Svenja Goltermann

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Svenja Angelika Goltermann (* 1965 in Sindelfingen ) is a German historian . She has been Professor of Modern History at the Department of History at the University of Zurich since 2012 .

Life

Svenja Goltermann grew up in the small Swabian town of Herrenberg . From 1984 to 1990 she studied history , Spanish and Latin American history, Spanish and political science at the Universities of Konstanz and Bielefeld. In 1997 she received her doctorate from Bielefeld University . Her dissertation on habit formation and the politics of gymnastics 1860–1890 was awarded an outstanding prize by the Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft. In 2007 she completed her habilitation at the University of Bremen . The habilitation thesis was published with the title The Society of Survivors: German War Returners and Their Experiences with Violence in World War II .

Goltermann's research focuses on the history of international humanitarianism , the history of victim perception, experiences of violence , the history of cultures of remembrance , the history of science , the history of nationalism and the history of the body.

Since 2012, Svenja Goltermann has been a member of the “History of Knowledge” competence center (University and ETH Zurich) and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the German History journal . Since 2013 she has been co-editor of the historical journal Geschichte und Gesellschaft and since 2016 co-editor of the online magazine Geschichte der Gegenwart .

Awards

  • 1998: Dissertation award from the Westphalian-Lippian University Society
  • 2008: Prize of the Association of Historians for outstanding post-doctoral qualifications
  • 2010: Humanities International - Prize to promote the translation of humanities literature
  • 2011: Wedekind Prize for German History from the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Victims - The Perception of War and Violence in the Modern Age. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397225-2 .
  • The society of survivors. German war returnees and their experiences of violence in the Second World War. DVA, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-42104375-7 .
  • Body of the nation. Habit formation and the politics of gymnastics 1860–1890. (= Critical Studies in History , Vol. 126). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-35789-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Historical seminar (homepage) .
  2. ↑ Birgit Schwelling: The society of survivors . In: H-Soz-Kult from April 28, 2010, accessed July 15, 2018.
  3. ^ Homepage of the Center for the History of Knowledge.
  4. ^ Website of the German History magazine .
  5. ↑ Overview of the editors on history of the present .
  6. ↑ 26 works awarded a translation grant award. In: boersenblatt.net of April 27, 2010.
  7. ↑ Gottlieb F. Höpli : You victim! - A term makes a career , review in the NZZ on January 13, 2018, accessed July 15, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Goltermann, Svenja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goltermann, Svenja Angelika (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Sindelfingen