Bettina Hitzer

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Bettina Hitzer (*1971) is a German historian and lecturer for the history of medicine at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.

Biography

Bettina Hitzer studied history, Romance languages and literature, and German literature at the Free University of Berlin and the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She completed her doctorate in history at the Bielefeld University. From 2007 to 2020, she was employed as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. In 2017, she submitted her Habilitation, earning the right to become a professor in the German university system. Hitzer became a lecturer for the history of medicine at the University of Magdeburg in 2022.

Research

Hitzer’s research engages with the cultural, social, and political history of Germany and Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth century. She is a specialist in the history of emotions.

Her dissertation Im Netz der Liebe (Entangled in Love) analyzes migration in the burgeoning metropolis of Berlin from 1850 to 1914.

Her Habilitation Krebs fühlen researched the historical relationship between emotions and cancer in twentieth-century Germany by investigating the development of medical and therapeutic discourse, public health campaigns, attitudes towards speaking about cancer, and the experiences of cancer patients themselves. The study was published as a book in 2020 and was awarded with the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Non-fiction. An English translation was published in 2022 by Oxford University Press as The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany.

In 2021, she began a research project on the history of adoption in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Awards

2016: Walter de Gruyter Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften for “exceptional research in the humanities”

2020: Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Non-fiction for Krebs fühlen. Eine Emotionsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts

Publications

As author

with Ute Frevert, et al.: Emotional Lexicons: Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling, 1700–2000. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-965573-1.

with Ute Frevert, et al.: Learning How to Feel: Children's Literature and Emotional Socialization, 1870–1970. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-968499-1.

Krebs fühlen. Eine Emotionsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-608-96459-2.

• English translation: The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2022, ISBN 978-0-192-86807-7

As editor

with Benedikt Stuchtey: In unsere Mitte aufgenommen. Adoption im 20. Jahrhundert. Wallstein, Göttingen 2022, ISBN 978-3-835-35199-8

with Alexa Geisthövel: Auf der Suche nach einer anderen Medizin. Psychosomatik im 20. Jahrhundert. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-29864-0.

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