Hasso Spode

Hasso Spode (* 1951 in Berlin -Friedrich Hagen ) is a German historian, sociologist and author.

After a long Auslandsaufendhalt Spode worked in the food retail and studied - first as a student - history, sociology, religious studies and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Hannover. In 1979 he passed the examination to become a Master of Arts from ( the main compartment Modern History ), 1989 he received his doctorate in sociology in Hanover, in 1997 he completed his habilitation just there and is Professor of Historical Sociology. In the years 1980/90er Spode conducted numerous socio-historical research projects and took up teaching (including at the Charité ) on. Since 1999 he has directed the Historical Archives for tourism, the 2012 is moved from the Free University of Berlin and the Center for Technology and Society at the Technical University of Berlin.

Spode was known in the 1990s for his work on cultural and social history of alcohol. He emphasizes the global and at the same time cyclical nature of discourses on alcohol ( " theming conjunctures "). His thesis of a long-term marginalization of intoxication in modernity and the corresponding revaluation of drinking to addiction disease have become commonplace. At the same time Spode is one of the founders of historical tourism research; together with Walter Eder and Heinz Hahn from Starnberg Institute for Tourism, he called 1989, the working group tourism history to life, the world's first organization of its kind the tourism Spode considered here as a product of modern ambivalence about the "progress". Further research to treat, inter alia, health prevention, the change in dietary habits, tobacco use, the development of labor disputes and the analysis of socio-political discourses and processes.

Writings (selection )

• Alcohol and civilization. Intoxication, disillusionment and table manners in Germany until the beginning of the 20th century (1991).
• The Power of drunkenness. Cultural and social history of alcohol in Germany (1993).
• Statistics of industrial disputes in Germany. Historical Statistics of Germany, Vol 15 (1992).
• To the sun, to freedom! Contributions to the history of tourism (1991).
• Gold beach and Teutonengrill. Cultural and Social History of tourism in Germany. 1945-1989 (1996).
• How the Germans " Travel World Champion" were. An introduction to the history of tourism ( 2003).
• Resource future. The seven areas of decision of the German Reform ( 2008) ISBN 978-3866491359.