Simone Eick

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Simone Eick (2019)

Simone Eick , also Simone Blaschka-Eick , (* February 18, 1972 in Hanover as Simone Blaschka ) is a German historian and migration researcher . Since 2006 she has headed the German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven as director and managing director.

biography

Simone Blaschka grew up in Hanover, where she was born. After completing her schooling, she studied history and philosophy at the University of Hannover and received his doctorate there in 2002 over German emigrants to America from the region Schaumburg-Lippe . A research stay in this context took her to Chicago in Illinois in the USA .

She then completed a scientific traineeship at the Historisches Museum Bremerhaven and in 2003 took over the scientific management of the concept team of the German Emigration Center at Studio Andreas Heller , Architects & Designers, Hamburg. After marriage, she has the surname Blaschka-Eick or Eick. In August 2005, Eick took over the scientific management of the Migration Museum, which she has been managing since January 2006, succeeding founding director Sabine Süß . Under her aegis, the expansion of the museum on the history of immigration and numerous special exhibitions on very different aspects of migration were created - with some international cooperation partners. In addition, Simone Eick is the editor of "edition DAH" and has published numerous articles on German emigration to America and on migration museology.

She is currently researching the following topics: German emigration to the American colonies and the USA as well as the history of emotions in migration.

Advisory board activities

Publications

As an author

  • Simone Eick, Bora Akşen, Andrea Grahl, Christine Fischer, Lena Jung, Christoph Bongert: Turning fear into curiosity. The Migration Forum at the German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven. Evaluation, oral history and communication of interculture . edition DAH, Bremerhaven 2017, ISBN 978-3-9817861-2-5 .
  • Simone Blaschka-Eick: To the New World! German emigrants in three centuries. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-498-01673-9 .
  • Simone Blaschka: Paths of Life in the New World. Schaumburg emigration to America in the 19th century . Microfiche output. Hanover 2002, DNB  964835185 (university thesis; dissertation at the University of Hanover 2002).

As editor

  • Simone Eick, Julian Herbig (Red.): German Emigration Center. German emigration center. The book on the Museum of Emigration and Immigration. The Museum for emigration and immigration book . Published by the German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. edition DAH, Bremerhaven 2017, ISBN 978-3-9817861-1-8 (German, English).
  • Simone Blaschka-Eick, Christoph Bongert (eds.): "... Good Music ...". Two German musicians in America 1880–1939 . edition DAH, Bremerhaven 2017, ISBN 978-3-9817861-3-2 (exhibition catalog).
  • Simone Blaschka-Eick, Christoph Bongert (Ed.): Suddenly there. German supplicants 1709. Turkish neighbors 1961 . edition DAH, Bremerhaven 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817861-0-1 .
  • Dieter Strohmeyer: The Ahronheims. A Bremerhaven family history from 1930 to today. A search for clues . Ed .: Simone Blaschka-Eick. edition DAH, Bremerhaven 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-044857-7 .
  • Simone Blaschka-Eick (Ed.): Germans in Australia. 1788 – today . edition DAH, Bremerhaven 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-044574-3 .
  • Irene Stratenwerth : The yellow note. Girls trafficking 1860 to 1930 . Ed .: Simone Blaschka-Eick, Hermann Simon . edition DAH, Bremerhaven 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038801-9 .
  • Simone Blaschka-Eick, Karin Heß (ed.): Escape stories. From and to Germany. Biographies and backgrounds. 1933-2011 . edition DAH, Bremerhaven 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-036581-2 .
  • Heike Götz, Christiane Greve: Our city was New York. Frisians in America . Ed .: Simone Blaschka-Eick, Katrin Quirin. edition DAH, Bremerhaven 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035787-9 .
  • Simone Blaschka-Eick (Ed.): To Buenos Aires! German emigrants and refugees in the 20th century . edition DAH, Bremerhaven 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-023793-5 (exhibition catalog).

Lectures (selection)

  • >> The home on your back << Researching, preserving and exhibiting the history of migration - on the occasion of the 52nd German Historians' Day “Split Societies”, Münster 2018
  • Feeling Powertest: Three Memories of Forced Migration from Journals, Diaries, and Oral Histories, 1921–2015 - on the occasion of the conference “1918–1938–2018. Dawn of an Authoritarian Century? “, Schloss Eckartsau, Austria 2018
  • >> NAZI PARTY << Jewish resistance against anti-Semitic German-Americans 1933–1945 , Deutsches Auswandererhaus Bremerhaven on the occasion of the special exhibition “>> ... GOOD MUSIC ... << Two German Musicians in America 1880–1939”, 2018
  • The German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven , Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Prague 2017
  • German Emigration Center , Migration Project - Conference at the British Museum, London 2017
  • Migration between coercion and confidence , panel with Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer, University of Osnabrück, conference "Preserving memories - shaping the future", Catholic Academy, Berlin 2017
  • America, America , Symposium “The Location of Europe. Shared and Divided Memories in the Global Age ", Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover 2016
  • Becoming a Palatine: The, poor protestant refugees' from Germany and their different identities in London and New York 1709–1760 , 26th AEMI conference “European migrant diasporas and cultural identities”, Santiago de Compostela 2016
  • About the emotional power of language and images , panel discussion at the German Emigration Center, etc. a. with Spiegel editor-in-chief Klaus Brinkbäumer, 2016
  • The museum-educational approach of the German Emigration Center Bremerhaven , 4th International Symposium of the Society for History Didactics Austria, 2014

Web links

Commons : Simone Eick  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ emigration. "German emigration to America in the 19th century". In: hausderwissenschaft.de. House of Science , Bremen, March 2007, accessed on June 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Dr. Simone Eick. In: icom-oesterreich.at. ICOM Austria , accessed on June 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Scientific advisory group. In: sfvv.de. Foundation Flight, Displacement, Reconciliation , accessed on June 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board. In: bkge.de. Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe , accessed on June 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Eick, Simone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blaschka-Eick, Simone; Blaschka, Simone (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and migration researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover