Sylvia Paletschek

Sylvia Paletschek (born November 13, 1957 in Stuttgart ) is a German modern historian .

Live and act

Sylvia Paletschek studied history, geography, German and educational science at the Universities of Munich and Hamburg from 1977 to 1984 . In 1984 she passed her state examination. She then worked as a research assistant at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg, where she worked in 1989 with the work Women and Dissent , which was supervised by Dieter Langewiesche . Women in German Catholicism and in the free parishes 1841–1852 as Dr. phil. received his doctorate . From 1988 to 1994 she was a research assistant and research assistant at the History Department of the University of Tübingen . From 1994 to 1997 she received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation . In 1997 it became the work The permanent invention of a tradition. The University of Tübingen in the Empire and in the Weimar Republic qualified as a professor and received a position as a university lecturer at the University of Tübingen. In 1998/1999 she represented the chair for modern and contemporary history at the Technical University of Darmstadt . Since 2001 Paletschek has been teaching as a professor of modern history at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . In 2006/2007 she was a visiting fellow at St Antony's College , Oxford.

Her research interests are women's and gender history , university and scientific history, and historical culture .

Paletschek is co-editor of the journal Historische Anthropologie and the series History and Gender , Historical Living Worlds in Popular Cultures of Knowledge and Occult Modernism . She is a member of the scientific advisory boards of the yearbook for university history , the journal for the history of natural sciences, technology and medicine and the Austrian journal for historical sciences .

Sylvia Paletschek is a member of the Society for the History of Universities and Science and the Society for the History of Science. In 1994 she was a founding member and since then has been a board member of the Association Women & History Baden-Württemberg . From 2000 to 2002 she was a committee member of the Association of Historians in Germany , and from 2014 to 2017 she was chairwoman of the working group on historical women's and gender studies . She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the House of History Baden-Württemberg . She is a member of the advisory board of the Salmen Talks, where historians, politicians and sociologists discuss current issues and problems against the background of the Offenburg meeting in 1847 .

Fonts

Sylvia Paletschek was involved in the publication of several works and wrote over 30 essays and book chapters.

Monographs

• Women and dissent. Women in German Catholicism and in the free parishes 1841–1852. Dissertation. University of Hamburg 1989. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-525-35752-4 .
• The permanent invention of a tradition. The University of Tübingen in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic. Habilitation thesis. University of Tübingen 1997. Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07254-3 .

Editorships

• with Bianka Pietrow-Ennker : Women's Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century. A European Perspective. Stanford University Press, Stanford 2004, ISBN 0-8047-4764-4 .
• with Sylvia Schraut : The gender of memory. Campus, Frankfurt am Main, New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38549-5 .
• with Jakob Tanner : Topic: popularization of science (= historical anthropology. 16, issue 1). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20161-6 .
• with Barbara Korte, Wolfgang Hochbruck: The First World War in the popular culture of remembrance (= writings of the library for contemporary history. New series, volume 22). Klartext, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-727-7 .
• with Barbara Korte: History goes Pop. To represent history in popular media and genres. transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1107-6 .
• with Barbara Korte: Story in a crime thriller. Contributions from cultural studies. Böhlau, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20253-8 .
• Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Century. Berghahn, Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-1-84545-740-2 .
• with Barbara Korte: Popular History Now and Then. International Perspectives. transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2007-8 .
• with Elisabeth Cheauré, Nina Reusch: Gender and History in Popular Media. transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2373-4 .
• with Anna Lux, Susanna Burghartz : Topic: Occultism in the Modern Age (= Historical Anthropology. 21, Book 3). Böhlau, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22195-9 .
• with Sebastian Brandt, Christa-Irene Klein, Nadine Kopp, Livia Prüll, Olaf Schütze: University, science and the public in West Germany (1945 to approx. 1970). Steiner, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-515-10886-7 .
• with Anna Lux: occultism in a housing. Institutionalizations of parapsychology in the 20th century in an international comparison. de Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-046376-7 .

literature

• Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. A bio-bibliographical directory (= treatises on student and higher education. Volume 13). SH, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X , p. 256.

Web links

• Literature by and about Sylvia Paletschek in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sylvia Paletschek on the University of Freiburg website (with list of publications)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historical anthropology on degruyter.com
2. ↑ History and gender on campus.de
3. ↑ Historical lifeworlds in popular cultures of knowledge ( Memento of the original dated February 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on transcript-verlag.de 
4. ↑ Occult Modernism on degruyter.com
5. ^ House of History Baden-Württemberg - Scientific Advisory Board on hdgbw.de
6. ↑ Council of Salmen talks on offenburg.de