Name: One Hour of History live. 1949 – 1989 – 2024. Women of Power - Prussia beyond Fritz and Wilhelm
Start: 2025-10-15
End: 2025-10-15
Location: Humboldt Forum: Saal 1

The history of Prussia is usually told as a series of male biographies. However, the ruling Hohenzollerns were a dynasty, meaning that political power was passed down within the biological family. And that meant it couldn't be done with men alone. Consequently, the female Hohenzollerns also played a central role both in the development of Prussia and Berlin and as networkers for their family at other courts in Germany and Europe. This was deliberately swept under the carpet in 19th and 20th century historiography, as it did not fit in with Prussia's masculine image. It is time to finally break with this image.

Let us approach this by looking at two women:

Sophie of Brandenburg (1568-1622), who exercised governmental power as Electress of Saxony for ten years
Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1715-1797), who fulfilled her role as Queen of Prussia under difficult conditions.

PARTICIPANTS

Prof. Dr. Uta Piereth, Administration of Bavarian Palaces, Gardens, and Lakes
Dr. Christa Syrer, LMU Munich
Dr. Alfred Hagemann, SHF

Markus Dichmann, born in 1987, is a freelance author, reporter, and presenter on Deutschlandradio programs. For Deutschlandfunk Nova, he hosts the weekly magazine program “Eine Stunde History” (One Hour of History), which won the German Podcast Award in 2019 and was nominated for the German Radio Award in 2017. For his work as an author and reporter, often on historical topics, he won the German-French Journalism Award and was nominated for the German-Polish Tadeusz Mazowiecki Award. As a Johannes Rau scholarship holder, he worked as a freelance correspondent in Istanbul. He completed an internship at Deutschlandradio, studied communication science, politics, and law at the University of Münster, and previously worked in print, radio, and television (WAZ, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk).

Dr. Matthias von Hellfeld, born in 1954, has been a freelance journalist and historian since 1978. He works as a presenter and editor for ARD and is currently the editor-in-chief of the magazine “Eine Stunde History” on Deutschlandfunk Nova. Von Hellfeld has contributed to numerous radio features and TV documentaries. He is also a lecturer at various universities and training academies and the author of more than 25 non-fiction books on European and German history. In 1984, he won the Carl von Ossietzky Prize of the City of Oldenburg, was nominated for the German Radio Prize in 2017, and received the German Podcast Prize in 2019.

- €12.00 / reduced price €6.00
- Language: German
- Price:
- Ages 12 and up
- Location: Hall 1

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