important works with How we get underground - dying and death between mourning and technology , history of death in modern times (2001), Nekropolis - The cemetery as a place of the dead and the living (2005, ed., together with Markwart Herzog ) and New Funeral Culture - Death, Mourning and Cemetery in Transition (2013). He is also the author of numerous articles on the subject of cemetery and tomb death and the culture of mourning and burial. Norbert Fischer is a member of the advisory board for basic research at the Institute for Sepulchral Culture Kassel; Member of the board of the AG Friedhof und Denkmal; Member of the advisory board of the Federal Association of Orphaned Parents in Germany; Co-editor of the Kassel Studies on Sepulchral Culture ; Editor-in-chief of the magazine for trauerkultur ; Member of the editorial board of Friedhof und Denkmal , co-organizer of Transmortale - New Research on Death (I – V) , member of the editorial board of the magazine Friedhof und Denkmal .

In this context, since 2007 he has increasingly turned to general questions of the culture of remembrance and remembrance, not least the materialization in public space and in maritime society (maritime memorials). His research culminated in the volume Memory Landscapes in Past and Present - Cultural Studies Studies , published in 2016 .

Landscape and regional history

Another research focus is the landscape and regional history. Since 1995 he has been researching and writing about the history of the Hamburg metropolitan region, giving a lecture in particular on the Stormarn district . Overlapping the project on the history and transformation of the Hamburg metropolitan region, he began in 2000 on behalf of the Stade Regional Association with a research project on the subject of “ Dike construction and storm surges in Kehdingen , in the Hadeln region , on the Oste and in Ritzebüttel / Cuxhaven”. From 2005 to 2007 a research project on “Staging the Coast” of the Isa Lohmann-Siems-Foundation (Hamburg, with Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber and Susan Müller-Wusterwitz) followed. In 2004 he qualified as a professor at the university with the work “Water distress and marsh society - On the history of the dykes in Kehdingen”. Recent research projects include landscape history and landscape theory. Among other things, he published an article in the “Zeitschrift für Volkskunde” in 2007 on “Landscape as a cultural-scientific category”. Norbert Fischer worked at the congress (Dresden 2009) and conference proceedings “Thinking landscape across. Theories - Images - Formations "with, as well as" The Elbe-Weser Triangle - A Little Local Studies "(Stade 2013). The river landscape and the coastal landscape of the North Sea and Baltic Sea are of particular interest. To this end, he has researched and published in recent years. a. He is co-organizer of the conferences "Rivers in Northern Germany" (2013 publication) and "The Elbe - River without borders" (2017 publication).

Awards ceremonies

Publications (selection)

Independent publications

  • Ed., With Andreas Martin: The Elbe. About the change of a river from the Congress of Vienna (1815) to the present. Stade / Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-96023-205-6 , 678 pages, numerous mostly colored illustrations.
  • Ed., With Markwart Herzog: Death - Memory - Landscape. Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-17-030959-3 , 214 pages, numerous illustrations.
  • Ed., With Hansjörg Küster: Lower Saxony. Building blocks of a country studies. Hamburg / Kiel 2018, ISBN 978-3-529-05026-8 , 336 pages, numerous mostly colored illustrations.
  • Memory landscapes in the past and present. Cultural studies. Wiesbaden 2016 (print and online).
  • Ed., With Oliver Auge: Use shapes space. Frankfurt / Main 2017.
  • Sea dikes and storm surges. On the history of the dikes in Cuxhaven and on the island of Neuwerk. Stade 2016.
  • Ed., With Ortwin Pelc : Rivers in Northern Germany. About their history from the Middle Ages to the present. Neumünster / Stade 2013.
  • New funeral culture. Death, grief and the changing cemetery. e-book: Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) 2013.
  • Ed., With Stefanie Knöll, Michael Overdick, Thomas Overdick: Death and the sea. Distress and shipwreck in art, history and culture. Handewitt 2012.
  • The wild and the tamed river. On the history of the dikes on the Oste. Stade 2011.
  • Ed., With Sonja Jüde, Stefanie Helbig, Gabriele Rieck: Der Graswarder. Coastal landscape of the Baltic Sea. Hamburg 2011.
  • Ed., With Hartmut Bickelmann , Hans-Eckhard Dannenberg, Franklin Kopitzsch , Dirk J. Peters: River - Country - City. Contributions to the regional history of the Lower Weser. Landschaftsverband Stade, Bremerhaven / Stade 2011, ISBN 978-3-931879-48-8 .
  • Staged memory landscapes. Perspectives on a new burial and remembrance culture in the 21st century. 2011 ( online publication ).
  • Ed., With Vanessa Hirsch, Susan Müller-Wusterwitz, Nicole Tiedemann : Land am Meer. The coasts of the North and Baltic Seas. Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Altona Museum for Art and Cultural History, Hamburg 2009.
  • From the Hamburg area to the metropolitan region. Stormarn's story since 1980. Hamburg 2008.
  • In the face of the North Sea. On the history of the dykes in Hadeln. Stade 2007.
  • Ed., With Dirk Brietzke , Arno Herzig : Hamburg and its northern German area. Aspects of change since the early modern period. Hamburg 2007.
  • Ed., With Susan Müller-Wusterwitz, Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber: Staging of the Coast. Berlin 2007.
  • Ed., With Hans-Eckhard Dannenberg and Franklin Kopitzsch: Land am Fluss. Contributions to the regional history of the Lower Elbe. Stade 2006.
  • Ed., With Markwart Herzog: Nekropolis. The cemetery as a place of the dead and the living. Stuttgart 2005.
  • Water shortage and marsh society. On the history of the dikes in Kehdingen. Stade 2003.
  • Ed., With Markwart Herzog: Totenfürsorge. Occupational groups between taboo and fascination. Stuttgart 2003.
  • History of death in modern times. Erfurt 2001.
  • The modeled region. On the regional history of Stormarn and the Hamburg area. Neumünster 2000.
  • How we get underground. Dying and death between grief and technology. Frankfurt (Main) 1997.
  • From the churchyard to the crematorium. A social history of the cemeteries in Germany since the 18th century. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1996 ( online ).
  • The little heart that lies here is the matter of his life. Historic cemeteries in Germany. Hamburg 1992.

Cooperation

  • Elbe-Weser triangle - a brief introduction to the country. Stade 2013
  • Grave culture in Germany: history of the tombs. Berlin 2009
  • Encyclopedia of Modern Times - Stuttgart 2005 ff .: Lemmata "Deich" and "Friedhof"
  • Room for the Dead - A History of Cemeteries from Roman Grave Roads to Anonymous Burial. Edited by the AG Friedhof und Denkmal / Zentralinstitut und Museum für Sepulkralkultur. Braunschweig 2003 (contributions and editorial assistance)
  • Hamburg Biography Volume 1–3. Edited by Franklin Kopitzsch / Dirk Brietzke. Hamburg 2001 ff. (Various articles)
  • Schleswig-Holstein-Lexikon - Ed. By Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt / Ortwin Pelc, Neumünster 2000 (various articles)
  • Hamburg-Lexikon - Ed. By Franklin Kopitzsch / Daniel Tilgner. Hamburg 1998 (various articles)

Web links

Commons : Norbert Fischer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Local research: Award to Fischer and Ehrhardt. Accessed on March 29, 2019 (German, chargeable).
  2. ↑ Hans-Walter Keweloh: Award ceremony in the Museum Windkraft 10 in Cuxhaven. Hermann Allmers Prize 2019 for eight-volume dike history of the Elbe-Weser triangle . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 831 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven March 2019, p. 2–3 ( digitized version [PDF; 3.3 MB ; accessed on June 15, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Norbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Norbert Bruno Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social and cultural historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hemmendorf