Petra Terhoeven

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Petra Terhoeven (born 1969 in Düren ) is a German historian . She is Professor of Contemporary History in Göttingen . Her focus is the history of the 20th century in Italy and Germany, in particular the history of political violence and terrorism .

academic career

Terhoeven studied history, German and Italian from 1988 to 1996 at the Universities of Cologne and Bologna . From 1993 to 1996 she guided visitors through the historical collections and art museums in several languages ​​for the Cologne City Transport Office. She completed her studies in 1996 with the first state examination for the teaching profession in Cologne and in 1997 was a research assistant at the Cologne Historical Seminar.

From 1998 to 2001 Terhoeven lived in Rome for research purposes and with funding from the DHI , the DAAD and the Italian government . In 2002, with his dissertation, he became a pawn of love for the fatherland. The gold and wedding ring collection in Fascist Italy 1935/36 received his doctorate summa cum laude at the TU Darmstadt . In this study, she examined loyalty to the fascist regime from multiple perspectives using the collection of wedding rings to generate state revenue for the Abyssinian War . She made a contribution to gender history and the history of political iconography and showed how the Catholic Church supported the regime in this situation.

Terhoeven was then scientific lecturer at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society and in summer 2004 scientific assistant to Christoph Cornelißen at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , after which she was a lecturer there. In November 2004 she was appointed junior professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . After teaching positions in Lucerne (2006/07) and Rome (2007/08), Terhoeven's junior professorship was extended in 2009 ( tenure track ). Since November 2012 she has been professor for European cultural and contemporary history in Göttingen for life.

Terhoeven's habilitation thesis on the German Autumn in Europe was published in 2014 after ten years of research. In it she examines the transnational connections of the left-wing terrorism of the Red Army Faction to other European countries, especially Italy. Your study is a "historical milestone", according to RAF expert Jan-Hendrik Schulz. Above all, she worked out the role of lawyers and intellectuals ( Rudi Dutschke and Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ) in transnational communication and mutual radicalization. Andreas Rödder points out that the claim of the title is not fulfilled insofar as, besides glimpses at France, almost only the German-Italian exchange processes come into view and relations with Palestinian organizations, for example, remain hidden. The examined "resonance spaces" remained collage-like and blurred; They would open up previously neglected perspectives, but neglect concrete causalities and empiricism through the panoramic view.

Focus

Terhoeven cites Italian fascism and Western European history of the 20th century as her focus, as well as transnational , visual and gender history . She is also an expert on the history of political violence and terrorism in the 20th century. She heads a project on the victims of political terrorism. Terhoeven publishes the series Italy in Modern Art (since 2006) and publications of the Contemporary History Working Group Lower Saxony (since 2013). She has been co-editor of Visual History magazine since 2015 . Rivista internazionale di storia e critica dell'immagine .

As an expert on the history of the RAF, Terhoeven appeared frequently in the media, especially on the anniversary of the German Autumn 2017. In this capacity, she informed Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in 2017 about the state of research on left-wing terrorism.

Terhoeven is a member of the scientific advisory board of the “Landshut” project , which accompanies the Dornier Museum in Friedrichshafen in the development and implementation of the exhibition about the hijacking of the “Landshut” plane . She demands that historians have access to all state files on the night of Stammheim's death after the Landshut kidnapping: “It is high time to scare away the last fog of the German autumn.” At the same time, it is “obvious” that the terrorists were in October Committed suicide in 1977 in Stuttgart-Stammheim .

On Terhoeven's initiative, the Association of Historians of Germany issued a resolution on September 27, 2018 at the 52nd Historians' Day in Münster “on current threats to democracy”.

family

Terhoeven is married and has one daughter.

Fonts

  • Pledge of love for the fatherland. War, gender and fascist nation in the gold and wedding ring collection 1935/36 (= library of the German Historical Institute Rome. Volume 105). Max Niemeyer, ISBN 3-484-82105-1 , Tübingen 2003 (translation into Italian: Bologna 2005).
  • (Ed.): Italy, Views. New perspectives on Italian history in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-55785-3 .
  • (Ed. With Christoph Cornelißen and Brunello Mantelli ): Il decennio rosso. Contestazione sociale e conflitto politico in Germania ed in Italia negli anni Sessanta e Settanta (= Quaderni dell ' Istituto storico italo-Germanico in Trento. Volume 85). Il Mulino, Bologna 2012, ISBN 978-88-15-23790-3 .
  • German autumn in Europe. Left-wing terrorism in the 1970s as a transnational phenomenon. Oldenbourg, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-486-71866-9 (also habilitation thesis, University of Göttingen).
  • The Red Army Faction. A history of terrorist violence (= Beck Wissen. Volume 2878). CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-71235-7 .

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Charlotte Tacke: Review. In: H-Soz-Kult , February 13, 2004.
  2. ↑ Jan-Hendrik Schulz: Review. In: H-Soz-Kult. March 21, 2014; Michael Ploetz: Review. In: Sehepunkte . Volume 15, 2015, November 15, 2015. See also Petra Terhoeven: “Dreamland of the Revolution”: The “German Autumn” in Italy. In: Zeitgeschichte Online , September 12, 2017.
  3. ^ Andreas Rödder : Self-victimization of the system opponents. Review. In: FAZ.net , July 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ Main focus of work. In: Uni-Goettingen.de .
  5. ↑ a b Sindy Peukert: Interview on the subject of contemporary witnesses: It takes two to remember. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , March 19, 2016.
  6. ↑ Publications. In: Uni-Goettingen.de .
  7. ↑ Joachim Frank: RAF Terror: "The state was jointly responsible". In: Frankfurter Rundschau , September 10, 2017 (conversation with Terhoeven); Achim Schmitz-Forte: Myth RAF - Petra Terhoeven. In: Curiosity is enough - speaking time. WDR 5 , September 13, 2017 (broadcast, 26:45 minutes); Conversation with Petra Terhoeven on the topic of 40 years of the German Autumn. In: Kulturzeit , October 17, 2017 (video with Terhoeven).
  8. ^ Heidi Niemann: Göttingen historian Terhoeven: "The RAF functioned like a sect". In: Göttinger Tageblatt , October 20, 2017.
  9. ^ Hagen Schönherr: The team of experts for the Landshut memorial has been determined. In: Schwäbische Zeitung , February 2, 2018; Andreas Arens: Terhoeven demands disclosure of state files: clearing the fog. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , October 21, 2017; Jan-Hendrik Schulz: Review of: P. Terhoeven: German autumn in Europe. In: H-Soz-Kult . March 21, 2014.
  10. ↑ Jakob Saß: Conference Report: (Un-) Political? A discussion about the challenges of historical science today, February 14th, 2019 Berlin . In: H-Soz-Kult , May 25, 2019.
  11. ↑ Frank-Lothar Kroll : The Lord of the Rings. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 18, 2005; Petra Terhoeven: wedding rings for war. The story of a fascist memorial. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Volume 54, 2006, Issue 1, pp. 61-85 (PDF) .
  12. ^ Andreas Rödder : Self-victimization of the system opponents. Review. In: FAZ.net , July 28, 2014.
  13. ↑ Manfred Orlick: An interesting view of the "German Autumn". In: Literaturkritik.de , September 25, 2017; Robert Probst: German autumn: The sect of the "martyrs". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 9, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Terhoeven, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren