Julia Timpe

Dr. Julia Timpe

Distinguished Lecturer in History
Deputy Study Program Chair "International Relations: Politics and History" (IRPH)
School of Business, Social & Decision Sciences
Constructor University Bremen gGmbH
Res. IV | Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen
Phone number
+49 421 200-3371
Fax number
+49 421 200-3303
Email Address
jtimpe@constructor.university
Office
Research IV, 102
Research Interests

My research encompasses the history of modern Europe and especially modern Germany, with a particular focus on the history of Nazi Germany, World War II and the Holocaust, Digital History, and the History of the Everyday.

Selected Publications

Nazi-Organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich

J Timpe

Palgrave MacMillan

Digitizing a Gigantic Nazi Construction: 3D-Mapping of Bunker Valentin in Bremen

A Birk, F Buda, H Bülow, AG Chavez, CA Müller, J Timpe

Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter

"Männer und Frauen beim fröhlichen Spiel": Ziele, Gestaltung und Aneignungsversuche von KdF-Betriebssport

J Timpe

Sport und Nationalsozialismus

Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany: Potentialities and Challenges of Digitally Researching and Presenting the History of the Third Reich, World War II, and the Holocaust

J Timpe, F Buda

Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Digitale NS-Geschichtsschreibung: Herausforderungen im Umgang mit digitalen Quellen in der Geschichtsforschung und -vermittlung zum Nationalsozialismus

F Buda, J Timpe, CC Weber

Journal für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (JKGE …

Mit Sport und Spiel zur "Volksgemeinschaft": Betriebssport der NS-Organisation "Kraft durch Freude"

J Timpe

Industrielle Arbeitswelt und Nationalsozialismus: Der Betrieb als …

Institutions

E Mailänder, A Oeser, W Rall, J Timpe

Ruptures in the Everyday, 143-167

 

Publications on Scopus
Digitizing a Gigantic Nazi Construction: 3D-Mapping of Bunker Valentin in Bremen
Birk, A. Buda, F. Bülow, H. Chavez, A.G. Müller, C.A. Timpe, J.
Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany: Potentialities and Challenges of Digitally Researching and Presenting the History of the Third Reich, World War II, and the Holocaust 2022 pp. 131-168
Introduction: Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany
Buda, F. Timpe, J.
Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany: Potentialities and Challenges of Digitally Researching and Presenting the History of the Third Reich, World War II, and the Holocaust 2022 pp. 1-14
Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany: Potentialities and Challenges of Digitally Researching and Presenting the History of the Third Reich, World War II, and the Holocaust
Buda, F. Timpe, J.
Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany: Potentialities and Challenges of Digitally Researching and Presenting the History of the Third Reich, World War II, and the Holocaust 2022 pp. 1-230
Introduction
Timpe, J.
Holocaust and its Contexts 2017 pp. 1-31
KdF’s “Warfare for Joy”
Timpe, J.
Holocaust and its Contexts 2017 pp. 119-165
Kultur for the Volk
Timpe, J.
Holocaust and its Contexts 2017 pp. 73-117
Creating a Clean, Beautiful German Lebensraum
Timpe, J.
Holocaust and its Contexts 2017 pp. 167-212
Volksgemeinschaft at Play
Timpe, J.
Holocaust and its Contexts 2017 pp. 33-72
Nazi-Organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich
Timpe, J.
Holocaust and its Contexts 2017 pp. 1-254
Conclusion
Timpe, J.
Holocaust and its Contexts 2017 pp. 213-222
University Education

Brown University, Providence, USA

PhD in History, 2013 (Thesis “Hitler’s Happy People: Kraft durch Freude’s Everyday Production of Joy in the Third Reich; Supervisor: Omer Bartov) 

MA in History, 2007

Graduate Studies in German Studies (Exchange Student), 2004–2006

 

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany 

Undergraduate and Graduate Studies (Magister Artium Program), 2001–2006 (Major: Modern and Contemporary History; Minors: European Ethnology and Modern German Literature) 

 

Leibniz Kolleg, Tübingen, Germany

Studium Generale, 2000–2001 (Competitive one-year general studies program of interdisciplinary and propaedeutic training with an emphasis on humanities/social sciences.) 

Work Experience

Constructor University, Germany

Distinguished Lecturer in  History, September 2023 to present

 

Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

University Lecturer in Contemporary History, September 2016 to August 2023

 

Universität Bremen, Germany

Universitätslektor, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, September 2013–August 2016

 

Harvard University, USA

College Fellow/Lecturer on History, History Department, August 2012–June 2013

 

Brown University, USA 

Instructor, Pre-College Summer Program, 2009–2013