Harald Welzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 359036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harald Welzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harald |
| FAMILY NAME | Welzer |
| SIGNATURE | WELZER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Alltag und Situation
Transformationsdesign, Wege in eine zukunftsfähige Moderne
Deutsch-Polnische Erinnerungsorte
Die Texte des vierten Bandes der Deutsch-Polnischen Erinnerungsorte laden dazu ein, einen Blick "hinter die Kulissen" des Projektes zu werfen. Interessierte können Aufschluss über den theoretischen Rahmen der Publikationsreihe gewinnen. Wer sich während der Lektüre der Deutsch-Polnischen Erinnerungsorte gefragt hat, wie Erinnerungskulturen entstehen und wie man sie analysieren kann, findet in diesem Band nicht eine, sondern viele sich ergänzende …
Lifespan trends of autobiographical remembering
Soldaten - On Fighting, Killing and Dying
In November 2001, as the world still reeled from the attack on the Twin Towers, German historian Sonke Neitzel discovered an extraordinary cache of documents from the Second World War. The documents were the transcripts of German prisoners of war talking among themselves in prisoner of war camps, and secretly recorded by the allies. In these apparently private conversations the soldiers talked freely and openly about their hopes and fears, their …
Sozialpsychologie
Die Sozialpsychologie widmet sich der wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung des Zusammenspiels von sozialer Interaktion, Sozialstruktur sowie individuellem Handeln und Erleben (vgl. Troyer & Youngreen 2004). Als Teildisziplin der Psychologie steht die Erforschung der Gesetzmäßigkeiten menschlichen Erlebens und Verhaltens im Zentrum ihres Interesses, jedoch richtet sie ihr Augenmerk insbesondere auf die Bedeutung des sozialen Kontextes. Auf der Ebene de…
Von der Natur- zur sozialen Katastrophe
Gedächtnis und Erinnerung
Die gesamte Bandbreite der Gedächtnisforschung. Ausgehend von den neurologischen und psychologischen Grundlagen betrachtet das Handbuch die vielfältigen Formen des Gedächtnisses darunter das autobiogr
Gedächtnis und Erinnerung
Re-narrations
Research on social memory phenomena is confronted with the problem that social memory has neither a substrate in the sense of a remembering subject nor a central organ of an operating memory in the sense of a human brain. As a consequence, social memory exclusively exists between subjects and not within them, its form of existence consists of communication. In its first part, the article presents examples of family conversations that show that fa…
Communicative Memory
Collateral Damage of History Education
Harald Welzer Collateral Damage of History Education: National Socialism and the Holocaust in German Family Memory HISTORY IS NOT ONLY ON THE CURRICULUM, A N D IT IS NOT ONLY THE subject of books, journals, radio and television programs, or public debates that explicitly deal w ith the past and w ith the question of how to rem em ber it in an adequate way.* History is also conveyed en passant. It is inscribed in the fabric of everyday life, in pe…
Das kommunikative Gedächtnis und woraus es besteht«
Das Alter des Erinnerns - Einige Ergebnisse des interdisziplinären Forschungsprojektes »Erinnerung und Gedächtnis«
Die Kavallerie kommt nicht
Konvergenzzonen zwischen den Disziplinen. Eine Skizze für das Forschungsprogramm des »Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research«
Brennpunkte einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Interpretation der Kultur
›Kultur‹ ist kein Gegenstand neben anderen Gegenständen. ›Kulturwissenschaft‹ ist keine spezifische geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Disziplin neben anderen Disziplinen. ›Kultur‹ ist auch nicht das, was die Humanwissenschaften ›natürlicherweise‹ als ihr konstitutives Objekt reklamieren können. Um zu begreifen, was auf dem Spiel steht, wenn seit dem letzten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts in der Soziologie, Geschichtswissenschaft, Ethnologie und …
Mass murder and moral code
Research on perpetrators of genocidal processes and especially of the Holocaust is still puzzled by the fact that most of the atrocities and killings have been executed by ‘ordinary men’, i.e. by persons with a self-concept which would not have indicated that they could become killers. The guiding question of research on genocidal perpetrators is therefore how given moral inhibitions and moral values could have been overcome, or, to put it simply…
"Opa war kein Nazi." Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust im Familiengedachtnis
On the Rationality of Evil
The interview discusses the interdependence of the scientist's biography and the field, the relationship between sociology and the Holocaust, and the question of aesthetics and style in writing on sociological topics
Rewriting Memories
This article deals with the question of how personal memories of the national socialist past in Germany are passed on to younger generations. Rather than viewing this process as an unidirectional handing down of memories from generation to generation, examination is made of how memories are negotiated and re-created in intergenerational discourse. Drawing on a series of case studies, there is discussion of how the meaning of past experiences is c…
Eine offene Geschichte
Eine offene Geschichte
Re-narrations
Research on social memory phenomena is confronted with the problem that social memory has neither a substrate in the sense of a remembering subject nor a central organ of an operating memory in the sense of a human brain. As a consequence, social memory exclusively exists between subjects and not within them, its form of existence consists of communication. In its first part, the article presents examples of family conversations that show that fa…
Rewriting Memories
This article deals with the question of how personal memories of the national socialist past in Germany are passed on to younger generations. Rather than viewing this process as an unidirectional handing down of memories from generation to generation, examination is made of how memories are negotiated and re-created in intergenerational discourse. Drawing on a series of case studies, there is discussion of how the meaning of past experiences is c…
Soldaten - On Fighting, Killing and Dying
In November 2001, as the world still reeled from the attack on the Twin Towers, German historian Sonke Neitzel discovered an extraordinary cache of documents from the Second World War. The documents were the transcripts of German prisoners of war talking among themselves in prisoner of war camps, and secretly recorded by the allies. In these apparently private conversations the soldiers talked freely and openly about their hopes and fears, their …
Collateral Damage of History Education
Harald Welzer Collateral Damage of History Education: National Socialism and the Holocaust in German Family Memory HISTORY IS NOT ONLY ON THE CURRICULUM, A N D IT IS NOT ONLY THE subject of books, journals, radio and television programs, or public debates that explicitly deal w ith the past and w ith the question of how to rem em ber it in an adequate way.* History is also conveyed en passant. It is inscribed in the fabric of everyday life, in pe…
Mass murder and moral code
Research on perpetrators of genocidal processes and especially of the Holocaust is still puzzled by the fact that most of the atrocities and killings have been executed by ‘ordinary men’, i.e. by persons with a self-concept which would not have indicated that they could become killers. The guiding question of research on genocidal perpetrators is therefore how given moral inhibitions and moral values could have been overcome, or, to put it simply…
Eine offene Geschichte
Eine offene Geschichte
"Opa war kein Nazi." Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust im Familiengedachtnis
On the Rationality of Evil
The interview discusses the interdependence of the scientist's biography and the field, the relationship between sociology and the Holocaust, and the question of aesthetics and style in writing on sociological topics
Rewriting Memories
This article deals with the question of how personal memories of the national socialist past in Germany are passed on to younger generations. Rather than viewing this process as an unidirectional handing down of memories from generation to generation, examination is made of how memories are negotiated and re-created in intergenerational discourse. Drawing on a series of case studies, there is discussion of how the meaning of past experiences is c…
Brennpunkte einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Interpretation der Kultur
›Kultur‹ ist kein Gegenstand neben anderen Gegenständen. ›Kulturwissenschaft‹ ist keine spezifische geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Disziplin neben anderen Disziplinen. ›Kultur‹ ist auch nicht das, was die Humanwissenschaften ›natürlicherweise‹ als ihr konstitutives Objekt reklamieren können. Um zu begreifen, was auf dem Spiel steht, wenn seit dem letzten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts in der Soziologie, Geschichtswissenschaft, Ethnologie und …
Mass murder and moral code
Research on perpetrators of genocidal processes and especially of the Holocaust is still puzzled by the fact that most of the atrocities and killings have been executed by ‘ordinary men’, i.e. by persons with a self-concept which would not have indicated that they could become killers. The guiding question of research on genocidal perpetrators is therefore how given moral inhibitions and moral values could have been overcome, or, to put it simply…
Das Alter des Erinnerns - Einige Ergebnisse des interdisziplinären Forschungsprojektes »Erinnerung und Gedächtnis«
Die Kavallerie kommt nicht
Konvergenzzonen zwischen den Disziplinen. Eine Skizze für das Forschungsprogramm des »Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research«
Das kommunikative Gedächtnis und woraus es besteht«
Communicative Memory
Collateral Damage of History Education
Harald Welzer Collateral Damage of History Education: National Socialism and the Holocaust in German Family Memory HISTORY IS NOT ONLY ON THE CURRICULUM, A N D IT IS NOT ONLY THE subject of books, journals, radio and television programs, or public debates that explicitly deal w ith the past and w ith the question of how to rem em ber it in an adequate way.* History is also conveyed en passant. It is inscribed in the fabric of everyday life, in pe…
Sozialpsychologie
Die Sozialpsychologie widmet sich der wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung des Zusammenspiels von sozialer Interaktion, Sozialstruktur sowie individuellem Handeln und Erleben (vgl. Troyer & Youngreen 2004). Als Teildisziplin der Psychologie steht die Erforschung der Gesetzmäßigkeiten menschlichen Erlebens und Verhaltens im Zentrum ihres Interesses, jedoch richtet sie ihr Augenmerk insbesondere auf die Bedeutung des sozialen Kontextes. Auf der Ebene de…
Von der Natur- zur sozialen Katastrophe
Gedächtnis und Erinnerung
Die gesamte Bandbreite der Gedächtnisforschung. Ausgehend von den neurologischen und psychologischen Grundlagen betrachtet das Handbuch die vielfältigen Formen des Gedächtnisses darunter das autobiogr
Gedächtnis und Erinnerung
Re-narrations
Research on social memory phenomena is confronted with the problem that social memory has neither a substrate in the sense of a remembering subject nor a central organ of an operating memory in the sense of a human brain. As a consequence, social memory exclusively exists between subjects and not within them, its form of existence consists of communication. In its first part, the article presents examples of family conversations that show that fa…
Soldaten - On Fighting, Killing and Dying
In November 2001, as the world still reeled from the attack on the Twin Towers, German historian Sonke Neitzel discovered an extraordinary cache of documents from the Second World War. The documents were the transcripts of German prisoners of war talking among themselves in prisoner of war camps, and secretly recorded by the allies. In these apparently private conversations the soldiers talked freely and openly about their hopes and fears, their …
Deutsch-Polnische Erinnerungsorte
Die Texte des vierten Bandes der Deutsch-Polnischen Erinnerungsorte laden dazu ein, einen Blick "hinter die Kulissen" des Projektes zu werfen. Interessierte können Aufschluss über den theoretischen Rahmen der Publikationsreihe gewinnen. Wer sich während der Lektüre der Deutsch-Polnischen Erinnerungsorte gefragt hat, wie Erinnerungskulturen entstehen und wie man sie analysieren kann, findet in diesem Band nicht eine, sondern viele sich ergänzende …
Lifespan trends of autobiographical remembering
Transformationsdesign, Wege in eine zukunftsfähige Moderne
Alltag und Situation
Political science (12 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · European history and politics (5 works) · German History and Society (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Memory, History, Trauma, Identity (5 works)