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As a comparatively young boy I became strongly interested in both historical and political issues. This had to do, of course, with German history and the Cold War of the 1950s. As a student, I concentrated on historical and social studies, majored in political science and turned, due to my interest in the voters of the extremist NPD, into an empiricist and voting behavior specialist. Using theories and methods of voting behavior research for the analysis of the NSDAP electorate, I very soon discovered that much of what we believed about Nazi voting was empirically unfounded or flawed. So, in order to create substantial knowledge on the subject, I worked for more than twelve years on the question of "Who voted for Hitler?" After that, and until now, I have been working on the NSDAP party membership, a work still in progress. These topics, however, comprise only a smaller part of my scientific work. A much bigger part deals with modern voting behavior, political attitudes, extremist voters, the methodology of the social sciences, etc. These latter aspects of my career as a scientist are not dealt with in depth in the following.

Der Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit autobiographischen Thematisierungen von Lebensgeschichten, insbesondere mit der Bedeutung der zentralen Strukturelemente für die verschiedenen Untersuchungsphasen der Biographieanalyse. Die kognitiven Figuren narrativer Interviews werden in vier Erscheinungen des Erzählvorgangs geordnet: Segmentierung des Erinnerungs- und Darstellungsstroms in Erzähleinheiten, hierarchisierende Einordnung der Erzählgegenstände in dominante und rezessive Erzähllinien, Ankündigung und Ergebnissicherung der allgemeinen Erfahrungsqualität des im suprasegmentalen, segmentalen oder subsegmentalen Zusammenhang dargestellten, Beurteilung der Erzählgehalte für die Gesamtgestalt der Lebensgeschichte und die Veränderung des Selbst des Biographieträgers. Zusammenfassend wird festgehalten, daß die kognitiven Figuren des Stegreiferzählens zusammen mit den narrativen Zugzwängen die Organisationsprinzipien der lebensgeschichtlichen Erfahrungsrekapitulation sind. (MB)

Die Autorin berichtet von ihrer Schulzeit und dem Weg zum Abitur, das sie im ersten Abitursjahrgang an einem thüringischen Mädchengymnasium im Jahre 1915 ablegte. Der Bericht vom Studium in Berlin, München und Heidelberg (in den Fächern Nationalökonomie und Jura) veranschaulicht die besonderen Chancen, die studierende Frauen während des Ersten Weltkriegs an deutschen Universitäten wahrnehmen konnten. Soziale Hilfsdienste während des Krieges und familiäre Aufgaben nach dem Krieg zögerten die Promotion zwar hinaus - sie erfolgte 1925 in Jena -, diese eröffnete dann aber eine Fülle von Möglichkeiten öffentlicher caritativer und pädagogischer Wirksamkeit bis zur NS-Zeit und nach 1945. (DIPF/Orig.) ; The author tells of her school days up to the final examination, which she passed in 1915 at a Thuringian secondary school for girls as one of the first women to do so. The account of her experiences as a student in Berlin, Munich, and Heidelberg (she took up law and political economy) illustrates the special opportunities for female students at German Universities during the First World War. Social services during and domestic duties after the war delayed the doctorate, which she obtained in Jena in 1925 and which then opened up a great number of opportunities to work with charitable associations and in the educational field up to the Third Reich and after 1945. (DIPF/Orig.)

Gerhard Botz outlines his scholarly autobiography in its interrelationship with and against main developments in Austrian politics and historiographic trends. However, he does not want to present a coherent narrative about his career from social and scholarly peripheries close to the centres of historical and social scientific research. The unfolding of his scientific profile is compounded of different puzzles like memory-based descriptions, historic analyses of the contemporary political contexts, and his live story interviews. As an historian the author tries to integrate social science and cultural history methods and theories into his main professional grounding which is focussed thematically on Austria's history since the end of the First World War, particularly on the disastrous effects of violence and the Nazi dictatorship. He presents his main findings and the methodical practices along three fields of long term interest and projects: political violence and social conflict during the Inter-War period in Austria, the functioning and social consequences of national socialist rule on the example of Vienna, and the social composition and motivations of the NSDAP membership. In doing so he allows also insights into every-day work, obstacles and gains of historical research applying a mulitude of methods, including also quantification and oral history. These insights were gained in close connection with several leading scholars of QUANTUM and the Centre of Historical Social Research in Cologne. These efforts motivated Gerhard Botz to organize the Salzburg Summer Schools on New Methods in History and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Social Science History (now at the University of Vienna).

The autobiographical introduction shows Klaus J. Bade's path from his own early experiences with problems of migration and integration to the pioneer of migration and integration research and to the practitioner of applied migration research. In retrospect, many things that may appear to be linear developments have also been a succession of personal coincidences. The introduction describes stations and encounters on Bade's scientific path at German universities, Harvard University, Oxford University, as well as the Institutes for Advanced Study of the Netherlands Academy of Sciences and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. The introduction also provides methodological insights into the social-historical migration research, which is central to Bade's scientific work.

Gerhard Botz outlines his scholarly autobio-graphy in its interrelationship with and against main developments in Austrian politics and historiographic trends. However, he does not want to present a coherent narrative about his career from social and scholarly peripheries to close to the centres of historical and social scientific research. The unfolding of his scientific profile is compounded of different puzzle pieces like memory-based descriptions, historical analyses of contemporary political contexts, and his live story interviews. As an historian the author tries to integrate social science and cultural history methods and theories into his main professional grounding which is focused thematically on Austria's history since the end of the First World War, particularly on the disastrous effects of violence and the Nazi dictatorship. He presents his main findings and the methodical practices along three fields of long term interests and projects: political violence and social conflict during the interwar period in Austria, the functioning and social consequences of national socialist rule on the example of Vienna, and the social composition and motivations of the NSDAP membership. In doing so he allows also insights into every-day work, obstacles and gains of historical research applying a multitude of methods, including quantification and oral history. These insights were gained in close connection with several leading scholars of QUANTUM and the Centre of Historical Social Research in Cologne. These efforts motivated Gerhard Botz to organize the Salzburg Summer Schools on New Methods in History and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Social Science History (at the University of Vienna until its closure in 2017).

Gerhard Botz outlines his scholarly autobiography in its interrelationship with and against main developments in Austrian politics and historiographic trends. However, he does not want to present a coherent narrative about his career from social and scholarly peripheries to close to the centres of historical and social scientific research. The unfolding of his scientific profile is compounded of different puzzle pieces like memory-based descriptions, historical analyses of contemporary political contexts, and his live story interviews. As an historian the author tries to integrate social science and cultural history methods and theories into his main professional grounding which is focused thematically on Austria's history since the end of the First World War, particularly on the disastrous effects of violence and the Nazi dictatorship. He presents his main findings and the methodical practices along three fields of long term interests and projects: political violence and social conflict during the interwar period in Austria, the functioning and social consequences of national socialist rule on the example of Vienna, and the social composition and motivations of the NSDAP membership. In doing so he allows also insights into every-day work, obstacles and gains of historical research applying a multitude of methods, including quantification and oral history. These insights were gained in close connection with several leading scholars of QUANTUM and the Centre of Historical Social Research in Cologne. These efforts motivated Gerhard Botz to organize the Salzburg Summer Schools on New Methods in History and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Social Science History (at the University of Vienna until its closure in 2017).

'Der Beitrag analysiert erzählte Erinnerungen an Massaker, die deutsche Truppen in zwei Dörfern der Toskana während des Zweiten Weltkriegs verübt haben. Er untersucht die Mechanismen der Konstruktion eines Gruppengedächtnisses, wobei sowohl die soziale als auch die emotionale Seite der Erinnerungen beleuchtet wird. Ausgehend von Maurice Blochs These, dass es zwischen den Repräsentationen des autobiographischen und des historischen Gedächtnisses keine Unterschiede gibt, werde ich zu zeigen versuchen, dass die visuellen Bilder, die mit früheren traumatischen Erfahrungen assoziiert sind, eine zentrale Rolle beim Erzählen spielen und so den Übergang zwischen privaten und öffentlichen Erinnerungen erleichtern. Indem ich Erinnerung als eine Form des mit symbolischen Inhalten gefüllten intersubjektiven Wissens betrachte, statt als einstimmiges, kollektives Unterfangen, vertrete ich eine Sichtweise, die unterschiedliche Disziplinen zu integrieren versucht.' (Autorenreferat)

Der Beitrag untersucht die Selbstinszenierungen und Deutungsmuster der weiblichen Wirtschaftselite. Die empirische Datengrundlage bilden aktuelle deutschsprachige Autobiographien erfolgreicher Spitzenmanagerinnen und Unternehmerinnen. Der Fokus liegt auf der Wirtschaftselite, da diese als finanzstärkste und mächtigste Elite gilt und damit sowohl eine starke symbolische Vorbildfunktion hat wie auch über großen gesellschaftlichen Einfluss verfügt. Basierend auf der Autobiographieanalyse rekonstruiert der vorliegende Beitrag, auf welche (Selbst-)Deutungen und Wissensrepertoires sich die Inhaberinnen von Spitzenpositionen beziehen, um die disparaten gesellschaftlichen Vorstellungen von Weiblichkeit und Führung zu bedienen.