Historical Journal (1953)

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Journal of History

description Trade journal
Area of ​​Expertise history
language German
publishing company Metropol Verlag ( Germany )
Headquarters Berlin
First edition 1953
Frequency of publication per month
editor Wolfgang Benz , Michael Borgolte , Peter Steinbach , Ludmila Thomas , Benjamin Ziemann
Web link metropol-verlag.de
ISSN (print) 0044-2828

The Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft (ZfG) is a monthly German-language historical specialist journal .

history

The ZfG was founded in East Berlin in 1953 . Until 1989 it was the journalistic flagship of GDR history. In the GDR, historical studies held a "central political and ideologically significant position". It should educate the people in East Germany “in the spirit of socialist patriotism and proletarian internationalism” and serve the “development of their own national consciousness”. Accordingly, the ZfG had a strictly Marxist-Leninist orientation, which left no room for deviations from the respective party line of the SED .

With the turnaround and the reunification, the magazine changed fundamentally. It has been published by the Berlin Metropol Verlag since 1993 . A dogmatic historiography in the service of a non-scientifically established party line was a thing of the past. Instead, the ZfG defined itself as a pluralistic journal that wanted to act as a mediator between East German and West German historical studies. In this way, the "marginalized East German historians and their international interlocutors ... a forum" should be reserved. In the course of this reorientation, the ZfG changed its external appearance. The green cover from GDR times has been replaced by covers with constantly changing colors.

Editorial Board 1953–1990

Alfred Anderle , Walter Bartel , Gerhard Becker (Editor-in-Chief), Günter Benser , Rolf Dlubek , Dieter Fricke , Rigobert Günther , Gerhard Heinz, Heinz Heitzer , Manfred Kossok , Dieter Lange, Adolf Laube, Gerhard Lozek , Helmut Neef , Werner Paff, Wolfgang Ruge , Heinrich Scheel , Johannes Schildhauer , Gerhard Schilfert , Wolfgang Schumann , Max Steinmetz , Klaus Vetter (deputy editor-in-chief), Eduard Winter .

Thematic focus

Even before the fall of the Wall, the focus was on studies of the modern and the most recent. Even after 1995, recent German history is the focus of interest. The preparation of the time of National Socialism and the research into the Holocaust and its consequences are of great importance. On the other hand, topics from antiquity and medieval studies are treated less often in the journal. The proportion of non-German historians among the authors is relatively low, despite an attempt to open them to international topics.

Editor and editor

The editors were almost completely replaced in a transitional phase from 1990 to 1994. The current group of editors consists of Wolfgang Benz , Michael Borgolte , Peter Steinbach , Ludmila Thomas and Benjamin Ziemann . The editorial work takes place in the Telefunken skyscraper of the TU Berlin , at the headquarters of the Center for Research on Antisemitism , of which Wolfgang Benz was director until 2011. The editing is in the hands of Friedrich Veitl (responsible), Angelika Königseder, Detlev Kraack and Swen Steinberg.

Web links

literature

  • Journal of History. Special issue, XII. Jg., Ten-year register (1953–1962) with annual table of contents 1963/1964. German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1964.
  • Journal of History. Special issue, XX. Vol., Ten-year register (1963–1972). Issue 12. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972.
  • Ulrich Neuhäusser-Wespy: The "Journal for Historical Science " 1956/57. On the discipline of historians by the SED in the fifties. In: Germany archive . 29 (1996), 4, pp. 569-580. ISSN  0012-1428 .
  • Matthias Middell: Authors and Contents. The journal for historical science 1953–1989 . In: Historical magazines in international comparison. Akademische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 1999. ISBN 3-931982-13-0 , pp. 235-296.
  • Martin Sabrow: Klio with the Janus head. The journal for historical science . In: Matthias Middell (ed.): Historical magazines in international comparison. Akademische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 1999. ISBN 3-931982-13-0 , pp. 297-330.
  • Fritz Klein : Memories of the first years of the “Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft” 1953–1957 . In: Historical magazines in international comparison . Akademische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 1999. ISBN 3-931982-13-0 , pp. 331-350.
  • Journal of History. Vol. 50 (2002), Issue 11: 50 Years of the Journal of History , therein:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Heydemann : History in divided Germany. Development history, organizational structure, functions, theory and method problems in the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR (= Erlanger historical studies. Vol. 6). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1980, ISBN 3-8204-6179-5 , pp. 140 ff. (At the same time: Erlangen-Nürnberg, Universität, Dissertation, 1980).
  2. ↑ Edgar Wolfrum : History as a weapon. From the empire to the reunification (= small series V & R 4028). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-34028-1 , p. 96 ff.
  3. ^ Matthias Middell: First green, then colorful - The ZfG before and after 1989. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft. Vol. 50, Issue 11, 2002, pp. 981-988, here p. 983.
  4. ^ Matthias Middell: First green, then colorful - The ZfG before and after 1989. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft. Vol. 50, Issue 11, 2002, pp. 981-988, here pp. 984 f.
  5. ↑ Imprint of the printed edition of the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft, issue 5, May 2019, In memoriam Reinhard Rürup (1934-2018) , cover pages 1 and 2.