Press Release – Düsseldorf/London, 19 July 2011

The historian Ute Daniel is appointed Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor for 2011/12

The German Historical Institute London (GHIL), the International History Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and the Gerda Henkel Foundation in Düsseldorf are pleased to announce that they have made their third appointment to the position of Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor in the field of Germany in Europe. For the first time, the timeframe for the research promoted in this position has been extended to cover the period from 1890 to 2000. From 1 October 2011 Ute Daniel, professor of modern history at the Technical University in Brunswick, will spend a year researching at the GHIL and teaching at the LSE. With this appointment, the Gerda Henkel Foundation is supporting Ute Daniel’s research on relations between the mass media and politics in the twentieth century, a topic which she will investigate comparatively in Germany, Britain, and the USA. Ute Daniel will deliver her inaugural lecture, entitled ‘Goebbels, War, and Propaganda: On the Media Logic of the Third Reich’, at the GHIL on 27 October 2011.

Ute Daniel, born in 1953, studied history, German language and literature, and linguistics at Marburg and Bielefeld. In 1986 she completed her Ph.D. at the University of Bielefeld with a thesis on working women in a war society, concentrating on profession, family, and politics during the First World War. She completed her Habilitation thesis in 1994, writing a history of court theatres in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. From 1984 to 1996 she worked as a research fellow and lecturer at the University of Siegen. In 1996/97 she was appointed professor at the Technical University in Brunswick. Her research interests focus on European cultural and social history from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and the theory of cultural historiography. In 2001 she published a compendium on this topic, Kompendium Kulturgeschichte. Her most recent publications are Politische Kultur und Medienwirklichkeiten in den 1920er Jahren (2010) edited with Inge Marszolek, Wolfram Pyta, and Thomas Welskopp, and Massenmedien im Europa des. 20. Jahrhunderts (2010) edited with Axel Schildt.

The Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship in the field of Germany in Europe was inaugurated in 2009 for the period 1945 to 2000. The aim of the position is to stimulate interest in German history in Britain and to encourage comparative research in a European context. The timeframe covered by the professorship has been extended this year to cover the period from 1890 to 2000.

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The German Historical Institute London (GHIL), the International History Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Düsseldorf Gerda Henkel Stiftung have, for the second time, awarded a Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship for the topic ‘Germany in Europe, 1945-2000’. From 1 October 2010 Prof. Dr. Christoph Cornelißen will research at the GHIL and teach at the LSE for one year. By means of this Visiting Professorship the Gerda Henkel Stiftung will be promoting Christoph Cornelißen’s planned study of the British and German welfare states. Professor of Modern History at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Cornelißen will be looking at which concepts of inequality and social justice have been discussed in Britain and the Federal Republic since the 1970s. As well as a major research project he also plans to hold a conference and a seminar on the topic.

Christoph Cornelißen studied history and English language and literature at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and at the University of Stirling (Scotland). In 1991 he was awarded his doctorate for a work on ‘The role of higher English civil servants in building in the British welfare state 1893–1919’. In 2000 he completed his Habilitation on ‘Gerhard Ritter. A German Historian in the 20th Century’. After a Temporary Professorship in Düsseldorf and a Guest Professorship at the Karls-Universität Prague he was appointed to a Chair in Kiel in 2003. Christoph Cornelißen’s research interests are British history in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of German and international historiography, the history of migration in Europe, methodology and theory in historical research, memorial cultures in international perspective and the history of Europe. He is currently preparing a ‘History of Europe in the 20th Century’ for the series ‘Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte’.

The Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship for the topic ‘Germany in Europe, 1945- 2000’ was awarded for the first time in 2009. Its aim is to attract attention in Britain to the work of German contemporary historians on the history of the Federal Republic and the GDR and to inspire comparative studies on German history in a European context. The first Gerda Henkel Guest Professor was the Mannheim historian Prof. Dr. Johannes Paulmann.

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Gerda Henkel Foundation:
Dr. Sybille Wüstemann
Tel.: +49 (0)211/936524 0
E-Mail: wuestemann(ghi)gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de

German Historical Institute London:
Dr. des. Angela Schattner
Tel.: +44 (0)20/7309 2029
E-Mail: schattner(ghi)ghil.ac.uk

General contact person for the Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship at the GHIL in cooperation with the London School of Economics:
Prof. Dr. Benedikt Stuchtey:
stuchtey(ghi)ghil.ac.uk