Susanne Schötz
Susanne Schötz (born January 7, 1958 in Altdöbern ) is a German economic and social historian .
career
Susanne Schötz studied history and German from 1976 to 1980 at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig (now Leipzig University ). This was followed by research studies with Hartmut Zwahr and in 1985 the doctorate on the subject of urban middle classes in Leipzig during the bourgeois upheaval (1830-1870), examined on the basis of biographical mass sources. Schötz remained as a research assistant at the University of Leipzig until 1998. In the following years she worked at various historical institutions: at the Technical University of Chemnitz , the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , again at the University of Leipzig and at the Leipzig City History Museum . Finally, in 2004, she completed her habilitation at Bielefeld University (subject: Commercial women in Leipzig. On the history of work and gender in modern times ).
Since 2005, Schötz has held the professorship for economic and social history at the Technical University of Dresden (until mid-2006 as a substitute) .
Schötz is married and has two daughters.
Memberships and other functions (selection)
- 2010–2012 Dean of Studies of the Philosophical Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden
- since 2011 regional coordinator east in the working group for historical women and gender studies of the Federal Republic of Germany (AKHFG e.V.)
- Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (Historical Commission)
Publications (selection)
Books
- Urban middle classes in Leipzig during the bourgeois upheaval (1830–1870) examined on the basis of biographical mass sources. Dissertation, University of Leipzig, 1985
- Merchant women in Leipzig. On the history of work and gender in modern times. Böhlau, Weimar / Cologne / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-17603-6 , also: Habilitation thesis, Bielefeld University 2004
Published books
- Susanne Schötz (ed.): Everyday women in Leipzig. Female life contexts in the 19th and 20th centuries (= History and Politics in Saxony, Volume 4). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-412-04796-1
- Susanne Schötz (ed.): Social history and national history. Hartmut Zwahr on his 60th birthday. Small Festschrift. Sax-Verlag, Beucha 1998, ISBN 3-930076-62-4
- Johanna Ludwig, Ilse Nagelschmidt, Susanne Schötz (eds.): Women in the bourgeois revolution of 1848/49. Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth, [Bonn] [1999]
- Manfred Hettling, Susanne Schötz, Uwe Schirmer (eds.): Figures and structures. Historical essays for Hartmut Zwahr on his 65th birthday. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11585-7
- Johanna Ludwig, Hannelore Rothenburg, Susanne Schötz (eds.): George Sand and Louise Otto-Peters . Pioneers of women's emancipation. Speeches and lectures for the conference on 23/24 April 2004 on the occasion of the 200th birthday of George Sand (= Leipzig Studies on Women and Gender Studies, Series C, Volume 4; = Louiseum, Volume 21). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-86583-032-3
- Johanna Ludwig, Susanne Schötz, Gerlinde Kämmerer (eds.): Remembering and encouraging women. Reports from the 13th Louise-Otto-Peters-Tag 2005 (= Louiseum, Volume 24). Louise Otto Peters Society, Leipzig 2006
- Johanna Ludwig, Gerlinde Kämmerer, Susanne Schötz (eds.): Experiencing women - preserving women. Reports from the 15th Louise-Otto-Peters-Tag 2007 (= Louiseum, Volume 27). Louise Otto Peters Society, Leipzig 2008
- Johanna Ludwig, Gerlinde Kämmerer, Susanne Schötz (eds.): Political ban - Political access - Political disaffection? Women and Politics in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Reports from the 16th Louise-Otto-Peters-Tag 2008 (= Louiseum, Volume 28). Louise Otto Peters Society, Leipzig 2009
- Johanna Ludwig, Gerlinde Kämmerer, Susanne Schötz (ed.): Louise Otto's women's newspaper in the context of women's press and women's movement. Reports from the 17th Louise-Otto-Peters-Tag 2009 (= Louiseum, Volume 30). Louise Otto Peters Society, Leipzig 2010
- Johanna Ludwig, Gerlinde Kämmerer, Susanne Schötz (eds.): Female life plans in the work of Louise Otto-Peters. Reports from the 18th Louise-Otto-Peters-Tag 2010 (= Louiseum, Volume 31). Louise Otto Peters Society, Leipzig 2011
- Susanne Schötz and Martina Schattkowsky (eds.): Louise Otto-Peters and the revolution of 1848/49. Memories of the future (= Dresden contributions to gender research in history, culture and literature, Volume 3). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, [Leipzig] 2012, ISBN 978-3-86583-619-9
- Susanne Schötz (ed.): Leipzig's economy in the past and present. Actors, scope for action, effects (1400–2011) (= sources and research on the history of the city of Leipzig, Volume 3). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86583-637-3
- Johanna Ludwig, Gerlinde Kämmerer, Susanne Schötz (eds.): Henriette Goldschmidt and the University for Women in Leipzig. Reports from the 19th Louise-Otto-Peters-Tag 2011 (= Louiseum, Volume 32). Louise Otto Peters Society, Leipzig 2012
- Johanna Ludwig, Gerlinde Kämmerer, Susanne Schötz (eds.): Art and artists in the vicinity of Louise Otto-Peters. Reports from the 20th Louise-Otto-Peters-Tag 2012 (= Louiseum, Volume 33). Louise Otto Peters Society, Leipzig 2013
- Gerlinde Kämmerer and Susanne Schötz (eds.): On the status of biographical research in the women's movement. Reports from the 21st Louise-Otto-Peters-Tag 2013 (= Louiseum, Volume 34). Louise Otto Peters Society, Leipzig 2014
- Susanne Schötz (ed.): "The fatherland needs your strength ..." On the history of female gainful employment in Dresden in the 20th century (= Dresden contributions to gender research in history, culture and literature, Volume 7). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, [Leipzig] 2015, ISBN 978-3-86583-909-1
Essays
- On the mobility of Leipzig workers in selected groups of the urban middle classes during the industrial revolution (1830–1870). In: Scientific journal of the Wilhelm Pieck University Rostock. G Series Volume 37, No. 3, 1988, pp. 54-58
- Historical research on women in East Germany. In: Konrad Jarausch / Matthias Middell (ed.): After the earthquake. (Re) construction of East German history and historical studies. Leipzig 1994, pp. 177-194
- Child labor in Leipzig trade? Pictorial and written sources between silence and communicability. In: SOWI. No. 2, 1999, pp. 114-122
- Female participation in Leipzig trade in the 16th and 17th centuries. In: Mark Häberlein and Christof Jeggle (eds.): Practices of trade. Business and social relations of European merchants in the Middle Ages and early modern times. Konstanz 2010, pp. 493-509.
- Leipzig at the intersection of via regia and via imperii. About the importance and actors of the trade fair trade. In: Via regia. 800 years of movement and encounter. Catalog for the 3rd Saxon State Exhibition in Görlitz 2011. Dresden 2011, pp. 86–90
- Political participation and women's suffrage with Louise Otto-Peters. In: Hedwig Richter and Kerstin Wolff (eds.): Women's suffrage. Democratization of Democracy in Germany and Europe. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2018, pp. 187–220.
Web links
- Information about Schötz on the website of the Technical University of Dresden
- Review in the online forum H-Soz-u-Kult by Matthias Manke on trading women in Leipzig. On the history of work and gender in modern times
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schötz, Susanne |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economic and social historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1958 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Altdöbern |