Thomas Keiderling

Thomas Keiderling (* 1967 in Berlin ) is a German historian and media scientist .

Life

Keiderling grew up in Berlin. From 1989 to 1995 he studied history, journalism and cultural studies at the Universities of Leipzig and Newcastle upon Tyne ( United Kingdom ). He later completed a part-time distance learning course in library and information science at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1999 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the University of Leipzig. As part of a company's history, he was employed at the Mannheim and Leipzig Lexikonverlag Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus in 2002/2003 . From 1997 to 2012 he worked initially as a lecturer and finally as a research assistant at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig , where he also completed his habilitation in 2010 . From 2012 to 2015 he opened the Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht publishing archive , Göttingen , in the manuscript department of the Berlin State Library / Kalliope network database .

Keiderling has repeatedly curated specialist exhibitions, for example in the City History Museum Leipzig , the Literaturhaus Leipzig , Haus des Buches Leipzig or the Museum for Communication Berlin (redesign of the permanent exhibition 2012/2013). Since 2018 he has been the chief curator of the German Cooperative Museum Delitzsch .

As an author, he has published numerous publications on book and publishing history, German industrialization and biographical entrepreneurship research in the 19th and 20th centuries. One of the main topics is the analysis of entrepreneurial behavior in the Third Reich . Keiderling also published a three-volume “Lexicon of Media and Book Studies” (2016–2018).

Thomas Keiderling has been a corresponding member of the Historical Commission of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (founded in 1876) since 2004 and is part of the “History of the German Book Trade in the 19th and 20th Centuries”. In 2015 he received two grants to research the publisher and encyclopaedist Joseph Kürschner at the Gotha Research Center of the University of Erfurt and at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar .

Publications

Monographs

• Thomas Bez, Thomas Keiderling: The intermediate book trade. Terms, structures, lines of development in the past and present , Stuttgart: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co. 2010. ISBN 978-3-7762-0510-7
• Thomas Keiderling: The rise and fall of the book city Leipzig , Markkleeberg: Sax Verlag 2012. ISBN 978-3-86729-098-2
• Thomas Keiderling: Spirit, Law and Money. The VG WORT 1958–2008 (with a greeting by Günter Grass), Berlin: de Gruyter Recht 2008. ISBN 978-3-89949-451-8
• Thomas Keiderling: Entrepreneur under National Socialism. Power struggle for the Koehler & Volckmar AG & Co. , Beucha: Sax Verlag 2003. (2nd combined edition 2008) ISBN 978-3-934544-39-0
• Thomas Keiderling: The modernization of the Leipzig commission book trade from 1830 to 1888 ; plus. Writings on economic and social history, vol. 58, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2000 (plus dissertation). ISBN 978-3-428-09952-8

Editorships

• Lexicon of media and book science , 3 volumes, Stuttgart: Hiersemann 2016–2018. ISBN 978-3-7772-1612-6
• 200 years FA Brockhaus ; 2-volume slipcase. Leipzig: FA Brockhaus 2005. [out of print]
• Book - Market - Theory. Communication and media science perspectives , Erlangen: filos 2007. ISBN 978-3-938498-16-3
• Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte , Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (2001–2003).

Mentioned in

• German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical-Bibliographical Handbook . Lim. by Wilhelm Kosch, Ed. by Lutz Hagestedt, Vol. 26, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2016, Col. 419-421. ISBN 978-3-11-045295-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Keiderling in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Keiderling on the website of the University of Leipzig
• Literature by and about Thomas Keiderling in the bibliographic database WorldCat