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German History Essay Prize 2009
The judges were Professor Lyndal Roper, Professor Mark Cornwall, and Dr. Josie McLellan
The judges unanimously awarded the prize to Mark Hobbs, University of Glasgow, for his essay 'Weimar Berlin's house-building programme: a case study'.
Hobbs' essay was described as a "remarkable, outstanding essay, containing many striking and original findings. Hobbs brings to his work both a sure sense of architecture and built environment and a social historian's sensitivity to class and culture. This is a beautifully-written essay, grounded in original critical research with an innovative argument, but also aware of the bigger picture in terms of both Weimar Germany and our own contemporary thinking about architecture."
The judges also awarded commendations to the following essays, in recognition of this year's very strong field:
- Helen Steele (Swansea), 'First impressions and lasting memories: remembering the Red Army in Vienna, 1945'
- James Martin (Cambridge), 'The Theory of Storms': Jacob Burckhardt and the Concept of "Historical Crisis"'
- Catherine Sumnal (Cambridge), 'Micro-geographies of illegitimacy and social change in the Gurk valley, 1870-1960'
