Please join us for Dr. Ellerbrock’s talk, entitled “From Trigger Happy to Feeling Odd? German Gun Culture and the Emergence of European Gun Control Regimes in the 20th Century.” This talk is presented by the Global History Initiative.
In the 19th century private firearms were common and hardly regulated. Especially young men used these gadgets with great joy. The lecture explains when and how German gun culture became regulated, and which emotional shift had been involved in this historical transformation. It also covers the shift from knife culture to gun-culture and discusses similarities and distinction to the actual knife violence in Germany.
Dagmar Ellerbrock is a Professor of Modern History at Technical University Dresden and founding member of the Cooperate Research Center “Invectivty” (SFB 1285, TU Dresden), she is also spokesperson of the Graduate School "The Technical College of Dresden under National Socialism". Her research focuses on the history of violence and European gun cultures, the history of emotions, especially Invectivity (shaming and insults in 19th and 20th centuries), deliberate ignorance and Stasi history, memory cultures and knowledge, health policy, and democratization. Ellerbrock appears regularly in German and European media, wrote for the national and international press, and has been an advisor to the German parliament on issues of gun regulation.
