Publication series
Publication series
Material culture
Edited by Karen Ellwanger & Heidi Helmhold
The Material Culture series publishes articles that have been exclusively peer-reviewed. The reviews are anonymised and prepared by scholars with a corresponding research focus. Conference proceedings, results from research projects, work by early career researchers and established colleagues, as well as guest contributions are published.
Mediation
Edited by Patricia Mühr & Verena Huber Nievergelt
Since 2019, the online series ‘Vermittlung’ has been published as part of the Studies in Material Culture in co-operation with the Bern University of Teacher Education. This co-operation is also significant in the context of the subject didactics support programme, which is organised from Bern for the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland. The degree programme in Subject Didactics: Textiles and Technical Design – Design trains future lecturers. At the University of Oldenburg, students are trained for extracurricular education within the interdisciplinary dual Bachelor’s degree programme in Material Culture: Textiles. The four-semester Master of Education in Textile Design degree programme trains future lecturers.
Dr Patricia Mühr from the University of Oldenburg is the editor of the series. Dr Verena Huber Nievergelt from the Bern University of Teacher Education fulfils this role.
Aims and objectives of the series
The publications aim to make research and development findings – arising either from teaching by students or lecturers and/or from research carried out by staff at the participating Institutes – freely accessible online to an interested audience.
The field of research into the didactics of textile design, as well as that of teaching textile-related content in general, represents a significant gap in the German-speaking world. In this sense, the ‘Vermittlung’ series is of particular interest in conjunction with the teaching of subject didactics offered to trainee teachers, as well as to students who will in future be working in extracurricular educational settings. These publications address topics in subject-specific didactics and the teaching of material culture in the field of textiles, presenting them to a high standard and in accordance with academic principles. The series is unique in the German-speaking world and is of interest both for teaching at universities and for schools and extracurricular educational work.
The aim is for further institutions to participate in the University of Oldenburg’s online series ‘Vermittlung’ in future. This could lead to the creation of a platform with a European reach.
Museum and exhibition
Edited by Karen Ellwanger, Carolin Krämer and Mareike Witkowski
The Museum and Exhibition series comprises qualification papers from the research and study focus Museum and Exhibition at the Institute of Material Culture. The authors deal with the production and reproduction of knowledge and meaning in and through museum and exhibition concepts.
The linking of theory and practice takes place, among other things, in the conception and realisation of comprehensive exhibition projects by students. This enables them to realise the theoretical knowledge gained from the state of research and to experience it concretely in application. The insights, sensory and contingency experiences generated in the productive tension between these two poles are scientifically accompanied by the students and the results and reflections are published in accompanying catalogues.
Q-Papers
The Q-Papers series publishes qualification theses from the fields of material culture research and museum analysis. This includes particularly interesting and outstanding Master's theses and, in exceptional cases, Bachelor's theses.
Editing is carried out in close cooperation with the supervisors of the respective theses. Members of the scientific advisory board can also suggest qualifications from other universities for publication. In the case of theses, both supervisors of the underlying qualification thesis must have positively evaluated it for publication.
Here you will find an overview of all publications. You can use the search field to search by author, year of publication or title or you can display the publications sorted by series.
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Volume 37: Christina Freund (2019): Constructions of 'Nation' in Exhibitions on the First World War - A Comparative Analysis of the Musée de l'Armée Paris and the Museum der Bundeswehr Dresden [Q-Papers] [Museum and Exhibition] [Material Culture] -
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Volume 34: Pauline Raczkowski (2019): Critique of the exhibition 'Arts d'Afrique, d'Asie, d'Océanie et des Ameriques' at the Pavillon des Sessions of the Louvre [Q-Papers] [Museum and Exhibition] [Material Culture] -
Volume 33: Glenn Arthur Ricci (2019):Colonial Germany and the Hidden Cultural History of Germany in the Ethnographic Collection of the Landesmuseum für Natur und Mensch [Material Culture] [Museum and Exhibition] -
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Volume 31: Anujah Fernando (2018): "Le héros invisible" - On the Representation of Black and of Colour Positions in an Exhibition on German Colonialism [Museum and Exhibition] Abstract: In this thesis for the Master's degree in Cultural Analyses, Fernando examines how black people and positions of colour are represented in an exhibition on German colonial history at the German Historical Museum (DHM) in Berlin in 2017. Related questions are how are these positions integrated into the exhibition narrative on German colonialism and how is their relationship to white positions are presented within the exhibition. The basis of her work is an understanding of representations according to Stuart Hall. Her theoretical references in the context of her critical analysis of representation include a power-critical consideration of the institution of the museum according to Tony Bennett (1995), the use of the figure of the expository actor according to Mieke Bal (2002), concepts of remembering and forgetting and forgetting of representations in hegemonic space and in cultural memory according to Assmann (1999). Methodologically, the museum is understood as a discursive field, which is approached by means of ethnographic, semiotic and image-analytical procedures as well as with methods of qualitative social research. The focus of the work is on representations in relation to power relations. power relations. -
Volume 30: Mona Wagener (2018): Sustainability-oriented use of clothing through rental - An empirical study of the company Teilkleid [Q-Papers] Abstract: In this final thesis for the bachelor's programme in Material Culture: Textiles, Wagener examines the company Teilkleid in an empirical research project. The company pursues a sustainable concept according to which clothing is lent instead of sold. Wagener completed an internship at the company in 2016 the company in 2016 and used this time as a research period. She uses the ethnographic method of participant observation. observation. She collected material from the company and also conducted an online survey. The data The data obtained in this way was analysed using analytical categories and the coding method of qualitative social research. The question "To what extent do the Teilkleid range and its use contribute to a changed relationship with clothing?" was developed during the research process. developed during the research process. Georg Breidenstein's (2013) "Ethnography. The practice of field research". -
Volume 29: Dennis Herrmann (2018): Contested spaces. New museums of local history [Museum and exhibition] -
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Volume 27: Karen Ellwanger for the Institute of Material Culture (2017): Openly asked. What exhibitions don't usually talk about. Catalogue of the exhibition [Museum and exhibition] Abstract: This publication is part of the exhibition "Offen gefragt! What exhibitions don't talk about otherwise", which was realised at the University of Oldenburg in 2016. In their project, nine students from the "Museum and Exhibition" master's degree programme made questioning, scrutinising and questioning the programme and drew attention to aspects of museum practice that exhibitions usually remain silent about. How messy are museums? How do they deal with objects that they have made their own through expropriation, theft or repression? What do they collect in order to represent the present? And how do museums fail? The exhibition team's perspective on these and other questions was supplemented by 29 experts from academia and museum practice. The aim of this publication is to give the contributions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland the attention they deserve and to provide a wider audience with an insight into the exhibition. -
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Volume 24: Sabrina Gavars (2016): "post or die!" - The privacy paradox under subjectivisation-theoretical perspectives [Q-Papers] Abstract: Sabrina Gavars' master's thesis examines the ambivalent simultaneity of self-disclosure behaviour and fear of total surveillance in the privacy paradox in the context of Web 2.0. The guiding question is: Can the privacy paradox be understood as a field of tension or room for manoeuvre of the technologies of the self and thus as a modern concern for oneself? To answer this question, she follows cultural studies approaches to subject analysis in order to track down modes of functioning and meanings. Gavars then embarks on a conceptual journey, with Web 2.0, the privacy paradox and the subject packed in her suitcase. The terms privacy paradox, Web 2.0., Facebook, subject and subjectivation were defined in advance in order to avoid mere "labelling". On this journey, she discusses the pros and cons of Web 2.0. in individual sections and opens up different perspectives on users and their "freedoms" - always in the analytical context of current subject research's understanding of the subject. The sources of the work, empirical studies on the privacy paradox, multi-perspective texts on subjectivation and newspaper articles or online articles, TV and radio reports that address the privacy paradox, among other things, were recorded and contextualised in a qualitative content analysis. -
Volume 23: Imke Harms, Lou Kordts, Jessica Reichelt & Marianne Kurzer (2016): Exhibition_ism [Museum and exhibition] -
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Volume 18: Oliver Klaassen (2015): ALLES SO SCHÖN SCHWUL* HIER ...?! - Reflections on representation-critical potentials, conditions and perspectives for the reorientation of the content of the Gay Museum* in Berlin. [Q-Papers] [Material Culture] Abstract: In order to avoid being overwhelmed by external demands, the Schwules Museum* in Berlin has been reorganising its content for a few years now. Berlin has been faced with the responsibility of having to formulate its own self-image and social mission more clearly. formulate its own self-image and social mission more clearly. Since then, the challenge for the museum has been to explore both the subversive potential and the emancipatory significance of queer as well as the meaning of queer as well as the question of how highly complex debates and divergent recognition strategies within the LGBT*I/Q (=lesbian-gay-bisexual-trans*-intersexual/queer) movement can be organised differently and more democratically. The central part of my bachelor thesis is therefore a discussion about the critical and enabling potential of queer-feminist image and art politics for exhibition practice: What productive elements on the level of representation do the meta-theoretical implications of queer-feminist approaches approaches, which go hand in hand with the reorientation of content, hold for the Schwules Museum*? Following the explication of central theoretical building blocks with reference to queer-feminist critique of representation and a brief overview of the history of the creation, significance and establishment of the Schwules Museum*, the background to the special exhibition "Trans*_Homo - von lesbian trans*gays and other normalities" (17 August - 19 November 2012) and its conception and objectives, as well as a subsequent the transition to a critical analysis of representation, in which the artistic exploration of the complicated relationship between the sexes and varieties of sex relationship between the sexes and varieties of sexual transformation are subjected to a more precise examination. In particular with a critical view of the exhibition will be used to examine how and whether, at the level of representation, the attributions of naturalness of sexuality and gender are interfered with. sexuality and gender at the level of representation. Finally, the findings from the analysis will be linked back to theoretical discussion contexts. The primary aim of my bachelor's thesis is to create a picture of the potentials, conditions and perspectives of queer-feminist representation that is as spun as it is programmatic. and perspectives of queer-feminist critique of representation for exhibition practice, which still contains many unresolved questions and contradictions. and contradictions. What remains are the undeniable possibilities for queer image productions to intervene in a normalised and hierarchised museum exhibition practice. exhibition practice: as a kind of queer-feminist counter-response both to the patriarchal-sexist, heteronormative structures of representation in general and to the dominant structures of representation in general as well as to the dominant practice of representation in the Gay Museum*, the analysed exhibition provokes important food for thought for a possible future possible future practical museum/exhibition work and museological theorising as a discursive site for negotiating concepts of identity (gender and sexuality). concepts of identity (gender and sexuality). -
Volume 17: Anna Magdalena Espelage (2015): The Full Beard - On the Vestimentary Representation of Identity and Ideology. [Q-Papers] [Material Culture] -
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Volume 15: Melanie Sing (2015): Charles, where did you get this dagger? The 'Völkerkundliches Museum Witzenhausen' - Development of a postcolonial exhibition strategy [Q-Papers] [Museum and Exhibition] [Material Culture] -
Volume 14: Merle Ropers (2014): Subjectivation requirements in media discourses of the magazine BRAVO GiRL! and how readers deal with them [Q-Papers] [Material Culture] Abstract: In this master's thesis from 2012 (abridged version), the author Merle Ropers analyses the girls' magazine BRAVO GiRL! for subjectivisation demands on the readers with the aim of showing that the magazines produce their subjects themselves. The starting point is The starting point is subjectivisation theory, which is combined with the state of research on the specifics of this topic, especially in girls' and women's magazines. are combined. The author takes a discourse-analytical approach. She analyses a number of articles from selected issues of the magazine in terms of and language and compares the results with the findings of a reader survey. She shows that the magazine takes up and reproduces a certain image of girls is taken up and reproduced in the magazine. By anchoring the content in strong contexts (as a supra-individual frame of reference) combined with imperative addressing of the recipients, continuous work on the self is virtually demanded. With the help of interviews, she can demonstrate that readers perceive the magazine as an authority and often adhere or try to adhere to its advice and guidelines. -
Volume 13: Lüder Tietz (2014): Struggling for Positionings: Current Representations of 'Berdachen' as Queer Interventions in the Cultural Memory of Indigenous North America [Q-Papers] [Material Culture] Abstract: In his article, ethnologist Lüder Tietz examines situated knowledge using the example of 'gender' among indigenous peoples in North America. "Berdachen" or "Two-Spirit" is the term for a third gender that many indigenous peoples of North America knew alongside the male and female role model. and female role models. His question is about the constitution of knowledge and the construction of discourse. He traces various theorists and contrasts them with the self-determined narratives of everyday actors. everyday actors. As an example of the struggle for positioning, Tietz critically reflects on some aspects of his research. In This reflection highlights the overlaps between the positions of researchers and researched, of Native North Americans, Euro- Americans and Europeans, of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, trans* and inter* positioned people and queers, of activists and social and activists and social and cultural scientists. Tietz's research primarily attempts to analyse self-concepts of today's of living conditions of people from the Two-Spirit network and at the same time to historically analyse the discursive conditions for the emergence of these concepts. the emergence of these concepts historically. In doing so, he explores the questions of whether Two Spirits were revered because of their 'holiness' or whether they were victims of sexualised violence. victims of sexualised violence, whether important spaces of action could be entered by all indigenous women or only by 'Amazons' and where the limits of this transgression and where the boundaries of this transgression lay, how homosexuality, transgender and intersexuality were connected and what all this had to do with the mythological figure 'Trickster'. -
Volume 12: Karen Ellwanger (2014): A Change of Clothes in Politics? - On the vestimentary staging of gender in political space [Material Culture] Abstract: This paper delves into the auratic energy of vestimentary concerns in the political sphere. It also focusses on several dresses of women in politics in the light of the progression of political clothing in general. Asking for different communicable profiles through certain costumes, the author illuminates the professional arrangements in order to send messages through their vestimentary style. Referring to the fundamental differences between women's and men's clothing in politics of old, the author sketches various appearances of women in politics since the 1920s in the German Federal Republic and gives an overview about changes, (in-)dependencies and coherencies. By highlighting peculiarities and specifics in women's clothes and raising an historical outline on clothes in politics, the author provides an overview and makes a case for the significance for analyses of this kind for political observers. -
Volume 11: Nora Spielvogel (2014): Grasping - grasping - climbing through. On the production of body knowledge in children's museums [Q-Papers] [Museum and Exhibition] Abstract: In this study, the author devotes herself to the still little-researched field of children's museums (in Germany) and presents an in-depth study of the "production of body knowledge" in this sector. "production of body knowledge" in this field, which is substantiated by empirical surveys in the Dresden Children's Museum and the MachMitMuseum miraculum. are analysed. Taking into account historical developments in the field of children's museums in the USA, the status quo of this genre is derived and described, as well as the central concept of body knowledge. Using images of individual stations and objects from the museums analysed, the author exemplifies the the degree and type of knowledge transfer and, on the basis of the museum theory explained above, takes a critical look at realisations and installations. and installations and their 'weak points'. In addition to the object presentation and installation, the following analysis focuses and installation, the focus of the following analysis is on the educational activities and programmes, the stated aim of which - using the research method of grounded theory - is to make recommendations and suggestions "for future exhibition and educational concepts in children's museums". -
Volume 10: Karen Ellwanger (2015): Wool Gives Men Courage - Some Aspects of the Use of and Assignment of Meaning to Wool in Clothing [Material Culture] Abstract: This article deals with different paradigms and shifts concerning the significance of woolen clothing in class and gender throughout the last centuries. With reference to respective historical developments and dealings with fabrics like cotton, linen and silk, the author outlines the varying progress of woolen attires - especially their conspicuous function in providing class distinction. In the limelight are also connotations of specific textile fabrics with masculine or feminine attributes which have been perpetuated over several decades. After illuminating the culture-historical aspects, this article clarifies the attributions woolen garments have been having in recent history. -
Volume 9: Fabian Schröder (2013): 'Spürst Du das Adrenalin?' - Vermittlungspraxis deutscher Fußballvereinsmuseen. [Q-Papers] [Museum and Exhibition] Abstract: Against the background of the increasing popularisation of football club museums in Germany based on international models, this paper deals with the analysis of different mediation strategies as well as the intentions analyses different mediation strategies as well as the intentions, motives and metacommunicative aspects of several FVMs. As The author draws on Jana Scholze's semiotic method as an essential analytical tool for analysing museums and exhibitions and uses the mediation discourses to analysing the practical mediation work on the basis of the mediation discourses in order to use the results to make recommendations for the revision, continuation or formulate new concepts for exhibitions in the field of football club museums. Through the combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods and extensive on-site research in eleven football club museums, the study paints a comprehensive, albeit not exhaustive, picture of this genre of this genre and provides points of reference and results. Due to the lack of academic research on football club museums football club museums, especially in a museum-analytical context, the work provides a first approach to this emerging sub-area of the German museum landscape. museum landscape. -
Volume 8: Karen Ellwanger (2013): Formations of Memory - An Introduction. [Museum and exhibition] [Material culture] Abstract: In the 19th century, the formation of identity is supported by the demarcation of a hegemonic 'normative' from the exceptional state of the 'other', among other things among other things through the development of 'historicity'. In this way, the past became a relevant factor and, like the differentiation between differentiation between genders, races and sexual orientations constitutive for the construction of identity. In this sense In this sense, especially for male-heterosexual individuals in the modern era, the final touches were made by working on their own memory and that of the national community. national community. But how the past is remembered is by no means unambiguous. Personal remembrance takes place in interplay with collective memory. All forms are extremely susceptible to change. In her critique of identity formation according to structures identity formation according to structures, Karen Ellwanger explores what forms of memory exist, how they are created and how they change in the course of social changes. and how they undergo changes in meaning and interpretation in the course of social change. She points to the function of the cultural studies disciplines in shaping the discourse of memory work and argues in favour of a transdisciplinary analysis in order to do justice to the complexity of the phenomenon. the complexity of the phenomenon. English version: In the 19th century the formation of identity through delimitation of a hegemonic 'normative' from the exceptional 'other' is legitimised under reference to a historicity. In this way the past became a relevant entity and constitutive to the construction of identity in the same way as the differentiation between the sexes, sexual orientation and races. The transition of male-heterosexual individuals, in particular, to their rightful place in society in modernity was accomplished through their efforts around their individual memory and that of the national community. It is, however, not absolutely clear how the past is remembered. Personal remembrance is affected by collective memory. All forms are extremely prone to changes. In her critique of the structures of the formation of memory Karen Ellwanger investigates the various forms of memory, how they are constructed and which changes of meaning and interpretation they are subjected to in a changing society. She points out that the disciplines of the cultural sciences have shaped the discourse around memory and remembrance and advocates a transdisciplinary analysis to do justice to the complexity of the issue. -
Volume 7: Karen Ellwanger for the Institute of Material Culture (ed.) (2013): What remains. Catalogue of the exhibition. [Museum and Exhibition] Abstract: With the collaboration of numerous students and teachers from different departments, a comprehensive catalogue with contributions to and about the student exhibition student exhibition "Was übrig bleibt" ("What remains"), which provides a deep insight into the examination of ways of storing things. The transdisciplinary project as part of the Master's programme in Museum and Exhibition, was designed to combine practical and museum work in the "safe space of project studies" and to master the planning, conception and realisation of a complete exhibition - with all its pitfalls. with all its pitfalls. The catalogue offers a comprehensive report on the individual aspects and stages of the exhibition as well as "artistic, scientific and personal contributions", which in a way preserve the instructive exhibition project. The contributions are dedicated - partly philosophically, partly poetically poetically - to aspects related to the exhibition theme and individual object biographies as well as critical reflection on institutional the medium of the museum itself. -
Volume 6: Marius Kowalak (2013): In the field of tension between imagination and reality. Analysis of the permanent exhibition 'Oceania - Living Worlds in the South Seas' at the Übersee-Museum Bremen. [Q-Papers] [Museum and Exhibition] Abstract: Against the background of the dichotomous relationship between the "own" and the "foreign" not only in the museum environment, the author subjects the permanent exhibition 'Oceania - Lifeworlds in the South Seas' of the Übersee-Museum Bremen to an analysis with consideration of the current, transcultural and globalised constitution of our society. The conflicts in depicting the "reality" of a "foreign" culture through historical artefacts in a museum context are illuminated and critically embedded in the discourse of the "antagonistic relationship between the indigenous and Western worlds". The material culture as a transport medium of cultural values and peculiarities is examined not only in terms of its multi-layered significance but also in terms of the respective presentation methods in order to make statements about the meta-communication of the museum in a critical analysis. In the predominantly descriptive analysis of the exhibition, the author creates a precise picture of a multi-layered negotiation process between different cultural circles at the moment of the presentation of the conserved "foreign". -
Volume 5: Christopher Sommer (2012): 'Rüstkammern' - Präsentation von Waffen und Rüstungen der Frühen Neuzeit im Museum. [Q-Papers] [Museum and Exhibition] Abstract: The focus of this analysis of the presentation of 'armouries' in two German museums is the museum and exhibition analysis and investigation, as well as the presentation of the relevance of the research object under consideration in the context of museum, cultural and social developments. The military history study of the armouries of the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum in Emden and the "Rüstkammer Dresden" focuses on early modern and pre-modern weapons and war history, in particular, however, on the collections of offensive and defensive weapons of the time. Taking into account the etymological and historical background of the armouries, the author presents a multi-layered and in-depth analysis of the respective museum presentations and embeds them in the European context. This work provides the research field of museum and exhibition analysis with a revealing fragment of a hitherto little analysed phase of the history of weapons and war in our culture and also sheds light on the significance of the historical exhibits examined in relation to cultural and national identities. -
Volume 4: Kristina Novy (2012): Corporate Social Responsibility in the textile industry: What influence do 'codes of conduct' of fashion companies have on the working conditions of female factory workers in India? [Q-Papers] Against the backdrop of human rights violations and scandals involving a lack of fire safety with fatal outcomes in textile factories in (low-cost) production countries such as India, Bangladesh or Pakistan, which have increasingly come to public attention in recent years, there is growing interest in the measures and strategies that Western fashion companies are developing and implementing by means of so-called "Corporate Social Responsibility" (CSR) policies in order to improve working conditions in their textile value chain. In response to public pressure, fashion giant C&A has taken a critical stance and adopted CSR guidelines. However, this example in particular shows that this measure does not involve any actual commitments. The commitment propagated as "fair and honest" proved to be opaque: C&A was also exposed as a customer of the exploitative Indian "Sumangali" scheme. The extent to which CSR actually contributes to the improvement of social standards or whether it can be misused as a P.R. measure and is therefore even harmful is discussed in this bachelor thesis. English: Against a backdrop of an increasing number of discoveries of human rights violation and fatal lack of safety precautions in textile producing factories in countries such as India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, public pressure forces a growing number of Western fashion companies to subscribe to codes of Corporate-Social-Responsibility (CSR). One of these is fashion giant C&A. The intended aim of improving working conditions within their productions and value chains is not a secured result, however. C&A, having consequently labelled itself as a "Fair and honest" company, was recently exposed as having had their clothes produced in an Indian factory making use of the highly exploitative "Sumangali" scheme. This Bachelor thesis analyses whether the implementation of CSR-standards by fashion companies can be viewed as a decent instrument for the improvement of social standards or rather has to be rated solely as a public relations measure. -
Volume 3: Lioba Thaut (2012): Collecting at the German Hygiene Museum Dresden 1990 to 2012 Classification, contingency and knowledge production. [Q-Papers] [Museum and exhibition] Abstract: At the centre of this master's thesis, submitted in 2010, is a review of the collecting activities of the German Hygiene Museum. It examines how how and according to which criteria an independent collection was created after the "political change" and how it developed until 2010. Based on the concept of the "collection as a centre of scientific activity", three different types of sources - written sources, interviews with experts and 22 representative objects - its history is reconstructed. A detailed analysis shows that the collecting activity was characterised by the the collection concept on which it is based and the classification decisions made therein is a targeted but at the same time contingent action. action. English version: This master thesis focuses on the collecting activity of the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden from 1989 to 2010 and examines the creation of an independent collection after the German reunification. Three different sources - written sources, interviews and 22 objects - are used to reconstruct the history of the collection. A detailed analysis shows that the collecting activity is both a directed activity and reliant on chance. -
Volume 2: Karen Ellwanger & Norma Mack for the Institute of Material Culture (eds.) (2011): Studenteria - People with a matriculation background [Museum and Exhibition] Abstract: As part of the Museum and Exhibition Master's programme, students and lecturers have dedicated themselves to the task of exhibiting the everyday lives of students on Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes. The project grew out of the realisation and dissatisfaction that the representation of everyday student life and routines in the post-Bologna system had not yet received any attention and had not taken on any museum substance. For this reason, the 'affected' students took part in an exhibition project that focussed on the representation of themselves and the spheres of their university life. The catalogue describes, among other things, the conception, the selection and description of objects as well as the (visual) examination of working methods and explores the peculiarities and specifics of the 'Bildungsinländer'. The in-depth ethnographic study also looks at aspects such as nutrition, finances and stress in order to prepare the findings as the basis for the exhibition. -
Volume 1: Stefanie Mallon (2011): Archaeology in the living room. [Q-Papers] Abstract: A chaotic collection of books is at the centre of the analysis of this bachelor thesis from 2008. The changing stages of its order are recorded and placed in relation to superordinate social systems of meaning. Systematic structuring promotes the potential information yield of a collection and thus fulfils a modern requirement. In contrast, disorganisation not only makes the collection inaccessible to the general public, but may also lead to complete visual deprivation through discursively induced shame. In its disorder, this concrete collection offers a fertile basis for identifying discourses, deciphering power-political intentions by guiding the gaze and an example of the preservation of social order through "othering". In conclusion, it is recognised that the call for liberation from inflexible systems of order can only be made within the chaos-theoretically enriched discourse of late modernity. English version: A chaotic book collection forms the epicentre of this analysis. Its varying stages of order are identified and subsequently related to superordinate societal frames of reference. Systematic structuring increases the information exploit of a collection and coheres with modernist requirements. Disorder, however, subverts common access and sometimes also creates complete withdrawal from view through discursively produced shame. This particular collection, in its state of disorder, creates a fruitful base for detection of discourses, deciphering of power-political directions of gaze and an example for the fortification of societal identity through processes of "othering". Conclusively, it becomes obvious that even the demand for liberation from restrictive systems of order can only have any significance within the discourse of a chaos-theoretically enriched late modernism