Rosmarie Beier-de Haan

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Rosmarie Beier-de Haan (* 1953 in Lemgo ) is a German historian , museum theorist and exhibition curator .

Live and act

Rosmarie Beier-de Haan studied history, German studies and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and was awarded a doctorate in 1982 in the field of historical women and family research under Karin Hausen at the Technical University of Berlin with a dissertation on women’s work in the German Empire. phil. PhD.

From 1989 to 2017, she worked, initially as a member of the scientific development team, then as a collection manager for everyday, medical and technical history and as an exhibition curator for the German Historical Museum in the armory on Unter den Linden . From 2003 on, she also taught modern history as an honorary professor at the Technical University of Berlin . In 2005 she was awarded an honorary professorship at the Free University of Berlin , where she taught at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute, primarily in the field of museum science and theory. Rosmarie Beier-de Haan has curated numerous exhibitions in the field of the history of culture and mentality, the German-German past, as well as experiences of migration and foreignness. She has written and edited a wide range of publications on German history, the theory and history of the museum, the politics of memory and intangible cultural heritage.

As part of her international lecturing activities, Rosmarie Beier-de Haan has given a large number of lectures, including a. at Harvard University, Cambridge / Mass., Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem. As a visiting scholar, she has been a repeated guest at the Maison des sciences de l´homme, Paris since 1995. She was and is a board member of German and international museum associations, scientific advisory boards and committees.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Body search. Look at the body in five centuries (together with Martin Roth), Dresden 1990 
  • People and Houses , Dresden and Berlin 1991, Goethe-Institut Brussels 1992 
  • Life stages in Germany 1900-1993 , Berlin 1993
  • construction west - construction east. The planned cities of Wolfsburg and Eisenhüttenstadt in the post-war period , Berlin 1997 
  • Prometheus. people - images - visions (together with Hans Dieter Schaal), world cultural heritage Alte Völklinger Hütte, Saarland 1998 and cultural center Reading Power Station, Tel Aviv 1999 
  • Witch madness. Fears of Modern Times (together with Marie-Paule Jungblut), Berlin 2002 
  • Immigration country Germany. Migrations 1500 - 2005 , Berlin 2005 
  • Strangers? Pictures of the “others” in Germany and France since 1871 (together with Jan Werquet and Carola Jüllig), Berlin 2009 

Committees / advisory boards (selection)

  • Board member of the association international des musées d'histoire , Paris
  • Editorial board member of the magazine "museum international" , Wiley Inc. London and ICOM Paris
  • Board member (deputy chair) in the Scientific Advisory Board Museum Friedland (2008–2017)
  • Member of the jury at the Federal Cultural Foundation (2004-2007)
  • Board member of the International Committee of Museums of Archeology and History , Paris (2004–2010)
  • Board member ICOM Germany (2004-2010)  

Publications (selection)

  • Diversity - equality - individuality. The museum as a “moral institution”. In: Bernadette Collenberg-Plotnikov (ed.): The museum as a provocation of philosophy. Contributions to a current debate transcript, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3837640601 .
  • Transnationality and Difficult History. New Exhibition Practice in German and European museums. In: Conal McCarthy (Ed.): Museum Practice (The International Handbook of Museum Studies) . Oxford, Malden 2015
  • Migration, nation et musée. In: Marianne Amar et al. (Ed.): Musées, histoire, migrations, Québec: Presses de l'Université de Laval 2015, ISBN 978-2763799773 .
  • Edited with Hans-Martin Hinz: National Museums - Gedächtnis der Nations / National Museums - The Memory of Nations. DHM, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3861021674 .  
  • Edited with Jan Werquet: Strangers? Pictures of others in Germany and France since 1871. (Accompanying volume to the exhibition of the same name by the German Historical Museum Berlin and the cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration Paris, Dresden). Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3940319784 .
  • Edited with Marie-Paule Jungblut: Museums and Universal Heritage. History in the Area of ​​Conflict between Interpretation and Manipulation. Musée de l'histoire de la ville, Moxxo Design, Chemnitz 2008, ISBN 978-2919878260 .
  • Edited with Marie-Paule Jungblut: The exhibition and the immaterial. Contributions from the First Museological Study Days in Neumünster, Luxembourg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3422067684 .
  • Remembered story - Staged story. Exhibitions and museums in the second modern age. (Second Modern Edition). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3518417218 .
  • Immigration country Germany. Migrations 1500 - 2005. Minerva, Wolfratshausen 2005, ISBN 978-3861021360 .
  • Edited with Rita Voltmer, Franz Irsigler: Hexenwahn - Äangste der Neuzeit. (Accompanying volume to the exhibition of the same name by the German Historical Museum). Minerva, Wolfratshausen 2002, ISBN 978-3861021209 .
  • History culture in the second modern age. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 978-3593366241 .
  • Prometheus. People - pictures - visions. (Accompanying volume for the exhibition of the same name by the German Historical Museum and the Industrial Culture Foundation Völklingen / Saarland). DHM, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3861021032 . 

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personal data
SURNAME Beier-de Haan, Rosmarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, museum theorist and exhibition curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemgo