Thomas Thiemeyer

Biographic Data

ID183978
NAMEThomas Thiemeyer
GIVEN NAMESThomas
FAMILY NAMEThiemeyer
SIGNATURETHIEMEYER T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Tübingen
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Ethnographic responsibility

    Open AccessThomas ThiemeyerARTICLEAnthropology Today2023

  • Ljiljana Radonić, Der Zweite Weltkrieg in postsozialistischen Gedenkmuseen. Geschichtspolitik zwischen der „Anrufung Europas“ und dem Fokus auf „unser“ Leid. (Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung, Bd. 6.)…

    Open AccessThomas ThiemeyerARTICLEHistorische Zeitschrift2022

    Article Ljiljana Radonić, Der Zweite Weltkrieg in postsozialistischen Gedenkmuseen. Geschichtspolitik zwischen der „Anrufung Europas“ und dem Fokus auf „unser“ Leid. (Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung, Bd. 6.) Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter 2021 was published on October 1, 2022 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 315, issue 2)

  • Prof. Dr. Gottfried Korff 1942–2020

    Reinhard Johler, Monique Scheer et al.ARTICLEZeitschrift für Volkskunde2021

  • What kinds of museums for what kinds of societies

    Thomas ThiemeyerARTICLEICOFOM Study Series2020

    The article reflects the broader political contexts of the current debate about ICOM’s museum definition. It focuses on the aim to commit museums to specific values that define their place within their respective societies. What kind of values are addressed? What is specific about them? And why did they trigger such a lively debate? To my mind the decisive question at the heart of the controversy is: Is the new text about an ambitious museum visi…

  • Cosmopolitanizing Colonial Memories in Germany

    Open AccessThomas ThiemeyerARTICLECritical Inquiry2019References: 2

    Previous articleNext article FreeCosmopolitanizing Colonial Memories in GermanyThomas ThiemeyerThomas ThiemeyerThomas Thiemeyer is professor of Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (Historical and Cultural Anthropology) at the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut of Tübingen University. His core research areas are museum and memory studies. He is the author of Das Depot als Versprechen-Warum unsere Museen die Lagerräume ihrer Dinge wiederentdecken (The Storeroom as P…

  • The Storeroom as Promise

    Open AccessThomas ThiemeyerARTICLEMuseum Anthropology2017References: 7

    This article concerns an exhibition format that I call the depot exhibition. These exhibitions are museum presentations that turn the depot into their subject matter. (“Visible storage” is the most well‐known variant.) While this approach to museum exhibition has a current appeal, especially in German‐speaking countries, it is not new. Its appearance in North America in the 1970s was connected with postcolonial debates and coincided with a contro…

  • Depotausstellungen Die Erfindung eines Ausstellungsformats aus dem Geist der Institutionenkritik

    Open AccessThomas ThiemeyerARTICLEHistorische Anthropologie2017

    The storeroom or depot is the dark side of the museum. It is its unknown, hidden space. The cultural anthropologist Gottfried Korff argued that this relationship between the hidden and the public side, for which he coined the catchy phrase “deponieren – exponieren” (deposit-exhibit), was the essential feature of the modern museum, both as an institution and as a generator of meaning. It is along this boundary that the curator’s task in the storer…

  • Work, specimen, witness

    Open AccessThomas ThiemeyerARTICLEMuseum and Society2015Cited by: 2

    The generic term 'museum objects' suggests that a uniform category is involved. But museums in various disciplines have exhibited objects according to quite different rules and have assigned values to them that depend on the standards of the field of inquiry concerned: aesthetic quality, value as a historical source, as a relic or as a representative item. Over time, various display conventions have become established, which appear to us today to…

  • Zwischen Helden, Tätern und Opfern

    Thomas ThiemeyerARTICLEGeschichte und Gesellschaft2010Cited by: 1References: 1

    This essay examines ten contemporary museums in France, England and Germany that represent World War I and II in a permanent exhibition. Focussing on heroes, victims and perpetrators, the text tries to show the memory-making power of display. Its analytical dividing lines run parallel to the different national memories and the dissimilar memories ofWorldWar I andWorldWar II. From this perspective, the essay tries to answer two questions: How do m…

  • Grenzpfähle der Tabuzone

    Open AccessThomas ThiemeyerARTICLEHistorische Anthropologie2010