Chair of Modern and Contemporary History Online
Below is a list of all websites that report on the activities and research of the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History:
- Moritz Binkele: “Ice cream in the pedestrian zone is a hard-won achievement of modern mass culture.” Interview with Florian Metzger on the history of ice cream, in: L.I.S.A., the Gerda Henkel Foundation’s science portal, section: Interviews, March 3, 2026, URL: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/interview_metzger_speiseeis
- Georgios Chatzoudis: What If? Great Britain Is Not the Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. The podcast on counterfactual history with Angela Schwarz, in: L.I.S.A. Science Portal of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, October 24, 2024, URL: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/waswaeregewesen_angelaschwarz_industriellerevolution
- Thomas Hofmann: Journeys into Different Pasts, in: Der Standard, Section: Science, Subsection: Knowledge Blogs, August 26, 2024, URL: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000229205/reisen-in-verschiedene-vergangenheiten [Double review of “Journeys into the Past” and “The Factory as a Tourist Attraction”]
- Jan Reinold: At the University of Siegen: Why This Historian Gambles on the Job, in: Wesfalenpost, Section: Sauerland and Siegerland, June 16, 2024, URL: https://www.wp.de/sauer-und-siegerland/article406563815/an-der-uni-siegen-warum-diese-historikerin-dienstlich-zockt.html [subscription required]. A copy of the printed version of the article from the print edition of the Westfalenpost (June 17, 2024 issue) can be viewed here with the kind permission of the Funke Media Group and the editorial staff of the Westfalenpost.
- History in Games – Interview with historian Prof. Dr. Angela Schwarz, in: Spark! – University of Siegen Science Podcast, Issue No. 10, May 23, 2024, URL: https://www.uni-siegen.de/presse/relaunch/publikationen/spark/podcast_20240508_games_mastered_320_kbs_cbr.mp3?m=e
- How Ice Cream Went from a Luxury Item to an Everyday Treat, in: WDR 5 – Neugier genügt, broadcast on August 8, 2022, 10:04 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., URL: https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr5/wdr5-neugier-genuegt-freiflaeche/audio-wie-eis-vom-luxusgut-zum-alltagsgenuss-wurde-100.html [Interview with Angela Schwarz on the research project “Transformations of Knowledge in the Transition from the 19th to the 20th Century: Production, Presentation, Sale, and Consumption of Ice Cream”]
- Georgios Chatzoudis: Angela Schwarz. Has There Ever Been So Much History? Video Game Series with Historical Settings, in: Gerda Henkel Foundation (ed.): L.I.S.A. Science Portal of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Section: L.I.S.A. Video, Series: Cologne Lectures in the Summer Semester 2019, Topic: History and the Digital, September 6, 2019, URL: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/koelnervortraege_angelaschwarz [Online lecture by Prof. Dr. Angela Schwarz]
- Judith Wonke: “History Making on PlayStation? Reality Played Out,” in: Gerda Henkel Foundation (ed.): L.I.S.A. Science Portal of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Section: L.I.S.A. Video, Series: The History Talk at Super 7000, March 12, 2018, URL: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/gts7000_digitalespiele [Panel discussion featuring Prof. Dr. Angela Schwarz]
- Matthias Hannemann: “Traces in the Sand,” in: Frankfurter Allgemeine, Section: Arts & Culture, Subsection: Media, October 27, 2017, URL: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/spuren-im-sand-das-neue-assassin-s-creed-spiel-origins-15265038.html [Includes a statement by Angela Schwarz on the Assassin’s Creed video game series.]
- Harald Ries: The theory of evolution has more opponents today than it did in Darwin’s time, in: Westfalenpost, Section: Region, Subsection: Sauerland and Siegerland, October 16, 2017, URL: https://www.wp.de/region/sauer-und-siegerland/evolutionstheorie-hat-heute-mehr-gegner-als-zu-darwins-zeit-id212241381.html
- Andreas Fasel: “Evolution Cannot Be Denied” [Interview with Angela Schwarz about the book *The Evolution Controversy: A Cultural History* (2017)], in: *Die Welt*, Section: Regional News, Subsection: North Rhine-Westphalia, October 1, 2017, URL: https://www.welt.de/regionales/nrw/article169172035/Die-Evolution-laesst-sich-nicht-leugnen.html
- Hans-Christoph Zimmermann: “Built History—Historical Authenticity in Urban Space,” in: WDR, Section: Media Library, June 7, 2017, URL: http://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr3/wdr3-mosaik/audio-gebaute-geschichte---historische-authentizitaet-im-stadtraum-100.html [Angela Schwarz also speaks in this segment, which was broadcast on June 7, 2017, on the WDR 3 radio program “Mosaik.”]
- Tobias Nowak: Teaching History Through Video Games: Traveling Through the Centuries with the Assassin, in: WDR, Section: Digital, October 23, 2015, URL: http://www1.wdr.de/themen/digital/geschichtsvermittlung-100.html [Under “More on this topic,” you’ll find the radio feature “Fiction Meets Science: Teaching History Through Video Games,” in which Angela Schwarz, among others, is interviewed.]
- Miriam Menzel: Video Games in History Class (Interview with Angela Schwarz as part of the event “#erinnern_kontrovers” on July 9–10, 2015, in Berlin), in: Federal Agency for Civic Education (ed.): bpb: Federal Agency for Civic Education, Section: Learning, Oct. 27, 2015, URL: http://www.bpb.de/lernen/digitale-bildung/werkstatt/214025/computerspiele-im-geschichtsunterricht
- User 'Editorial Team': 'Workshop IV: Digital Media and Cultures of Remembrance. Video Games as an "Educational Medium"? – Prof. Dr. Angela Schwarz (University of Siegen), in: Agency for Education, History, Politics, and Media e.V. (ed.): #erinnern_kontrovers. New Directions in Narratives on the Holocaust, National Socialism, and World War II, Section: Day 2, September 14, 2015, URL: http://erinnern.hypotheses.org/494#Computerspiele
- Joachim Karpa: Scholar Researches the Sense of Belonging in South Westphalia, in: WAZ, Section: Cities, Subsection: News from Siegen, Kreuztal, Netphen, Hilchenbach, and Freudenberg, August 12, 2015, URL: http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/nachrichten-aus-siegen-kreuztal-netphen-hilchenbach-und-freudenberg/wissenschaftler-erforscht-das-heimatgefuehl-in-suedwestfalen-id10978786.html
- New Project Seeks Stories. South Westphalia as a Way of Life, in: Siegener Zeitung, Section: Local News, August 7, 2015, URL: http://www.siegener-zeitung.de/siegener-zeitung/Suedwestfalen-als-Lebensgefuehl-be0ae61a-9764-48d5-b3b3-c5bddab88b69-ds
- Portraits of People: The Region as a Way of Life, in: Südwestfalen. Regionale 2013, August 3, 2015, URL: http://regionale.suedwestfalen.com/detailansicht/article/menschenbilder-region-als-lebensgefuehl.html
- The Taste of Home—The Taste of Foreign Lands, in: Querschnitt. The University of Siegen Newspaper, No. 3, May 2015, p. 4, URL: https://www.uni-siegen.de/presse/publikationen/querschnitt/archiv/2015/querschnitt_3_15_web.pdf
- Just One Click to Victory. World War II in Video Games: Rise and Fall, in: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, May 2, 2015, URL: http://www.noz.de/deutschland-welt/medien/artikel/570577/der-zweite-weltkrieg-im-videospiel-aufstieg-und-niedergang#gallery&0&0&570577
- Nora Henn: Bottrop in the Spotlight of Academic Research, in: WAZ, Section: Local News, April 29, 2015, URL: http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/bottrop/bottrop-im-blick-der-wissenschaft-id10616649.html
- Kristina Reymann-Schneider: Between Shooting Fun and Remembrance: World War II in Video Games, in: DW. Deutsche Welle, Section: Topics, Subsection: Culture, May 5, 2015, URL: http://www.dw.de/zwischen-schießspaß-und-erinnerung-der-zweite-weltkrieg-im-videospiel/a-18411748
- Jochen Erdmenger: War as Cultural Heritage? World War I in Pop Culture, in: SR2 Kulturradio, HörStoff, July 26, 2014, 9:05 a.m.
- Program website: http://www.sr-online.de/sronline/sr2/sendungen_a-z/hoerstoff/20140726_hoerstoff_krieg_als_kulturgut100.html
- Listen to the program (SR Media Library): http://sr-mediathek.sr-online.de/index.php?seite=7&id=26672
- Anja Schrum: Gaming and Thinking. Computer Games Between Fun and Education, in: SWR2 Wissen, January 5, 2013, 8:30 a.m.
- Program website: http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/wissen/daddeln-und-denken/-/id=660374/did=10637942/nid=660374/7aft8i/index.html
- Listen to the program: http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/wissen/archiv/daddeln-und-denken/-/id=660334/did=10746470/nid=660334/vdecb0/index.html
- Episode available for download as an MP3 file: http://mp3-download.swr.de/swr2/wissen/sendungen/2013/01/daddeln-und-denken.12844s.mp3
- Transcript of the broadcast: http://www.swr.de/-/id=10637944/property=download/nid=660374/11hmid7/swr2-wissen-20130105.pdf
- Peter Mühlbauer: A Potentially Better Medium for Education. Interview with Professor Angela Schwarz on History in Video Games, in: Telepolis, February 22, 2011, URL: http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34238/1.html
- Nina Ernst: Facts Become Fiction—Sometimes. History in Video Games, in: taz.de. die tageszeitung, November 29, 2010, URL: http://www.taz.de/1/leben/alltag/artikel/1/aus-fakten-wird-fiktion-manchmal/
- Playing with History. Siegen Children’s University, in: Siegener Zeitung, November 17, 2010, URL: http://www.siegener-zeitung.de/a/409381
- Siegen Newspaper Album “Children’s University, November 17, 2010,” in: Sevenload, November 17, 2010, URL: http://de.sevenload.com/alben/h8Ezcus
- Tina Klopp: World War II Is Particularly Popular, in: ZEIT Online, October 14, 2010, URL: http://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2010-10/geschichte-games-epochen?page=all
- Tina Klopp: World War II Is Particularly Popular, in: Golem.de. IT News for Professionals, October 14, 2010, URL: http://www.golem.de/1010/78649.html
- Carl Heinze: Conference Report. When Opponents of War Throw “Plague-Infected Cows” at Each Other Again, or: Video Games – History – Science, December 4, 2008–December 5, 2008, Siegen, in: Clio-online-Historisches Fachinformationssystem e.V. (Ed.): H-Soz-u-Kult, January 15, 2009, URL: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=2466