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Prof. Dr. Nigel J.R. Allan
Professor Nigel J. R. Allan joined the faculty of Landscape Architecture in 1995 having
served for several years in the UCD Geography Department as a faculty member, and chair.
As a cultural geographer and South Asia area studies specialist, Allan brings to the program a
long-term interest in society-habitat relations of the Greater Himalaya. During the past five
years this work has been supported by several official American academic scholarly exchange
organizations including the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, the American Institute of
Indian Studies, and most recently in 2000-2001, the Smithsonian Institution. Products of this
field and archival work during the past five years include "Karakorum Himalaya" a 1999 book
published by Orchid Press, while another book manuscript on North Pakistan nature/society
relations is currently under review at Oxford University Press. Both these books are products
of recent field research in Pakistan, India and Nepal. Conference papers, articles and lectures
in the US and South Asia dealing with associated topics in these volumes include the Nazi
origins of landscape ecology, high altitude yak husbandry, the issue of theory, qualitative, and
quantitative field research methodology, and landscape perturbation. Several review articles
about current intellectual views of mountain environments have appeared in popular regional
media. Current research focuses on a comparative study of the transformation currently
underway in Pakistan, India and Nepal hill and mountain environment.
Books:
Nigel J. Allan: Mountains at Risk, Current Issues in Environment Studies, 1996, South Asia
Books
Nigel J. Allan, Gregory W. Knapp, Christoph Stadel: Human Impact of Mountains, 1993,
Rowman & Littlefield
Nigel J. Allan: Karakorum, A Bibliography, 1998, Orchid Press
Mountain Related Articles: The following titles each link to their abstract.
Allan, Nigel J. R. “Communal and Independent Mountain Irrigation Systems in north
Pakistan.” In Proceedings, First
Allan, Nigel J. R. “Human Geo-Ecological Interactions in Kuh Daman, a South Asian
Valley.” Applied Geography 5 (1985):13-27.
Allan, Nigel J. R. “Cultural Conflation: The Impact of Tourism on South Asian Mountain
Culture.” In Tourism Environment: Nature, Culture and Economy, edited by T. V. Singh, V.L.
Smith, M. Fish, L. K. Richter, 48-58. New Delhi: Inter-India, 1990. (ISBN 81-210-0288-5)
Allan, Nigel J. R. “Ecotechnology and Modernization in Mountain Agriculture.” In Western
Himalaya: Environment, Problems, and Development, vol. 2, edited by Y. P. S. Pangtey and
S. C. Joshi, 771-789. Nainital, India: Gyanodaya Prakashan, 1987.
Allan, Nigel J. R. “Kashgar to Islamabad: the Impact of the Karakorum Highway on Mountain
Society and Habitat.” Scottish Geographical Magazine 105 (1989):130-141.
Allan, Nigel J. R. “From Autarky to Dependency: Society and Habitat Relations in the South
Asian Mountain Rimland.” Mountain Research and Development 11 (1991):65-74.
Allan, Nigel J. R. “Ecological Effects of Land Intensification in the Central and Eastern
Hindukush.” In Beitraege zur vergleichenden Kulturgeographie der Hochgebirge, edited by

Erwin Groetzbach and Gisbert Rinschede, 193-211. Regensberg: Friedrich Pustet, 1984.
(ISBN 3-7917-0943-7)
Professional & Academic Activities
Association for Afghanistan Studies, Research Associate
Association of American Geographers, member
Association for Asian Studies, member
IUCN, Committee for National Parks and Protected Areas, member.
Nepal Studies Association, member.
International Association of Ladakh Studies.
American Institute for Indian Studies
American Institute for Pakistan Studies
Research Group on Wildlife and Forest Conservation Policy in South Asia.

Dr. David Auerbach
Born in South Africa. Studied and subsequently taught flow physics at the University of
Göttingen. After obtaining his doctorate at there, he headed a seminar group on the dynamics
of turbulence at the Max Planck Institute of Flow Research, where he worked both on the
principles of the dynamics of turbulence and on applications in the field of the physics of
phase transition and mixing. In this context, his research has included the flame instability and
mixing processes that occur in burners and power modules. He has held guest professorships:
at CALTECH in the United States; in Eindhoven, Netherlands; and Perth, Australia, where he
investigated various aspects of plant turbulence and aviation physics. He is currently
researching the way the blood transports heat and other substances at the Karl Franzens
University's Physiological Institute in Graz, Austria.

Dr. Irene Bark
Born 1961, studies German language and literature and philosophy in Tübigen, 1997 PhD
entitled “Stones in Potencies. Constructive Reception of Mineralogy in Novalis“, 1997 till
2000 editor for Stauffenburg Verlag Tübingen; as of 2000 editor for the J. Fink Ostfildern
publishing group.

Prof. Dr. Ernst Berg
Born on September 29 1948, Professor of Production and Environmental Economics at the
Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University's Institute of Agricultural Science. He studied
agricultural science in Bonn and subsequently worked as an academic at the Universities of
Giessen and Hanover, Munich's Technical University in Weihenstephan and Michigan State
University in the United States. He was appointed Professor at Bonn in 1993. From 1998 to
2000 he was Dean of the University of Bonn's Agricultural Faculty. He currently holds the
post of Deputy Dean. Professor Berg's main fields of activity are decision theory and systems
theory and their use within the framework of production economics and operational
environmental economics.
Selected publications
Berg, E. (1999): Dynamik nichtlinerarer Systeme: Modelle als Hilfsmittel zur Unterstützung
des Denkens und Lernens. In: Brodersen, C.M., Möller, D. (Hrsg.): Zukunftsorientierte
Betriebswirtschaft und Informationstechnologien in der Agrarwirtschaft. Gießener Schriften
zur Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft, Heft 29, S. 23-37.
Berg, E., Davies, S., Majewski, E. (1999): Einkommenswirkungen unterschiedlicher
agrarpolitischer Szenarien auf landwirtschaftliche Betriebe in ausgewählten MOE- und EU-
Ländern. Agrarwirtschaft 48(8/9): 331-338.
Berg, E. (1998): Zukunft des Veredlungsstandortes Nordrhein-Westfalen: Betriebliche
Organisation. In: Vorträge der 50. Hochschultagung der Landwirtschaftlichen Fakultät der
Universität Bonn vom 17. Februar 1998 in Münster. Münster-Hiltrup: 73-78.
Berg, E. (1997): Risk Response of Farmers to Changes in the European Agricultural Policy.
In: Huirne, R.B.M., Hardaker, J.B., Dijkhuizen, A.A. (Hrsg.): Risk Management Strategies in
Agriculture: State of the Art and Future Perspectives. Wageningen: 285-295.
Berg, E. (1996): Auswirkungen sinkender Milchpreise auf Betriebsstrukturen und
Grünlandregionen. In: Vorträge der 48. Hochschultagung der Landwirtschaftlichen Fakultät
der Universität Bonn vom 22. Februar 1996 in Münster. Münster-Hiltrup: 35-46.
Hofmann, H., Rauh, R., Heißenhuber, A., Berg, E. (1995): Umweltleistungen der
Landwirtschaft - Konzepte zur Honorierung. Teubner-Reihe UMWELT. Stuttgart - Leipzig.
Berg, E., Kuhlmann, F. (1993): Systemanalyse und Simulation für Agrarwissenschaftler und
Biologen. Methoden und PASCAL-Programme zur Modellierung dynamischer Systeme.
Stuttgart.
Berg, E., Schön, H. (1993): Externe Leistungen einer bäuerlichen Landwirtschaft. In: Schule
und Beratung, (2/93).
Berg, E. (1992): Landwirtschaft und Landnutzung in der Industriegesellschaft. In: Bayerisches
Landwirtschaftliches Jahrbuch, 69(SH 2): 59-71.

Date Of Birth August 5, 1955
Place Of Birth Giessen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Hans-Rudolf Bork
Education
1974-1978 Study Of The Courses Geography, Soil Science, Geology, At He University
Giessen, Germany, And At The Technical University (Tu) Braunschweig,
Germany
1982 Doctorate (Dr. Rer. Nat.), Tu Braunschweig, Germany
1988 Habilitation, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Career To Date
1980-1987 Scientist, TU Braunschweig, Germany
1987-1989 Professor Of Geoecology, Tu Braunschweig
1989-1992 Professor Of Regional Soil Science, Tu Berlin, Germany
1992-1999 Director Of The Centre For Agricultural Landscape And Land Use
Research (Zalf), Muencheberg, Germany
1996-2000 Full Professor Of Landscape Ecology And Soil Science, University Of
Potsdam, Germany
Since 2000 Full Professor (Chair) Of Ecosystem Research And Director Of The
Ecology-Centre, University Of Kiel, Germany
Publications: 225 (29 Books)
Experience In Research
Generalist In Ecosystem Research, Landscape Ecology, Landscape Development,
Sustainable Development Of Rural Areas
Specialist In Soil Science, Geomorphology, Natural History
Research Regions Germany, Belgium, Israel, USA, Chile, China
Lectures 240, Presented In 20 Countries (125 Invited Papers)

Prof. Dr. G.W. Brümmer
1960-8: Studied Agricultural Sciences and Mineralogy in Kiel
1968: Doctorate in pedology; 1971: wrote his professorial thesis in pedology (Kiel)
1994: Appointed Professor at the University of Kiel
1977-81: Chairman of the German Pedological Society's "Agricultural Chemistry"
Commission; 1982-86: Vice-Chairman of the International Pedological Society's "Agricultural
Chemistry" Commission
Since 1986: University Professor at the University of Bonn's Institute of Pedology
1995-6: Vice President of the "International Soil Conservation Organization"
Since 1976: Expert authority for various scientific journals and for organizations promoting
science such as the German Research Community (DFG), the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation, BMBF, DAAD, the VW Foundation, the German Federal Environmental
Foundation
Since 1968: prolonged research trips to the Netherlands, Australia, China, Mexico and South
Africa.
Fields of scientific activity: agricultural chemistry, soil mineralogy, soil microbiology, soil
contamination, soil conservation and landscape ecology.
Selected publications
Welp, G. & Brümmer, G. W. (1999): Effects of organic pollutants on soil microbial activity:
The influence of sorption, solubility, and speciation. Ecotoxicology and Environmental
Safety 43, 83-90.
Geißen, V. & Brümmer, G. W. (1999): Decomposition rates and feeding activities of soil
fauna in deciduous forest soils in relation to soil chemical parameters following liming and
fertilization. Biology and Fertility of Soils 29, 335-342.
Schachtschabel, P., Blume, H.-P., Brümmer, G. W., Hartge, K. H. und Schwertmann, U.
(1998): Scheffer/Schachtschabel - Lehrbuch der Bodenkunde. 14. Auflage, 494 Seiten, F.
Enke Verlag, Stuttgart.
Brümmer, G. W. & Thiele, S. (1997): Gefäßversuche zum mikrobiellen Abbau von
polycyclischen aromatischen Kohlenwasserstoffen in belasteten Böden. Materialien zur
Altlastensanierung und zum Bodenschutz, MALBO Bd. 4, 207 Seiten, Landesumweltamt
NRW (Essen) 1997.
Veerhoff, M., Roscher, S. & Brümmer, G. W. (1996): Ausmaß und ökologische Gefahren der
Versauerung von Böden unter Wald. Umweltbundesamt Berichte 1/96, 364 Seiten, Erich
Schmidt Verlag, Berlin.
Strauss, R., Brümmer, G. W. & Barrow, N. J. (1997): Effects of cryptallinity of goethite. II.
Rates of sorption and desorption of phosphate. European Journal of Soil Science 48, 101-114.
Brümmer, G. W., Gerth, J. & Tiller, K. G. (1988): Reaction kinetics of the adsorption and
desorption of nickel, zinc and cadmium by goethite. I. Adsorption and diffusion of metals.
Journal of Soil Science 39, 37-52.
Brümmer, G. W. (1978): Funktion des Bodens im Stoffhaushalt der Ökosphäre. In G.
Olschowy: Natur- und Umweltschutz in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. S. 111-124, Verlag
Paul Parey.

Mel Chin
Mel Chin was born in Houston to Chinese parents in 1951, the first of his family born in the
United States, and was reared in a predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhood.
He worked in his family’s grocery store, and began making art at an early age. Though he is
classically trained, Chin’s art, which is both analytical and poetic, evades easy classification.
Alchemy, botany, and ecology are but a few of the disciplines that intersect in his work. He
insinuates art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and even
popular television, investigating how art can provoke greater social awareness and
responsibility. Unconventional and politically engaged, his projects also challenge the idea of
the artist as the exclusive creative force behind an artwork. “The survival of my own ideas
may not be as important as a condition I might create for others’ ideas to be realized,” says
Chin, who often enlists entire neighborhoods or groups of students in creative partnerships. In
"KNOWMAD," Chin worked with software engineers to create a video game based on rug
patterns of nomadic peoples facing persecution. Chin also promotes “works of art” that have
the ultimate effect of benefiting science or rejuvenating the economies of inner-city
neighborhoods. In "Revival Field," Chin worked with scientists to create sculpted gardens of
hyperaccumulators - plants that can draw heavy metals from contaminated areas - in some of
the most polluted sites in the world. Chin received a BA from Peabody College in Nashville,
Tennessee, in 1975, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988 and
1990. He lives in North Carolina.

Prof. Dr. Richard Dikau

Dr. Florian Dombois
cultural scientist and geophysicist. Born 1966 in Berlin. Studies in Geophysics and Philosophy
in Berlin, Kiel and Hawaii (Granted by Studienstiftung des dt. Volkes). Master in Theoretical
Geophysics. Thereafter studies on History of Science and the relation between Science and
Art. PhD in Cultural Studies with Hartmut Böhme concerning the question "What is an
earthquake?" (Granted by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung). Since 1994 several projects for bridging
science and art a. o. for the Berlin Academy of Arts. Lectureships at universities and
artschools a. o. in Berlin, Cologne, Delft, Los Angeles. Member of the European Standing
Commitee of the "Society of Literature and Science". Now research scientist at GMD at
Institute for Media Communication, St. Augustin, in charge for a project to audify earthquake
data (cf. http://www.gmd.de/auditory-seismology). Lives in Cologne and Amsterdam.
Publications (selection):
Dombois, F.: Über Erdbeben. Ein Versuch zur Erweiterung seismologischer
Darstellungsweisen. Diss., Humboldt-University, Berlin 1998.
Dombois, F.: Earthquake Sounds Vol. 1. Kobe 16.1.1995, 20:46 ut. St. Augustin 1999
(Audio-CD).
Dombois, F.: The Textual Choice of Scientific Papers: A Sideway to Master Nature? In:
Proceedings of the International Conference on "Nature, Society and History. Long Term
Dynamics of Social Metabolism". Vienna, September 30 - October 2, 1999.
Dombois, F.: Die versprochene Apokalypse. Kulturwissenschaftliche Notizen zum Erdbeben
von Lissabon. In: Eybl et al.: Elementare Gewalt. Kulturelle Bewältigung. Aspekte der
Naturkatastrophe im 18. Jahrhundert. Vienna 2000. S. 197-216.
Dombois, F.: Listen to Seismograms. About Acoustic Interpretation of Seismometric Records.
In: Geophysical Research Abstracts 3 (2001) p. 982.
Dombois, F.: Using Audification in Planetary Seismology. In: Proceedings of the 2001
International Conference on Auditory Display, Espoo, Finland, July 29 - August 1, 2001, p.
227-230.

Prof. Dr. Eckart Ehlers
1965
obtained his doctorate in anthropogeography; 1970 professorial thesis in physical geography,
both in Tübingen. Since 1970 Professor of Geography at the Universities of Giessen, Marburg
and – since 1986 – Bonn
1992-2000
Secretary General/Treasurer of the International Geographical Union (IGU)
1996-2000
Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Program on
Global Environmental Change (IHDP); since 2000 member of the Scientific Committee
Since 1996
Chairman of the German National Committee for Global Change Research (NKGCF)
Publications:
Also: Various articles in German and international specialist journals, especially on
interactive aspects of geography and environmental issues.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rolf Emmermann
Born in 1940, CEO and scientific Board Member of the Geo Research Center, Potsdam and
holder of the Chair in Mineralogy and Petrology at the University of Giessen.
Studied mineralogy and geochemistry at the University of Brunswick (Bachelor's degree),
Frankfurt (Master's) and the Munich Polytechnic. In 1967, was awarded a doctorate by the
University of Karlsruhe. 1973 professorial thesis at the TU in Karlsruhe. 1974 turned down
the position of Associate Professor at the University of Mainz; appointed Associate Professor
at the TU in Karlsruhe. Since 1981 Full Professor at the University of Giessen. Turned down
the offer of other chairs at the Universities of Salzburg (1981), Graz (1982), Göttingen (1986)
and Heidelberg (1991).
In August 1991, Emmermann became founding Director of the Geo Research Center in
Potsdam.
Focus of research: the nature of, the evolution of and the mineral deposits on the Earth's
oceanic and continental crust. Focus of current work: magmatism as an indicator of
geodynamic processes (in SFB 267) "Deformationsprozesse in den Anden" (Deformation
Processes in the Andes)) and research into the evolution and development of passive
continental shelf edges (Namibia, Argentina). Major research projects in Mexico, Namibia,
the Soviet Union and SW Europe. Took part in the Icelandic Drilling Project and the Troodos
Drilling Project in Cyprus. Since 1974 has participated in the International Deep Sea Drilling
Project and participated personally in three Drilling Campaigns in the Atlantic, Pacific and
Indian Oceans. 1982-3 elaborated the scientific concept for the Federal Republic of Germany's
Continental Deep Drilling Program (KTB). 1986 to 1995 leading coordinator of the DFG's
focal program "KTB" and from 1989 also Scientific Director of the KTB project management.
In this capacity responsible for the overall scientific and operational management of this major
German research project. Since 1996 coordinator of the DFG's focal program "KTB/ICDP"
and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the newly established International Continental
Scientific Drilling Program ICDP.
1997 elected President of the Alfred Wegener Foundation, the umbrella organization
responsible for all 22 German geoscientific societies and associations and appointed to the
directorate of the Herrmann von Helmholtz Community of German Research Centers (HGF).
Editor of two specialist international journals: "Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie" and
"Scientific Drilling".
Corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and founding member of the
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
1999 Awarded the German Distinguished Service Cross, first class, for distinguished service
in the field of geosciences in Germany.
June 2000 Appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Potsdam.
Since January 2001 President of the German Society of Naturalists and Doctors.
May 2001 Awarded an honorary doctorate by the Technical University of Brunswick.
Publications
- (und Althaus, P., Giese, P., Stöckert, B.): KTB-Hauptbohrung: Results of
Geoscientific Investigations in the KTB Field Laboratory. - KTB Project Management,
Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, (1996) 185 S.
Vorstoß ins Erdinnere. - In: Giese, P. (ed.): Geodynamik und Plattentektonik. Spektr.
Akadem. Verlag, (1996) 92-102.

(und Lauterjung, J.): The German Continental Deep Drilling Program KTB: Overview and
major results. - J. Geophys. Res., (1997) Vol. 102, 18179 – 18201.
Tiefbohrungen im marinen und terrestrischen Bereich. - In: Perspektiven der Forschung und
ihrer Förderung/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Wiley-VCH, (1997) 280-319.
(und Trumbull, B., Wittenbrink, R., Hahne, K., Bülch, W., Gerstenberger, H.): Evidence for
Late Miocene to Recent contamination of are andesites by crustal melts in the Chilean Andes
(25-26°C) and its geodynamic implications. – J. South Am. Earth Sciences, (1999) 12, 135-
155.
(und Schmitt, A., Trumbull, R.B., Bühn, B., Henjes-Kunst, F. ): Evidence for a major mantle
contribution of metaluminous and peralkaline granites in the Brandberg complex, Namibia. –
J. Petrol., (2000) 41, 1207-1239.
(und K. Bauer, S. Neben, B. Schreckenberger, K. Hinz, N. Fechner, K. Gohl, A. Schulze, R.
Trumbull, K. Weber): Deep Structure of the Namibia continental margin as derived from
integrated geophysical studies. J. Geophys. Res., 105 (2000), S. 25.829-25.853.

Prof. Dr. Wolf Jürgen Baron von Engelhardt
Born February 9, 1910 in Dorpat, Estonia, to a German-Baltic family which has lived in the
Baltic region since the 15th century.
1919
After losing his assets and his estate after the Russian revolution and being dispossessed of his
property by the republic of Latvija (Latvia) von Engelhardt relocated to Germany.
1929
Graduated from classical high school in Fürstenwalde/Spree.
1929-35
Studied natural sciences in Halle, Berlin, Göttingen.
1935
Took his Ph.D. at the University of Göttingen, with mineralogy as his main subject and
chemistry and geology as subsidiary subjects; doctoral thesis in geochemistry with Prof. Carl
W. Correns at the University of Rostock's Mineralogical Institute.
1939
Assistant to Prof. Dr. Carl W. Correns at the University of Rostock's Mineralogical Institute.
1939-43
Military service (infantry); took part in the campaigns in Poland and France
1939
Professorial thesis in mineralogy
1944
Associate Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Göttingen
1948-fall 1957
Head of a research and development department at mineral oil company Gewerkschaft
Elwerath in Hanover
Fall 1957
Appointed Full Professor of Mineralogy and Director of the Mineralogical/Petrographic
Institute at the University of Tübingen.
1978
Retired
Fields of scientific work:
a) Mineralogy and petrology.
Until 1957: The efflorescence of minerals, the formation and characteristic of sedimentary
rocks with particular regard to hydrocarbon deposits and the extraction of natural gas and
mineral oil.
1958-67:
The characteristics of the boundary surfaces between crystals and crystal growth. The
sedimentary rocks and volcanic rocks of south west Germany.
1968-today.
The Nördlinger Ries meteorite crater and other impact craters. The petrology of meteorites.
Changes to minerals and rocks due to ultra-high pressure shock waves. Chemical and
mineralogical investigation of the minerals and rocks in the samples taken from the surface of
the moon during the Apollo missions.
b) Philosophy and intellectual history.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: early writings, scientific ideas, the history of the Earth.

Goethe: As of 1960, involved in producing the Leopoldina edition of Goethe's writings on
natural sciences , as of 1970 one of the co-editors of the texts.
The history and scientific theory of natural sciences, particularly of earth sciences.
Publications
Approx. 180 essays in scientific journals on the above-mentioned fields of work.
Offices held
1960-1
Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Tübingen
1963-4
Rector of the University of Tübingen
1963-4
Chairman of the German Mineralogical Society
1968-72
Member of the Executive Committee and Treasurer of the International Union of Geological
Sciences
1977-81
Chairman of the German Geological Association
Membership of academies
Leopoldina Academy of Natural Scientists, Halle/Saale
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
Brunswick Scientific Society
Awards
1973
Hans Stille Medal from the German Geological Society
1979
Gauss Medal from the Brunswick Scientific Society
1980
Werner Medal from the German Mineralogical Society
1980
Friedrich Becke Medal from the Austrian Mineralogical Society
1983
Cothenius Medal from the Leopoldina Academy of Natural Scientists
1983
Honorary member of the Societé Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie
1984
Gustav Steinmann Medal from the Geological Association
1985
Great Distinguished Service Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany's Order of
Distinguished Service
1987
Barringer Medal, Meteoritical Society
1991
Gold Medal from the International Goethe Society

Prof. Dr. Klaus Fehn
Born: March 14, 1936 in Munich
1954-60
Studied history, geography and German in Munich, Münster and at the Free University of
Berlin
1961
State exam allowing him to teach at secondary schools
1963
Took his Ph.D. in Munich
1964-6
Member of the scientific staff on the Bavarian Academy of Sciences' Commission on the
History of the State of Bavaria in Munich
1966-9
Scientific assistant at the University of the Saarland's Historical Institute in Saarbrücken
1968
Professorial thesis in Saarbrücken
1969-71
University lecturer in Saarbrücken
1972
Scientific council and professorship in Saarbrücken
1972-2001
Full Professor of Historical Geography at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University in
Bonn and Director of the University of Bonn's Historical Geography Dept.
Selected publications
Die Auswirkungen der Veränderungen der Ostgrenze des Deutschen Reiches auf das
Raumordnungskonzept des NS-Regimes (1938-1942). In: Siedlungsforschung. Archäologie-
Geschichte-Geographie 9, 1991, S. 199-227.
Die „artgemäße deutsche Kulturlandschaft“ als biologisch-seelische Umwelt“ des „deutschen
Menschen“ in der Spätphase des Nationalsozialismus. Leitbilder – Planungen –
Verwirklichungen. In: Raumwirksame Staatstätigkeit. Bonn 1997 (Colloquium Geographicum
23) S. 43-52.
Zentralismus und Regionalismus in der national-sozialistischen Siedlungspolitik 1939-1945.
In: Deutschland und Europa. Historische, politische und geographische Aspekte. Bonn 1997
(Colloquium Geographicum 24). S. 133-145.
Rückblick auf die „nationalsozialistische Kulturlandschaft“. Unter besonderer
Berücksichtigung des völkisch-rassistischen Mißbrauchs von Kulturlandschaftspflege. In:
Erhaltung und Entwicklung gewachsener Kulturlandschaften als Auftrag der Raumordnung.
Bonn 1999 (Informationen zur Raumentwicklung 1999, Heft 5/6). S. 279-290.

Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Froitzheim
Born on April 27, 1958 in Castrop-Rauxel, North-Rhine Westphalia
1977-82 Studied geology at the Munich Polytechnic
1983-6 Studied for his doctorate at the University of Bonn, nine month research trip to
Morocco
1986 Doctorate in geology and paleontology at the University of Bonn. Dissertation on
"Research into the tectonic genesis of Marrakech in the northern sub-Atlas zone, SW (High
Atlas, Morocco)"
1987-92 Post-doctoral post at the Swiss Federal Technical University in Zurich. Work on the
tectonics of the East Alpine region of Graubünden
1992-9 Scientific assistant at the University of Basle's Geological-Paleontological Institute
1997 Professorial thesis at the University of Basle
Since March 1, 1999 Professor of Structural Geology and Regional Geology at the University
of Bonn's Geological Institute.
Research topics: the genesis of mountain ranges; the elongation of the continental crust and
the formation of the oceans. The tectonic development of the Alps especially the Pennine and
East Alpine plates, computer models of trough systems.
Fields of geological work: the Alps (especially Switzerland and Italy); the Carpathian
Mountains (Romania, Slovakia); the High Atlas (Morocco); the Mojave Desert (California);
the Atlantic shelf edge on the Iberian plate (Spain, Portugal; research trips with the "Nautile"
submarine and the "Joides Resolution" drilling ship); the bay of the Lower Rhine.
Selected publications
Froitzheim, N., 1988, Synsedimentary and synorogenic normal faults within a thrust-sheet of
the Eastern Alps (Ortler zone, Graubünden, Switzerland).- Eclogae geol. Helv., 81, 593-610.
Schmid, S.M. & Froitzheim, N., 1993, Oblique slip and block rotation along the Engadine
line.- Eclogae geol. Helv., 86, 569-593.
Froitzheim, N., Schmid, S.M. & Conti, P., 1994, Repeated change from crustal shortening to
orogen-parallel extension in the Austroalpine units of Graubünden.- Eclogae geol. Helv., 87,
559-612.
Florineth, D. & Froitzheim, N., 1994, Transition from continental to oceanic basement in the
Tasna nappe (Engadine window, Graubünden, Switzerland): evidence for Early Cretaceous
opening of the Valais ocean.- Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr. Mitt., 74, 437-448.

Schmid, S.M., Pfiffner, O.A., Froitzheim, N., Schönborn, G. & Kissling, E., Geophysicalgeological
transect and tectonic evolution of the Swiss-Italian Alps. Tectonics, 15, 1036-1064.
Trümpy, R., Schmid, S.M., Conti, P. & Froitzheim, N. (1997): Erläuterungen zur
Geologischen Karte 1:50 000 des Schweizerischen Nationalparks.- Nationalpark-Forschung in
der Schweiz, 87, 40 p.
Froitzheim, N., Conti, P. & van Daalen, M. (1997): Late Cretaceous, synorogenic, low-angle
normal faulting along the Schlinig fault (Switzerland, Italy, Austria) and its significance for
the tectonics of the Eastern Alps.- Tectonophysics, 280, 267-293.

1946
Born in London, England
1964-1969
Hammersmith College of Art, London.
St. Martins School of Art, London
Royal College of Art, London
Hamish Fulton
1969
Walks made in: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Italy, Swizerland, Austria,
Germany, Norway, Lapland, Iceland, Spain, Portugal, The United States, Canada, Mexico,
Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Nepal, India, Tibet, Australia, Japan
Selected one Person exhibitions
1969
Konrad Fischer Düsseldorf
1973
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
1985
Touring Exhibition organized by the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum Eindhoven:
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum Eindhoven
Le Nouveau Musee Lyon
Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh
Mendel Art Gallery Saskatoon Saskatchewan
1986
Castello Di Rivoli: Torino (with Ulay and Marina Abramovic)
1990
Touring Exhibition organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo New York
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo New York
National Gallery of Canada Ottawa
El Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo Mexico City
1992
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
IVAM Centre Julio Ganzalez, Valencia
1995
Staatliche Galerie im Lembachhaus (Kunstbau) München
1999
Anchorage Museum of Art and History Anchorage Alaska
Selceted Publications by Hamish Fulton
1985
Camp Fire
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum Eindhoven
1995
Thirty-One Horizons
Lembachhaus München

1999
Hamish Fulton
For the Antonio Ratti Foundation, Como
Published by Charta Editions Milano
2000
Higurashi
Centre for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu
Wildlife
Pocketbooks Edinburgh

Sheela Gowda
Studies art at Bangalore University, M.S. Baroda University, the Vishvabharati in
Shantiniketan and the Royal College of Art in London.
As of 1985 participation in solo and group exhibitions in India, South Africa, United States,
England, Japan, France and Germany.
Participates in the two “Art in Nature” workshops in New Delhi and Bangalore respectively.
For the first she constructs a “Dorfraum”, in which ritual elements, cowpats, soil and water
are portrayed as life-giving forces, and gold threads as symbols of never-ending sources of
energy. This year through her artistic interventions she transformed a garbage dump and an
old target practise range outside Bangalore to locations with new points of reference. In her
work Sheela Gowda imbues nature and soil with a new meaning by restoring their original
dignity following their mutilation by man.
Group Exhibitions
1981, 1982
1985
State Lalit Kala Annual Exhibitions
1984
National Exhibition, New Delhi
1987
Two Artist Show, Gallery 7, Bomby
1988
Bhopal Biennale, Bhopal
1989
‘Timeless Art’. Bombay
1995
‘Africus’, South African Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
1995
‘Art and Nature’, International Workshop and Exhibition, Buddha Jayanti Park, New Delhi
1995
‘Traditions/Tensions’, 27 South Asian Artists, Asia Society/Queens Museum, NewYork
1997
‘Telling Tales’, 5 Woman Artists from India, Victoria Gallery, Bath, England
1998
‘Private Mythologies’, 8 Artists from India, The Japan Foundation, Asia Centre, Tokyo, Japan
1999
‘Tales of Six Cities’, Lakeeren Gallery, Bombay
1999
‘Peep-Peep’ Bangalore, Jayamahai Palace Hotel, Bangalore
2000
‘Drawing Space’, Contemporary Indian Drawing, 3 Artists Show at Beaconsfield Gallery,
London
2001
‘Art in Nature’ Bangalore

Solo Exhibitons
1987, 1993
Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bangalore
1989
Gallery 7, Bombay
1989
Yelwala, Mysore
1993
Gallery Chemould, Bombay

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Haber
Born on September 13, 1925 in Datteln (Westphalia), where he also attended school. 1943-7
military service, including a period as a prisoner-of-war. 1948-54 studied biology, chemistry
and geography at the Universities of Münster, Munich, Basle, Hohenheim. 1957 took his
doctorate in natural sciences in Münster.
1957-66 scientific assistant, from 1962 custodian of the Westphalian Museum of Natural
Science at Münster. Also taught at the university. 1966-94 Univ.-Professor and holder of the
chair in Landscape Ecology at the TU of Munich at Freising-Weihenstephan, course of
studies: "countryside conservation".
Fields of research include the application of ecology in the use of the countryside and the
development of the landscape, taking into particular consideration nature conservation areas,
biotopes, nature parks and national parks in need of protection; analyzing ecosystems and
producing models thereof, the basic principles of landscape planning and ecology-oriented
planning.
1979-90 President of the German Ecology Society, 1990-5 President of the International
Association of Ecology (Intecol, the umbrella association of the world's ecological societies).
1981-90 member, as of 1985 Chairman of the Council the German Government's Panel of
Experts on Environmental Questions; since 1981 member, as of 1991 Spokesman of the
German Council for Countryside Conservation.
Awards include the Bavarian Order for Distinguished Service, the Bavarian Maximilian Order
for Science and Art, an honorary doctorate from the University of Hohenheim, the Bruno H.
Schubert Prize, the Justus von Liebig Prize and the German Environmental Prize awarded by
the German Federal Environment Foundation.
Selected publications
Naturschutz und Landnutzung als angewandte Landschaftsökologie (Münster 1966)
Gutachten zum Plan eines Nationalparkes im Bayerischen Wald (Bonn 1969)
Landschaftspflege durch differenzierte Bodennutzung (München 1971)
Naturschutz und Landesentwicklung (München 1972)
Grundzüge einer ökologischen Theorie der Landnutzungsplanung (Bonn 1972)
Raumordnungskonzepte aus der Sicht der Ökosystemforschung (Hannover 1979)
Entwicklung und Probleme der Kulturlandschaft im Spiegel ihrer Ökosysteme (Hannover
1980)
Umweltschutz - Landwirtschaft - Boden (Laufen/Salzach 1986)
Umweltverträglichkeit - Anmerkungen zur menschlichen Ökologie (Göttingen 1989)
Kulturlandschaft versus Naturlandschaft. Zur Notwendigkeit der Bestimmung ökologischer
Ziele im Rahmen der Raumplanung (Hannover 1991)
Ökologische Grundlagen des Umweltschutzes (Bonn 1993)
Stadt und Land - Wesen der Kulturlandschaft (Bonn 1993)
Vom rechten und falschen Gebrauch der Ökologie (Stuttgart 1993)
Die Landschaftsökologen und die Landschaft (Hannover 1996)
Zur ökologischen Rolle der Landwirtschaft (München 1997)
Nachhaltigkeit als Leitbild der Umwelt- und Raumentwicklung in Europa (Stuttgart 1998)

Nutzungsdiversität als Mittel zur Erhaltung von Biodiversität (Laufen/Salzach 2000)
Kulturlandschaft zwischen Bild und Wirklichkeit (Hannover 2001)
Ökologie und Nachhaltigkeit (München 2001).

PD Dr. Susanne Hauser
1977-1982
Studies in History, Liguistics, Philosophy, Literature and Art History in Bonn, Freiburg and
Berlin (Technische and Freie Universität), MA 1983
1983-1988
Ass. Prof., Technische Universität, Dept. of History and Communication Studies, Research
Unit for Semiotics
1989
PhD (Dr. Phil.) Topic: The literary perception of the European city
1988-1995
Organisational consultancy to private and public institutions; specialization: evaluation,
mediation, time-management in teams
1991-1992
Lecturer, Universität Innsbruck, Dept. of Anthropology, Urban Studies Program
1995/96
Fellow at hte Institute for Advanced Studies, berlin
1996-1999
Habilitationsstipendium (grant) of the German research Foundation. Topic: Concepts for the
revitalization of deindustrialized regions (England, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, USA,
Germany) and teaching commission on Architecture Theory, University of the Arts, Berlin
3/1998
Visiting Scholar, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
4-8/1998
Fellow at the GACVS, Washington, DC
9/1998
Workshops on Cultural Sciences, University of Huddinge/Stockholm, Sweden
11/1999
Habilitation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2000/2001-08-20 Visiting professor, Universität Gh Kassel, Dept. of Architecture and
Planning
Publications
Books: “Der Blick auf die Stadt”, Berlin: Reimer 1990; „Metamorphosen des Abfalls,
Konzepte für alte Industrieareale“, Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2001 (in print). Editions:
Marxismus und Semiotik, Zeitschrift für Semiotik 1988; Natur, Umwelt, Zeichen, Zeitschrift
für Semiotik 1996; Modelldenken in den Wissenschaften (Models in Science and the
Humanities), Dialektik, 1997 (coed. Brigitte Falkenburg); Derelict Land in European Cities,
Berlin/New York, Springer, forthcoming (coed. Dieter Genske); more than 60 articles on
revitalization processes, the history of perception, cultural theory, theory of architecture and
urban planning. Present research interest: “Stadtbildproduktionen 1900-2000” (The visual
representation of cities 1900-2000).

Dr. Klaus-Günter Hinzen
After studying and obtaining a doctorate in geophysics at the Ruhr University in Bochum,
Hinzen became a scientific staff member of the Federal Office of Geoscience and Raw
Materials' working party on engineering seismology in Hanover. The focus of his research
work was in the field of the seismological investigation of civic blasting, particularly with
regard to environmental issues and in investigating the dynamic stability of subterranean
structures when affected by earthquakes. Subsequently headed the seismic section of
Geoscientific Community Work (GGA) in Hanover. Since the end of 1995 Head of the
Earthquake Geology Department at the University of Cologne's Geological Institute. From its
headquarters at Bensberg, the Earthquake Geology Department operates a network of
seismological stations in the northern Rhineland. The focus of Hinzen's research is on
investigating local earthquakes, the danger of earthquakes in the Lower Rhine plane,
engineering and archeological seismology. Member of the Advisory Council within the
German Geophysical Society's Management Board. Member of the Physics of the Earth
Research Committee's working party on seismology and the Reactor Safety Commission's
(RSK's) working party on seismology.
Publications
Hinzen, K.-G. and S. Pietsch. A Seismologically Motivated Survey of Blasting Activity in the
Northern Rhine Area. Geologie en Mijnbouw, Kluwer Academic Pubishers, 79, 73-80, 2000.
Camelbeeck, T.,K. Vanneste, K. Verbeeck, M. Meghraoui, R. Pelzing, K.-G. Hinzen, B. Dost
and M. VanDen Berg. Long Term Seismic Activity in the Lower Rhine Embayment. HAN200
Workshop, Han-sur-Lesse, Belgium, 35-38, 2000.
Hinzen, K.-G., Pelzing, R. and K. Lehmann. Search for Paleoearthquakes at the Eastern
Border Faults of the Rur Graben, Lower Rhine Embayment, Middle Europe. Seismol. Res.
Lett., 71, 227-228, 2000.
Hinzen, K.-G. and M. Oemisch. Location and Magnitude from Seismic Intensity Data of
Recent and Historic Earthquakes in the Northern Rhine Area, Central Europe., Bull. Seismol.
Soc. Am., 91, 40-56, 2001.
Hinzen, K.-G., S.K. Reamer and T. Rose. Results of analysis of digital elevation models used
for site selection for paleoseismological investigations at the Rurrand Fault. Geologie en
Mijnbouw, accepted, 2001.

Prof. Dr. Albrecht W. Hofmann
Born on March 11, 1939 in Zeitz, studied geology and mineralogy at Duke University,
Durham, N.C., USA, the University of Freiburg i.Br., and Brown University, Providence, R.I.,
USA, gained a doctorate in geochemistry from Brown University (1968), scientific assistant at
the University of Heidelberg (1968-70), postdoctoral fellow and scientific staff member of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington (1970-80), Director and scientific staff member at the
Max Planck Institute of Chemistry (1980), Managing Director of the Institute, 1989-91, 1998-
2000, Honorary Professor of the University of Mainz (1987)
Max Planck Institute of Chemistry, Mainz
Managing Director of the Institute: 1989-91; 1998-2000.
Political functions in the field of science:
President of the European Union of Geosciences (EUG), 1997-9,
President of the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG), 1998-2000,
Coordinator of the German Research Community's focal program "Experimental studies on
the distribution of elements between minerals, melting and gas phases in systems relevant to
geosciences."
Scientific prizes/honors/membership of scientific organizations (selection):
1994 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union;
1994 Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques;
1996 Humboldt Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Ministère de
l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche;
1996 V.M. Goldschmidt Medal from the Geochemical Society;
1999 Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences;
2001 Harry H. Hess Medal from the American Geophysical Union.
Key terms in his research:
Isotope and trace element geochemistry
The development of and the differentiation between the Earth's crust and Earth's mantle
Geochronology
The source of oceanic volcanism
Selected publications
Hofmann, A.W., Chemical differentiation of the Earth, the relationship between mantle,
continental crust, and oceanic crust. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 90, 297-314 (1988).
Stein, M. and A.W. Hofmann, Mantle plumes and episodic crutal growth. Nature, 372, 63-68
(1994).
Christensen, U.R. and A.W. Hofmann, Segregation of subducted oceanic crust in the
convecting mantle. J. Geophys. Res., 99, 19, 867-19,884 (1994).
Hofmann, A.w., Mantle geochemistry – the message from oceanic volcanism. Nature 385,
219-229 (1997).
Sobolev, A.V., A.W. Hofmann, I.K. Nikogosian: Recycled oceanic crust observed in “ghost
plagioclase” within the source of Mauna Loa lavas. Nature, 404, 986-990 (2000).

Dr. Klaus-Dieter Kleefeld
Currently scientific staff member at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm University's Historical
Geography in Bonn and co-owner of the Historical Urban and Rural Research Office.
Chairman of the study group on applied historical geography within the working party on
genetic settlement research in Central Europe. Coeditor of "Kulturlandschaft. Zeitschrift für
Angewandte Historische Geographie" (Cultural landscape. Journal of Applied Historical
Geography), Bonn 1990ff. Scientific expert specializing in research into and conservation of
cultural landscapes. Has been involved in numerous research projects and publications.
Born in 1959
1983-90 Studied historical geography, prehistory, early history and economic geography at the
Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University, Bonn
1990 obtained an M.A. on the subject of "Aspects of constructional development in the
Mayors' Offices of Heumar and Wahn 1809-1951"
November 1990 Established the "Historical Urban and Rural Research Office". Since then
Kleefeld has worked as a freelance historical geographer in the field of research into cultural
landscapes. Since 1990 he has processed 42 expert's reports and research projects.
1994 Doctorate on the subject of his inaugural dissertation: a historico-geographical
topographical survey and representation of the genesis of the cultural landscape which is the
brown coal mining district Garzweiler II
Since 1995 Chairman of the international applied historical geography study group within the
working party on genetic settlement research in Central Europe
2001 Limited contract as scientific staff member at the University of Bonn
selected publications
Seit 1990 Mitherausgeber und Mitglied der Redaktion der "Kulturlandschaft. Zeitschrift für
Angewandte Historische Geographie", Bearbeitung von 18 Heften
zusammen mit Peter Burggraaff: Bodendenkmalpflege und Naturschutz am Beispiel der
"Bockerter Heide". In: Archäologie im Rheinland 1993. - Köln 1994, S.201-204.
zusammen mit Peter Burggraaff: "Waldökologiezentrum altes Forsthaus" in Bongard. In:
Kreis Daun Vulkaneifel, Heimatjahrbuch 1995 - Daun 1994, S. 204-207
Kulturlandschaftpflegerische Belange in der regionalen Planung zum "Vulkanpark". In: Hans-
Helmut Wegner (Hg.): Archäologie, Vulkane und Kulturlandschaft. Studien zur Entwicklung
einer Landschaft in der Osteifel. - Koblenz 1995, S.85-90.

zusammen mit Peter Burggraaff und Erich Mertes: Geschichte erwandern und erleben - erste
Abschnitte der Geschichtsstraße der Verbandsgemeinde Kelberg. In: Kreis Daun Heimatjahrbuch
1997. - Monschau 1996, S.183-191.
1997 Herausgabe des Sammelbandes "Perspektiven der Historischen Geographie: Siedlung-
Kulturlandschaft-Umwelt in Mitteleuropa" im Selbstverlag.
Kulturlandschaftliches Erbe. In: Berichte der Bayerischen Akademie für Naturschutz und
Landschaftspflege (ANL) Heft 21. 1997, S.47-56.
zusammen mit Michael Bossmann und Jörg Grunert: Der suburbane Raum im Südwesten von
Bonn. In: Stiehl, Eckart (Hrsg.): Die Stadt Bonn und ihr Umland: ein geographischer Exkursionsführer.
- Bonn 1997, S.151-164 (Arbeiten zur rheinische Landeskunde 66).
Zusammen mit Peter Burggraaff: Historische Kulturlandschaft und Kulturlandschaftselemente:
Ergebnisse aus dem F.u.E.-Vorhaben 80809075 des Bundesamtes für Naturschutz"
(Angewandte Landschaftsökologie Heft 20, 1998).
zusammen mit Klaus Fehn: Die Verbindung von Natur- und Kulturerleben - der Betrachtungsansatz
der ganzheitlichen historisch-geographischen Kulturlandschaftspflege. In: Schemel,
Hans-Joachim (Bearb.): Naturerfahrungsräume. - Angewandte Landschaftsökologie Heft 19,
1998, S.191-206.
1999 Herausgabe des Sammelbandes "Informationssysteme für die Angewandte Historische
Geographie" innerhalb der Aachener Informatik-Berichte 99-6
Kulturlandschaftspflege in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Sukzession contra Erhalten ? In:
NUA Seminarbericht Band 3, 1999, S.24-40.
Kulturlandschaftstransformation im rheinischen Braunkohlenrevier. - Koblenzer Geographisches
Kolloquium Jg. 21, 1999, S.18-37.
zusammen mit Peter Burggraaff: Welterbe Kulturlandschaft Mittelrheintal - UNESCO-
Weltkulturerbebegriff und seine Übertragbarkeit. In: Das Rheintal - Schutz und Entwicklung.
- Köln 1999, S.59-88.
Kulturlandschaft Siebengebirge: Grundsätzliche Betrachtungen und Regionalanalyse. In: Das
Rheintal - Schutz und Entwicklung. - Köln 1999, S.209-234.
zusammen mit Peter Burggraaff: Kulturlandschaftserleben in der Dingdener Heide, Kreis
Wesel. In: Aurig, Rainer (Hrsg.): Kulturlandschaft, Museum, Identität. - Beucha 1999
(Schriften der Rudolf-Kötzschke-Gesellschaft 4), S.124-135.
2000 Herausgabe des Sammelbandes "Baum, Wald, Landschaft, Mensch, Kulturlandschaft -
Erbe und Zukunft von und für Generationen" innerhalb der Zeitschrift "Kulturlandschaft" 9,
1999.

Prof. Wighart von Königswald

Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Küster
Born in 1956 in Frankfurt/Main.
1975-81 Studied biology at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim, where he also took his
doctorate in 1985 with a thesis on the history of the vegetation and the landscape in southern
Bavaria.
1981-98 Scientific staff member at the University of Munich's Institute of Prehistory and
Early History. Established and headed a working party on the history of vegetation.
1992 Professorial thesis at the University of Munich's Forestry Sciences Faculty.
Since 1998 Professor of Plant Ecology in the Biology Department at the University of
Hanover.
Fields of work: ecology, the history of vegetation and landscapes.
Selected publications
Technik und Gesellschaft in frühen Kulturen der Menschheit. In: Helmuth Albecht &
Charlotte Schönbeck (Hrsg.), Technik und Gesellschaft. Düsseldorf 1993, 33-54.
Geschichte der Landschaft in Mitteleuropa. Von der Eiszeit bis zur Gegenwart. München
1995 (2. Auflage 1996, 3. Auflage 1999), Verlag C.H. Beck.
Postglaziale Vegetationsgeschichte Südbayerns.
Geobotanische Studien zur Prähistorischen Landschaftskunde. Berlin 1995, Akademie Verlag.
(Hrsg., mit Ulf Küster) Garten und Wildnis. Landschaft im 18. Jahrhundert. München 1997,
Verlag C.H. Beck.
Kleine Kulturgeschichte der Gewürze. Ein Lexikon von Anis bis Zimt. München 1997, Verlag
C.H. Beck.
Geschichte des Waldes. Von der Urzeit bis zur Gegenwart. München 1998, Verlag C.H. Beck.
Waldentwicklung in Süddeutschland. In: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Hrsg.),
Entwicklung der Umwelt seit der letzten Eiszeit. Rundgespräch am 19. April 1999 in
München. Rundgespräche der Kommission für Ökologie 18.
München 2000, 91-102.
Prehistoric cultures and the development of woodlands. In: M. Agnolette & S. Anderson,
Methods and Approaches in Forest History. The International Union of Forestry Research
Organizations (IUFRO), IUFRO Research Series 3, CABI publishing, Wallingford, New York
2000, 215-220.
Gedanken zur Holzversorgung von Werften an der Nord- und Ostsee im Mittelalter und in der
frühen Neuzeit. Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 22, 1999, Bremerhaven und Hamburg 2000, 315-
328.
Das folgenreiche Missverständnis des Tacitus: Auch der Wald hat seine Geschichte.
Natürliche und kulturelle Bedingungen der Bewaldung Mitteleuropas. Der Bürger im Staat
51(1): Spezialheft „Der deutsche Wald“. Stuttgart 2001, 10-16.

Dr. Georg Lechner
1962-95
Head of various Goethe Institutes throughout the world, 1996-9 Head of Goethe Institute
Programs, 1999-2001 authorized agent for "German Festivals in India 2000-2001".
Publications and films on intercultural matters with a focus on France and India. Initiator of a
Franco-German cooperation entitled "Interréseaux" and the "East-West Encounter" in
Bombay.
Born 1934
1954-60 Studied French, English and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University,
Munich;
1959 received a grant from the French government
1961 Joined the Goethe Institute (GI) in Munich
Taught German as a foreign language at the GIs in Lüneburg, Ebersberg and Grafing
1962-95 Head of the following cultural institutes outside Germany:
1962-5 Rangoon
1965-9 Calcutta
1969-73 New Delhi
1973-8 Montreal
1978-80 Seoul
1980-6 Bombay
1986-92 Paris (Official Regional Agent for France)
1992-5 New Delhi (Official Regional Agent for South Asia)
1995-6 Head of "Science, Literature and Contemporary Events" at the Institute's central
headquarters in Munich.
1996-9 Head of the Cultural Programs Department
1999 Retired
1999-2001 Official agent for "German Festivals in India"
Coordinator of the following projects on the relationship between art and nature (selection):
- "L’art de la Nature", Parc de la Villette, in Paris with the participation of five German and
five French artists, June-August 1988
- Nils-Udo, New Delhi, spring 1994, "Tor, Tempel, Fels, 3 Kakteen" (Gate, Temple, Rock,
Three Cacti) "Art and Nature", Buddhajayanti Park New Delhi, Mai-June 1995, in cooperation
with the Japan Foundation and the Lalit Kala Academy and the participation of two German,
two Japanese and ten Indian artists
"Art in Nature", January-February 2001, in several locations in India and with the
participation of four German and four Indian artists, in collaboration with the Ministry of
Culture, Government of India.
Selected publications
„Koreana“ (1980)
„Deutsche in Paris“ (1990)
„Development Aid Today“
zahlreiche Essays zu Fragen der Kulturpolitik und Interkulturalität
Films:

Tabla Calcutta (1967)
Traffic Exercises (1971)
I point to India – Friedrich Max Mueller (1973)
Ex occidente lux (1983)
awards:
Ordre du Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (1991)

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Meyer
Born in Berlin 1932. Until 1951 living in Strausberg (Mark Brandenburg, after 1949 DDR).
Course of study in geology at Freie Universität Berlin from 1951 to 1957. Geologist at
Erzbergbau Siegerland AG (hydrothermal iron ores, Rhenish Massif) 1957 – 1959. Assistent
lecturer in the Geological Department at the Mining Academy, today Technical University in
Clausthal-Zellerfeld (Harz Mountains). Habilitation in 1966 with studies on plutonism and
structural development of the rhodope Massif 8Makedonia, Northern Greece). Participation
on the international Upper Mantle Project in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia 1969 –
1971.Member of the editorial staff of a German Dictionary of Structural Geology, completed
in 1991. Since 1969 professor at the Geological Department of Bonn University; 1998 retired.
In this time mainly investigations in the Eifel area and in the central part of the Rhenish
Massif (structural geology of the basement, Cainozoic volcanism). Efforts for the protection
of landscapes in the East Eifel volcanic region. Chariman of Naturhistorischer Verein der
Rheinlande und Westfalens 1988 – 1994.
publications
Meyer, W. (1986): Geologisches Zeichnen und Konstruieren. – 2. Aufl., Clausthaler
Tektonische Hefte 17, 90 S.; Clausthal-Zellerfeld (E.Pilger).
Meyer, W. (1993): Das Vulkangebeit des Laacher Sees. – 5. Aufl., 32 S., Rheinische
Landschaften 9; Köln.
Meyer, W. (1994): Geologie der Eifel. – 3. Aufl., XV + 618 S.; Stuttgart (Schweizerbart).
Koenigswald, W. v. & Meyer, W. (Hrsg.) (1994): Erdgeschichte im Rheinland. – 239 S.;
München (Pfeil).
Meyer, W. & Stets, J. (1996): Das Rheintal zwischen Bingen und Bonn. – Sammlg. Geolog.
Führer 89, 386 S.; Berlin, Stuttgart (Borntraeger).
Murawski, H. & Meyer, W. (1998): Geologisches Wörterbuch. – 10. Aufl., 278 s.; Stuttgart
(Enke).
Meyer, W. (1999): Vulkanbauten der Osteifel. – 118 S.; Köln (Rhein Ver. F. Denkmalpflege
u. Landschaftsschutz & Deutsche Vulkanolog. Ges.).
Meyer, W. (m. Beitr. v. H. Jacobs, F. Mangartz u. L. Viereck) (2000): Geologischer Führer
zum Geo-Pfad „Vulkanpark Brohltal/Laacher see“. – 3. Aufl., 125 S.; Niederzissen
(Verbandsgemeinde Brohltal).
Meyer, W. & Stets, J. (2000): Geologische Übersichtskarte und Profil des Mittelrheintales 1:
100 000. – Mit Erläuterungen (49 S.): Mainz (Geol. Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz).

Prof. Dr. Günter Miehlich
1939 March 23, born in Wolfen , Sachsen Anhalt (former GDR)
1959-1966 Study of Biology, Chemistry, Geography and Soil Science at the University of
Munich
1970 Doctorate in Natural Sciences at the University of Hamburg, with a thesis on the
influence of spruce on properties of Bavarian soils, Scientific employee at the University of
Hamburg
Since 1980 Head of a working group which deals with ecology of contaminated harbor
sludges and soils, water balances of multi-layered landfill covers, ecology of soils in floodplains
and assessment of soil quality
1977 Professor for Soil Science at the University of Hamburg
1984 Habilitation for Soil Science at the University of Hamburg with an habilitation thesis
of the influence of time and climate on the soil development of volcanic ash soils in Central
Mexico
1997-1999 Dean of the faculty of Earthscience at the University of Hamburg
Since 2000 Chairman of the governmental scientific advisory committee for soil protection
Selected papers
MIEHLICH, G. (2001): Do Contaminated Soils Have to Be Decontaminated. In: STEGMANN, R.,
BRUNNER, G.,CALMANO, W. MATZ, G. (Eds.): Treatment of contaminated Soil, S. 15-19,
Springer, Berlin u.a.
FRIESE, K., B.WITTER, G.MIEHLICH & M.RODE (HRSG.) (2000): Stoffhaushalt von
Auenökosystemen. Springer, Berlin 434 S..
KUNERT, H. RUPP, R. SCHWARTZ, A. VAN DER VEEN & D. W. ZACHMANN (2000): Distribution
and Fate of Organic and Inorganic Contaminants in a River Floodplain - Results of a Case
Study on the River Elbe, Germany. in: D. L. Wise et al. (eds.): Remediation Engineering of
Contaminated Soils. Marcel Dekker: New York. S. 375 - 428..
MIEHLICH, G. (2000): Böden und Spezialkulturen. Bodenkultur und Gartenbau in einer
Flussmarsch. Geographie und Schule, 22, S. 30 -33.
MIEHLICH, G. (2000): Eigenschaften, Genese und Funktionen von Böden in Auen
Mitteleuropas. in: K. Friese et al. (Hrsg.): Stoffhaushalt von Auenökosystemen. Springer:
Berlin. S. 3 -18.
SCHWARTZ, R., A. GRÖNGRÖFT & G. MIEHLICH (2000): Charakterisierung und Wasserhaushalt
typischer Böden im Überschwemmungsbereich der unteren Mittelelbe. in: K. Friese et al.
(Hrsg.): Stoffhaushalt von Auenökosystemen. Springer: Berlin. S. 65 -78.
BERGER, K., W. SCHNEIDER & G. MIEHLICH (1999): Validierung des HELP-Modells zur
Wasserhaushaltssimulation von Oberflächenabdichtungssystemen. Wasser und Boden 51 (10),
S. 20-25.
MIEHLICH, G. (1999): Böden und Bodenkultur der Vier- und Marschlande - Segen und Last
einer Flußmarschenlandschaft. Hamburger geographische Studien, 48, S. 199 -224.
MIEHLICH, G. & A. GRÖNGRÖFT (1999): Stichworte zum Themenfeld ‚Bodenkunde‘ im
Römpp-Lexikon Umwelt, 2.Auflage, Hulpke, H., H.A. Koch & R. Nießner (Hrsg): Thieme
Verlag, Stuttgart, 926 S.
GRÖNGRÖFT, A., U. JÄHNIG, G. MIEHLICH, R. LÜSCHOW, V. MAASS & B. STACHEL (1998):
Distribution of metals in sediments of the Elbe Estuary in 1994. Wat. Sci. Tech. 37, S.109-
116.

SCHWARTZ, R., A. GRÖNGRÖFT & G. MIEHLICH (1999): Auswirkung von Eindeichung und
Melioration auf den Wasserhaushalt von Auenböden - aufgezeigt am Beispiel zweier
Grünlandstandorte an der unteren Mittelelbe bei Lenzen. Auenreport, Sonderband 1, S. 41 -
54.
SCHWARTZ, R., GRÖNGRÖFT, A. & MIEHLICH, G. (1999): Auswirkung von Eindeichung und
Melioration auf den Wasser- und Stoffhaushalt von Auenböden an der unteren Mittelelbe.
Mitteil. Deutsch. Bodenkundl. Gesell. , 91-I, S. 254-258.
STEINERT, B., S. MELCHIOR, K. BURGER, K. BERGER, M. TÜRK & G. MIEHLICH (1998):
Dimensionierung von Kapillarsperren zur Oberflächenabdichtung von Deponien und
Altlasten. In: AUGUST et al. (Hrsg.): Optimierung von Deponieabdichtungssystemen. Springer,
Berlin, S. 345-363..

Prof. Dr. Alexander Perrig
born in Lucerne (Switzerland) in 1930, taught history of art at the universities of Hamburg,
Marburg and Trier. He has dedicated some decades of his life to the task of doing justice to
those draughtsmen of Michelangelo´s entourage (Tommaso de´Cavalieri, Cellini, Clovio,
Condivi, Daniele da Volterra, Jacopo del Duca, Venusti etc.) whose drawings are to be
suspected of having been, largely or completely, attributed to Michelangelo since the late
sixteenth or early seventeenth centuries. He is currently living in Frankfurt a.M. where he
divides his time between research, writing (e.g. a study on the history of landscape painting as
mirroring the history of geological notions) and teaching.

Prof. Dr. Terence Ranger
Terence Ranger was born in 1929 and took his first degree and doctorate at
Oxford.He went to the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1957
as Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History, but rapidly become
involved in the human rights struggle and turned himself into a historian of
Africa. He was deported from Rhodesia in 1963 and thereafter held Chairs at
the Universities of Dar es Salaam, UCLA, Manchester and Oxford. On retiring
from Oxford in 1997 he went to the University of Zimbabwe as Visting
Professor and taught there for four academic years. He has published nine
monographs, edited ten books and published some 150 articles and book
chapters. Among his publications are:
'Great Spaces Washed with Sun: the Matopos and Uluru Compared', in Kate
Darian-Smith, et.al., Text, Theory, Space. Land, Literature and History in
South Africa and Australia, Routledge, London, 1996.
'Making Zimbabwean Landscapes: painters, projectors and priests',
Paideuma,43,1997. Special issue on Landscape.
'African Views of the Land: a Research Agenda', Transformation,44, 2000.
Voices From the Rocks. Nature, Culture and History in the Matopos Hills of
Zimbabwe, James Currey, Oxford, 1999.
Jocelyn Alexander, JoAnn McGregor and Terence Ranger, Violence and Memory.
One Hundred Years in the Dark Forests of Matabeleland, James Currey, Oxford,
2000.

Dr. Ulrich Raulff

Dr. Mechtild Rössler
Born 1959. Mechtild Rössler has a MA (1984) in cultural geography from Freiburg University
(Germany) and a PhD. (1988) from the Faculty for Earth Sciences, University of Hamburg.
She joined the Research Centre of the “Cité des Sciences et de L’Industrie” (Paris, France) in
1989 on a CNRS post and worked in 1990/91 as visiting professor at the University of
California at Berkeley/USA (Department of Geography). In 1991 she joined UNESCO
Headquarters in Paris, first the Division for Ecological Sciences, and since 1992 the UNESCO
World Heritage Centre (Programme specialist , responsible officer for natural heritage and
cultural landscapes). She has published 6 books, more than 50 articles, and contributes to the
editorial board of three journals.

Prof. Dr. Frank Scherbaum
Frank Scherbaum received his Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Stuttgart in 1980.
Following several years of postdoctoral studies in Boulder/Colorado and Tsukuba /Japan he
became professor of geophysics at the Ludwig- Maximilians University in Munich in 1989.
Since 1997 he holds the chair in geophysics at the institute of geosciences of the University of
Potsdam. His current research interests includes ambient vibrations and their use for
quantitative structural imaging using array techniques, quantification of earthquake hazard in
regions of low seismicity, local site effects, array seismology and digital signal processing.
Selected Publications
Scherbaum, F., Of Poles and Zeros: Fundamentals of Digital Seismology,
second edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 265 pp., 2001.
Krüger, F., M. Baumann, F. Scherbaum, M. Weber, Mid mantle scatterers
near the Mariana slab detected with a double array technique, GRL, 28, 667-670,
2001.
Scherbaum, F. Analysis of digital earthquake signals, in press in International Handbook of
Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, Eds. W. H. K. Lee, H. Kanamori, and P. Jennings,
Academic Press, 2001.
Loos, W. and F. Scherbaum, Inner Earth, a seismosonic symphony, Kookoon,
Traumton/Indigo CD 8927-2, 1999.
Scherbaum, F., and M. P. Bouin, FIR Filter Effects and Nucleation phases, Geophys. J. Int.,
130, 661-668, 1997.
Scherbaum, F. , F. Krüger, and M. Weber, Double Beam Imaging: Mapping lower mantle
heterogeneities using combinations of source and receiver arrays, J.Geophys. Res., 102,
507-522, 1997.

Dr. Hartmut Schlenz
Born 1963 in Lüdenscheid (Westphalia)
1985-91 Studied mineralogy / crystallography at the University of Münster's Institute of
Mineralogy
1992 Graduate thesis at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA
1995 Obtained his doctorate from the University of Münster's Institute of Mineralogy
January-September post-doctoral work at the University of Münster's Institute of Mineralogy
Since October 1996 scientific assistant at the University of Bonn's Mineralogical/Petrological
Institute, working towards a professorial thesis in the field of crystallography
Current focus of research: structural analysis of amorphous solids and glasses
Methods used. X-ray and neutron diffraction, X-ray dispersal, computer simulation
Since 1997 Project Leader of B10, a partial project in Special Research Division 408
(inorganic solids without translation symmetry)
Selected publications
Kroll, H., Schlenz, H., Phillips, M.W.: Thermodynamic modelling of non-convergent ordering
in orthopyroxenes: A comparison of classical and Landau approaches, Phys. Chem. Minerals
21 (1994) 555-560.
Kroll, H., Lueder, T., Schlenz, H., Kirfel, A., Vad, T.: The Fe 2+ , Mg distribution in
orthopyroxene: A critical assessment of ist potential as a geospeedometer, Eur. J. Mineral. 9
(1997) 705-733.
Schlenz, H., Kroll, H., Phillips, M.W.: Isothermal annealing and continuous cooling
experiments on synthetic orthopyroxenes: temperature and time evolution of the Fe, Mg
distribution, Eur. J. Mineral. 13 (2001).
Schlenz et al.: Structure analyses of Ba-silicate glasses: A collaborative study, J. Non Cryst.
Solids (2001) in press.
Schlenz et al.: Synthesis and structure analysis of a Ba-germanate glass, J. Non-Cryst. Solids
(2001) submitted.

Born:
October 21, 1937 in Detmold
Prof. Hans-Ulrich Schmincke
Studied:
University of Göttingen, University of Freiburg; Technical University of Aachen; John
Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md., USA) (M.A., 1962; Ph.D., 1964); University of
California at Santa Barbara. Professorial thesis at the University of Heidelberg 1969; lecturer
then Associate Professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum 1969-90; Full Professor and Chair
of the Volcanology and Petrology Department at the GEOMAR Research Center at the
Christian Albrechts University at Kiel since 1990.
Guest lectureships:
Include University of Salzburg; University of Toronto, Canada; Southern Methodist
University Dallas (Texas) University of Bern; Universita di Catania (Italy).
Spokesman of:
Post-Doctoral Council on the dynamics of global cycles in the Earth system (1992-2001).
General Secretary:
International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)
(1983-91).
Editor of :
Bulletin of Volcanology (1986-95). Coeditor of a number of international scientific journals.
Member of several scientific associations.
Prizes and awards:
1985 N.L. Bowen Award, American Geophysical Union; 1990 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Prize, German Research Community; 1993 Thorarinsson Medal from the International
Association of Volcanology; 2001 Hans Stille Medal from the German Geological Society.
publications:
about 250 articles (1960-2001). books: Pyroclastic Rocks, 1984, (mit R.V. Fisher) Springer
Verlag Heidelberg; Vulkanismus, 1986, 2te Aufl 2000, Wiss. Buchges. Darmstadt; Der
Laacher See und seine Vulkane, 1988, Bode Verlag Haltern; Geology of the Canary Islands
(1987-2001, 8 ed); Volcanology of the Eifel volcanic fields (1990; 1994)

Klaus Schöning
Born in 1936, director, author and until the beginning of 2001 Director of the West German
Broadcasting Corporation's (WDR's) Acoustic Art Studio in Cologne which he established in
the 1960s. The author of numerous essays analyzing the media; features and documentaries on
the esthetics and history of the new (radio) play and of acoustic art. His work as a director has
mainly involved experimentation. He produced the first transcontinental satellite sound
sculptures in media history, Klangbrücken Köln - San Francisco - Kyoto (Sound Bridges
Cologne – San Francisco – Kyoto) by Bill Fontana and the first marathon broadcasts
Ulysses/James Joyce and NachtCageTag (nightCageday). More than 30 of the projects he has
been involved in have won international prizes, most recently a work of voice art by
Friederike Mayröcker, which he also directed in 2001.
Public events/performances worldwide with intermedia artists. Involved in the latter's
productions at international festivals, art exhibitions and symposia. First exhibition of
annotations and scores for acoustic art, Cologne 1985. Initiator and artistic director of the
Acustica International festivals in Cologne, New York, Montreal, Copenhagen, San
Francisco. Was present at documenta 8 in Kassel as the curator of the first comprehensive
audio library Acoustic Art on the Radio. Other sound installations in major international
museums. Initiator and jury member of the WDR's Prix Ars Acustica. Member of the Goethe
Institute's advisory council on media. For many years Chairman of the first EBU Working
Group Ars Acustica. Teaching posts, writer in residence, lectures, performances and
workshops in Europe, North and South America, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. Teaches
at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne. In 1983 he was awarded the Berlin Academy of
Arts' Art Prize. (endowed prize for film/radio/TV broadcasting) In 1993 he received the Media
Art Prize from the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe. Author and
editor of several books and audio books (with works by Mauricio Kagel and John Cage) and
the Wergo CD edition Ars Acustica. Vom Reichtum der Akustischen Kunst.(Ars Acustica. On
the Richness of Acoustic Art).

Dr. Renate Schumacher
Born in 1957 in Wilhelmshaven
1976-82:
Studied geology and mineralogy in Kiel and Edinburgh / Scotland
1982-3:
Research at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst / USA
1983-6:
Took her doctorate in Bonn on "Petrology and Geochemistry of Epidote and Clinopyroxenebearing
Amphibolites and Calc-silicate Rocks from Central Massachusetts, USA"
1986-90:
Scientific staff member at the University of Kiel
1990-4:
Scientific assistant at the University of Münster
1994-7:
Head of the Mineralogical Museum in Kiel
Since August 1997:
Scientific staff member at the University of Bonn's Mineralogical Institute and Museum and
Head of the Mineralogical Museum
Job title: Senior Academic Staff Member
Key responsibilities: looking after visitors, PR work, substantive and organizational planning
of special exhibitions, in charge of the mineralogical collection, teaching, honorary press
officer of the German Mineralogical Society
Publications/Articles since 1994
Schumacher, R. & Faulhaber, S. (1994) Summary and discussion of P-T estimates from
garnet-pyroxene-plagioclase-quartz-bearing, granulite-facies rocks from Sri Lanka.
Precambrian Research, 66, 295-308.
Rötzler, K., Schumacher, R., Maresch W.V. und Willner, A. (1998) Characterization and
geodynamic implications of contrasting metamorphic evolution in juxtaposed high-pressure units
of the Western Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. European Journal of Mineralogy, 10, 261-280.
Schumacher, R., Rötzler, K. & Maresch W.V. (1999) Subtle oscillatory zoning in garnet from
regional metamorphic phyllites and mics schists, western Erzgebirge, Germany. The Canadian
Mineralogist, 37, 381-402.
Schumacher, R. & Balzer, R. (1998) Rio Grande do Sul: Kristallstufen aus der Urkraft der
Vulkane, Tópicos 3, 36-39.
Schumacher, R. (1998) Steine prüfen und benennen. Der Sachverständige 12/98, 30-31.
Schumacher, R. (1999) Rote, grüne, blaue… Minerale des Mineralogischen Museums in
Bonn. Aufschluss 50, 325-330.

Schumacher, R. (1999) Drei Minerale und ihre Namensgeber aus dem Mineralogisch-
Petrologischen Institut und Museum der Universität Bonn. Aufschluss 50, 342.
Schumacher, R. & Raimann, A. (1999) Vom Ockersteinbruch zum fertigen Kunstwerk.
Aufschluss 50, 398-404.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schumacher

Prof. Dr. Thomas Sieverts
1934
Born in Hamburg
1956-1962
Studies architecture and urban development in Stuttgart, Liverpool and Berlin
1963-1965
Research assistant to Prof. Eggeling (chair of urban development) at Berlin Technical
University
1966
Establishes the Independent Planning Group Berlin (wit Kossak and Zimmermann)
1967-1970
Professor for urban development at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin
1970-1971
Visiting professor at Harvard University
1971-1999
Professor for urban development at Darmstadt Technical College
1978-1983
Special Professor at the University of Nottingham
1989-1994
Director of the Emscher Park International Architecture Exhibition
1995-1996
Fellow at the Science College in Berlin
As of 1978
Own planning office in Bonn (urban development, house building, consultancy service to
local authorities)
1996
Establishes partnership:
Prof. Sieverts / Trautmann / Knye-Neczas
- urban planners and architects
1999
Made Honorary Professor at Darmstadt Polytechnic
2000
Sets up S.K.A.T.
Architects and urban planners, Bonn, Cologne
Awards and publications:
DEUBAU prize 1969 (with Kossak and Zimmermann)
Gold service award from the city of Vienna
Award for the best property developer
German award for urban planning (citation)
Award for exemplary buildings in NRW
German award for urban planning
Member of the Saxon Academy of Arts
Extensive duties as a jury member and moderator
Numerous publications

Born 1945 at Neumarkt/Schlesien
Prof. Dr. Karl Stahr
Professional degrees:
Education: Highschool at Augsburg and Bad Cannstatt
1969 Diploma in Geology at Technical University Stuttgart
1972 Dr. rer. nat. (Ph. D. science) at Technical University Stuttgart
(E. Schlichting)
1979 Habilitation in Soil Science, University of Freiburg i.Br.
Professional record
1969 - 1972 Soil Scientist (research assistant)
Institut. of Soil Science, University of Hohenheim
1972 - 1980 Scientific Assistant (lecturer)
Institut of Soil Science, University of Freiburg
1980 - 1988 Professor Soil Geography
Institut of Ecology, Technical University of Berlin
since 1988
Professor of Soil Science and Petrography
Institut of Soil Science and Land Evaluation,
University of Hohenheim
Teaching:
Lectures in Soil Science, Soil Ecology, Tropical Soils, Clay Mineralogy, Soil Mapping and
Land Evaluation, Courses in Soil Analysis, Soil Description and Soil Mapping; Seminars in
Soil Science, Soil Ecology, Land Evaluation.
Supervisor of more than 140 Master students and 50 Ph.D. students
Guest lecturer:
Universities of Tübingen, Stuttgart, Freiburg i. Br., Free University of Berlin, Technical
University of Berlin.
Publication:
About 335 articles in national and international periodicals, several monographies and
textbook chapters.
Member of Editorial Bord of periodicals:
Catena, Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Geoderma, Trends in Soil Science and Hohenheimer
Bodenkundliche Hefte.
Research:
Main fields: Soil genesis, Soil mineralogy, Land evaluation, N-cycle, recycling of organic
waste.
Research projects in forest and agricultural soils of Germany as well as Brazil, Ecuador,
Argentina, Spain, Portugal, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, PR China, Somalia, Niger, Benin.

Official functions:
Vice Chairman 1979-1981, 1985-1989 and Chairman 1989-1995 of Comm. VII. German Soil
Science Society, Vice Chairman of Comm. VII Intern. Soil Science Soc. 1986-1998.
Organizer of several national and international workshops, excursions and congresses. Elected
member of many University boards since 1967. Dean of faculty "landscape planning".
Technical University of Berlin, 1987/88.
President of the German Soil Science Society since 1998.
Dean of the faculty ‘Plant Production and Landscape Ecology’ since 2000.
Publications
Motz; I., I. Koch, H.D. Kutzbach und K. Stahr: Erfassung klimarelevanter Spurengase –
Klimatisierte Plexiglaskammern zur Messung von Bodenatmung und Spurengasen in
ungestörten Pflanzenbeständen. Landtechnik, 56, Heft 1, S. 34-35, (2001).
Stahr, K.: Prediction of Nitrogen Mineralisation – Experiences from Central Europe.
Mitt.Dtsch.Bodenkdl.Ges., 93, S. 82-85, (2000).
Niklaus, P., M. Kleber und K. Stahr: Rekultivierung von Bergehalden des Steinkohlebergbaus
– Bodenkundliche Untersuchungen am Versuchsstandort Halde Reden – Reclamation of coal
refuse dumps – Pedogenesis at the experimental site Halde Reden. S. 207-221. In: G. Broll,
W. Dunger, B. Keplin, W. Topp (Hrsg.) Rekultivierung in Bergbaufolgelandschaften –
Bodenorganismen, bodenökologische Prozesse und Standortentwicklung. Springer, (2000).
Stahr, K. Bodenfunktionen und Bodenschutz. Unsere Böden als Umweltmedium – ihr Wesen,
ihre Potentiale und Funktionen sowie die Notwendigkeit zum Bodenschutz. S. 11-42. In: R.
Hendler, P. Marburger, M. Reinhardt und M. Schröder (Hrsg.) Bodenschutz und Umweltrecht
– 15. Trierer Koll. Zum Umwelt- und Technikrecht v. 19.-21.9.1999. ESV Erich Schmidt
Verlag, Berlin, (2000).
Lehmann, A.E.H., K. Holland and K. Stahr: Flows and Chemical Fractions in a Soil from
Sewage Sludge – Stofftransport und Stofffraktionen in einem Boden aus Klärschlamm. Z. f.
Kulturtechnik und Landentwicklung 41, 1-5. Blackwell Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin, (2000).
Stahr, K.: Plädoyer für eine Intern. Bodenkonvention – A Proposal for an Intern. Soil
Convention. In : R. Böcker und M. Kaupenjohann (Hrsg.): Bodenschutz – Anspruch und
Wirklichkeit. Hohenheimer Umwelttagung 32. Verlag Günter Heimbach, Stuttgart. S. 45-54,
(2000).
Herrmann, L. und K. Stahr (Hrsg.): Einfluß der Landbewirtschaftung auf Boden und
Landschaft – Beispiele aus dem Kraichgau . Exkursionsführer zur bodenkundlichagrarökologischen
Exkursion VDLUFA-Tagung 18.-22.09.2000 in Hohenheim. 57 S., (2000).
Stasch, D., O. Beck und K. Stahr: Entwicklung von Bewertungssystemen für Bodenressourcen
in Ballungsräumen. Mitt.Dtsch.Bodenkdl.Ges., 91, Heft 2, S. 1112-1115, (1999).
Graef, F. and K. Stahr: Fernerkundungsgestützte Erfassung von Boden- und
Landschaftseinheiten im SW-Niger (NiSOTER) – Delineation of soil and terrain units in SW-
Niger (NiSOTER) based on remote sensing. Mitt.Dtsch.Bodenkdl.Ges., 91, Heft 2, S. 997-
1000, (1999).
Glatzel, S., K. Stahr: Die Bedeutung langjähriger Düngeenthaltung für die Treibhausgasbilanz
von kolluvialen Grünlandstandorten. Mitt.Dtsch.Bodenkdl.Ges., 91, Heft 2, S. 779-782,
(1999).

Stahr, K.: Das Bundes-Bodenschutzgesetz und die Vorsorge für die Erhaltung der Böden und
ihrer Funktionen. Z. angew. Geol., 45, 202-209, (1999).
Stahr, K.: Nachhaltiger Umgang mit Böden - Zur Initiative für eine internationale
Bodenkonvention. In: W. Haber, M. Held, M. Schneider (Hrsg.) Nachhaltiger Umgang mit
Böden. Dokumentation einer intern. Tagung in Tutzing, Süddeutsche Zeitung, S.37-46, FIBO
Druck- und Verlags GmbH, München, (1999).
Stahr, K., O. Beck und D. Stasch: Boden- und Flächenressourcenmanagement in
Ballungsräumen – Soil and area ressource management in urban agglomerations. In: R.
Böcker (Hrsg.) Hohenheimer Umwelttagung 31, Umweltforschung im Dialog – aktuelle
Beiträge aus dem mittleren Neckarraum, S. 43-49. Verlag Günter Heimbach, (1999).
Stahr, K.: Puffern Böden Umweltbelastungen? Global Change - Konsequenzen für die
Umwelt (R. Dikau, G. Heinritz und R. Wiessner, Hrsg.) 51. Dtsch. Geographentag Bonn
1997, Band 3, S. 50-64. Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, (1998).
Stahr K.: Bodenwissenschaft und Bodenschutz - kein Widerspruch? Bodenschutz, 2, S. 44-
45. E. Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, (1998).
Stahr, K.: Aus dem Buch des Bodens: Bodengeschichte und Bodenentwicklung. In: K.
Kümmerer, M. Schneider, M. Held (Hrsg.). Politische Ökologie, Sonderheft 10, S. 47-50,
(1997).

Prof. Dr. Fritz F. Steininger
Born 1939 in Vienna, until 1995 Full Professor of Paleontology and for many years a Board
Member at the University of Vienna's Paleontology Institute. Focus of scientific work:
classification of time over the last 65 million years of the Earth's history (the Cenozoic era),
and the geodynamic development, the palelogeography and paleobiogeography of the circum
Mediterranean area in this period. To date, 260 publications in scientific journals, in the form
of books or contributions to books. Additionally, numerous articles in the press, on the radio
and television ("Reefs and Lagoons – When Austria was still a Coral Sea"). In September
1995, appointed Director of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum,
simultaneously held a full professorship at the Goethe University in historical geology and
paleontology. Aims and responsibilities in his new function: to promote the focal topic
"Biodiversity (of the multitude of organisms) in time and space", the continuation of
environmental projects, for example, in the field of biotope mapping in the city of Frankfurt or
natural forest reserves in Hessen. Design and construction also became focal topics when an
underground depositary was constructed for the main building. It was the scientific
departments and the museum that benefited from the resulting extra space. It has now also
been possible to integrate a new institute, the "Research Station Quaternary Paleontology" into
the Senckenberg Institute and to establish a new department, the "German Center for Marine
Biodiversity Research (DZMB)", based in Wilhelmshaven, Oldenburg and Hamburg. In
Eggenburg, his home in the eastern forested region of Austria, as Chairman of the Krahuletz
Society, Steininger heads and curates the Krahuletz Museum, which houses major
paleontological, prehistoric and ethnological collections.
Selected publications
STEININGER, F. & SENES, J., 1971: M1 Eggenburgien. Die Eggenburger Schichtengruppe
und ihr Stratotypus. - Chronostratigraphie und Neostratotypen. Miozän der Zentralen
Paratethys, II, 827 S., 123 Taf., Bratislava (SAV).
STEININGER, F. & THENIUS, E., 1973: 100 Jahre Paläontologisches Institut der Universität
Wien, 1873-1973. - 68 S., 12 Taf., Wien (Eigenverlag des Pal. Inst.).
STEININGER, F. & NEVESSKAJA, L. A. (eds.), 1975: Stratotypes of Mediterranean
Neogene Stages. - vol. 2, 364 S., 72 Abb., Bratislava (VEDA).
RÖGL, F. & STEININGER, F. F., 1983: Vom Zerfall der Tethys zu Mediterran und
Paratethys. - Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 85/A: 135-163, 14 Taf., Wien.
STEININGER, F. F. & RÖGL, F.; 1984: Palaeogeography and palinspastic reconstruction of
the Neogene of the Mediterranean and the Paratethys. - In: Dixon, J. E. & A. H. F. Robertson
(editors): 659-668. The Geological Evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean. - (Blackwell)
Oxford - London - Edinburgh.
RÖGL, F. & STEININGER, F. F., 1984: Neogene Paratethys - Mediterranean - and Indo-
Pacific Seaways. Implications for the Paleobiogeography of Marine and Terrestrial biotas. -
In: Brenchley, P. J. (editor): Fossils and Climatic. - Geol. J. Spec. Issue, 11: 171-200, (Wiley)
New York.

STEININGER, F. F., RABEDER, G. & RÖGL, F, 1985: Land Mammal Distribution in the
Mediterranean Neogene - a consequence of Geokinematic and Climatic Events. - 559-571. In:
Stanley, D. J. & F. C. Wezel (editors): Geological Evolution of the Mediterranean Basin,
(Springer) New York.
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Dr. Roland F. Steurer
Mr. Steurer, aged 47, Senior Planning Officer with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische
Zusammenarbeit (German Technical Cooperation – GTZ), is presently coordinating the
technical advisory unit supporting the planning and implementation of projects and
programmes within the framework of crisis, conflicts and emergencies.
Holder of a PhD in economics of the University of Freiburg, FRG, Mr. Steurer has dedicated
his professional career from the beginning to the north-south-dialogue. Various research
assignments, expert missions, project management tasks, government advisory assignments
and resident representative functions have brought him within the last 20 years with short- and
longterm academic, UN- and GTZ-contracts to numerous countries in Asia, Africa and Latin
America, many of them highly exposed to natural disasters.
In his present position with GTZ-Headquarters, Mr. Steurer puts a lot of enfasis on the
mainstreaming of preventive measures in general development cooperation projects and
programmes. These preventive aspects are geared on the one side towards violent conflicts
and crisis and on the other side towards natural disasters. Civil war, outbreak of local/ regional
violent conflicts as well as natural desasters destroy longterm investments of development
cooperation. Each and every project, therefore, should be planned and implemented with a
view to reduce the risk of crisis and reduce the damage of natural phenomena, thus,
contributing to a more sustainable development.
Publications
Aside a number of books and review articles on
Regional Rural Development
Landuse Planning
Agricultural Marketing
Rural Finance, Microfinance
Monitoring and Evaluation
some recently prepared strategy papers and presentations on
Crisis Prevention and Conflict Management in Technical Cooperation
Disaster Prevention and Mitigation in the Framework of Development Cooperation
Disaster Prevention/Mitigation and Rural Development
Community-based Disaster Risk Management
Mobilizing the Civil Society for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
have been published and are under preparation, respectively.

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Treumann
Prof. Dr., Centre for Interdisciplinary Plasma Science, Max-Planck-
Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching
Born: 1942 Wien
Centre for Interdisciplinary Plasma Science, Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische
Physik, Garching (bei Muenchen)
Professor für Geophysik (Space Physics), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Muenchen
Adjunct Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hannover, New
Hampshire, USA
Senior Scientific Visiting Scientist at International Space Science Institute, The University of
Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Main Research Fields:
Space Physics, Theoretical Physics (Statistical Physics)
Scientific Publications: ca. 150
Books: Die Elemente (Hanser, Muenchen, DTV), popular natural philosophy
Basic Space Plasma Physics (Imperial College Press, London)
Advanced Space Plasma Physics (dto)
Magnetospheric Plasma Sources and Losses (Co-editor), Kluwer(NL)
Auroral Processes (Co-editor), Elsevier (GB)
Was ist das - die Kunst? Ein Essay (submitted for publication)

Ing. Dr. phil. Verena Winiwarter
Born in 1961 in Vienna, Winiwarter is an engineer in the field of technical chemistry and an
historian. After many years' professional experience in environmental chemistry (atmospheric
analysis) she studied history and journalism in Vienna and obtained a doctorate in
environmental history. She is the author of numerous publications, researches and teaches the
subject at the University of Vienna. She currently heads a Hertha Firnberg project run by the
Austrian Sponsorship Fund for Scientific Research: "Environment and History. Towards an
Understanding of Man's Relation to Nature". She is Vice President of the European Society of
Environmental History.
publications
Verena Winiwarter, Böden in Agrargesellschaften: Wahrnehmung, Behandlung und Theorie
von Cato bis Palladius. In: Rolf Peter Sieferle/Helga Breuninger (Hg.), Natur-Bilder.
Wahrnehmungen von Natur und Umwelt in der Geschichte. Frankfurt/M., Campus 1999, 181-
221.
Verena Winiwarter, Soils in Ancient Roman Agriculture: Analytical Approaches to Invisible
Properties. In: Novotny, H. & M. Weiss (Hrsg.), Shifting Boundaries of the Real: Making the
Invisible Visible. vdf Hochschulverlag, Zürich 2000, 137-156.
Verena Winiwarter, Die Grenzen der Kolonisierung von Natur. Anmeldung von Zweifeln an
den Möglichkeiten einer geokybernetischen Steuerung. In: Kreibich, Rolf und Udo E. Simonis
(Hgg.), Global Change - Globaler Wandel. Ursachenkomplexe und Lösungsansätze. Causal
Structures and Indicative Solutions, Berlin 2000, Berlin Verlag, 159-169.
Ernst Bruckmüller, Verena Winiwarter (Hg.), Umweltgeschichte. Zum historischen Verhältnis
von Gesellschaft und Natur. (= Schriftenreihe des Institutes für Österreichkunde Bd. 63),
Wien, öbv&haupt 2000.
Verena Winiwarter, Where did all the waters go? The introduction of sewage systems in urban
settlements. In: Christoph Bernhardt (Ed.), Environmental Problems in European Cities in the
19th and 20th Century. Waxmann, Münster/New York/München/Berlin 2001 (= Cottbuser
Studien zur Geschichte von Technik, Arbeit und Umwelt, ed. Günther Bayerl, Vol. 14), 105-
119.

Prof. Dr. Jochen Zschau