Tobias Arand

Tobias Arand (* 1967 in Duisburg ) is a German history didactic and ancient historian .

Life

After attending school in Hinte and Wesel , he studied history and German as a teacher for secondary level I / II at the University of Münster from the 1989/90 winter semester , where he passed the first state examination in December 1995 . In December 1997, he passed the second state examination at the Recklinghausen seminar. From January 1998 to May 2004 he was a research assistant at the Institute for History Didactics at the University of Münster. In 2001 he received his doctorate from the University of Münster . From November 2002 to March 2003 he was a professor for history didactics at RWTH Aachen University . From May 2004 to March 2007, he was head of the practical phases department at the Center for Teacher Training at the University of Münster. From winter semester 2005/06 to winter semester 2006/07 he also represented the chair for didactics of history at the University of Duisburg-Essen . From the summer semester 2007 to the summer semester 2009 he was an academic advisor at the Heidelberg University of Education . In September 2009 he was offered a position at the PH Ludwigsburg . He has been working at the PH Ludwigsburg since October 1, 2009 and on April 1, 2010, he took over the professorship for history and its didactics. In the 2009/10 school year he also taught history at the Elly-Heuss-Knapp secondary school in Ludwigsburg. From 2013 to 2016 he also worked two hours per week in the field of history didactics at the University of Stuttgart .

His main research interests are subject didactics, problems of ancient historiography, regional history, museum history - historical places of learning, historical culture, especially of war, and the history of historical didactics. In 2018 he published a 700-page work on the Franco-German War . In 2020 the war diary of Hans Max von Aufseß followed .

Publications (selection)

• The undeserved end - depictions of suicide and death in the Historia Augusta as elements of literary evaluation in the context of pagan self-assertion. Mensch & Buch Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-933346-84-3 .
• with Werner Arand, Wolfgang Cilleßen (ed.): Heimatliebe & Vaterlandfaue. Lower Rhine museums from the German Empire to National Socialism. An exhibition by the Wesel City Museum in the Galerie im Centrum, November 26, 2000 - February 4, 2001. Wesel City Museum, Wesel 2000.
• with Stefanie Baumann (ed.): Byzanz - the light from the east. Cult and everyday life in the Byzantine Empire from the 4th to the 15th century. December 6, 2001 to March 31, 2002. Vernissage Verlag, Heidelberg 2001.
• with Jutta Prieur (ed.): Frauenzimmer - Regentin - Reformerin. Princess Pauline zur Lippe 1802–1820. Accompanying volume for the exhibition of the NW State Archives Detmold October 27, 2002 - February 2, 2003 (= special publications of the Natural Science and Historical Association for the State of Lippe. Volume 69). Natural science and historical association for the state of Lippe, Detmold 2002, ISBN 3-924481-12-1 .
• The shameful end. The death of the bad emperor and its literary design in Roman historiography (= Prismata. Volume 13). Long. Frankfurt am Main et al. 2002, ISBN 3-631-39821-2 (also dissertation, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster 2001).
• with Klaus Scherberich (Ed.): School - Europe - Technology. The new teaching degree course in history at RWTH Aachen. Goals - Forms - Contents. Shaker, Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-8322-2255-3 .
• with Alfred Kneppe (Ed.): Dieter Metzler. Small writings on the history and religion of antiquity and their afterlife (= research on anthropology and the history of religion. Volume 39). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-934628-51-6 .
• (Ed.): “What a turning point by the providence of God”. The Franco-German War of 1870/71 and the forms of its historical memory in both countries from the German Empire to the present. Suggestions and materials for working on the topic in history lessons (= Center for Teacher Education Münster-Text. Number 8). Center for Teacher Education Münster, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-934064-57-4 .
• with Annekatrein Löw (Ed.): Art - Culture - History on the Lower Rhine. Festschrift for Werner Arand on his 70th birthday. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89534-600-4 .
• (Ed.): History lessons in dialogue. Interdisciplinary cooperation (= Center for Teacher Education Münster-Text. Number 11). Center for Teacher Education Münster, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-934064-59-0 .
• (Ed.): The “Urkatastrophe” as a memory - historical culture of the First World War (= historical culture and war. Volume 1). Center for Teacher Education Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-934064-67-6 .
• History and events. Secondary level 2. Special issue. Epoch year 1917. Klett, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-12-430025-6 .
• (Ed.): The greatest war ever waged. Contributions to the historical culture of the Franco-German War 1870/71 (= historical culture and war. Volume 2). Center for Teacher Education Verlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-934064-82-9 .
• History and events Upper level North Rhine-Westphalia. Klett, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-12-430089-8 .
• Died for “Vaterland” and “Patrie” - the dead warriors from the campaign of 1870/71 in the “Old Cemetery” in Ludwigsburg. Military History Society Ludwigsburg eV, Ludwigsburg 2012.
• with Carolin Stetter: Home and World - World Atlas + History. Teaching materials. Lesson ideas 3. History cards. Westermann, Braunschweig 2012, ISBN 978-3-14-190256-3 .
• with Christian Bunnenberg (ed.): The battlefield of Wörth. Place of history, place of remembrance, place of learning (= culture of history and war. Volume 3). Center for Teacher Education Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-86877-007-0 .
• Historiography - About the credibility of imperial historiography. In: Markus Bernhardt, Björn Oncken (Ed.): Ways to Rome. The Roman Empire between history, memory and teaching. Schwalbach / Ts. 2013, pp. 137–153.
• with Manfred Seidenfuß (Ed.): New ways - new topics - new methods ?. A cross-section from the history didactic research of the next generation of academics (= supplements to the journal for history didactics. Volume 7). V&R unipress, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8471-0278-6 .
• with Christian Bunnenberg: Without Düppel there would be no Königgrätz, without Königgrätz no Sedan, without Sedan no German Empire! - The Düppel / Dybbol memorial site and its development in the German and Danish culture of remembrance from 1864 to the present. In: J. Fuge, R. Hering, H. Schmid (Eds.): Gedächtniszimmer. Images of history and cultures of remembrance in Northern Germany. Göttingen 2014, pp. 159–182.
• with Holger Meeh: Wars. Reasons, motives, consequences (= politics and teaching 2–2104). Villingen-Schwenningen 2014.
• with Konrad Vössing (Ed.): Antiquity in lessons. The integrative potential of ancient history for historical learning . Schwalbach / Ts. 2017.
• Rogerowski or Rasumowsky? Reflections on the national 'master story' in Fontane's 'Prisoners of War'. In: Fontane leaves. Volume 105, 2018, pp. 61-86.
• 1870/71. The story of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 is told in individual fates . Osburg Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-95510-167-1 .
• "[...] I have no words for that" - The view of the war of 1870/71 in German veterans' memory books . In: Wolfgang Mährle (Hrsg.): Nation im Siegesrausch. Württemberg and the establishment of the German Empire in 1870/71. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-17-038182-7 , pp. 85-98.
• (Ed.): Hans Max Freiherr von Aufseß. War diary from the occupation of the British Channel Islands 1943–1945. Osburg Verlag, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-95510-217-3 .

Web links

• Homepage at the PH Ludwigsburg with curriculum vitae and list of publications