Fritz Blakolmer

Fritz Blakolmer (* 1964 in Graz ) is an Austrian classical archaeologist .

Life

After graduating from the humanistic branch of the Academic Gymnasium (Graz) on June 9, 1982 , he began studying Classical Archeology, Ancient Semitic Philology and Oriental Archeology , and later also Prehistory and Philosophy at the University of Vienna . Since the beginning of his studies he has been doing excavations at home and abroad, e. B. in Bruckneudorf , Carnuntum, Aguntum , on Magdalensberg and in Vienna - Heiligenstadt , with prospecting companies in Eastern Crete and in Malia (Crete) as well as repeated scholarships and study visits in Greece . 1985/1986 he worked for several months on the excavation project in Tiryns . From 1987 to 1999 he was in charge of cutting in Necropolis V of Limyra . From 1988 to 1992 he did archival work and editorial work for various publication projects for the Limyra excavation. On July 3, 1991 he passed the second diploma examination with a diploma thesis on image space and object perspective in the Minoan and Cycladic wall frescoes with distinction. From October 1st, 1991 to May 31st, 1992 he did his community service in a Caritas Vienna homeless shelter . He worked (January 1, 1993 - January 31, 1996) on a service contract basis on the repertory project on picturesque room decor in Minoan Crete, funded by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank's Jubilee Fund, together with Stefan Hiller . From 1994 to 2000 he was a contract assistant (part-time) at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna. After completing his doctorate on December 17, 1999 with a dissertation on convention and abstraction. Colored design in the Aegean Bronze Age with distinction from December 1, 2000 to July 11, 2006, he was university assistant (full time) at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna. In 2004 he was teaching at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Innsbruck . After the habilitation (July 12, 2006) for the subject Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna with the habilitation thesis Minoan-Mycenaean Relief Art. Basics of an early Aegean art history and transfer to the teaching scheme , he was accepted on October 1, 2006 in a definitive position at the University of Vienna. Since 2007 he has been co-coordinator of the faculty group for public relations . In 2009 he lectured at the University of Catania .

His research interests are Minoan-Mycenaean archeology; Early Aegean art; ancient Aegean wall painting and relief art; Foreign image and historical memory in the Bronze Age Aegean; Color in the Minoan-Mycenaean world; Research and reception history of the Early Aegean and Sepulchral world of Lycia.

Fonts (selection)

• as editor with Karl Reinhard Krierer , Friedrich Krinzinger , Alice Landskron-Dinstl, Hubert Szemethy and Karen Zhuber-Okrog: Fremde Zeiten. Festschrift for Jürgen Borchhardt on the occasion of his 60th birthday on February 25, 1996 presented by colleagues, students and friends . Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 1996.
  • Volume 1, ISBN 3-901232-14-1 .
  • Volume 2, ISBN 3-901232-15-X .
• as editor: Austrian research on the Aegean Bronze Age 1998. Files from the conference at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna, May 2-3 , 1998 (= Viennese research on archeology. Volume 3). Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-901232-21-4 .
• as editor with Hubert Szemethy: files of the 8th Austrian Archaeological Day from April 23 to 25, 1999 at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna (= Viennese research on archeology. Volume 4). Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-901232-28-1 .
• as editor: files of the conference "Ancient tradition in architecture and other arts around 1900" (= Studia Hercynia. Volume 8). Nakladatelsvi AMU, Prague 2004, ISBN 80-254-5210-7 .
• as editor with Jan Bouzek: files of the colloquium "Time Bridges - Art Déco, Cubism, Neoclassicism and Antiquity", April 2008 in Prague (= Studia Hercynia. Volume 13). Nakladatelsvi AMU, Prague 2009.
• as editor with Jörg Weilhartner, Claus Reinholdt and Georg Nightingale: Austrian Research on the Aegean Bronze Age 2009. Files from the conference from March 6th to 7th, 2009 at the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Salzburg . Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 3-85161-047-4 .
• as editor with Hubert Szemethy, Marianne Klemun , Martina Fuchs and Matthias Beitl: Gelehre Objects? - Paths to Knowledge. From the collections of the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna. Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Austrian Folklore Museum from April 11 to November 22, 2013 (= catalogs of the Austrian Museum of Folklore. Volume 98). Austrian Museum of Folklore, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85409-683-2 .
• as editor with Hubert Szemethy, Marianne Klemun and Martina Fuchs: 1365 - 2015 - 2065. Somewhat different stories from the University of Vienna . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2015, ISBN 3-205-79661-6 .
  • Bryan Jenner (translator) as editor with Hubert Szemethy, Marianne Klemun and Martina Fuchs: 1365 - 2015 - 2065. "Once there was a student": Other Stories of the University of Vienna . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79703-6 .
• as editor with Martin Seyer and Hubert Szemethy: Arrived on Ithaka. Ceremony for Jürgen Borchhardt on his 80th birthday . Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 3-85161-147-0 .
• as editor with Eva Alram-Stern, Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy , Jörg Weilhartner and Robert Laffineur: METAPHYSIS. Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 15th International Aegean Conference, Vienna, Institute for Oriental and European Archeology, Aegean and Anatolia Department, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Institute of Classical Archeology, University of Vienna, April 22-25, 2014 (= Aegaeum. Volume 39). Peeters, Leuven 2016, ISBN 90-429-3366-6 .

Web links

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• academia.edu