Steffen Bruendel

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Steffen Bruendel (* 1970 in Helmstedt ) is a German historian and science and culture manager .

Since October 2019, he has headed the non-profit PwC foundation of PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft , which is active in promoting education and culture . From 2014 to September 2019 he was Research Director and Managing Director of the Research Center for Historical Humanities at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Previously, he was responsible for the international promotion of culture and science at E.ON Ruhrgas AG in Essen , which was founded in 1926 and taken over by E.ON in 2003, and which was merged into E.ON Global Commodities SE in 2013 (legal successor isUniper Global Commodities SE).

Life

After training as an officer in the reserve of the Bundeswehr (Army), Bruendel studied history and public law at the Universities of Freiburg , London ( Queen Mary College ) and Bielefeld . In 2001 he was at the University of Bielefeld by Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey and Hans-Ulrich Wehler with a study on the ideas of 1914 in the First World War to Dr. phil. PhD. He was a PhD scholarship holder from the German National Academic Foundation . His study found a strong response in leading media and specialist journals.

From 1999 to 2006 Bruendel worked for the non-profit Hertie Foundation in Frankfurt am Main , initially as an assistant to the management and since 2000 as a project manager for European cultural and scientific projects . From 2006 to 2014 he was responsible for the international promotion of culture and science at E.ON Ruhrgas AG in Essen . This also included the operational management of the E.ON Ruhrgas Foundation Scholarship Fund in the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft , Essen. In addition, from 2011 to 2014 he worked as a representative and until 2017 as an advisor to the board of the Alfred and Cläre Pott Foundation, working closely with Klaus Liesen , the long-standing chairman of the board, established by the wife of the Ruhrgas founder Alfred Pott in 1966 and since 1984 by the Stifterverband for the German Science Foundation in Essen administered in trust.

From 2003 to 2006 Bruendel was a lecturer for cultural history as well as for project management and fundraising at the University of Bielefeld and from 2010 to 2012 a lecturer at the Ruhr University Bochum . He researches and publishes on German, British and Spanish history and is involved in international academic networks.

Bruendel was a personal member of the board of trustees of the Foundation for the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 2007 to 2014 . He is a member of the Military History Working Group , the German-Russian Forum and the German-Norwegian Youth Forum . In addition, since 2004 he has been involved in student selection and in events organized by the German National Academic Foundation .

Work areas

Bruendel's academic work focuses on the history of political ideas , the sociology of domination and the new social movements . He is particularly interested in the First World War and the post-war European order, the British 1968 movement and a comparative analysis of National Socialism and Franquism .

Bruendel's work in the international promotion of culture, education and science relates to cultural sponsorship , project selection and evaluation as well as project management and project control . In the context of youth and cultural exchanges, cross-border academic cooperation and development cooperation, he cooperates closely with foreign embassies and institutions in Germany as well as the actors of German foreign cultural and educational policy (AKBP), the Federal Foreign Office, German embassies abroad and the intermediary organizations such as Goethe-Institut , ifa and DAAD as well as GIZ and internationally active foundations . In 2007 Bruendel was one of the co-founders of the German-Norwegian Youth Forum, a non-profit organization that works closely with the embassies of both countries to promote youth exchanges between Norway and Germany.

Fonts (selection)

  • together with Frank Estelmann: Disasters of War. Perceptions and Representations from 1914 to the Present. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2019, ISBN 978-3-7705-6290-9 .
  • Between nonconformism and overfitting. German Jewish artists and writers in the First World War (= Thursday issues . On politics, culture and society , issue 10). Klartext Verlag, Essen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8375-1711-8 .
  • Years without a summer. European artists in cold and war. Herbig Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7766-2782-4 .
  • The turning point in 1914. Artists, poets and thinkers in the First World War. Herbig Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7766-2734-3 .
  • Volksgemeinschaft or Volksstaat. The "Ideas of 1914" and the reorganization of Germany in the First World War. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-05-003745-8 .
  • together with Nicole Grochowina: Cultural Identity (= Les Travaux du Center Marc Bloch , No. 18). Center Marc Bloch , Berlin 2000, ISBN 2-11-091094-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meetings appeared and a. in FAZ , November 6, 2003 ( Eberhard Kolb ); NZZ , April 28, 2004 ( Stefan Breuer ); Historical magazine 278/3, 2004 ( Klaus von See ); The State 43, 2004 ( Gerd Roellecke ); Neue Politische Literatur 49, 2004 ( Willi Oberkrome ); Journal for the History of Modern Theology 11, 2004 ( Ulrich Sieg ); Secession 4, 2004 ( Karlheinz Weißmann ); International scientific correspondence on the history of the German labor movement 3, 2003 (Engel).
  2. ↑ CV at E.ON Scholarship Fund (PDF; 243 kB).
  3. ↑ Workshop 'Wreckage of Modernity' or 'Revolution of Perception'? 1968: Consequences and Echoes , Oxford University 2009.
  4. ^ Conference Burgfriede - Union sacrée , Stuttgart 2007.
  5. ↑ 2nd workshop on historical research on Spain 2006 .
  6. ^ Foundation for the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts .
personal data
SURNAME Bruendel, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian as well as science and culture manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmstedt