GRK 2227:  Identity and Heritage

• Subject Area: Art History, Music, Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: since 2016
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• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 281597962

The research training group focuses on the connection between the affirmation needs of communities and the appropriation of cultural heritage, which is mobilized for historical and identity politics. It is about the critical historicization of the overall concept of heritage-based identity constructions in national and other inclusive/exclusive social and political groups. With the second funding period, we would like to focus more strongly on the conditions, conditionalities and effects of heritage. Inheritance and the formulation of identity attributions take place in a social, political and cultural context that is in permanent interaction with the observable phenomena of material transmission and, if applicable, preserving renewal. This applies to buildings as well as to other artefacts, urban and landscape spaces. The aim of the research group is to further develop interdisciplinary, critical cultural heritage research and approaches to cultural heritage theories that combine a democratic interpretation of heritage with the detailed observation and interpretation of the form and material nature of the respective objects.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Participating Institution: Brandenburgisches Landesamt; für Denkmalpflege und Archäologisches Landesmuseum; Klassik Stiftung Weimar; Landesdenkmalamt Berlin; Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora; Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg; Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz; Thüringisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie
• Applicant Institution: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
• Co-Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Berlin
• Participating Researchers: Dr.-Ing. Sylvia Butenschön; Professor Dr.-Ing. Jasper Cepl; Dr. Marcus Funck; Professor Dr. Axel Gelfert; Professorin Dr. Susanne Hauser; Professorin Dr.-Ing. Sigrun Langner; Professorin Dr. Martina Löw; Professor Dr. Michael Lüthy; Professor Dr. Jörg Paulus; Professor Dr. Nikolai Roskamm; Professor Dr.-Ing. Hermann Schlimme (†); Professorin Dr.-Ing. Thekla Schulz-Brize; Professorin Dr.-Ing. Barbara Schönig; Professorin Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum; Professorin Dr.-Ing. Daniela Spiegel; Dr. Gunter Weidenhaus; Professor Dr. Max Welch Guerra; Professorin Dr. Kerstin Wittmann-Englert; Professorin Dr.-Ing. Daniela Zupan
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Hans-Rudolf Meier