Christina Schröer, M. A.

History Department

Curriculum vitae::

Research interests:

• Cultural history of the political in the age of the French Revolution (1789-1848)
• German and French history of the 19th and 20th centuries
• Political iconography and historical image research
• Historical culture and historical politics using the example of history museums and exhibitions 

Function within the cluster:

• Research assistant, project B6: Utopia, Political Religion and Violence in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, headed by Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Thamer
• Coordinator of the study group Civil Religion, Religion and the State in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Projects:

EXC 212, Project B6: Utopia, Political Religion and Violence in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

Sacralised Politics – The Staging of Republican Regulations in Germany and France (1870-1933)

The results of culture historical research on revolution provided strong proof of the extent to which revolutionary ideologies were riddled with quasi-religious elements. After 1789, the domains of the religious and of the political continued to interfere with each other and formed new ties: in the context of a new political culture, new forms of the sacred emerged that partially used the old language of form but at the same time changed its meaning and added to it. Using the example of dictatorships and totalitarian systems, the sacred character of modern political systems has already been thoroughly explored. More recent studies from art history and the cultural studies, however, document that in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, even democratic movements and regimes availed themselves of sacred set pieces in order to generate confraternity, create legitimacy or sanctify violence. So far, there are papers about single aspects of national cults only, and most of them maintain a national historical perspective. These are to be taken up in a comparative study now and systemised and supplemented under the header of “sacred politics”, using as an example republican regulations in Germany and France. The study’s potential areas of practice are, for example, election and parliamentary rituals, acts of state and official ceremonies and, on the other hand, the unofficial symbolism and the ‘ritual places’ or ‘ritual acts’ of the republican movements between 1870 and 1933 (processions, festivals, death cults, among other things). One thesis awaiting proof is that republics – precisely because they have a deficit in legitimacy compared to monarchies – specifically depend on the generation of own myths and traditions and on the sacred overglorification of negotiation and decision processes.

Cooperation with SFB 496, Project C5: Power and Ritual in the Age of the French Revolution

Follow-up project: Creating New Legitimacy: Republicanisation in France between Nationalisation and Pluralisation, 1848–1914

The project has as its central theme a part of the question dealt with within the scope of the cluster of excellence. There is a close cooperation between the members of the cluster and those of the collaborative research centre (SFB).

Publications:

Edited works

• Herrschaftsverfall und Machtverlust, forthcoming, presumably Munich 2010 (together with Peter HOERES and Armin OWZAR)
• Représentation et pouvoir. La politique symbolique en France (1789-1830), Rennes 2007 (together with NATALIE SCHOLZ)

Articles

• La représentation du Nouveau Régime: les élites politiques et sociales dans les gravures du Directoire, in: NATALIE SCHOLZ/CHRISTINA SCHRÖER (eds.), Représentation et pouvoir. La politique symbolique en France (1789-1830), Rennes 2007, p. 39-61
• “Ordre public” und “homme nouveau”: Symbolische Auseinandersetzungen um die Neuordnung der ersten französischen Republik nach dem Ende der Schreckensherrschaft, in: BARBARA STOLLBERG-RILINGER/THOMAS WELLER (eds.), Wertekonflikte – Deutungskonflikte (Symbolische Kommunikation und gesellschaftliche Wertesysteme. Schriftenreihe des SFB 496, 16), Münster 2007, p. 301-326 (together with RÜDIGER SCHMIDT)
• Spektakel des Umbruchs: Politische Inszenierungen in der Französischen Revolution zwischen Tradition und Moderne, in: Exhibition catalogue: Spektakel der Macht. Rituale im Alten Europa 800-1800, ed. by BARBARA STOLLBERG-RILINGER/MATTHIAS PUHLE/JUTTA GÖTZMANN/GERD ALTHOFF, Darmstadt 2008
• Vive la République versus Vive Bonaparte? Die Inszenierung Napoleon Bonapartes als Staatsmann, in: RÜDIGER SCHMIDT/HANS-ULRICH THAMER (eds.), Die Konstruktion von Tradition: Inszenierung und Propaganda napoleonischer Herrschaft (1799-1815) (Symbolische Kommunikation und gesellschaftliche Wertesysteme. Schriftenreihe des SFB 496) Münster [forthcoming]
• Die Gegenrevolution in der Opposition. Visualisierung royalistischer Regimekritik im Direktorium, in: WOLFGANG CILLEßEN/ROLF REICHARDT (eds.), Gegenrevolutionäre Bildpublizistik [forthcoming]

Catalogue contributions and exhibit descriptions

• Exhibition catalogue: Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation 962 bis 1806, Altes Reich und neue Staaten 1495 bis 1806, ed. by HANS OTTOMEYER/JUTTA GÖTZMANN/ANSGAR REISS, Berlin 2006
• Exhibition catalogue: Spektakel der Macht. Rituale im Alten Europa 800-1800, ed. by BARBARA STOLLBERG-RILINGER/MATTHIAS PUHLE/JUTTA GÖTZMANN/GERD ALTHOFF, Darmstadt 2008

Academic advisor

• Children’s book “Napoleon Bonaparte” (Susanne Rebscher), Loewe-Verlag, 2009/2010
• DVD Geschichte interaktiv “Französische Revolution und Napoleonische Ära”, Anne Roerkohl dokumentARfilm GmbH, 2010
• GEO-EPOCHE Französische Revolution, Hamburg 2006

Academic exhibition assistant (2005-2008):

Spektakel der Macht – Rituale im Alten Europa (800-1800), Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg (culture historical museum) in cooperation with the collaborative research centre (SFB) 496 of Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 21 September 2008 to 4 January 2009

Scholarships and awards:

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