Svenja Goltermann
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
- Profile Svenja Goltermann on the website of the University of Zurich
- Short biography and reviews of works by Svenja Goltermann at perlentaucher.de
- History of the present
Individual evidence
- ^ Historical seminar (homepage) .
- ↑ Birgit Schwelling: The society of survivors . In: H-Soz-Kult from April 28, 2010, accessed July 15, 2018.
- ^ Homepage of the Center for the History of Knowledge.
- ^ Website of the German History magazine .
- ↑ Overview of the editors on history of the present .
- ↑ 26 works awarded a translation grant award. In: boersenblatt.net of April 27, 2010.
- ↑ Gottlieb F. Höpli : You victim! - A term makes a career , review in the NZZ on January 13, 2018, accessed July 15, 2018.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Goltermann, Svenja |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goltermann, Svenja Angelika (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sindelfingen |