Readings

From decoration to documentation, from hellscape to paradise, from idyll to stormy landscape, from illusion to reality, from mythical worlds to reality, with influences from Italy to England. In the development of landscape painting, there is a complicated succession and juxtaposition, but also some striking milestones. Through a historical journey from antiquity to the present [...]

Lecture with Clémence Rousset, scientific volunteer at the Emsland Archaeology Museum Clémence Rousset wrote her final thesis on the social structure of beggars in ancient Greece. Clémence Rousset studied at the Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (Université PSL for short), one of the most prestigious universities in France, and graduated with a Master's degree in [...]

Lecture with Christina Peek, researcher in the textile archaeology department of the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research There were and are three "hotspots" in Emsland district archaeology, namely settlement relics in Geeste, Walchum and Haren. In recent years, excavations have been carried out there during the expansion of building areas. The results in [...]

Reading: Wiet Land unner de Wulken with Gesche Gloystein, Christian Quaing and Jan-Bernd Müller   A lyrical encounter between the times, read in High and Low German. Looking back directs our gaze forward. Or: What do homeland poems from the 1950s and 1960s still tell us today? What insights do we draw from this exciting [...]