Research Arts Humanities 2017 2018

Research
2017/2018
Research Projects of the University of Cologne‘s
Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Editors
The Dean, Prof. Dr. Monika Schausten
The Dean of Research, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Andreas Speer
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
University of Cologne
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Faculty of Arts and Humanities,
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Preface
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For the third time, the UoC Faculty of Arts and Humanities
is presenting its Research Brochure. The brochure
impressively demonstrates the manifold ways in which
academic research at our faculty – in the form of both
large-scale collaborative projects as well as individual
projects – is being undertaken. Whether in the form of
digital work with texts and objects, archaeology in Europe
and Africa, linguistic and cultural investigations into the
middle ages and the present or history and philosophy
– academics of the Faculty of Arts and the Humanities
undertake research with a great deal of commitment and
ingenuity.
For those who would like to get an impression of the great
diversity and methodological spectrum of the research
being undertaken at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities,
we cordially invite you to peruse our brochure.
We are delighted to be able to provide you with an insight
into the multiplicity of research at our faculty in the form of
a selection of current projects in our 2017/2018 brochure,
which we will continue to do in the future.
Our deep gratitude goes to the academics of the projects
presented who actively supported the editorial team.
We hope you enjoy exploring the world of humanities!
The Dean,
Prof. Dr. Monika Schausten
The Dean of Research,
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Andreas Speer

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Contents
Epistemology meets Kant
Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT)
Prof. Dr. Sven Bernecker | Philosophy
Open World Structures. Architecture, City- and Landscape in Computer Games
Dr. Marc Bonner | Institute of Media Culture and Theatre
Zawyet Sultan: Archaeology and Heritage in Middle Egypt - Local Perspectives on Ancient Egypt
Prof. Dr. Richard Bußmann | Egyptology
The UNESCO World Heritage Nomination Lower Germanic Limes – Roman Military Facilities in the
Cologne Metropolitan Area
Prof. Dr. Eckhard Deschler-Erb | Archaeology of the Roman Provinces
Research and Knowledge Transfer: Wallraf – Wallraf digital – Wallrafs Köln
Prof. Dr. Gudrun Gersmann | Chair of Early Modern History
Public History Network: Theory and Methodology of a New Sub-Discipline of History
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christine Gundermann | History
The Cologne Papyrus Portal
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hammerstaedt | Research Unit for Papyrology, Epigraphy and Numismatics in
Cooperation with Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH)
ArchAIDE – Archaeological Automatic Interpretation and Documentation of cEramics
Prof. Dr. Michael Heinzelmann | Institute for Archaeology
In the Flashlights. The Principle of ‘Prominence’ organizes our Language and plays a Key Role
in processing the Flood of Information in our Everyday Lives
Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger (Spokesperson CRC 1252) | Institute for German Language and Literature I
Martin Heidegger and Postmodernity: A Story of Delusion?
Dr. Sidonie Kellerer | Philosophy & a.r.t.e.s Research Lab
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VedaWeb – A Web-based Platform for the Research of old-Sanskrit Texts
PD Dr. Daniel Kölligan, Dr. Uta Reinöhl, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rolshoven | Department of Linguistics and
Apl. Prof. Dr. Patrick Sahle | CCeeH
China’s Third Modernity. In-Between-Moments and Apparatus-based Media
Prof. Dr. Stefan Kramer | Chinese Studies
(Re-)Collecting Theatre History. Collaboration Networks of Theatre Practitioners in the Digital Space
Prof. Dr. Peter W. Marx | Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung, Institute of Media Culture and Theatre
Miscellaneous Poetics. On the Coevolution of Periodical Press and the Modern Novel
Dr. Daniela Gretz and Prof. Dr. Nicolas Pethes | Institute for German Language and Literature I
co:op – community as opportunity. The Creative Archives´ and Users´ Network
Prof. Dr. Patrick Sahle | Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH)
Experimental Pragmatics (XPrag.de). DFG Priority Program
Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher | Institute for German Language and Literature I
The Jerusalem Euchologion
Professor Dr. Claudia Sode | Byzantine Studies and Professor Dr. Jürgen Hammerstaedt | Classical Philology
Sounding Memories: Nazi Persecution and Anti-Nazi Resistance in the Music of Contemporary Germany
Prof. Dr. Federico Spinetti and Dr. Monika E. Schoop | Institute for Musicology
The German Audit Office in the Course of Changing Political Regimes of the 20th Century
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Ullmann | Modern History
The “Mountain Exile Hypotheses“. The Colonization of an Afro-Alpine Environment
by Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers
Dr. Ralf Vogelsang | Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Palaeolithic Research Unit
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Epistemology
meets Kant
Cologne Center for Contemporary
Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition
(CONCEPT)
Project leader: Professor Dr. Sven Bernecker | Philosophy
Research center funded by an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship Award
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he research center is built on the premise
that contemporary epistemology and epistemology
in the classical German tradition
both benefit from the cross-fertilization of
ideas and methods. Contemporary epistemology supplies
the logical and conceptual resources that allow us to gain
a deeper understanding of issues in Kantian epistemology.
Kantian epistemology, in turn, provides promising sugges-

tions for resolving persistent issues in contemporary epistemology.
Thus, the goal is to use contemporary concepts
and tools to refine historical research in epistemology and
to historically contextualize the contemporary discussion
in epistemology.
Arguably the biggest obstacle to applying Kant’s epistemological
insights to the contemporary debate is his
commitment to transcendental idealism, that is, the thesis
that we do not and cannot have knowledge of things as
they are in themselves but only of appearances of things.
The research center will investigate the rationale for transcendental
idealism and explore the reasons that led to
the widespread abandonment of transcendental idealism
in favor of empiricism, naturalism and externalism. This is
the task of the first of altogether three research modules.
The second module is concerned with reconstructing
Kant’s account of belief, justification, and knowledge and
applying the Kantian insights to the contemporary debate.
The third module is concerned with Kantian and contemporary
perspectives on the sources of justification and
knowledge. The focus will be on three sources: memory,
rational intuition, and introspection.
The center was founded in Juli 2016 by Professor Sven
Bernecker. The funding is based on his Alexander von
Humboldt Professorship award and has been granted until
June 2021. The center will house five doctoral students,
three postdocs, two junior professors as well as numerous
visiting scholars. All colloquia, workshops and conferences
organized by CONCEPT are free and open to the public.
Text: Sven Bernecker, Sibel Schmidt
Researchers: Lisa Benossi, Dr. Amy Flowerree, Jakob Ohlhorst,
Dr. Luis Munaretti da Rosa
Website: http://concept-phil.de
Contact: Prof. Dr. Sven Bernecker, s.bernecker@uni-koeln.de
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Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Research 2017/2018 | Philosophy

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Open World Structures
Architecture, City- and Landscape in Computer Games
Project leader: Dr. Marc Bonner | Institute of Media Culture and Theatre
Postdoc project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
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hether in the form of archipelagos
bathed by the ocean, valleys bound
by steep slopes or a sea of houses
as far the eye can see, open world
computer games simulate a lucid
vastness and evoke the explorer instinct in users through
complex networks of diverse topological strategies that
involve them. This project takes as its starting point the
finding that unmanageable vastness and and seemingly
untouched wildernesses become self-perpetuating. This
marks a change of focus in the worldbuilding of the mass
media of computer games distal to traditional narrative
concepts. Just as in-game world experience is conditioned
by behaviour patterns of reality, it also regulates – like film
and photography in the past – the comprehension and
appropriation of actuality.
This project is a taking transdisciplinary approach to the
architectonics of digital game worlds. Thereby, both the

technical constitution of the
digital space-image and its
communication of the game
intrinsic space as well as the
players’ perception are of
special interest. In regard to
cultural history, the critical
research will contextualize
established the aesthetics
and strategies of artificial
adventure spaces like
landscape gardens, theme
parks, natural preserves as
well as dioramas and photographies.
This will be merged
with theories of urbanistic and anthropogeography. As
databases, computer games are based on modularity and
variability and use media-specific techniques of illusion
such as interior mapping, cutmill-rom spline, sky box and
frustrum culling.
The investigation will focus on the layout of digital game
worlds and the complex patterns thereof which generate
and govern a media specific distillate of historically
habituated man-made action patterns that derive from
the hunter-gatherer era. Today, the latter continue to
have an effect as aesthetical experiences. Both the usage
of distinct biomes and architectural styles as well as
adaptions of physical real places of popular culture’s
collective memory are thereby also of interest. The
media-centred analysis model comprises the aspects of
both aesthetics of production and aesthetics of reception
and should therefore provide the heuristics for future
research.
Text: Marc Bonner
Website: http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/362767459
Contact: Dr. Marc Bonner, mbonner@uni-koeln.de
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Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Research 2017/2018 | Institute of Media Culture and Theatre

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Zawyet Sultan
Archaeology and Heritage
in Middle Egypt
Local Perspectives on Ancient Egypt
Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Richard Bußmann | Egyptology
Funded by the Egypt Exploration Society
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awyet Sultan is a village near the modern
provincial capital of el-Minya, located ca.
300 km upstream of Cairo along the river
Nile. The peaceful village seems to have
been left untouched by the events of the Arabic Spring
in 2011 and the seemingly timeless setting of village life
has inspired many Egyptologists to compare present-day
Egypt with ancient Egypt. However, Egyptian society and
culture have changed fundamentally over the millennia.
The aim of this project is to understand how the concept

of what is commonly referred to as “ancient Egyptian
civilization” has transformed on a local level and how
contemporary life today relates to the past.
The project, co-directed by Richard Bussmann (University
of Cologne) and Gianluca Miniaci (University of Pisa), is
focussing on the archaeological remains of an ancient
Egyptian town located South of
Zawyet Sultan. The town probably
functioned as a regional centre until
the end of the Late Antique period
when el-Minya took over this role.
The earliest remains at the site date
to late prehistoric times. In short, four
thousand years of local history are
buried at this site.
The most prominent feature at the
site is a partially preserved pyramid. It
was probably built to represent royal
authority at a time when the early
Egyptian state, ca. 2700 BCE, attempted to colonize
the hinterland of Egypt. Remains of an earlier cemetery
close to the pyramid demonstrate that the monument
was incorporated into an existing social landscape. The
inscriptions in the rock tombs of the local governors shed
further light on the history of the site between the local
milieu and central power. During the Roman period,
a town was built on top of the Pharaonic settlement.
However, the remains of this and later periods at the site
have hardly ever been investigated.
The project is the beginning of a long-term exploration of
the site. The first findings give reason to hope that insight
into the history of a provincial capital in a complexity that
few other Egyptian sites can offer will be gained.
Website: www.zawyet-el-sultan.com
Contact: Prof. Dr. Richard Bußmann,
r.bussmann@uni-koeln.de
Text: Richard Bußmann
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Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Research 2017/2018 | Egyptology

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The UNESCO World Heritage
Nomination Lower Germanic
Limes
Roman Military Facilities in the Cologne Metropolitan Area
Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Eckhard Deschler-Erb – Archaeology of the Roman Provinces
Sub-project of the UNESCO World Heritage Nomination of the LOWER GERMANIC LIMES funded
by the Ministry of Health, Equalities, Care and Ageing of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
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he external frontiers of the Roman empire
form the largest linear archaeological monument
in Europe. Several sections (Hadrian’s
Wall and the Antonine Wall in Great Britain
and the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes in Germany)
are already part of the transnational UNESCO World
Heritage site “Frontiers of the Roman Empire”. Preparations
are currently underway for an application for
the Lower Germanic Limes (LGL) to also have the same
status. Along a 385 km section of the frontier, which is
partly located in the Netherlands and partly in Germany,
garrisons of the Lower Germanic army, which comprised

twenty to forty thousand soldiers, lined the banks
of the River Rhine between the coastline of the
North Sea and the Vinxtbach in present-day Rhineland-Palatinate.
At least three archaeological monuments associated
with the LGL are located within the city limits
of Cologne:
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1) The “Alteburg” fort at Cologne-Marienburg,
headquarters of the Roman Rhine fleet
2) The Late Antique Divitia fortress at Cologne-
Deutz
3) The Praetorium, which acted as a seat for the supreme
commander of the Lower Germanic forces
The submission of the nomination dossier for the LGL
is planned for 2020. The preparatory work will initially
entail compiling a detailed report on the current state of
the military facilities and on what is known about them.
The second step will be to devise and develop a
protection and maintenance plan in collaboration
with urban and regional development as well as the
development of improved access to the individual monuments
of the LGL and its associated museums under the
umbrella of a joint corporate design. In addition, we aim
to formulate and discuss general research questions that
will include both the limes forefront and hinterland.
The Department of Archaeology of the Roman Provinces of
the Institute of Archaeology will be directly involved in this
preliminary work. Funding was provided by the Ministry of
Health, Equalities, Care and Ageing of the state of North
Rhine-Westphalia for a researcher and assistant to begin
employment at the Institute of Archaeology in April 2017.
He has been tasked with reviewing all the relevant archive
documentation and publications issued to date in order
to compile an expert report on the military facilities of
the LGL in the city of Cologne and to put together all the
necessary information so as to be able to compose the
part of the UNESCO nomination dossier that specifically
relates to Cologne.
Text: Eckhard Deschler-Erb
Researchers: Sandra Rung, Martin Wieland
Cooperation partners: Romano-Germanic Museum
Cologne (Marcus Trier); MiQua. LVR Jewish Museum in
the Archaeological Quarter of Cologne (Thomas Otten);
LVR Department of Archaeology in Rhineland (Jürgen Kunow,
Steve Bödecker)
Contact: Prof. Dr. Eckhard Deschler-Erb,
edeschle@uni-koeln.de
Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Research 2017/2018 | Archaeology of the Roman Provinces

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Research and Knowledge Transfer:
Wallraf – Wallraf digital – Wallrafs Köln
Principal Investigator: Prof Dr Gudrun Gersmann | Chair of Early Modern History
Funding provided by the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR)
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ne of the focuses of the Cologne chair of
Early Modern History is the “later early
modern period” around 1800. An academic
interest in a prominent Cologne persona of
this transition period who has remained present in Cologne
to this day is therefore of no surprise. However, what
do we know in fact about the famous collector, former
rector of the local university and civic reformer Ferdinand
Franz Wallraf (1748 – 1824) who bequeathed his various
collections to the city of Cologne in 1818?
This was the intitial question and key aspect of an
interdisciplinary course funded by the Faculty of Arts
and Humanities (supervision: Prof Dr Gudrun Gersmann,
History / Prof Dr Stefan Grohé, History of Art, WS 2014/15).
The aim of the course was to set up a first digital inventory
about Wallraf together with the students. Five promising
master theses and two doctoral projects have resulted
from the project so far.
In cooperation with diverse civic institutions such as the
Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archive
of the City of Cologne), Rheinisches Bildarchiv (Rhenish
Photographic Archive), Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Kölner
Stadtmuseum (the City of Cologne Museum), the MAKK
(Museum of Applied Arts), Romano-Germanic Museum
Cologne, and the University and City Library of Cologne
and thanks to funding from the LVR we have been able
to develop the initial idea into the concept of “Wallraf
digital”.

“Wallraf digital” amalgamates possibilities for broader
digital knowledge transfer in an exemplary manner and
currently comprises the following:
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• the academic online publication Wallraf
(http://wallraf.mapublishing-lab.uni-koeln.de/)
• a blog (http://www.blog-zeitenblicke.uni-koeln.de/
wallraf-digital/),
• an app (http://www.blog-zeitenblicke.uni-koeln.de/
wallraf-digital/app-wallrafs-koeln/) and
videos (http://wallraf.mapublishing-lab.uni-koeln.de/
videos/)
Furthermore, two exhibition projects resulted from these
activities, which can be seen from the end of 2017 until
summer 2018 at the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln
(Historical Archive of the City of Cologne) and at the
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. In addition, two junior
research associates at the Chair of Early Modern History
(E. Schläwe / S. Schlinkheider) will be publishing further
findings about Wallraf’s testament on the platform http://
mapublishing-lab.uni-koeln.de, funded by the UoC in the
framework of its institutional strategy.
Wallraf in the future: Due to the high research potential
and the richness of sources for this subject-matter, we are
consistently going to explore new perspectives in this field
in the next phase. Under the title “Wallrafs Köln”, junior
researcher teams are going to further develop findings
thus far yielded (supervision: Prof Dr G. Gersmann) and
raise new research questions.
Text: Christine Schmitt
Websites: http://mapublishing-lab.uni-koeln.de,
http://www.blog-zeitenblicke.uni-koeln.de/wallraf-digital/
app-wallrafs-koeln,
http://wallraf.mapublishing-lab.uni-koeln.de/
Contact: Chair of Early Modern History,
fruehe-neuzeit@uni-koeln.de
Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Research 2017/2018 | Chair of Early Modern History

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Public History Network
Theory and Methodology of a
New Sub-Discipline of History
Participation: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christine Gundermann | History
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
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n September 2017 the network, which is
funded by the DFG, was initiated. For the first
time, it enables systematic communication
about the theoretical and methodological
foundation of public history, which until now was mostly
understood as “applied history” and therefore regarded
and discussed in a praxeologically manner.
At a total of six workshops, we will focus on key concepts,
theories and methods and particularly on empirical
research of a public history understood as a sub-discipline
of history that, at the same time, in the sense of its object
and institutionalization as a degree programme, has to be
understood and discussed trans-disciplinarily and application-oriented.
The network therefore connects historians
as well as scholars of history didactics with academics
from the disciplines of prehistory, art history, ethnology

and archaeology and media studies. Our team consists of
12 junior researchers from eight different research hubs,
among them the Max Planck Institute for Human Development
in Berlin, the Universities of Hamburg, Flensburg
and Freiburg, Utrecht University, the Centre for Contemporary
History in Potsdam and the Heidelberg School of
Education.
We are opening up the until now isolated discourses on
memory culture (contemporary history) and historical
culture (didactics of history) as without doubt central
foundations of an academic public history and broadening
them while sharpening the profile of public history as a
sub discipline of history through this fusion.
We are thereby focusing on three thematic
areas that will allow us to harmonize traditional
and “non-traditional” key concepts
of public history: experiencing history,
making history and transferring history.
These areas, which are not always selective,
reflect the most important questions
of public history addressing the historicization
of public history, its theoretical and
methodological foundations as well as its
descriptive models.
At the same time, these three dimensions
will enable us to analytically access public
history in a manner that is intermedia
and determines and enables an epoch-inclusive access
to phenomena of cultural history. In this manner, media
specific discourse on history in exhibitions, television,
the internet and other media can and will be be interconnected.
Our findings will also benefit research and
teaching as they will establish important impetus for the
curricula of this new sub-discipline.
Text: Christine Gundermann
Website: http://histinst.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/1072.html
Contact: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christine Gundermann,
christine.gundermann@uni-koeln.de
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The Cologne
Papyrus Portal
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hammerstaedt | Research Unit for Papyrology, Epigraphy
and Numismatics - Cologne Center for eHumanities
Funded by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
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he Cologne Papyrus Collection, one of the
most important of this kind worldwide,
includes approximately 10,000 items, mainly
fragments of papyri and parchments (ca.
8,000 items), but also around 500 ostraca (potsherds
covered with short texts written in ink) and a small group
of lead and wooden tablets. The vast majority of them
are Greek texts, but the collection also houses hundreds
of Egyptian writings in Demotic and Coptic, and a few
Latin, Arabic and Aramaic texts. Most of them come from
Egypt where they were written during a time span of more
than a thousand years, from the time of Alexander the
Great through to the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine
periods until the Arab conquest of Egypt in the seventh
century CE. Ancient literature, often parts of the oeuvre of
well-known authors such as Homer, Archilochus, Sappho,
Alcaeus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Demosthenes, Plato
and Cicero as well as biblical or other religious texts, are
comprised in the corpus. However, documentary texts,
e.g. writings from everyday life such as legal documents,
fragments of official or private correspondence,
prescriptions, receipts, school work, etc. make up the
majority of the collection.
The objective of this project, funded by the North
Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities
and the Arts and implemented in cooperation with the
Cologne Center for eHumanities, is to facilitate and
promote the study of these original antique texts by
making the contents of the Cologne Papyrus Collection
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High-resolution images of approximately 3,500 items,
as well as metadata of about 4,300 texts (information
on origin, date and contents) are now accessible online.
The aim is for the Cologne Collection to be available not
only to papyrologists, but to anyone who is interested in
studying original texts that shed light on many facettes of
ancient culture, including literacy and linguistics, finance,
administrative and legal history, and social life.
Text: Charikleia Armoni
Researchers: Institut für Altertumskunde: apl. Prof. Dr.
Charikleia Armoni; Dr. Natalia Vega Navarette; Riccardo
Vecchiato, M.A. | Cologne Center for eHumanities: Marcel
Schaeben; Ulrike Henny-Krahmer; apl. Prof. Dr. Patrick Sahle;
Peter Dängeli; Ben Bigalke
Website: https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/
Contact: apl. Prof. Dr. Charikleia Armoni,
charikleia.armoni@uni-koeln.de
Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Research 2017/2018 | Research Unit Papyrology, Epigraphy & Numismatics – CCeH

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ArchAIDE
Archaeological Automatic Interpretation
and Documentation of cEramics
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Maria Letizia Gualandi und Dr. Gabriele Gattiglia | University of Pisa
Principal Investigator at the University of Cologne: Prof. Dr. Michael Heinzelmann |
Institute of Archaeology
Funding: EU-Programme Horizon 2020
Project partners: University of Pisa, University of Cologne, University of Barcelona,
York University, Tel Aviv University, Baraka Arquelogos (Ciudad Real), Elements (Mallorca),
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Rome), Inera Srl (Pisa)
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n archaeology, ceramica are a central material
category for questions of dating. However, its
determination is only usually possible for a few
specialists and takes a great deal of time. The
long-term goal of this project is to optimize the process
of analyzing ceramics by means of (semi-) automated
recognition processes and the development of a reference
database. To this end, the EU-project ArchAIDE is creating
a platform that allows academics to determine and classify
ceramics at excavations as well as in museums in a more
efficient and speedy manner. A reference database will
therefore be set up, which will provide both metadata and
photographs as well as digitized publications. In addition,
3D models from profile drawings of vessels will be

automatically generated, which can then be used as
references for the classification of new findings. By means
of a web application and native app, this information
will be made available for researchers. Furthermore, a
semi-automated ceramic determination
program will be integrated into
the application, which can be used
in different archaeological work and
research conditions. Photos of ceramic
fragments taken with a mobile device
at the excavation site and an automated
request for reference material in the
ArchAIDE reference database will help
the user to classify material.
The function of the University of Cologne team within
ArchAIDE mainly consists of providing ceramics metadata,
e.g. from CeramALEX and CeramEGYPT - two ceramic
projects being undertaken at the Archaeological Institute.
A further objective is to add data to the ArchAIDE
database provided by different project partners (photos,
drawings, text, etc.). The focus of the current project
phase lies on three ceramic classes: Roman amphorae,
terra sigillata and majolica. For this purpose, an import
tool that enables simple data transfer
from external data sources to the
reference database will be programmed.
With its research on automated image
recognition, deep learning and ceramics
classification, the project aims to provide
groundwork and a “proof of concept”
in order to place research focused on
individual ceramic classes onto a broader
foundation in the future. In addition to workshops,
training sessions for students and commercial users will be
held during the project period.
Text: Michael Remmy, M.A.
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This project has received funding from the European Union‘s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under
grant agreement N.693548
Researchers: Prof. Michael Heinzelmann, Michael Remmy
M.A., Felix Kußmaul B.Sc
Website: www.archaide.eu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archaideproject/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/archaideproject/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archaide_project/
Contact: Michael Remmy, mremmy@uni-koeln.de
Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Research 2017/2018 | Institute of Archaeology

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In the Flashlights
The Principle of ‘Prominence’ organizes our Language
and plays a Key Role in processing the Flood
of Information in Our Everyday Lives
Spokesperson of the CRC: Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger I Institute for German
Language and Literature I
Collaborative Research Centre 1252 “Prominence in Language” is being funded
by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for their first four-year funding period
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he principle of Prominence is probably a
relevant principle in all languages that helps
us to organize the things we want to say or
write in an efficient and communicatively
successful manner. It filters important from less important
information and supports the processing of the given
input.
There appears to be no connection between linguistic
Prominence and the prominent celebrities we know
from the yellow press – at first glance. But the similarity
between the terms is not a coincidence. The term ‘prominence’
derives from the Latin prominere, which means
to stand out, and refers to the property of being in the
foreground and receiving more attention than others.
Celebrities thus share this feature with the information we
mark as prominent when we use language.
In contrast to celebrities, prominent expressions do not
stand in focus 24/7 but appear and disappear from the red
carpet and the flashlights. When and why that happens,
or rather, how the linguistic principle of Prominence
works in detail, is the key question of the Collaborative
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than seventy University of Cologne linguists are working
together on this research alliance – ranging from disciplines
such as African to Slavic Studies.
We use the Prominence principle intuitively in our everyday
interactions. It has also been observed that utterances and
discourse in general is organized around prominent units
which appear to serve as anchoring points for information
flow. We speak of Prominence when we emphasize a
word in an utterance by means of loudness or length, for
example. At the same time, prominent words determine
the construction of expressions and discourses.
The dynamic production of language expressions provides
us with exciting insight into thought processes. How
do we convey what is important in our expressions to
conversation partners? And what does the interplay
between language and thought look like: To what extent
do language resources structure our thoughts and other
cognitive processes such a image perception or spatial
orientation?
To answer these questions, the “Prominence in Language”
project is bringing together almost all sub-disciplines
of linguistics such as typology, phonetics and phonology,
morphosyntax, semantics, discourse-pragmatics,
neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics. With the help of
theoretical and experimental methods such as functional
magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) and corpus linguistic
techniques, the team is highly equipped to put a spotlight
on Prominence for the first time. They shed light on
a principle we have not quite been able to understand
until now.
Text: Frieda Berg
Website: http://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/
Contact: Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger, Spokesperson CRC
1252, klaus.vonheusinger@uni-koeln.de
Frieda Berg, Communications manager CRC 1252,
f.berg@uni-koeln.de
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Martin Heidegger
and Postmodernity:
A Story of Delusion?
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sidonie Kellerer | Philosophy & a.r.t.e.s Research Lab
Freigeist-Fellowship funded by the Volkswagen Fundation
E
ven today, more than 70 years after the end
of the Second World War, the philosopher
Martin Heidegger’s relationship with National
Socialism continues to raise multiple questions:
Did he glamourize its ideology? Or was he critical of
it after all? Although Heidegger remained a member of the
Nazi party up until 1945, he tried afterwards to convince
the public that he had started to be critical of NS-Weltanschauung
in as early as 1934. However, legitimate doubts
have arisen about his account in recent years. In particular
Sidonie Kellerer established in 2011 that many passages
of Heidegger´s 1938 lecture “Zeit des Weltbildes” have
retrospectively been modified to the extent that the
original glorification of national socialism can now be
read as critique of the NS regime. The Black Notebooks,
notations by Heidegger from 1931 to1941, published

in 2014, further confirm how deeply rooted racism and
National Socialism were and remain in his philosophy.
In her Freigeist Project Kellerer is now investigating for
the first time – by means of a systematic comparison of
the manuscripts from the period of the Third Reich with
texts that were published later to what extent these were
altered retroactively. Along the same line, she and her
PhD student will in terms of the philosophy of Jacques
Derrida examine the remarkable success Heidegger’s
presumed critique of totalitarianism enjoyed in France after
1945. The combination of this philological analysis with
philosophical interpretation and historical contextualization
will base the continuing controversy surrounding
Heidegger on documented facts. It will thereby both
clarify the position of Heidegger’s thinking in the years of
national socialism and bring out the assumptions upon
which the thinking of the Derrida school is willingly or
unwillingly based.
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This project, funded with €681,900, is running over a
five-year period.
The VW foundation awards 10 highly competitive
Freigeist-fellowships in the Sciences and Humanities annually:
https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/nc/freigeist-fellowships.html
Text: Sidonie Kellerer
Researchers: Corinne Kaszner (PhD-Candidate); Erik
Miller (Research assistant:)
Contact: Sidonie Kellerer, sidonie.kellerer@uni-koeln.de
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VedaWeb
A Web-based Platform for the
Research of old-Sanskrit Texts
Principal Investigators: PD Dr. Daniel Kölligan | Historical-Comparative Linguistics | Department
of Linguistics; Dr. Uta Reinöhl | General Linguistics, Department of Linguistics; Prof. Dr. Jürgen
Rolshoven | Linguistic Information Processing, Department of Linguistics; Apl. Prof. Dr. Patrick
Sahle | Cologne Center für eHumanities (CCeH)
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), LIS-Funding “eResearch-Technologies”
T
he cooperation project “VedaWeb” (Department
of Linguistics, Cologne Center for
eHumanities) is a web-based platform for
the linguistic research of old Sanskrit texts
that builds on the Rigveda – one of the oldest and most
important texts of the Indo-European language family.
The Rigveda will be presented with full morphological
and metrical annotation and translations. The texts will be
searchable based on lexical and corpus linguistic criteria.
The Rigveda, which was composed in Vedic i.e. the oldest
form of Sanskrit, is the pilot text. It was written in late
second millennium BCE. As it more extensive than Homer’s
Iliad and Odyssey combined, it constitutes a rich base of
information.
The project builds on a complete morphological (i.e.

word structural) annotation of
the Rigveda that was undertaken
at the University of Zurich.
Based on this annotation, various
research and analytical tools will be
developed and integrated into
the VedaWeb platform such
as: a combined search function
according to linguistic parameters
(lemma, word forms, morphological
and metrical information), the
connecting of the Rigveda to the
standard dictionary of Hermann
Grassmann (1873), access to
various translations (Grassmann,
Geldner and Griffith) and
commentaries (Oldenberg) as well
as the possibility to export retrieved texts in TEI format
according to user defined criteria. Of central importance
is the linking of the text to the portal website for
Sanskrit dictionaries (Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries Cologne,
http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de), which is hosted
by the CCeH. The word forms will be linked through each
lemma with the Grassmann dictionary so that users will be
directed from the word to the dictionary and, conversely,
from the dictionary to the relevant passages.
Further texts such as the Atharvaveda, Yajurveda and
other Vedic prose texts are also to be integrated into
the VedaWeb platform. One of main objectives is that
VedaWeb will become a core resource for the inter-
national community of Sanskrit scholars. The project will
thereby further contribute to Cologne’s already leading
position in the research of South Asian languages.
Text: Claes Neuefeind
Researchers: Börge Kiss, Francisco Mondaca,
Natalie Korobzow, Jakob Halfmann
Website: http://vedaweb.uni-koeln.de
Contact: Dr. Uta Reinöhl, uta.reinoehl@uni-koeln.de |
PD Dr. Daniel Kölligan, d.koelligan@uni-koeln.de |
Claes Neuefeind, c.neuefeind@uni-koeln.de
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China’s Third Modernity
In-Between-Moments and Apparatus-based Media
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Stefan Kramer | Chinese Studies
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
T
his project analyzes conceptions of time in
philosophical as well as artistic and aesthetic
practices in early 20th century China. The
cultural and historical specificity of the
perception of time that prompts a comparative perspective
on China becomes apparent when considering that
prior to the advent of global modernity, the concept of a
divisible “time” that was so formative for Europe did not
gain relevance in the history of ideas and institutions in
a China regarding herself not as linearly developing, but
as an expanding eternity. However, industrial modernity
and its apparatus-based media that were to play a significant
role in the (global) restructuring and communication
of time as a flow punctuated by events forced China
to engage with technologies, concepts, and discourses
of time as understood and colonially realized by an
“occidental” world order. The research project’s investigation
into philosophy, media, and art in this period of
political and cultural upheaval for China after the fall of
the last imperial dynasty follows the thesis of a multitude
of mutual inscription and updating processes generating
alterities of aesthetic modernity that bring forth dynamic
networks of meaning.
The analysis of philosophic practices focusses on the
seminal texts of significant Republican-era philosophers
such as Zhang Dongsun, Liang Qichao, He Lin, Feng

Youlan, Hu Shi, Liang Shuming, Xiong Shili, and Ai Siqi.
These will be explored regarding conceptualizations of
time as chronos or (in the sense of the Chinese neologism
for time introduced around 1900) between-moment, and
it will be investigated to what extent they are involved in
the construction of alterities of modernity. The conceptions
of time identified in these texts will be put in relation
to the parallel analysis of Chinese art and media practices
of the same era. As programmatic media of “Western”
modernity that were also highly successful in China, the
apparatus-based visual media of photography and cinema
stand at the center of this examination. The identified
aesthetics of time will be viewed in relation to the local
conditions of their
Chinese appropriation
and explored with
regard to their interplay
with patterns of
pre-technical Chinese
art and media practices.
It is thus the aim
of the project to reassess
imported modern
regimes of time with
regard to their theoretical/philosophical
reception and their
realization in Chinese
artistic practices, as
well as to describe a
diverse and polychronic modernity within and beyond
national-cultural demarcations.
Text: Stefan Kramer, Tim Trausch, Martin Müller
Researchers: Dr. Martin Müller, Dr. Tim Trausch
Website: http://www.aesthetische-eigenzeiten.de/
Contact: Prof. Dr. Stefan Kramer, stefan.kramer@uni-koeln.de
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(Re-)Collecting
Theatre History
Collaboration Networks of Theatre
Practitioners in Digital Space
Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Peter W. Marx | Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung,
Institute of Media Culture and Theatre
Collaborative Research Project between the Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung (TWS), the
University of Cologne, and the Institute of Theatre Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, in
co-operation with the Cologne Center for e-Humanities (CCeH) and the Theatre Museums of
Düsseldorf and Munich, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
A
theatre performance is usually the result
of an intensive and months-long collaboration
of a group of people coming from
highly diverse professions. Intendant,
dramaturg, director, actors, stage and costume designers,
and technicians constitute an intricate network that exists
only for a limited period of time and, through organized
teamwork, realizes the idea of a theatre production on
stage.
In its new research project (Re-)Collecting Theatre
History, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and
Research, the Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung (TWS)

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is tracing these ephemeral networks of the 20th Century.
The project aims to develop new perspectives and to
re-systemize existing archives dealing with individuals
as found in the theatre collections of the University of
Cologne, the Freie Universität Berlin as well as the Theatre
museums of Düsseldorf and Munich. The starting point of
the inquiry is the seemingly ‘random’ biographical order
of archival material (oftentimes in the form of estates)
that questions the established theoretical categories
of theatre historiography and consequently allows for
new perspectives concerning the cultural history of
theatre. Due to the eventful political history of Germany
between 1900 and 1960, the project will – beginning
with carefully chosen archival collections – examine
continuities and discontinuities concerning work
processes, artistic perspectives, and networks of theatre
practitioners.
With the help of a digital research portal, developed by the
Cologne Center for e-Humanities (CCeH) in collaboration
with the TWS, selected personal estates in the collections
of Cologne and Berlin – complemented by inventories of
the theatre museums in Düsseldorf and Munich – will be
(re)united in a virtual space. This digital platform – available
and expandable for future projects – opens up interconnections
among the most important university theatre
collections and public theatre museums in Germany. It
also creates a research network consisting of university
institutes of Theatre Studies, university collections and
public museums.
It is our goal to investigate the tension between
biography and history. Hence, the project uses the
biographical coordinates to tell the story of theatre, a story
that runs counter to the historically recognized boundaries
of epochs.
Text: Nora Probst
Project Coordinators: Dr. Vito Pinto, Nora Probst
Researchers: Andreas Mertgens, Enes Türkoglu
Website: http://tws.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/34608.html
Contact: Nora Probst, nora.probst@uni-koeln.de
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Miscellaneous Poetics
On the Coevolution of Periodical
Press and the Modern Novel
Project leader: Dr. Daniela Gretz / Prof. Nicolas Pethes | Institute for German Language
and Literature I
Subproject of the DFG-Research Group FOR 2288 on “Journal Literature”
(Bochum/Cologne/Marburg)

I
n as early as the nineteenth century, mass
media began to emerge. The most important
ones were periodical journals that included both
‘high brow’ literary magazines and popular
formats such as penny magazines or family magazines.
Most of these periodicals published contemporary novels
in instalments – novels that were only later republished in
the book format familiar to us. It is therefore not surprising
that recent periodical studies have been focussing on the
interrelation between nineteenth century novels and journals
with respect to the serial structure they share.
However, our research project on the poetics of
miscellaneity poses a more fundamental question: It
pursues the formal and aesthetic implications of the
journal – considered as a textual form in its own right –
for the genre of the novel which had only just begun its
success story at the end of the eighteenth century.
After seriality, a further significant feature of the
textual form of periodicals is their miscellaneity, i.e. the
juxtaposition of completely heterogeneous topics, genres,
and styles: literary fiction can be found next to reviews,
travel reports, biographical anecdotes, news of the
world etc. Much as each journal tries to subsume these
heterogeneous genres under general categories, each
individual issue presents them without further mitigation
back to back or next to each other within a multi-column
layout.
Within the general context of this periodical miscellaneity,
our project in Cologne is analyzing how the miscellaneous
structures of the periodical press resulted in new reading
techniques and expectations to which nineteenth century
novelists reacted by creating new narrative techniques
such as discursive hybridity (as in the case of Jean Paul
who published his short novel “Dr. Katzenberger’s Journey
to the Bath” alongside a selection of revised minor works
that he had previously published in journals), “juxtaposition”
(as Karl Gutzkow characterized the broad scope
of his novel The Knights of Spirit), or genre combinations
(as in Wilhelm Raabe’s “tale of the sea and of murder”
Stopfkuchen). By revealing the miscellaneity of these
novels within the context of the journals they were first
published in, we also hope to be able to rediscover other
novels that have been forgotten but at the time were
published alongside the canonical works.
Postdoc: Dr. Marcus Krause
Contact: Prof. Nicolas Pethes, npethes@uni-koeln.de
Text: Nicolas Pethes
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co:op – community
as opportunity
The Creative Archives’ and Users’ Network
Participation: Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH)
Funded by the Creative Europe Programme,
Category 2 – European Cooperation Projects
W
ithin the framework of the co:op
project, the Cologne Center for eHumanities
(CCeH) is cooperating with European
archives and research institutions
in order to preserve a common cultural
heritage and to encourage the involvement of the general
public. Activities include the further development of
possibilities for the open source description of archival
records as well as the expansion and intensifying of
teaching at third level based on and with the help of
digital archive portals such as Monasterium.

Monasterium is an open collaborative digital archive
of charters from the Middle and Early Modern Ages. It
has been developed and maintained at the University
of Cologne since 2001. During this time, the portal has
become one of the biggest virtual archives of this kind
in the world, providing free access to digital images and
descriptions of more than 600,000 charters from more
than 150 European archives. The site is accessed by users
from all over the world over 2,500 times per week.
In close collaboration with project partners, the CCeH is
developing and enhancing digital applications and software
to enable better access to and more effective interaction
with the archive world for both academia and the
general public. Due to multiple digitization measures, the
platform is able to provide preservation and maintenance
of archive materials. In addition to photographic representations
of the archive documents, applications such as
text editor and annotation tools mean that material can
be further developed and files continually improved upon.
Processing and editing options using indices and geo
locations, the enhancement of the search function as well
as the link to cartographical services mean that the platform
provides comprehensive access to the diversity of
European history in documents.
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Text: Franz Fischer, Stephan Makowski
Partners: Hessian State Archive (lead); Czech National Archives,
Croatian State Archives, Finnish National Archives, Swedish
National Archives, National Archives of Estonia, University Graz,
University of Naples Federico II, and many more
Website: http://www.coop-project.eu; http://monasterium.net
Contact: Dr. Franz Fischer, franz.fischer@uni-koeln.de
Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Research 2017/2018 | Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH)

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Experimental
Pragmatics (XPrag.de)
DFG Priority Program
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher | Institute for German Language and Literature I with
PD Dr. Uli Sauerland | Leibniz-Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the framework of the
DFG Priority Program (SPP 1727) “XPrag.de: New Pragmatic Theories Based on
Experimental Evidence” (2014-2020)
D
uring communication many aspects of
meaning are only implicitly expressed and
yet communication is for the most part
successful. It is generally assumed that
a speaker who utters, “Some daisies are in flower”,
indicates that s/he does not have sufficient evidence to
say, “All daisies are in flower”, i.e. “some” is interpreted
as “not all”. At a restaurant, a customer may be called

“the gin tonic” by the waiter, who in fact means, “the
person associated with the gin tonic.” Why do speakers
choose particular expressions? And why do hearers make
correct inferences and enrich unarticulated meaning
constituents? Why are the inference processes so
reliable? Which mechanisms are hearers employing?
Which knowledge do interlocutors share?
Experimental Pragmatics pursues questions like these.
It is interested in the use of language and to this end
employs various experimental methods. In addition to
questionnaires and reaction time studies, paradigms
from cognitive and neurosciences are applied, such as
eye tracking measures or the recording of electrical brain
activity, which allow for a fine-grained temporal resolution
of the underlying processes and thus contribute to more
sophisticated models of language processing.
implicatures (PI: Dr. Maria Spychalska).
The aim of the Priority Program is to improve existing
theoretical accounts and to develop a cognitively
grounded model of the language architecture through
interdisciplinary cooperation projects involving researchers
from the fields of semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics,
the philosophy of language, cognitive sciences
and neurosciences.
Text: Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher
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This joint research project, which is funded by the DFG,
is facilitating national cooperation projects. 14 projects
based at institutions all over Germany are currently
participating in the interdisciplinary Priority Program.
Three are located at the Institute of German Language
and Literature I at the University of Cologne: Affirmative
and rejective responses to negative assertions and questions
(PI: Prof. Dr. Sophie Repp); Processing speaker‘s
meaning: Epistemic state, cooperation and commitment
(PI: Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher); and Reconsidering the
epistemic step: The role of the speaker’s and the listener’s
perspectives for the processing of quantity and temporal
Website: http://www.xprag.de/
Contact: Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher,
petra.schumacher@uni-koeln.de
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The Jerusalem
Euchologion
Principal Investigators: Professor Dr. Claudia Sode, Byzantine Studies and
Professor Dr. Jürgen Hammerstaedt, Classical Philology
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
O
ur Cologne DFG project, entitled “The Early
Jerusalem Euchologion in Georgian Transmission.
Comparative Edition, Translation
and Commentary”, is examining so-called
orationes praesidentiales (presidential prayers), i.e. texts
addressed to God, spoken in general or specific religious
gatherings by their presiders: patriarchs, bishops or presbyters,
at ceremonies for core sacraments such as Eucharist,
baptism and for wedding ceremonies, for feasts and daily
common prayer, for special occasions such as birth, illness,
dying and death. A collection of these kinds of prayers is
traditionally called Euchologion – the Greek equivalent of
the Latin sacramentarium or orationale.
The Euchologion used in Jerusalem and Palestine –

as well as on Sinai – during the first millennium CE
is the focus of this project. From around 1000 CE, the
Old-Jerusalem Euchologion was increasingly replaced by
Byzantine liturgy from Constantinople with the result that
the original Greek Euchologion of Jerusalem is no longer
extant. It has survived, however, in an Old-Georgian
translation in the form of manuscripts from the 9th to
10th centuries found in the Monastery on Mount Sinai.
These so-called Sinaitica provide the basis of our research.
Through a detailed analysis of the content of the individual
manuscripts, our knowledge of the prayers and
festal liturgies of Jerusalem has been deepened since the
project began in Spring 2014. Diverse worship practices,
for example, of individual churches such as the Anastasis
in Jerusalem (also known as the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre), Mar Saba near Jerusalem as well as Saint
Catherine’s Monastery (Sinai) could be identified and
examined. In the process, it was established that the
baptismal and funeral liturgies, which are soon to be
published, essentially represent the high patristic time of
their Palestine history.
A research trip to the Caucasus Mountains was a great
success. Even today, treasures can still be discovered
in Svaneti. At the Mestia Museum of History and
Ethnography we were able, for example, to examine,
determine the content of and record for our publication
a previously unknown Euchologion fragment dated to the
10th century CE. This is the only copy of the Jerusalem
Euchologion that has been found so far in Georgia.
After a positive evaluation in April 2017, the project is in
its second phase. Planned is the editing, translation and
commentary of monastic rites, the blessings of sacred
buildings, prayers in the context of the offering of animals
and other occasions as well as the organization of a
conference on monastic celebrations and a research trip
to the library of the Sinai Monastery.
Text: Dr. Tinatin Chronz
Research partner: Priv. Doz. Dr. Heinzgerd Brakmann, Bonn,
Liturgical Studies
Researchers: Dr. phil. Tinatin Chronz, Diego Fittipaldi, M.A.
Contact: Dr. Tinatin Chronz, tchronz@uni-koeln.de
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Sounding Memories
Nazi Persecution and Anti-Nazi Resistance
in the Music of Contemporary Germany
Principal Investigators: Prof. Dr. Federico Spinetti and Dr. Monika E. Schoop | Institute for
Musicology, Department of Ethnomusicology
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
T
he period of National Socialism is a crucial
aspect of memory culture in Germany today.
This is also reflected in music. The Edelweißpiraten
Festival, the Microphone Mafia
hip-hop duo, the Auschwitz-survivor Esther Bejerano and
the Reinhardt family are only some of the numerous musicians,
projects and initiatives that demonstrate how the
memorialization of both the victims and the opponents of
Nazism is more important than ever in times of a global
political shift to the right. In both musicology and memory
studies, however, the topic remains largely unexplored.
With a view to filling this gap, the project “Sounding
Memories” is investigating contemporary musical practices
that engage with the memorialization of the Nazi period
and WWII in Germany with a focus on resistance to and
persecution by the regime. The project is building upon
the premise that people construct representations of the
past through musical practices and taking into account
a wide range of musical genres (e.g. singer-songwriters,
experimental and art music, punk rock and hip hop), social
actors and sociocultural milieus. Considering memory as
a mediator between narrated past, lived present and

imaged futures, special attention is being devoted to
the novel musical resources and collective sensibilities
mobilized in the process and to how sounding the
memories of the Nazi past offers a critical arena for
addressing current social issues in Germany and in Europe
such as racism against immigrants and refugees, the
resurgence of far-right and xenophobic movements and the
struggles resulting from socioeconomic marginalization
and inequalities based on ethnicity, religion and gender.
The project is pursuing these objectives through three
complementary research scenarios, emphasizing different
aspects of musical practices of memorialization. These
encompass a study of the Sinti and Roma minority (musical
resources), of urban memoryscapes of Berlin (locality) and
of current media practices and musical performances
(mediatization/performance).
The project is part of the newly founded SONACT:
Music | Memory | Politics Study Lab at the Department
of Ethnomusicology. It is connected with Prof. Federico
Spinetti‘s research on music and memory of the Italian
antifascist Resistenza and includes, among other aspects,
an international collaboration with researchers in Slovenia
and Spain as well as a provenance research project
involving the collection of musical instruments of the
University of Cologne.
Text: Monika Schoop, Federico Spinetti
Martin Ringsmut, Sidney König
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Contact: Prof. Dr. Federico Spinetti, fspinett@uni-koeln.de,
Dr.‘ Monika E. Schoop, monika.schoop@uni-koeln.de
Mediatization/Performance: Dr.’ Monika E. Schoop
monika.schoop@uni-koeln.de
Sinti and Roma Martin Ringsmut M.A. m.ringsmut@uni-koeln.de
Locality/Berlin Sidney König M.A. sidney.koenig@uni-koeln.de
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The German Audit Office
in the Course of Changing Political
th
Regimes of the 20 Century
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Ullmann | Modern History
The project is being funded by the Federal Audit Office
„T
he fate of a state can be predicted,
so to speak barometrically, from
the status and functionality of its
accounting and auditing,”as Social
Democrat MP Kurt Heinig who fled
the National Socialists in 1933 wrote in his constitutive
book The Budget. As budget auditing is by no means a
“secondary function within state financial administration”;
on the contrary: “An exchequer without constant
monitoring is a government answering to no one, a dictatorship.”
Financial auditing therefore forms an essential
basis of fiscal and subsequently political decision-making
processes. It is institutionalised in various nationally
organised audit offices. From 1871 onwards, the Audit
Office of the German Reich was organised on a central
state level, divided into zonal interim offices during the
Allied occupation, and in 1950 it became the Federal
Audit Office.
The Audit office generated specific ideals concerning
order which were often media effectively orchestrated to
influence politics and society and reacted at the same time
when confronted with concepts and demands regarding

order. The Audit office can therefore be regarded as a
custodian of both fiscal and state order, which was always
fragile and often illusionary, but which emerged most of
all as a result of monitoring, inspection and maintaining
order. These order and orientation services were defined,
on the one hand, by continuity, inherent logics and
chronologies, while, on the other hand, developed in
different ways in the face of changes in political systems.
The project, which is being funded by the Federal Audit
Office, is for the first time examining the history of the
Audit office in Germany on a broad empirical basis,
starting in the Weimar Republic and finishing in the
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young Federal Republic with an emphasis on the National
Socialist era. It places the Audit Office’s regime-loyal
activities during the “Third Reich” into the context of
developments with regard to staff, institutional, and
supervisory techniques over a substantial period of time
and examines their relationship with continuity and
breach as well as the supervising actors’ leeway in their
actions and their options.
Text: Hans-Peter Ullmann
Contact: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Ullmann,
hans-peter.ullmann@uni-koeln.de
Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Research 2017/2018 | Modern History

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The “Mountain Exile
Hypotheses“
The Colonization of an Afro-Alpine Environment
by Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ralf Vogelsang | Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology,
Palaeolithic Research Unit
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG),
Research Unit FOR 2358
H
igh-altitude mountain habitats are
regarded as unfavorable regions for
human colonization. Therefore, it seems
reasonable that humans would only be
pushed into such conditions by land scarcity
in the lowlands following rapid population increase or
ecological changes. On the other hand, tropical highlands
in Africa have been mentioned time and again as potential
refugia during times of environmental stress, such as the
hyper-arid conditions in the Horn of Africa around 20,000
years ago when most parts of the region were uninhabitable.
A research unit approved by the DFG in 2016 is investigating
this question in the Bale Mountains in Ethiopia, which
are the largest alpine ecosystem on the African continent.
Due to their remoteness, the mountains are classified as
a natural environment with an abundance of endemic
species. The research unit, however, is presenting the
hypothesis that Stone Age hunter-gatherers developed

the region into a cultural landscape with the use of fire.
Academics from several German universities and Addis
Ababa University in Ethiopia are examining this research
question from the perspectives of different disciplines
including geography, geology, biology und archaeology.
The archaeological project is investigating the earliest
habitation of this tropical alpine landscape by excavating
prehistoric settlement remains in rock shelters. Due to the
harsh weather conditions, with strong winds, below freezing
night temperatures and high solar radiation during
the day, rock shelters must have been the preferred settlement
sites. In Spring 2017, first excavations yielded settlement
layers with small stone tools (microliths) that were
used as arrowheads and are characteristic tool types of
the African “Later Stone Age”. The bones of the game
that were found and the types of firewood from the
hearths not only indicate the subsistence strategies of the
Stone Age people but also allow for a reconstruction of
the environmental conditions at that time. In addition,
the bone and charcoal can be used to date the layers
using the radiocarbon method and to document that the
highland area has been habitated for 4000 years. Further
excavations will hopefully push this time frame back even
further and provide an answer to the question of when
and why the earliest settlement of the African highland
region happened.
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Text: Ralf Vogelsang
Researchers: Dr. Ralf Vogelsang, Dr. Götz Ossendorf, Minassie
Girma Tekelemariam
Website: http://bale.geographie.uni-marburg.de:12921/
Contact: Dr. Ralf Vogelsang, r.vogelsang@uni-koeln.de
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List of Images
Cover: Pixabay.com (ulleo; MIH83; OpenClipart-Vectors)
P. 3 Photo: Monika Schausten, Photo: Patric Fouad
P. 6 Illustration: Christophe Vorlet
P. 7 Team CONCEPT
P. 8 Author’s screenshot taken from Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerilla Games 2017)
P. 9 Author’s screenshot taken from Assassin’s Creed Unity (Ubisoft Montral 2014)
P. 10-11 All pictures Project Zawyet Sultan
P. 12-13 All pictures Römisch-Germanischen Museum Köln
P. 14 Collage: Deborah Schiffer, Bilder wikimedia commons, Fotolia (Dom r.), gemeinfrei
P. 15 Photo left: Alexandra Nebelung, illustration right: Schläwe/Schlinkheider
P. 16 Photo: Stefanie Samida
P. 17 Photo: Steffi de Jong
P. 19 Screenshot of the Cologne Papyrus Portal
P. 20-21 All pictures ArchAIDE Project
P. 22 Logo SFB 1252 | SFB 1252
P. 23 Photo: SFB 1252/ Berg
P. 24 Logo Freigeist-Fellow | Volkswagen-Stiftung
P. 25 Photo Dr. Sidonie Kellerer: a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne / Photo: Patric Fouad;
Photo Corinne Kaszner: Annette Koroll; Photo Erik Miller: privat
P. 26 Logo VedaWeb
P. 27 Screenshot VedaWeb
P. 28 Library of Congress: Interior of the house of a rich Chinaman, Peking, China; photographer: H.C. White Co.;
published: North Bennington,Vt., U.S.A.: H.C. White Co., publishers, 1901
P. 29 Library of Congress: Chinese woman; photographer: Thomson, J. (John); published: between 1870 and 1872 | Library of
Congress: Two photographers taking each other‘s picture with hand-held cameras while perched on a roof; published
between 1909 and 1932
P. 30 Alice Guszalewicz as Brünnhilde in Wagner’s Walküre, Cologne 1911 (TWS Cologne), Photo: Blum&Höffert, Cologne
P. 31 Illustrative image of the networks of theatre practitioners, TWS Cologne, graphic design: Christina Vollmert | Letter by
Louise Dumont to Bruno Petermann, Berlin Nov. 10th 1898, Signature: AU1976 (TWS Cologne)
P. 32-33 All pictures ‘public domain’
P. 34 Logo coop | Logo monasterium | Letter of indulgence for the monastery of Maria Laach – Avignon, June 29, 1357
(Koblenz, State Main Archive, sec. 128, ch. 214)

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P. 35 Facsimile and transcription of a medieval Serbian charter on monasterium.net: Bari, Archivio di S. Nicola
Periodo Angioino L. 22 (20th of August, 1346, Skopje) | Logo CCeH | Logo Creative Europe Program of the EU
P. 36 EEG-Kappe | Photo: Florian Bogner
P. 37 EEG-Experimentvorbereitungen im XLinC Labor | Photo: Hanna Weiland-Breckle
P. 38 Mestia, Svaneti, Photo: Tatiana Bardaschowa
P. 40-41 All pictures Monika E. Schoop
P. 42 Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2006-0219, Photo: o.a. | o. Dat.
P. 43 Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-09016, Photo: o.a., Januar 1930; Bundesarchiv Bild 145-F006-72-0007, Photo: o.a., Januar 1958
P. 44 Plateau of the Bale Mountains. Horses are the only way to transport the equipment (Photo R. Vogelsang)
P. 45 Even today numerous rock shelters are seasonally occupied by herders (Photo R. Vogelsang)