Completed Research project
financed by the Volkswagen Foundation
Project leader: Frank Bösch
This interdisciplinary project examined by means of ‘living history’ forms of physical appropriation of history. From the perspective of contemporary history, re-enactments in open-air museums, television documentaries and themed walks, which are supposed to visualise the beginnings of human history, were considered. The main focus here was on the analysis of concrete re-enactments, their relationship to scholarship and the concepts, motives and prior knowledge of the re-enactors.
Website on the project: http://www.livinghistory.uni-tuebingen.de