Torsten W. Müller

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Torsten Walter Müller (* 1982 ) is a German historian and publicist . The focus of his work is the Eichsfeld - he is the museum director in Heilbad Heiligenstadt .

Career

Torsten W. Müller studied Catholic theology , German and pedagogy at the University of Erfurt and at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg . He received his doctorate in 2014 with his work on church history on expellees in Thuringia after 1945, who was published as the publication In der Fremde - The Effects of Flight and Expulsion in the Eastern Part of the Diocese of Fulda (Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-429-03746-8 ) has been.

Müller's focus as a research assistant at the Research Center for Contemporary Church History in Erfurt (FKZE) was on coming to terms with the history of the Catholic Church in the GDR.

Torsten W. Müller has been a member of the advisory board of the Verein für Eichsfeldische Heimatkunde (VEH) since 2013 (since 2016 as its deputy chairman) and in the editorial board of the publication series "Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch" (since 2016 as its editor).

Torsten W. Müller has headed the cultural and historical Eichsfeld Museum since 2015 and is director of the municipal museums in Heilbad Heiligenstadt. He is the author of numerous publications on the cultural and contemporary history of Central Germany and the Eichsfeld.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Believing abroad - the effects of flight and displacement in the eastern part of the diocese of Fulda. (Erfurt Theological Studies 108), Würzburg 2015 (also: Dissertation, University of Erfurt, 2014), ISBN 978-3-429-03746-8
  • New home Eichsfeld? Refugees and displaced persons in the Catholic arrival society. Duderstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-936617-93-1
  • Cold liver in Eichsfeld - Festschrift for the 700th anniversary 1318–2018. 32 pages, format> A5, Kalteneber 2018, without ISBN
  • Eichsfeld - photo treasures from the 70s and 80s. Erfurt 2018, ISBN 978-3-95400-960-2
  • The Eichsfeld in color - impressions from the 50s and 60s. Erfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-95400-815-5
  • The Eichsfeld in the 19th century - everyday images from a turbulent time. Erfurt 2018, ISBN 978-3-95400-996-1
  • Reformation, Reform Catholicism and Jesuits in Eichsfeld - Education and pastoral care as prerequisites for church renewal. (Contributions to the history of the Reformation in Thuringia 12), Jena 2018, ISBN 978-3-939718-36-9
  • The Eichsfeld - color photographs from the 30s and 40s. Erfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-95400-749-3
  • Life in the border area - Forced resettlement - The guards. In: State Center for Political Education Thuringia (Hrsg.): Series Thuringia - Blätter zur Landeskunde. Volume 113. Erfurt 2016, 8 pages, format A5.
  • Mackenrode im Eichsfeld - Contributions to the village history. Duderstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86944-035-4
  • (Co-author): The churches in Eichsfeld - church and art guide - special edition for the Pope's visit in Eichsfeld - 2nd totally revised and expanded edition. Duderstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-936617-92-4 .

Anthologies

  • Das Eichsfeld (Landscapes in Germany 79), Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2018. (Ed. Together with Ulrich Harteisen, Ansgar Hoppe, Hansjörg Küster, Haik Thomas Porada, Gerold Wucherpfennig)
  • 650 years of pilgrimage church on the Hülfensberg. Festschrift for the anniversary of the parish fair 1367–2017, Geismar 2017.
  • From the Reformation to the denomination - the Jesuits and their reform program in Eichsfeld, Erfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-95400-884-1 .
  • Church life through the ages. Perspectives and contributions of (Central) German church historiography. Festschrift for Josef Pilvousek for his 65th birthday (EThSt 104), Würzburg 2013. (edited together with Sebastian Holzbrecher).

Essays

  • Teacher opposition in the Nazi state. Biographical report on the “upright walk” of August Dunkelberg, in: Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch 18 (2010), pp. 99–116.
  • Church and Sport. On the development of the DJK sports associations until 1935, in: Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch 19 (2011), pp. 323–336.
  • Injustice. Liturgical aspects of the home of displaced persons in a Catholic majority society, in: Kranemann, Benedikt (ed.): Liturgie und Migration. The importance of liturgy and piety in the integration of migrants in the German-speaking area (Practical Theology Today, Vol. 122), Stuttgart 2012, pp. 140–156.
  • Lay services in parishes without priests in the diocese of Paderborn during the Kulturkampf. Examples from Eichsfeld, in: Liturgisches Jahrbuch 63 (2013), pp. 21–38.
  • The development of religious life in the Soviet occupation zone / GDR and in the new states, in: Erbe und Einsatz. Benediktinische Zeitschrift-Monastische Welt 90 (2014), pp. 384–397.
  • Limits of a Homogeneous Catholicism? The admission of expellees in Eichsfeld after 1945, in: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History 66 (2014), pp. 279–299.
  • Pilgrimages of the expellees in the Soviet Zone / GDR, in: Prosser-Schell, Michael (ed.): Popular religious culture, conflicts and self-assurance in multi-ethnic and multi-confessional immigration areas (series of publications by the Institute for Folklore of Germans in Eastern Europe, Vol. 17), Münster / New York 2016, pp. 131–157.
  • Catholic church in the Eichsfeld restricted area. The inner-German border and its consequences for parishes and pastoral care, in: Yearbook for Central German Church and Order History 14 (2018), pp. 175–208.

Varia

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://shop.meckedruck.de/shop/index.php?route=product/manufacturer/info&manufacturer_id=611 - accessed on August 15, 2018
  2. http://www.verlagshaus.de/autor-38983-torsten_w_mueller_110.html - accessed on August 10, 2018
  3. https://www.heilbad-heiligenstadt.de/politik-verwaltung/stadtverwaltung/eichseldmuseum/ - accessed on August 10, 2018
  4. https://www.kreis-eic.de/lösungen.html - accessed on July 7, 2019
  5. https://eichsfeld.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/eichsfeld/startseite/detail/-/specific/Neues-Mitglied-im-Rotary-Club-1108305967 - accessed on 10 August 2018