Ralf-Peter Fuchs
Ralf-Peter Fuchs (born December 7, 1956 in Witten ) is a German historian and saxophonist .
biography
Ralf-Peter Fuchs studied history and political science at the Ruhr University Bochum . At the same time he was active in social education. Before that, he was a co-founder of the contact work collective in Witten, which had set itself the task of promoting children with a migration background.
After receiving his doctorate in Bochum with Winfried Schulze (1994), Ralf-Peter Fuchs worked as a research assistant at the Chair for Early Modern Times at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich on various projects. From 2007 to 2008 he worked as a freelancer at the NDB editorial team at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In the summer semester 2011 he was a fellow of the German Historical Institute in Washington and the German Society of Pennsylvania in a project entitled The Art of Peacemaking in Early Modern Pennsylvania .
After completing his habilitation in Munich in 2008, he represented various professorships. Since 2014 he has been Professor of State History of the Rhine-Maas Region at the University of Duisburg-Essen .
Priorities of the historical work
His historical work focused on research on honor and violence in the early modern period , witch research, studies on early modern witness interrogation protocols, research into peace negotiations during the Thirty Years' War and research on the social reception of jazz in post-war western Germany .
saxophonist
As a tenor and soprano saxophonist, Ralf-Peter Fuchs played in numerous jazz bands in Munich and Witten, a. a. with Marty Cook , Leszek Zadlo , Ka Sheena Morreau and Sava Medan.
He is a member of the permanent formation Blue Monday Jazz Quintet . He performed u. a. Regularly at the German-Polish Jazz Festival in Munich, also at the International Jazz Festival Kassel and at the Documenta in Kassel 2013.
Publications (selection)
- For the honor. Westphalian libel trials before the Reich Chamber of Commerce (1525 - 1805) . Paderborn 1999.
- Witch hunt on the Ruhr and Lippe. The use of justice by masters and subjects . Munster 2002.
- A 'medium' to peace. The normal year rule and the ending of the Thirty Years War . Oldenbourg, Munich 2010 (Library Altes Reich 4), ISBN 978-3-486-58789-0 .
- as editor with Winfried Schulze : Truth, Knowledge, Memory. Witness interrogation protocols as sources for social knowledge of the early modern period . Münster, Hamburg, London 2002.
- as editor with Arndt Brendecke / Edith Koller: The authority of time in the early modern period . Berlin 2007.
Web links
- Website of Prof. Dr. phil. Ralf-Peter Fuchs, University of Duisburg-Essen
- Ralf-Peter Fuchs: tenor sax, soprano sax, composition
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fuchs, Ralf-Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and saxophonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th December 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Witten |