Rainer Wirtz

Rainer Wirtz (born December 26, 1942 in Krölpa ; † March 17, 2013 in Radolfzell ) was a German historian and university professor .

Life

Wirtz studied sociology , history , German studies and political science in Heidelberg and various foreign universities from 1963 to 1971 . He was a fellow of the Graduate Scholarship (1972/74) and 1975 to 1979 research assistant at the University of Konstanz, where he in 1979 with a thesis on social movements and non-violent protest liable in Baden 1815-1848 to Dr. phil. received his doctorate. In 1981 he was appointed university assistant.

In 1986 he became a member of the management of the State Museum for Technology and Work in Mannheim . After his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Konstanz in 1987, he was appointed private lecturer with the venia legendi. In 1993 he was appointed by the state of Baden-Württemberg as an extraordinary professor for modern history and history in media at the University of Konstanz . From 1993 to 2000 Wirtz was the leading state museum director of the Rheinisches Industriemuseum .

He held lectureships at the Universities of Basel, Zurich, St. Gallen, Umeå (Sweden), MSH Paris Nord and Berlin and was visiting professor at the MSH in Paris and a professor in Zurich and Konstanz.

He has worked with Südwestrundfunk and Südwestfunk since 1981 and has been involved in over 20 radio and around 100 television programs.

Publications

• Resistance, excesses, crawls, tumults and scandals. Social movement and violent social protest in Baden 1815 - 1848. Berlin, Frankfurt / M., Vienna 1981; 2nd edition Nomos, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5186-1 .
• as publisher: Industrialization - De-industrialization - Museumization? Rheinland-Verl., Pulheim 1998, ISBN 3-7927-1702-6 .

Web links

• "The eyewitness is dead , long live the contemporary witness Notes on a paradigm shift, SWR2 auditorium on May 27, 2012 (8.30 min, SWR media library)

Individual evidence

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