Generational Conflicts, the Spirit of ‘68 and Cultural Emancipation in the German Speaking Community of Belgium. A Historical Essay About the ‘73 Generation

in Venken, Machteld (Ed.) Borderland Studies Meets Child Studies. A European Encounter (2017)

‘Changes were in the air’ – is perhaps the best way to describe the social mood at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. On the international stage, the gap between the post-war generation ... [more ▼]

‘Changes were in the air’ – is perhaps the best way to describe the social mood at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. On the international stage, the gap between the post-war generation, known as the ‘baby boomers’ and the generation that had experienced World War II as adolescents or young adults came to light in the form of student protests, anti-war movements and new concepts of life. It is scarcely a coincidence that there were protests in eastern Belgium too at this time. What were the ‘young wild ones’ protesting against in the German speaking region of Belgium? Based on a generational approach, this article aims at contextualizing the autonomy-debate in the late 1960s and early 1970s by focusing on a historical investigation into a few young people in the Eifel region that would strike new political tones with lasting influence on the political landscape as well as on the social or cultural environment of eastern Belgium. [less ▲]

Hybrid Histories: Versuch einer kritischen Standortbestimmung der Mediengeschichte

Presentation (2017, November 23)

Einleitung

in Fickers, Andreas; Haude, Rüdiger; Krebs, Stefan (Eds.) et al Jeux sans Frontières? - Grenzgänge der Geschichtswissenschaft (2017)

L’imagination historique à l’ère numérique: entre fiction authentique et désir de réalité

Presentation (2017, October 12)

Berlin Alexanderplatz. Die performative Inszenierung großstädtischer Klangkulissen in Roman, Film und Radio

Presentation (2017, September 21)

Recording a Binaural Radio Drama About the History of Binaural Sound Recording

Presentation (2017, February 03)

Entrevista com Andreas Fickers

in Z Cultural : Revista do programa avanca de cultura contemporanea (2017), 1(2),

Looking East–Watching West? On the Asymmetrical Interdependencies of Cold War European Communication Spaces

in Bönker, Kirsten; Obertreis, Julia; Grampp, Sven (Eds.) Television Beyond and Across the Iron Curtain (2016)

Zeit-Räume im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Erfahrungen von Verdichtung, Beschleunigung und Beharrung

in Lejeune, Carlo (Ed.) Code Civil, beschleunigte Moderne und Dynamiken des Beharrens im langen 19. Jahrhundert (2016)

Hands-on! Plädoyer für eine experimentelle Medienarchäologie

in Technikgeschichte (2015), 82(1), 67-85

Inspired by experiences with doing experimental research in the fields of history of science, archaeology and musicology this essay aims at reflecting on the heuristic potential of experimental media ... [more ▼]

Inspired by experiences with doing experimental research in the fields of history of science, archaeology and musicology this essay aims at reflecting on the heuristic potential of experimental media archaeology for a history of technology interested in the sensorial dimension of technology. Based on the concept of re-enactment, experimental media archaeology tries to explore new ways of experiencing and understanding the materiality of media technologies by interacting with these objects in a playful manner. In order to do so, the article argues, we need to de-auratize historical objects and turn the historian – which to often remains within the textual realm when studying the past media practices – into an experimenter and the museum into a laboratory. Ziel dieses Essays ist es, experimentelle Medienarchäologie als alternative Methode einer sinnes- und objektorientierten Technik- und Mediengeschichtsschreibung zu skizzieren. Basierend auf den Erfahrungen im Bereich experimenteller Wissenschaftsgeschichte, der experimentellen Archäologie sowie der historisch informierten Aufführungspraxis in der Musik soll das erkenntnistheoretische Potenzial eines objekt- und sinnesorientierten experimentellen Zugangs im Bereich der Medien- und Technikgeschichte diskutiert werden. In bewusster Abgrenzung von klassischen medienarchäologischen Arbeiten, deren methodologisches Repertoire sich meist in der Diskursanalyse erschöpft, zielt die experimentelle Medienarchäologie auf eine spielerische Heuristik, in deren Mittelpunkt die Methode des „re-enactment“ steht. [less ▲]