Claudia Theune

Claudia Theune (born August 15, 1959 in Kleve , at times Claudia Theune-Vogt ) is a German medieval and modern archaeologist and university professor at the University of Vienna with a focus on historical archeology .

After finishing school in Kevelaer , Claudia Theune studied in Marburg and Bonn . She did her doctorate in Marburg in 1988 on the early medieval settlement history in the western Lake Constance area , the Hegau . She then worked from 1988 to 1994 as a research assistant for the evaluation of the early medieval burial ground in Weingarten and the exhibition project Hesse and Thuringia - From the Beginnings to the Reformation and a scholarship holder at the Philipps University of Marburg. From 1994 to 2000 she worked as a research assistant at the Chair for Prehistory and Protohistory at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After Theune completed her habilitation in 2001 with a thesis on structural changes in the Alamannia based on archaeological sources , she was senior research assistant and private lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 2006. Since January 1, 2007, she has been a university professor for Prehistory and Early History with a focus on archeology of the Middle Ages and modern times (historical archeology) at the Institute for Prehistory and Historical Archeology at the University of Vienna.

Theune researches the epochs of the Roman Empire , the entire Middle Ages and modern times , or contemporary history . The focus was on everyday history , craft and trade history , production and exchange (e.g. early medieval pearls, craft in rural settlements, gold mining in the Gastein Valley ), settlement archeology in the late medieval desert of Pagram near Frankfurt (Oder) , or Drösing an der March, as well as the history of science in the subject . She is currently researching, in particular, settlement and economic structures in marginal Alpine settlement areas ( gold mining in the Alps , Alpine crossings, archaeological and architectural research at Hanfelden Castle ) in the late Middle Ages and early modern times, as well as the connection between archeology and contemporary history. A particular focus in recent years has been on contemporary archeology , the archaeological research of former concentration camps and forced camps in Austria and Germany. In addition to excavations in the former Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps and their satellite camps, as well as in internment camps in the Caribbean (so-called Five Islands ), she researches the material legacies of the victims and perpetrators and uses the objects to investigate the inmates' survival strategies.

Claudia Theune is President of the European Archaeological Society Ruralia and Chairwoman of the Austrian Society for Medieval Archeology.

Claudia Theune is the sister of the former soccer player and former national soccer coach Tina Theune .

Fonts

• with Helmut Roth : The early medieval burial ground near Weingarten (Kr. Ravensburg). Catalog of the tomb inventories. (= Research and reports on prehistory and early history in Baden-Württemberg, volume = 44 / I). Theiss, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1175-2 .
• with Helmut Roth; Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg: On the chronology of Merovingian women's graves in southwest Germany. A preliminary report on the cemetery of Weingarten, district of Ravensburg. Society for Prehistory and Early History in Württemberg and Hohenzollern, Stuttgart 1988.
• The Analysis of Beads Found in the Merovingian Cemetery of Weingarten. Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Models and Methods with Applications. (= Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the Society for Classification eV March 12-14, 1990), University of Marburg, Marburg 1991, pp. 352-361.
• Chronological results of the pearls from the Alemannic burial ground of Weingarten, Kr. Ravensburg. (= Small writings from the Prehistory Seminar of the Philipps University of Marburg, number 33), Elwert, Marburg 1990.
• Early medieval grave finds in Hegau. (= University research on prehistoric archeology, Vol. 54 / Writings on the archeology of Germanic and Slavic early history, Vol. 4), Habelt, Bonn 1999. ISBN 3-7749-2931-9 .
• Teutons and Romans in the Alamannia. (= Supplementary volumes Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , Volume 45), de Gruyter, Berlin 2004. ISBN 3-11-017866-4 .
• “Das dorff pagere” - the medieval desert of Pagram near Frankfurt (Oder). (= Work reports on the preservation of soil monuments in Brandenburg, number = 17), Wünsdorf 2007. ISBN 978-3-910011-48-9 .
• together with Constanze Cordes: The early medieval burial ground of Weingarten. Guide to archaeological monuments in Baden-Württemberg 26. Stuttgart 2009.
• together with Tina Walzer (editors): Jüdische Friedhöfe. Place of worship, place of remembrance, memorial. Böhlau, Vienna 2010. ISBN 978-3-205-78477-7 .
• Historical archeology in national socialist concentration camps in Central Europe. Historical archeology 2010 online
• together with Pavel Sankot: The Germanic grave 2536 in Hostivice, Kr. Prag-West. In: Germania 90, 2012 (2014), pp. 145-184.
• Identity Establishing Heritage Sites? Memory, Remembrance and Commemoration at Monuments and Memorials. In: R. O'Ríagáin / CN Popa, Archeology and the (de) construction of National and Supra-National Polities. Archaeological Review from Cambridge Vol. 27.2 November 2012, pp. 161-177.
• Social Identities and Religiousities in Medieval Archeology. In: Contributions to Medieval Archeology in Austria 29, 2013, pp. 255–261.
• Archeology and remembrance. The Contemporary Archeology of Concentration camps, Prisoner-of-war-camps and Battlefields. In: Natascha Mehler (editor): Historical Archeology in Central Europe. Society of Historical Archeology Special Publications , Rockville 2013, pp. 241-260
• Gold mining in the Gastein Valley. In: Claudia Theune et al. (Editor): City - Country - Castle. Festschrift for Sabine Flegenhauer-Schmiedt on her 70th birthday. Marie-Leidorf Verlag, Rahden / Westf. 2013, pp. 395–404.
• Archeology at crime scenes in the 20th century. (= Special edition 6, Archeology in Germany 2014), Konrad Theiss Verlag / Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2014. ISBN 978-3-8062-2961-5 . Reviews by Ulf Ickerodt with a replica by Florian Freund in H-Soz-Kult February 26, 2015 and Reinhard Bernbeck in Das Altertum Volume 59, year 2014, pp. 311–316. - 2nd revised and expanded edition, Darmstadt 2016.
• On the border. The late medieval and early modern castle Klausegg in Lungau. Museum portal. (= Magazine of the Lungauer Museumsverein 3), Tamsweg 2014.
• Significance and perspectives of a modern archeology . In: Bulletin of the German Society for Archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times 28, 2015, pp. 11–22.
• Basics and perspectives of an archeology of the 20th century. In: Blickpunkt Archäologie 3/2015, pp. 164–176.
• (In) visibilities. Traces and relics uncovered. Archeology in the former Mauthausen concentration camp. In: Daniela Allmeier et al. (Editor): Places of Remembrance in Motion. To redesign commemoration at sites of National Socialist crimes. Transkript Verlag Bielefeld 2016, pp. 199–218. ISBN 978-3-8376-3059-6 .
• Perspectives on Disposal Practices in the Middle Ages. In: Contributions to Medieval Archeology in Austria 31, 2015, pp. 99–110.
• together with Thomas Kersting et al. (Editor): Archeology and Memory. Nazi camp locations: research - preserve - mediate. Imhof-Verlag, Petersberg 2016. ISBN 978-3-7319-0470-0 .
• together with Thomas Kühtreiber : Years in building inscriptions. Dating means and past construct. In: Contributions to Medieval Archeology 33, 2017, Vienna 2018.
• together with Gilly Carr and Marek Jasinski (editors): The Material Culture for Nazi Camps (= International Journal of Historical Archeology. Special Issue). July 2017 ( online at springer.com).
• Hanfelden Castle - then & now. Issue 1/2016 and issue 2/2018, Unterzeiring 2016 and 2018.
• Caribbean history - far and yet so close. In: Archeology in Germany, issue 5/2018, pp. 13-19.
• A shadow of war. Sidestone, Leiden 2018.

Web links

• Literature by and about Claudia Theune in the catalog of the German National Library
• Claudia Theune in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Claudia Theune on the website of the University of Vienna. Retrieved November 1, 2018 .