Fabian Zimmer

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Name

Fabian Zimmer

Academic title(s)

Dr.

Institute

Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- & Technikgeschichte

Department

Fachgebiet Technikgeschichte

Function

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Address

Straße des 17. Juni 135

Zip code

10623

Country

Germany

Visible Email Address

fabian.zimmer@tu-berlin.de

Short biography

Fabian Zimmer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department for the History of Technology at Technische Universität Berlin. He works at the intersection of cultural history, environmental history and the history of technology. After studying history and German philology at the universities of Heidelberg and Lund, he was a doctoral student at the Rachel Carson Center and Deutsches Museum in Munich and he was a guest researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Stockholm and at the German Historical Institute in Paris. He received his PhD from LMU Munich in 2020 for a thesis on the PR and film work of hydropower companies in 1950s Europe, which has been published in 2022 with Wallstein-Verlag as Hydroelektrische Projektionen. Eine Emotionsgeschichte der Wasserkraft im Industriefilm.

Recent publications
Role in Tensions of Europe

Participant

Research interests

Energy, Environment

Additional research interests

Visual history, Consumption, Households, Emotions