Dr. Daniel Michael Hadwiger
Research Associate | Contemporary History and Archive

Daniel Hadwiger joined IRS as a research assistant in the third-party funded research project “Urban Authenticity: Creating, contesting, and visualizing the built heritage in European cities since the 1970s” (UrbAuth) in June 2020. He is responsible for the subproject “Urban Authenticity in the Context of Urban Development and Migration in Marseille" (France). He is also project coordinator of the project “UrbAuth”. Within the framework of the project, he is also involved in works on the visual transmission of the built heritage in Berlin-Brandenburg.

He studied history and European literature at the Universities of Mainz, Université de Bourgogne (Dijon), University of Tübingen and at the Université Aix-Marseille. From 2014 to 2019 he worked on a dissertation on the history of welfare in Germany and France during the Second World War. In July 2019 he defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Nationale Solidarität und ihre Grenzen. Die deutsche Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt und der französische Secours national im Zweiten Weltkrieg“ at the University of Tübingen. His thesis received the prize of the „Deutsch-Französisches Historikerkomitee/Comité franco-allemand des historiens“.

Projects

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

“Authenticity” as the purportedly “original”, “pure”, or “true” character of persons, objects or practices has become a major public discourse, a powerful driver of heritage debates and cultural change and a key research issue in the humanities. From theatre and museums studies to heritage conservation and the historical sciences scholars dispute the ways in which authenticity indicates and triggers cultural change in modern societies. While there is a broad consensus among constructivist approaches that historical authenticity was and is always socially and culturally produced, and that there is no such thing as “the pure” or “the original” in terms of materiality, the case of built heritage seems to challenge this approach. Here strong academic and public controversies have emerged on the role and impact of materiality for authenticity. This project is the first to systematically analyse patterns of such discourses in a transnational historiographical perspective. more info

The interdisciplinary summer school is directed at 15 students (with bachelor's and master's degrees) from the fields of history, urban research, architecture, political science and other related fields. It's objective is to give students a detailed insight into the concept of the "socialist city" from a comparative and transnational perspective. On the one hand, various aspects such as urban planning, architecture, housing and social infrastructure, but also monument preservation and state violence will be contextualized and discussed by the experts. The final part of the summer school will deal with the heritage and memory of socialist cities. On the other hand, the knowledge gained should be deepened through the presentation of students’ own projects as well as thematic excursions. more info

Selected Publications by Year

2023
Hadwiger, D. (2023, Mar 22). Altstadtviertel "Le Panier", Marseille. https://urban-authenticity.eu/altstadtviertel-le-panier/
Hadwiger, D. (2023, Mar 22). Erläuterung zu 13 Prozessen der Authentisierung. https://urban-authenticity.eu/steckbriefe/aufwertung/
Hadwiger, D. (2023, Mar 22). Schwebefähre, Marseille. https://urban-authenticity.eu/schwebefaehre-pont-transbordeur/
Hadwiger, D. (2023, Mar 22). RAW-Gelände. https://urban-authenticity.eu/raw-gelaende/
2022
Hadwiger, D. (Author), Popiołek-Roßkamp, M. (Author), & Wigger, J. (Author). (2022). Original, echt, authentisch? Eine Spurensuche in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. Ein Audiowalk des Leibniz-Forschungsverbundes Historische Authentizität/Wert der Vergangenheit - ZZF Potsdam und des Leibniz-Instituts für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung in Erkner. Digital or Visual Products https://guidemate.com/guide/Original-echt-authentisch-Eine-Spurensuche-in-Berlin-Prenzlauer-Berg-6343f632b53c8b4241ce2b9d
2021
Hadwiger, D. M. (2021). Nationale Solidarität und ihre Grenzen: Die deutsche "Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt" und der französische "Secours national" im Zweiten Weltkrieg. (Schriftenreihe des Deutsch-Französischen Historikerkomitees; No. 18). Steiner.
Hadwiger, D. M. (2021). Marc Angelil: Migrant Marseille: Architectures of Social Segregation and Urban Inclusivity. H-Soz-u-Kult. https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-95119
Hadwiger, D. M. (2021). Reinecke, Christiane: Die Ungleichheit der Städte: Urbane Problemzonen im postkolonialen Frankreich und der Bundesrepublik. H-Soz-u-Kult, 2021. https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-94817
Hadwiger, D. (2021, Mar). Architektur als Instrument der Außenpolitik - Unterlagen zur Ausstellung „Bauen in der DDR“ in Paris 1988: Fund des Monats Nr. 11 vom März 2021. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. http://ddr-planungsgeschichte.de/bauausstellung-paris-1988/

Selected Publications by Type

Monograph
Hadwiger, D. M. (2021). Nationale Solidarität und ihre Grenzen: Die deutsche "Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt" und der französische "Secours national" im Zweiten Weltkrieg. (Schriftenreihe des Deutsch-Französischen Historikerkomitees; No. 18). Steiner.
Contribution to Forum or Blog
Hadwiger, D. (2023, Mar 22). Altstadtviertel "Le Panier", Marseille. https://urban-authenticity.eu/altstadtviertel-le-panier/
Hadwiger, D. (2023, Mar 22). Erläuterung zu 13 Prozessen der Authentisierung. https://urban-authenticity.eu/steckbriefe/aufwertung/
Hadwiger, D. (2023, Mar 22). Schwebefähre, Marseille. https://urban-authenticity.eu/schwebefaehre-pont-transbordeur/
Hadwiger, D. (2023, Mar 22). RAW-Gelände. https://urban-authenticity.eu/raw-gelaende/
Hadwiger, D. (2021, Mar). Architektur als Instrument der Außenpolitik - Unterlagen zur Ausstellung „Bauen in der DDR“ in Paris 1988: Fund des Monats Nr. 11 vom März 2021. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. http://ddr-planungsgeschichte.de/bauausstellung-paris-1988/
Digital or Visual Products
Hadwiger, D. (Author), Popiołek-Roßkamp, M. (Author), & Wigger, J. (Author). (2022). Original, echt, authentisch? Eine Spurensuche in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. Ein Audiowalk des Leibniz-Forschungsverbundes Historische Authentizität/Wert der Vergangenheit - ZZF Potsdam und des Leibniz-Instituts für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung in Erkner. Digital or Visual Products https://guidemate.com/guide/Original-echt-authentisch-Eine-Spurensuche-in-Berlin-Prenzlauer-Berg-6343f632b53c8b4241ce2b9d
Review in Journal
Hadwiger, D. M. (2021). Marc Angelil: Migrant Marseille: Architectures of Social Segregation and Urban Inclusivity. H-Soz-u-Kult. https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-95119
Hadwiger, D. M. (2021). Reinecke, Christiane: Die Ungleichheit der Städte: Urbane Problemzonen im postkolonialen Frankreich und der Bundesrepublik. H-Soz-u-Kult, 2021. https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-94817

Talks

2022
A Moderate Modernization? Urban Planning and Architecture in France, 1945-2000

Summer School 2022: The Socialist City: Planning, Transformation and Aftermath

August/02/2022
Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung, Erkner/Berlin

Reconstruire l’identité grecque de Marseille? Le sauvetage du théâtre antique ‘Athéna Niké’ et le mythe de Marseille en tant que ville antique

Crises, défis, innnovations

June/22/2022
Université Nantes, Nantes, France

“Oriental“ or French City Center? Discourses on Urban Authenticity on the Center of Marseille and its Migrant Population, 1960–2000

Urban Authenticity in an International Perspective. Perceptions – Discourses – Conflicts

June/03/2022
Stanisław Staszic Pomeranian Library, Szczecin (Książnica Pomorska im. Stanisława Staszica) , Szczecin, Poland

Temporary Home. The Accommodation of Foreign Workers in European Cities, 1950–1990

Quarterly Meeting of the Freigeist Project

April/04/2022
Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar

2021
Authentisierungsdebatten im Umgang mit (post)kolonialem Bauerbe in Marseille, 1945–2020

Doktorandenkolloquium DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 1913, BTU Cottbus

July/07/2021

Transforming a City's Image by Destruction. The Demolition and Reconstruction of the old pPort of Marseille, 1943-1958

Interrupted Spaces, Engineered Traditions

June/30/2021
Bamberg (digital)

Tor zum Orient? Orientalismus und postkoloniale Spuren im Bauerbe von Marseille

Seminar der Arbeitsgruppe für Kunst und Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften

May/28/2021
Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany

2020
Multikulturelle Stadt ohne Monumente? Authentisierungsprozesse im Bauerbe von Marseille, 1945–2015

2. Workshop "Urban Authenticity: Creating, Contesting, and Visualising the Built Heritage in European Cities since the 1970s" (UrbAuth)

October/05/2020
IRS, Erkner, Germany

News
March/23/2023
Website urban-authenticity.eu Goes Live

The baroque city church, a Wilhelminian villa, a park - such buildings are considered "authentic" and representative of cities. But what about buildings from more recent history, especially the history of the GDR? The research project "Urban Authenticity" has investigated processes of authentication and now presents the results on an interactive website. It documents the history of building and discourse on the basis of over 50 examples, mainly in Berlin-Brandenburg. Not only buildings in Berlin and Potsdam are presented, but also numerous examples in rural Brandenburg. These tell stories of eradication, but also of the preservation of built local identity. more info

Dr. Daniel Michael Hadwiger in the Media

Urbane Authentizität
(DBZ Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, 05/01/2023)
Urbane Authentizität
(DBZ – Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, 05/01/2023)