In the organizer's words:

In this format, Prof. Dr. Dagmar Ellerbrock (Dresden University of Technology) and Prof. Dr. Heiner Fangerau (Heinrich Heine University) jointly welcome a historian who has made a name for themselves with their ideas, approaches and interpretations. The guests are invited to talk about why and how they came to history. Based on this personal approach, broad social questions about history are discussed: Why is which event remembered or forgotten at what time? What function and relevance does history have for the present?

On this evening, Prof. Dr. Dieter Hoffmann (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin) will be a guest at the Haus der Universität. His research focuses on the history of science and physics in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of scientific institutions and biographies in the history of science.