Ute Frevert

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Ute Frevert at the German Historians' Day 2014

Ute Frevert (born June 10, 1954 in Schötmar ) is a German historian . Her research areas are modern and contemporary history as well as social and gender history . Since January 2008 she has been director of the “History of Emotions” research area at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

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From 1971 to 1977 Ute Frevert studied history and social science at the Universities of Münster and Bielefeld and at the London School of Economics and Political Science . In 1982 she received her PhD from Bielefeld University. phil. PhD and habilitation in 1989 .

Then she worked at several research institutions. In 1989/1990 and 2004/2005 she was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and in 2000/2001 a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University . In 1991/1992 she was Professor of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin and from 1992 to 1997 at the University of Konstanz . In 1997 she was appointed Professor of General History at Bielefeld University, and from 2003 to 2007 she was Professor of German History at Yale University . Since the winter semester 2008/2009 she has been honorary professor at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute at the Free University of Berlin.

She held other visiting professorships in 1997 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , in 2002 at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and in 2003 at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris.

Ute Frevert is married and has three children.

Awards and honors

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Author

  • Illness as a political problem 1770–1880. Social lower classes in Prussia between the medical police and state social insurance. Dissertation, Bielefeld 1982. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1984, ISBN 3-525-35721-4 .
  • Women story. Between civil improvement and new femininity. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-518-11284-8 ( New Historical Library ).
  • Men of Honor. The duel in civil society. Habilitation thesis, Bielefeld 1989. Beck, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-406-35117-4 .
  • Man and woman and woman and man. Gender differences in modern times. Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39200-8 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • with Aleida Assmann : Forget about history - obsession with history. On dealing with German pasts after 1945. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-421-05288-3 .
  • The barracked nation. Military service and civil society in Germany . Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47979-0 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Eurovisions. Views of Good Europeans in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-60146-0 .
  • with Monique Scheer, Anne Schmidt, Pascal Eitler, Bettina Hitzer, Nina Verheyen, Benno Gammerl, Christian Bailey, Margrit Pernau : Emotional knowledge . A lexical search for clues in the modern age. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39389-6 ( table of contents ).
  • Trust issues. An obsession with modernity. Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65609-5 .
  • Transient feelings , Wallstein, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1160-2 .
  • The politics of humiliation. Places of power and powerlessness. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397222-1 .
  • with Bettina Frevert: The power of feelings. Germany 19 | 19. An exhibition by Ute and Bettina Frevert. Exhibition catalog. Federal foundation to come to terms with the SED dictatorship, Berlin 2019, DNB 1183696426 .
  • Capitalism, markets and morals. Residence, Vienna / Salzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7017-3478-8 .

Editor

literature

Web links

Commons : Ute Frevert  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Ute Frevert (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 6, 2016.
  2. ^ British Academy Welcomes 59 New Fellows bulletin July 18, 2013, accessed July 24, 2013.
  3. ^ Awarding of the medal on the Day of German Unity on the website of the Federal President.
  4. ↑ Honorary doctorate for Ute Frevert on mpib-berlin.mpg.de, accessed on September 13, 2018.
  5. ↑ Ute Frevert - Sigmund Freud Prize winner 2020 on the website of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, accessed on July 14, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Frevert, Ute
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Schötmar