Ute Daniel

Ute Daniel (born May 3, 1953 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German historian .

Life

Ute Daniel studied history, German and linguistics in Marburg and Bielefeld and received her doctorate in 1986 under Jürgen Kocka . 1994 habilitation them on the University-Polytechnic victories . Since the winter semester 1996/97 she has been professor for the history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Century and early modern times at the Technical University of Braunschweig , whose faculty for humanities and educational sciences she headed from 2007 to 2009 as dean .

She has been a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 2006 .

Act

Her research spectrum encompasses the social, cultural and gender history of modern times. a. on the First and Second World Wars, the history of the courts and court theater, the history of propaganda, the history of consumption, the history of women and the history of war reporting.

Ute Daniel became known to a wide audience primarily through her work on historical methodology and theory, bundled in her Compendium Kulturgeschichte (first published in 2001): She is one of the most prominent German-speaking representatives of New Cultural History and above all with Hans-Ulrich Wehler as the main representative the Bielefeld school came into conflict. Reinhart Koselleck , who also teaches in Bielefeld, had a formative influence on her research .

Publications (selection)

• Dollar diplomacy in Europe. Marshall Plan, Cold War and US Foreign Trade Policy 1945–52. Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-7700-0613-5 .
• Working women in war society. Job, family and politics in the First World War (= critical studies on historical science . Volume 84). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-35747-8 .
• 'Culture' and 'Society'. Reflections on the subject area of ​​social history. In: History and Society. Volume 19, 1993, pp. 69-99, ISSN  0340-613X .
• Together with Wolfram Siemann (Ed.): Propaganda. Opinion conflict, seduction and political creation of meaning (1789–1989). Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-596-11854-9 .
• Court theater. On the history of the theater and the courts in the 18th and 19th centuries. Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-608-91237-1 .
• Clio in culture shock. On the current debates in historical studies. In: History in Science and Education. Volume 48, 1997, pp. 195-218 and 259-278, ISSN  0016-9056 .
• Cultural history. In: Ansgar Nünning , Vera Nünning (ed.): Concepts of cultural studies. Theoretical foundations - approaches - perspectives. Stuttgart u. Weimar 2003, pp. 186-204, ISBN 3-476-01737-0 .
• Encirclement and imperial twilight. An attempt to track down the cultural history of politics before the First World War. In: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Ed.): What does cultural history of the political mean? (= Journal for Historical Research. Supplement 35), Duncker u. Humblot, Berlin 2005, pp. 279–328, ISBN 3-428-11868-5 .
• Compendium of cultural history. Theories, Practice, Keywords. 5th, through. u. act. Ed., Frankfurt / M. 2006, ISBN 3-518-29123-8 .
• (Ed.) Eyewitnesses. War reporting from the 18th to the 21st century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-36737-6 ( review by Rudolf Walther in: Die Zeit dated November 30, 2006).
• Reinhart Koselleck. In: Lutz Raphael (Hrsg.): Classics of the science of history. Volume 2: From Fernand Braudel to Natalie Z. Davis. CH Beck, Munich 2006, pp. 166-194, ISBN 3-406-54104-6 .
• Relationship stories. Politics and the media in the 20th century. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86854-317-9 .

Autobiographical

• The cats want to be kings. In: Jürgen John u. a. (Ed.): Time stories. Miniatures in Lutz Niethammer's manner. Essen 2005, pp. 57-61, ISBN 3-89861-404-2 .

literature

• Lars Deile: Social history dismisses its children. An attempt at orientation in the debate about cultural history. in: Archives for cultural history. Volume 87, 2005, pp. 1-25, ISSN  0003-9233 .
• Vademecum of the historical sciences 2006/07. Stuttgart 2006, p. 352, ISSN  0946-798X .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ute Daniel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ute Daniel's page on the website of the history seminar of the TU Braunschweig at historisches-seminar-braunschweig.de
• Ute Daniel as a member of the advisory board of the historians mailing list H-Soz-u-Kult on hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de
• Interview of the Internet portal GiBS.info with Ute Daniel from spring 2006
• Interview by ver.di magazine “M” - MENSCHEN - MACHEN - MEDIEN with Ute Daniel about the anthology Eyewitnesses and Independence in War Reporting on mmm.verdi.de, published in the 07-08 / 2006 issue.
• Ute Daniel's answer to the question “Will the world be governed democratically in the future?” On newsclick.de (video from the “Braunschweiger Zeitung” as part of the event “Questions of Mankind” on July 1, 2007)