Wilfried Heller

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Wilfried Heller (2013)

Wilfried Heller (born May 8, 1942 in Littmitz , Elbogen district , Bohemia) is a German geographer and emeritus professor of social and cultural geography . His teaching and research activities focus on spatial structural change and migration research in Germany and Southeast Europe.

Life

Wilfried Heller attended elementary school in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden and the grammar school in Berchtesgaden . He then studied geography , German language and literature , history , education and philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg and Erlangen from 1962 to 1970 . From 1967 to 1970 he was a member and scholarship holder of the interdisciplinary doctoral college at the Collegium Academicum at Heidelberg University. In 1969 he received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg with a major in geography (minor subjects Ancient History and Medieval and Modern History). In 1970 he passed the state examination for teaching at grammar schools in the subjects of German, geography and history in Heidelberg. From 1970 to 1976 and 1978 to 1979 he was a research assistant and assistant at the Geographical Institute of the University of Göttingen . From 1976 to 1978 he conducted research with a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation ; In 1978 he qualified as a professor in the empirical human and social sciences department of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Göttingen.

From 1979 to 1982 Wilfried Heller worked as a consultant and managing director of the Central Office for Study Reform at the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Art (Minister Eduard Pestel , Cabinet Ernst Albrecht ) in Hanover . From August 1982 to March 1994 he was a professor at the Geographical Institute of the University of Göttingen, then until his retirement in 2007 he taught social, cultural and economic geography with a special focus on migration research at the University of Potsdam .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Heller is the author of more than 200 scientific articles (monographs, essays, reviews, articles, etc.). Important works are (selection):

Monographs :

  • Tourism in the Salzkammergut. Study from a geographical point of view. Heidelberg 1970 (dissertation; 224 pages with 34 tables; 15 maps as enclosures).
  • Regional disparities and urbanization in Greece and Romania - aspects of a comparison of their forms and development in two countries with different social and economic systems since the end of the Second World War . Göttingen 1979 (habilitation thesis, 315 pages).
  • Klingenthal - quo vadis? Effects of the social upheaval in a small town on the Saxon-Bohemian border. Chemnitz 1995 (contributions to local and regional development, volume 15, 54 pages).
  • Interior views from post-socialist Romania. Socio-economic transformation, migration and development prospects in rural areas. Berlin 1999 (Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz, 227 pages).
  • The "Bohemians" of New Zealand - an ethnic group? Auckland 2005 (Germanica Pacifica Studies, 1, The University of Auckland; with the assistance of James Braund; 56 pages).
  • From “Horea” to “Hans” - the trials and tribulations of Romania's Securitate as reflected in two files. Hermannstadt / Bonn 2014 (Schiller Verlag; 152 pages, including 24 color photo pages).

Edited anthologies :

  • Migration and Socio-Economic Transformation in Southeast Europe. Munich 1997 (Southeast Europe Studies, Volume 59; 326 pages).
  • Romania: Migration, Socio-economic Transformation and Perspectives of Regional Development. Munich 1998 (Southeast Europe Studies, Volume 62; 342 pages).
  • Emigration area Albania - immigration destination Tirana. Potsdam 2003 (Praxis Kultur- und Sozialgeographie, issue 27; 120 pages).
  • Identities and imaginations of the population in border areas - East-Central and Southeastern Europe in the field of tension between regionalism, centralism, the European integration process and globalization. Berlin 2011 (LIT Verlag, Region – Nation – Europe series, Volume 64; 312 pages).
  • Vanished places. Forced resettlements, new settlements and disappeared places in formerly German settlement areas of Eastern Central Europe. London / Berlin 2018 (2nd, expanded edition) (Verlag Inspiration Un Limited; 167 pages).
  • Jewish traces in the former Sudetenland. London / Berlin 2019 (Verlag Inspiration Un Limited; 165 pages).

Edited volumes edited with other authors :

  • Heller, Wilfried / Jordan, Peter / Kahl, Thede / Sallanz, Josef (eds.): Ethnicity in Transition. On the situation of the national minorities in Romania after the fall of the Wall. Vienna, Berlin 2006 (LIT Verlag, Wiener Osteuropa Studien, Volume 21; 162 pages).
  • Heller, Wilfried / Becker, Jörg / Belina, Bernd / Lindner, Waltraud (eds.): Ethnicity in globalization. On the change in the meaning of ethnic categories in transition countries in Southeastern Europe. Munich 2007 (Southeast Europe Studies, Volume 74; 346 pages).
  • Heller, Wilfried / Sallanz, Josef (ed.): The Dobrudscha - a new border area in the European Union. Socio-economic, ethnic, politico-geographical and ecological problems. Munich 2009 (Southeastern Europe Studies, Volume 76; 234 pages).
  • Heller, Wilfried / Arambaşa, Mihaela Narcisa (ed.): On the eastern edge of the EU: Geopolitical, ethnic and national as well as economic and social problems and their consequences for the border area population. Potsdam 2009 (Potsdam Geographical Research, Volume 28; 190 pages).

items

  • Components of spatial behavior of guest workers in the Federal Republic of Germany, with special consideration of Greeks in selected places (Göttingen, Hannoversch Münden and Kassel) . Reports on German regional studies, vol. 53, 1979, no. 1, pp. 5-34.
  • Internal migration in Turkey - case studies on their social and socio-spatial situation . Migration: a European journal of international migration and ethnic relations (edited by the Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research), 1989, 6, pp. 55–96.
  • (Together with other authors: Heller, Wilfried / Bürkner, Hans-Joachim / Hofmann, Hans-Jürgen): Migration, segregation and integration of repatriates - causes, connections and problems . In: Erlanger Research, Series A - Humanities. Vol. 95, 2002, pp. 79-108 (edited by v. Heller, Hartmut: Neue Heimat Deutschland, Erlangen).
  • Ethnicity and globalization. On the change in the meaning of ethnic categories in transition countries . In: Geographical Journal. 2004, H. 1 + 2, pp. 21-38.
  • Home - a self-evident term? In: More beautiful home. Journal of the Bavarian State Association for Home Care e. V. Munich 2009, no. 1, pp. 3-10.
  • Who moves within the country? Who Emigrates? Who Immigrates? Current Migrational Trends in Romania . In: Institute for East and Southeast European Research (Hrsg.): Südosteuropa. Vol. 61, 2013, no. 2, pp. 244-267.
  • 19th century emigrants from Bohemia to New Zealand and their descendants . In: German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe (Ed.): To Übersee. German-speaking emigrants from Eastern Europe around 1900 . Potsdam 2015, pp. 56–89 (treatise with 3 maps and 4 photos) and pp. 267–271 (selected literature).
  • Lipnice - a historic-geographic portrait of a vanished village of Cheb region (Bohemia) . In: The Institute of History. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prague (Ed.): Historická Geografie. 42/1, 2016, pp. 83–112.
  • Limits as topics in human geography . In: Petsche, Hans-Joachim (Ed.): Limits in the focus of the sciences. A multidisciplinary series of lectures (University of Potsdam in the 2015 summer semester) . Berlin 2016, pp. 121–152. (Series: study ++. Concepts - Perspectives - Competencies. Ed. By Hans-Joachim Petsche; Vol. 3, trafo Wissenschaftsverlag).

literature

  • Becker, Jörg / Felgentreff, Carsten / Aschauer, Wolfgang (ed.): Speeches about spaces: Region - Transformation - Migration. Festive symposium for Wilfried Heller's 60th birthday. With contributions from, among others, Hans-Joachim Bürkner, Ioan Ianoş, Daniel Vârdol, Hans-Dietrich Schultz, Wolf-Dieter Narr and Gerhard Hard . Potsdam 2002 (Potsdam Geographical Research, Volume 23; 204 pages).
  • Aschauer, Wolfgang: La mulți ani! Prof. Dr. Dr. hcmult Wilfried Heller on his 75th birthday . In: German-Romanian booklets. Half-yearly publication of the German-Romanian Society . Vol. XX, H. 2, Berlin 2017, ISSN  1618-1980 , pp. 24-26.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Research projects, editorship, advisory board, reviewers, honors , online at drive.google.com
  2. ↑ List of publications , online at drive.google.com
  3. ↑ German-Romanian issues 2/2017 (PDF; 5.9 MB) , online at drive.google.com
personal data
SURNAME Heller, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and university professor (social and cultural geography)
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Littmitz , Elbogen district