Reimers — DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education

Function: Head of Unit

Warschauer Straße 34-38
10243 Berlin

2000: Doctoral thesis on the "Volkshochschulbewegung in Thüringen in der Weimarer Republik" (adult education movement in Thuringia during the era of the Weimar Republic). Research priorities in adult education, cultural and educational history and educational policy in the Kaiser (German Emperors) era and the Weimar Republic

1992: Master of Arts; Studied German, Educational Science, Italian, Political Science at Albertus Magnus University, Cologne and Eberhard Karls University Tübingen; Born in 1962

Since 03/2008: Head of the archives of the Library for the History of Education at the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education

2007 – 2008: Academic staff member at the pedagogical department, Augsburg University

2006: Academic staff member in the research project on the late writings of Friedrich Nietzsche at the Institute for Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin, located at the Goethe and Schiller archives, Weimar

2004 – 2006: Freelance researcher (editing estates for private persons, museums and archives, conceptualising exhibitions) and lecturer at the Institute for Pedagogy at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and at the seminar for pedagogy at Georg August University, Göttingen and in adult education institutions and the speech therapy training college, Erfurt

1994 – 2004: Academic staff member at the seminar for pedagogy, Ulm university

1993 – 1994: Academic staff member at the seminar for pedagogy, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen

1993: Academic staff member at the German Literature Archives, Marbach on the Neckar (1992) and holder of a stipend by the Deutsche Schiller Stiftung - German Schiller Foundation, German Literature Archive, Marbach on the Neckar

Archival services and specialised information
History of adult education
Cultural and educational history and educational policy in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic

Reimers, Bettina Irina & Cramme, Stefan (2023). Archival holdings on Friedrich Froebel and the edition of his letters. In T. Bruce, Y. Nishida, S. Powell, H. Wasmuth & J. Whinnett (Eds.), The Bloomsbury handbook to Friedrich Froebel (pp. 66-75). London: Bloomsbury Academic. doi:10.5040/9781350323230.0017
Reimers, Bettina Irina (2023). Eine Fundgrube für die Forschung zu preußischen Lehrerinnen und Lehrern. Die Unterlagen der Gutachterstelle des Instituts für Lehrerfort- und -weiterbildung. In Herold-Jahrbuch Band 27, S. 207-241
Reimers, Bettina Irina (2022). The Glass Slide Collection of the German Rural Residential Schools Association (Verband Deutscher Schullandheime e. V.). In Hertling, A. & Carrier, P. (Hrsg.), Collecting educational media. Making, storing and accessing knowledge. Berghahn , S. 99-110.
Reimers, Bettina Irina (2021). Ein Fotoalbum als historische Quelle: Das Konzept der Körper- und Stimmbildung von Kallmeyer und Lauterbach. In Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung (27) , S. 220-248; Internet: https://jb-historische-bildungsforschung.de/band_27/Band_27_10.xml; DOI: 10.25658/szr6-7x31
Reh, Sabine; Berdelmann, Kathrin; Cramme, Stefan; Mattes, Monika; Müller, Lars & Reimers, Bettina Irina (2021). Quellen und Methoden der Historischen Bildungsforschung, S. 12-30; Internet: https://elibrary.utb.de/doi/10.36198/9783838557083-12-30; DOI: 10.36198/9783838557083-12-30

Since 2019: Member of the "Archival Legal Issues" working group of the Association of German Archivists e.V

Since 2020: Spokesperson for the Leibniz Association's working group on archives

Since 2016: Member of the speakers' group of the "Collecting together" initiative of the Leibniz Association's working group on archives

2016 – 2023: Member of the advisory board of the lottery fund project "Pestalozzianum Collection: cataloguing, preservation and use of the collection", Pestalozzianum Foundation for Education, Schools and Dialogue (Zurich)

Since 2016: Member of the Advisory Board of the Alice Salomon Archive, "Alice Salomon Hochschule" - Berlin University of Applied Sciences for Social Work and Social Pedagogy

2012 – 2016: Spokesperson for the Leibniz Association's Archive Working Group

Since 2010: Member of the DGfE's scientific advisory board in the project for the archival cataloguing of the specialist society's written material holdings

2010 – 2021: Member of the scientific advisory board of the Adolf-Reichwein-Verein e.V.

last modified Aug 06, 2024