Annette Vowinckel Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Born: Hagen/Westfalen, Germany, 1966

Family: Married, two children (Dana *1996, Nora *2001)

July 2011 - Oct. 2012: Head of research group „Change of the Political in the 20th Century“ (ZZF Potsdam)

Since April 2009: Researcher at Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF)

Field: Cultural History of the 20th Century

Winter term 2009/10: Teaching Media Studies at Potsdam University (full time, replacing Prof. Dieter Mersch)

Winter term 2008/09: Teaching History at Humboldt University (full time, replacing Prof. Thomas Mergel (Lehrstuhls für Europäische Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts)

March 2006-December 2007

Researcher at Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam

Habilitation (second doctorate) 2006 in Cultural Studies at Humboldt University Berlin. Thesis: »The Age of Relation. Individuality, Normality und the Mediocre in Renaissance Culture«, Advisor: Prof. Hartmut Böhme

Ph.D. (1999)

»Notions of History in the Work of Hannah Arendt« [»Geschichtsbegriff und Historisches Denken bei Hannah Arendt«], Advisor: Prof. Dan Diner, Essen University (published Köln/Weimar: Böhlau 2001)

Student (1987-1994)

Bielefeld University, University of Cologne and the Hebrew University Jerusalem

History, Spanish, Art Education, Film and Television Studies

Memberships

- Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen in Deutschland

- Deutscher Hochschulverband

- German Studies Association

Editorial

- Zeithistorische Forschungen

- ZeitRäume. Potsdamer Almanach

- Docupedia Zeitgeschichte

Fellowships