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I will be retired from 1 April 2026, but can still be contacted by email if necessary.

New publications:

Not to read, but to listen to: the podcast ‘Hirn gehört. Oldenburger Wissensschnack’, episode 51 – this time I was a guest on the show – available, for example, at: https://hirnvomhahn.de/podcast/

Published in the anniversary edition of ‘kulturland oldenburg’: Dietmar von Reeken: ‘From Country to Landscape. On the Origins of the Oldenburg Foundation and the Oldenburgische Landschaft’, in: kulturland oldenburg Issue 2, 2025, pp. 12–19

Published after five years’ work: Dietmar von Reeken (ed.): Lingen under National Socialism (= Sources and Research on the History of Lingen, Vol. 3), Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte 2025 (including, amongst other things, two articles by me)

New monograph on the history of history teaching: Philip Haas, Dietmar von Reeken: Tensions between academic and pedagogical history in history teaching (= History Didactics in the Past and Present, Vol. 13), Berlin: LIT 2024

The latest issue of the journal *Geschichte lernen*, which I edited, was published in July 2024 on the topic of ‘Historical Democracy Education’

In recent years, my latest literature review on history didactics appeared in the journal ‘Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht’; due to its length, it was published in several parts: issue 5/6 (2024), pp. 336–359, Issue 7/8 (2024), pp. 463–484, Issue 9/10, pp. 575–593, and Issue 11/12, pp. 685–701

Also published in the last three years:

  • Dietmar von Reeken: ‘Historical Education as Immunisation? Reflections on the Significance of History in Uncertain Times’, in: Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer et al. (eds.): ‘Democracy at Risk – Resilient Democracy. Contributions from Research and Practice (= Writings on the Didactics of Democracy, Vol. 8), Göttingen 2026, pp. 88–103
  • Dietmar von Reeken: Teacher Training in Transition, in: uni-info 53 (2026), 1st quarter
  • Dietmar von Reeken: Archives in Lower Saxony and National Socialism – Continuities and Discontinuities. Research Review and Research Perspectives, in: Sabine Graf, Julia Kahleyß, Henning Steinführer (eds.): Archives in Lower Saxony and National Socialism. Continuities and Discontinuities, Göttingen 2025, pp. 717–723
  • Dietmar von Reeken: 200 Years of the Oldenburg House Calendar, in: The Oldenburg House Calendar 2026, pp. 17–31
  • Dietmar von Reeken: From Region to Landscape. On the Origins of the Oldenburg Foundation and the Oldenburgische Landschaft, in: kulturland oldenburg Issue 2, 2025, pp. 12–19
  • Dietmar von Reeken: Participation in Debates on Street Names – A Look at Local Historical Cultures and Their Constitution, in: Saskia Handro, Björn Onken (eds.): Historical-Cultural Participation. Actors, Functions and Practices, Berlin 2024, pp. 13–24
  • Dietmar von Reeken: Reconstructing an Individual’s Historical Consciousness. Johann Carl Bertram Stüve and his Historical Thought, in: Christine van den Heuvel, Thomas Brakmann, Nina Reißig (eds.): Johann Carl Bertram Stüve (1798–1872). Essays on His Life and Work, Göttingen 2024, pp. 136–158
  • Dietmar von Reeken: Local historical cultures and their (possible) significance for the teaching of history, in: Charlotte Husemann et al. (eds.): Historical Learning for the 21st Century. Festschrift for Markus Bernhardt on his 65th birthday, Frankfurt am Main 2024, pp. 98–113
  • Dietmar von Reeken: ‘Stedingsehre’ – a place of worship from the Nazi era as an extracurricular learning venue, in: Geschichte für heute 17, 2024, no. 1, pp. 47–55
  • Dietmar von Reeken: Childhood under political control. Children engage with education and school during the Nazi era, in: Grundschule General Studies 99 (2023), pp. 10–15 + resource pack accompanying the article (10 information cards)
  • Dietmar von Reeken: ‘Altes Gymnasium’ – an honorary title? School names and their historical and cultural context from a history-didactic perspective, in: Markus Drüding, Frank Marschhausen, Uwe Roeder (eds.): Kontinuität des Wandels. The Altes Gymnasium Oldenburg. Contributions to its 450-year history 1573–2023, Oldenburg 2023, pp. 377–388
  • Dietmar von Reeken: “A Synonym for Harmony and Contentment”. The conflict over street names in Oldenburg – background, course of events, interpretation, in: The Street-Name Controversy. A documentation of the renaming process in Darmstadt 2013–2022, Darmstadt 2023, pp. 172–188
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