Hansjakob Ziemer
Senior Research Scholar, Head of Cooperation and Communication (Since 2008)
Dr.
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Hansjakob Ziemer received his PhD in Modern History from the Humboldt University in 2007. In his thesis he dealt with the cultural history of concert life in the beginning of the twentieth century in Frankfurt am Main in order to show the concert hall as a site where society came to terms with the cultural and social consequences of Modernity. He is also working on the history of emotions, of concert hall architecture, and of musicology. He is the co-editor of two large-scale projects: for OUP he coedited with Christian Thorau a handbook on the history of music listening in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (January 2019), and with Daniel Morat he coedited a handbook Sound: Geschichte, Begriffe, Ansätze (Metzler, Summer 2018). His next project will address the history of journalistic knowledge in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Current Projects
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Books
Selected Publications
Ziemer, Hansjakob (2021). “Sound in the Papers: Musical Hermeneutics in the Age of the Feuilleton.” History of Humanities 6 (1): 61–83. https://doi.org/10.1086/713257.
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Kursell, Julia, Viktoria Tkaczyk, and Hansjakob Ziemer (2021). “Introduction: Language, Sound, and the Humanities.” History of Humanities 6 (1): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1086/713254.
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Thorau, Christian and Hansjakob Ziemer (2020). “Die Kunst des Hörens in Bildern.” In 150 Jahre Dresdner Philharmonie 1870-2020, ed. A. Schloemann and C. Woldt, 12–38. Dresden: Dresdner Philharmonie. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-B7AC-9.
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Thorau, Christian and Hansjakob Ziemer, eds. (2019). The Oxford Handbook of Music Listening in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466961.001.0001.
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Thorau, Christian and Hansjakob Ziemer (2019). “The Art of Listening and Its Histories: An Introduction.” In The Oxford Handbook of Music Listening in the 19th and 20th Centuries, ed. C. Thorau and H. Ziemer, 1–36. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466961.013.1.
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Ziemer, Hansjakob (2019). “The Crisis of Listening in Interwar Germany.” In The Oxford Handbook of Music Listening in the 19th and 20th Centuries, ed. C. Thorau and H. Ziemer. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466961.013.13.
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Morat, Daniel and Hansjakob Ziemer, eds. (2018). Handbuch Sound: Geschichte – Begriffe – Ansätze. Stuttgart: Metzler.
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Ziemer, Hansjakob (2018). “Konzertsaal.” In Handbuch Sound: Geschichte – Begriffe – Ansätze, ed. D. Morat and H. Ziemer, 271–276. Stuttgart: Metzler.
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Ziemer, Hansjakob (2017). “Opferstiere und Barbaren im Konzert: zu einer historischen Anthropologie des Musikhörens der 1920er Jahre.” In Geschichte und Gegenwart des musikalischen Hörens: Diskurse - Geschichte(n) - Poetiken, ed. K. Aringer, F. K. Praßl, P. Revers, and C. Utz, 257–274. Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach Verlag.
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Ziemer, Hansjakob (2017). “Konzerthörer unter Beobachtung: Skizze für eine Geschichte journalistischer Hörertypologien zwischen 1870 und 1940.” In Wissensgeschichte des Hörens in der Moderne, ed. Netzwerk “Hör-Wissen im Wandel”, 183–206. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110523720-008.
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Morat, Daniel, Viktoria Tkaczyk, and Hansjakob Ziemer (2017). “Einleitung.” In Wissensgeschichte des Hörens in der Moderne, ed. Netzwerk “Hör-Wissen im Wandel”, 1–19. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110523720-001.
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Ziemer, Hansjakob (2014). “Der ethnologische Blick : Paul Bekker und das Feuilleton zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts.” In Kommunikationsräume des Europäischen - Jüdische Wissenskulturen jenseits des Nationalen, 113–129. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
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Ziemer, Hansjakob (2014). “Listening on the home front : music and the production of social meaning in German concert halls during World War I.” In Sounds of modern history : auditory cultures in 19th- and 20th-century Europe, ed. D. Morat, 201–224. New York [u.a.]: Berghahn.
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Ziemer, Hansjakob (2013). “Klang der Gesellschaft : zur Soziologisierung des Klangs im Konzert, 1900-1933.” In Auditive Medienkulturen : Techniken des Hörens und Praktiken der Klanggestaltung, ed. A. Volmar and J. Schröter, 145–163. Bielefeld: transcript-Verlag.
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Ziemer, Hansjakob (2008). Die Moderne hören : das Konzert als urbanes Forum, 1890-1940. Campus Historische Studien ; 46. Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]: Campus.
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Events
Workshop
- Institute Event
CANCELED: 15th Scholars’ Forum for Literature and the History of Science
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Sounds of Language
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- Institute Event
Relating Pasts & Presents—History of Science & Social Science
MOREMax-Planck-Tag
Max-Planck-Tag: Nachwuchs-wissenschaftler treffen auf Nachwuchsjournalisten
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13th Scholars’ Forum for Literature and the History of Science
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- Institute Event
Observing the Everyday: Journalistic Practices and Knowledge Production in the Modern Era
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Betwixt and Between: Sound in the Humanities and Sciences
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Observing the Everyday: Journalistic Practices and Knowledge Production in the Modern Era
MOREPresentations, Talks, & Teaching Activities
Leopold Katscher
"How We Became Journalists": Constructing Journalistic Personae in the Deutsche Presse Survey (1929)
Sounds in the Papers: Musical Hermeneutics in the "Feuilletonistic Age"
Observing Social Sounds: Paul Bekker and the Proto-Sociology of Musical Forms during World War I
The World in the Feuilleton: Leopold Katscher and Observing the Social around 1900
Hörerbeobachtung in der Krise: Zur Wissensgeschichte von Hörertypen am Ende der Weimarer Republik
“How We Became Journalists”: Journalistic Observation and the Formation of Identity in the Deutsche-Presse-Survey of 1929
Hörerbeobachtung: Zur Wissenskonstruktion in journalistischen Hörertypologien um 1900
Exkurs Architekturgeschichte und –soziologie
Hörerbeobachtung. Journalisten im Konzertsaal, 1870–1940
Raum für alle? Das Festhallenprojekt in Frankfurt am Main, 1909–1912
Audience as Nation? Constructing Society in German Concert Halls at the Beginning of the 20th Century