Prof. Dr. Maike Rotzoll

Medicine during National Socialism

History of psychiatry in the 19th and 20th centuries

Art in a psychiatric context from a historical perspective

Drug trials in homes and psychiatric wards

Biographies in the history of science

History of anatomical collections

Medicine in the early modern period

Since 2022
University Professor (W2) for the History of Pharmacy and Medicine, Philipps University Marburg

2020–2022
Academic Director at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine, Heidelberg University

2016–2018
Acting Director of the Institutes for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the Universities of Halle and Heidelberg

2017

2014
Habilitation in the history, theory and ethics of medicine (GTE)

2009–2020
Senior Academic Councillor at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine, Heidelberg University

2008–2009
Academic Councillor at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine, Heidelberg University

2005–2008
Research assistant at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine, University of Heidelberg

2002–2005
Research assistant in the DFG project "Wissenschaftliche Erschließung und Auswertung des Krankenaktenbestandes der nationalsozialistischen 'Euthanasie-Aktion T4' (Bestand R 179 im Bundesarchiv Berlin)", Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University Hospital

1991–2001
Research assistant at the Clinic for General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University Hospital, initially as a trainee doctor, then as an assistant doctor

1998
Medical specialist certification in psychiatry

1994
Doctorate in the history of medicine in Lübeck on the Renaissance physician Pierleone da Spoleto (summa cum laude)

1986/87
Visiting student at the Università degli Studi in Florence, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia

1983–1991
Medical degree in Lübeck and Heidelberg

... in progress ...

Since 2021
Member of the Lancet Commission "Medicine and the Holocaust: Historical Evidence, Implications for Today, Teaching for Tomorrow"

Since 2021
Member of the Advisory Board of the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art for the education of the victims of “euthanasia” with a focus on the intermediate institutions of Hadamar

Since 2019
Member of the scientific advisory board for the new concept of the Hadamar Memorial

Since 2019
Member of the scientific advisory board for the new concept of the “Alte Prosektur” memorial site in Kaufbeuren-Irsee

Since 2018
Member of the scientific advisory board of the German Society for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Depth Psychology (DGPT) "Gründungsgeschichte der DGPT"

Since 2014
Chairwoman of the association "Freunde der Sammlung Prinzhorn"

Since 2012
Deputy Head of the History Department of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology (DGPPN)

Since 2012
Member of the memorial committee of the Pfalzklinikum for Psychiatry and Neurology Klingenmünster

Since 2011
Member of the Historical Commission of the German Society for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (DGKJ)

Since 1993
Member of the working group for research into National Socialist “euthanasia” and forced sterilization, currently one of the spokespersons of the working group

2008
Research prize "Ärzte in der NS-Zeit" of the Federal Ministry of Health, the German Medical Association and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians for the book "Das Vergessen der Vernichtung ist Teil der Vernichtung selbst" to the team of the DFG project on the victims of the"Euthanasie-Aktion T4"

Since 2021
DFG-project "Normal#verrückte Kunst. Werke aus psychiatrischem Kontext zwischen Diagnostik und Ästhetik nach 1945" (Rotzoll/Röske) as part of the FOR 3031: "NORMAL#VERRÜCKT Zeitgeschichte einer erodierenden Differenz" (Speaker: Heiner Fangerau, Düsseldorf)

2017–2020
Project manager in the BMAS joint project "Wissenschaftliche Aufarbeitung des Leids und Unrechts, das Kinder und Jugendliche in den Jahren 1949 bis 1975 (BRD) bzw. 1949 bis 1990 (DDR) in stationären psychiatrischen Einrichtungen erfahren haben" (Leitung Standort Heidelberg)

2017–2019
EVZ-project NS-"Euthanasie" in der Anstalt Konradstein/Kocborowo (Lead)

2013–2018
VW-project "Uniform und Eigensinn. Militarismus, Weltkrieg und Kunst in der Psychiatrie" (Co-Lead)

2012–2015
DFG knowledge transfer project "Erinnern heißt Gedenken und Informieren. Die nationalsozialistische 'Euthanasie' und der historische Ort Berliner Tiergartenstraße 4" (Co-Lead)

2012–2015
DFG-project "Nach dem Krankenmord. Struktur und Alltagsleben ehemaliger Tötungsanstalten in den vier Besatzungszonen 1945–1955" (Lead)

2012–2017
"Gloom Goes Global: Epistemologies and Ontologies of Melancholy between Europe and Asia" (Heidelberger Exzellenscluster "Asia and Europe in a global context", Co-Leitung)