Personal Details: Bunnenberg, Christian

Co-director (since August 2020)
Member of Executive Board

Christian Bunnenberg, PhD (*1979), academic studies in History and German at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University in Münster. After finishing his teacher training in 2008, he worked as a secondary-school teacher. 2009-2011 lecturer of History Didactics at the University of Cologne, 2011-2014 research assistant at the University of Duisburg-Essen and 2014-2016 lecturer of History and History Didactics at the University of Education in Heidelberg. Since October 2016 he is assistant professor for history education at the University of Bochum.

Christian Bunnenberg, Dr. phil. (*1979), studierte Geschichte und Germanistik an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, 2005 Erstes Staatsexamen und Magister Artium, 2008 Zweites Staatsexamen, danach Gymnasiallehrer. 2009 bis 2011 Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben in der Geschichtsdidaktik an der Universität zu Köln, 2011 bis 2014 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Abteilung für Didaktik der Geschichte an der Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2014 bis 2016 Akademischer Rat an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Heidelberg. Seit Oktober 2016 forscht und lehrt er als Juniorprofessor für Didaktik der Geschichte an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jpgeschichtsdidaktik/team/bunnenberg.html.de

• Complex Teaching Material Production: An Interview

  Komplexe Lehrmittelproduktion: Ein Interview

  By Bunnenberg, Christian, Gautschi, Peter and Tobler, Lukas on March 25, 2021

  

  Dirk Vaihinger (Lehrmittelverlag Zürich) comments on the special role of history textbooks, and the future of the medium.

  Complex Teaching Material Production: An Interview

• School History Textbooks in the 21st Century

  Schulgeschichtsbücher im 21. Jahrhundert

  By Gautschi, Peter and Bunnenberg, Christian on March 04, 2021 • ( 3 )

  

  How do school history textbooks deal with the new challenges posed in the 21st century as products of social processes of negotiation?

  School History Textbooks in the 21st Century

• Digital Public History

  By Gautschi, Peter and Bunnenberg, Christian on April 02, 2020

  

  Public history and thus the relationship between the people of today and the vast field of history is fundamentally influenced by the digitalization.

  Digital Public History

• Let’s talk about… History Podcasts

  Reden wir über… Geschichts-Podcasts

  By Bunnenberg, Christian on December 19, 2019

  

  History is told in podcasts on history. In detail and slowly. And many listeners enthusiastically listen to them. But why?

  Let’s talk about… History Podcasts

• Sound History

  By Bunnenberg, Christian and Gautschi, Peter on December 05, 2019

  

  For a long time, the study of the sounds of past times was hardly taken into account in historical scholarship; it cultivated a niche existence.

  Sound History

• Virtual Time Travels? Public History and Virtual Reality

  Virtuelle Zeitreisen? Public History und Virtual Reality

  By Bunnenberg, Christian on February 01, 2018

  

  History education and Public History are both challenged to provide guidance on how to deal with the respective Virtual Reality offers in a reflected and critical manner.

  Virtual Time Travels? Public History and Virtual Reality

• 100 Years of the “Christmas Truce”. Longing for a New Narrative

  100 Jahre “Weihnachtsfrieden”. Sehnsucht nach einem neuen Narrativ

  By Bunnenberg, Christian on December 24, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  Not all is quiet on the Western Front: The annual unofficial competition for the best Christmas advert in the United Kingdom was decided as long ago as 12 November. Sainsbury’s, the British supermarket chain, stunned its...

  100 Years of the “Christmas Truce”. Longing for a New Narrative