Wolfgang Ruppert

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Wolfgang Ruppert (* 1946 in Hof (Saale) ) is a German cultural historian . Since 1988 he has been professor of cultural and political history at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Life

Ruppert studied history, German , sociology , political science and art history in Munich . From 1978 to 1981 he conceived and developed the museum project “Industrial Culture in Nuremberg ”. From 1981 to 1983 he worked as a freelance writer and filmmaker for television, on book projects and on a report for the Berlin Senator for Science and Research . From 1983 to 1988 he taught cultural history in the history studies course at Bielefeld University. From 2003 to 2005 he was managing director of the Institute for Theory and Practice of Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2005 he was included by the German Bundestag's Enquete Commission on Culture in Germany as an expert on questions relating to the modern artist in the final report of the German Bundestag's Enquete Commission , 2008.

His work focuses on the subject areas of the history of the modern artist, the history of things, the history of design and political culture in Germany. In the 1980s he dealt with industrial culture, the history of work and industrialization in Germany, the history of photography, the history of workers and the history of German social democracy. Since 1999 he has also been dealing with the interrelationship between cultural and political history .

Publications (selection)

  • The factory. History of work and industrialization in Germany , CH Beck, Munich 1983, licensed edition of the Gutenberg Book Guild 1985.
  • Civil change. Studies on the Formation of a National German Culture , Campus, Frankfurt a. M./New York 1981, as a paperback with the title: Bürgerlicher Wandel. On the birth of modern German society in the 18th century, Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt a. M./New York 1984.
  • Photo history of the German social democracy (edited by Willy Brandt), Siedler, Berlin 1988.
  • The modern artist. On the social and cultural history of creative individuality in cultural modernity in the 19th and early 20th centuries , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1st edition 1998, 2nd edition 2000 and 3rd edition 2017.
  • Artist! Creativity between myth, habit and profession, Vienna Cologne Weimar 2018.

Writings as editor

  • Industrial culture in Nuremberg. A German city in the machine age (together with Hermann Glaser and Nobert Neudecker), CH Beck Verlag: Munich 1980.
  • Life stories. On German social history 1850–1950 , Leske and Budrich: Opladen 1980 (also catalog book for the exhibition of the same name in the Norishalle Nuremberg).
  • Memory work. History and democratic identity in Germany , Leske and Budrich: Opladen 1982.
  • The workers. Lifestyles, everyday life and culture from early industrialization to the "economic miracle" , CH Beck: Munich 1986, licensed edition of the Gutenberg Book Guild 1988.
  • Bicycle, car, TV cabinet. On the cultural history of everyday things . Fischer paperback, Frankfurt a. M. 1993, ISBN 3-596-11252-4 .
  • Everyday ciphers. Exploring the history of industrial mass culture , Jonas: Marburg 1993.
  • Around 1968. The representation of things , Jonas: Marburg 1998.
  • Between German art and international modernity. Forms of artist training 1918 to 1968 , VDG: Weimar 2008.
  • Artist in National Socialism . The "German Art", the art politics and the Berlin Art Academy, Vienna Cologne Weimar 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Ruppert, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Hof / Saale