The Gerda Henkel Foundation herewith presents its annual report for 2017 with new facts and figures, descriptions of selected research projects and the events of 2017 in retrospect. The digital version offers image galleries, videos on events and research projects, and links that supplement the information provided in the printed report.
First cohort of Graduate School's Lisa Maskell fellows obtain their PhD degrees Electronic application for PhD scholarships The Preslav Treasure, Bulgaria. Restauration and Research of a tenth century jewellery find (Project Management Prof. Falko Daim, Roman-Germanic Central Museum, Mainz) Photo: Great golden necklace with seven almond-shaped pendants, each ornamented on both sides with 14 enamel plates (image rights: proprietor: Museum Veliki Preslav, city of Preslav, Bulgaria. © RGZM and Museum Veliki Preslav, photo: Sabine Steidl (RGZM))
The Saltmen of Iran. The cultural heritage of the Salt Men Museum in Zanjān (Project Management Prof. Thomas Stöllner, German Mining Museum Bochum, Ruhr University Bochum) Photo: Landscape near the excavation site of Douzlākh/Chehrābād, Zanjān (image rights: DBM/RUB)
Extremism in Early Islam. The Kharijites in comparative perspective (Project Management Dr. Teresa Bernheimer, Munich) Photo: Two Drachms (silver coins) of Kharijite leaders from the 7th century AD. (image rights: The American Numismatic Society)
The mass grave of Uxul, Mexico. The function of ritual violence in the classical Mayian society (Project Management Dr. Nicolaus Seefeld, Bonn) Photo: The artificial cave’s entrance and the surrounding platforms during the excavations in 2013 (image rights: N. Seefeld)
Ludovico Foscarini (1409–1480). A Venetian patrician, public official and humanist (Project Management Leonard Horsch, Munich) Photo: Pietro, Tullio and Antonio Lombardo designed Foscarini’s tomb in the Basilica S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice between 1480 and 1485; it has only partly survived. (image rights: ill. in: Johannes Grevembroich, Monumenta veneta ex antiquis ruderibus, Museo Civico Correr, MS Gradenigo-Dolfin 228 II f. 96r)
The power of silence. Political communication regimes in Europe in the long 19th century
(Project Management Dr. Theo Jung, Freiburg) Photo: George Cruikshank, „A Free Born Englishman! The Admiration of the World!!! And the Envy of Surrounding Nations!!!!!”: The freedom of speech is under pressure in Britain in 1819. (image rights: Trustees of the British Museum, Satires Collection Registration Nr. 1868,0808.12910, CC BYNCSA 4.0)
Non-German members of the Waffen-SS. A European cultural history of the Nazi collaborators (Project Management Prof. Robert Gerwarth, University College Dublin, Centre for War Studies; Dr. Jochen Böhler, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Imre Kertész Kolleg) Photo: “Für die Ehre. Für das Leben”, Italian SS recruitment poster (image rights: © Istituto Storico della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea (Macerata, Italy))
’A tiny picture of a great life’. On the cultural history of Munich’s first cabaret ‘The Eleven Executioners’ (1901-1904) (Project Management Dr. Judith Kemp, Munich) Photo: The portrait masks of the eleven founding fathers, by Wilhelm Hüsgen. (image rights: private property Judith Kemp, Munich)
The real music is in art. Interfaces and transgressions between art and music since the 1960s (Project Management Dr. Fiona McGovern, Berlin) Photo: Karlheinz Stockhausen, „Originals”, Festival of the Avant Garde 1964, New York City (image rights: Photo: © Dan McCoy/Rainbow, in: Joan Rothfuss, Topless Cellist. The Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman, Cambridge, Mass: MIT 2014, p. 97)
Oil and Struggle for a New Global Economic Order. The significance of the 1970s oil crises for North-South relations (Project Management Dr. Jonas Kreienbaum, Rostock) Photo: This 1974 cartoon visualizes the view that global power relations shifted with the 1973 Oil Crisis. (image rights: Washington Star, 1974)
