Jost Auler

Jost Auler, 2016

Jost Auler (born April 23, 1958 in Düsseldorf ) is a German prehistorian , historian , journalist and publisher .

Live and act

After completing school in Dormagen and compulsory military service, Jost Auler completed an apprenticeship in wholesale and foreign trade. He then studied Prehistory and Early History , Middle and New History and Anglo-American History at the University of Cologne ; he completed his studies in spring 1991 with a master's degree . He took part in numerous archaeological excavations at home and abroad, some of which he directed himself.

After completing his studies, he worked in 1991/92 as an editor at the Münster office of the Mainz Academy of Sciences for the project prehistoric bronze finds and then in 1993/94 as a research assistant for the Lower Monument Authority of the state capital Düsseldorf. Afterwards he led various excavations in Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and for the East Frisian landscape in the district of Leer. He now works as a freelancer and as a freelance journalist and as a museum educator at the Clemens-Sels Museum in Neuss operates. Auler also designs exhibitions and leads archaeological workshops.

In 2004 he founded the archaeotopos book publisher.

In his writings he often works at the intersection of archeology and history; one of the main focuses of his research is local and regional history.

Auler's interests are pre-Christian epochs and archaeological research into places of execution in Europe. Between 2008 and 2012 he published three monographs on the subject of execution site archeology.

Auler lives in Dormagen- Stürzelberg in the Rhineland and has two daughters.

Publications

All in our own publishing house archaeotopos:

• Stürzelberg. A reading book by Rhine fishermen, grain smugglers and gallows birds. Dormagen 2005, ISBN 3-938473-03-7 .
• Stürzelberg. Chats from yesterday, pictures from today. Dormagen 2005, ISBN 3-938473-01-0 .
• (with Sigrid Scheuss) Rommerskirchen - "on the Gillbach". Dormagen 2005, ISBN 3-938473-02-9 .
• (with Dagmar Davertzhofen) Cooking through all eras. A culinary journey through Dormagen's past. 12 recipes. Dormagen 2006, ISBN 978-3-938473-00-9 .
• 175 pictures from the old Stürzelberg 1900–1970. Dormagen 2006, ISBN 978-3-938473-05-4 .
• Stürzelberg. From mammoth bones, mercenaries and sugar beets. Dormagen 2007, ISBN 978-3-938473-04-7 .
• Rogues, Smugglers & Courts. On the trail of historical criminal cases in old Zons. Dormagen 2007, ISBN 978-3-938473-08-5 .
• Straberg & Knechtsteden. 10 chapters from the history of the forest village. Dormagen 2007, ISBN 978-3-938473-09-2 .
• (Ed.): Place of execution archeology. Dormagen 2008, ISBN 978-3-938473-07-8 .
• (Ed.): Richtstättenarchäologie 2. Dormagen 2010, ISBN 978-3-938473-12-2 .
• (Ed.): Richtstättenarchäologie 3. Dormagen 2012, ISBN 978-3-938473-17-7 .
• Caldinius. Dormagens Roman cavalry soldier. A primer for young readers. Dormagen 2009, ISBN 978-3-938473-13-9 .
• (with Stefanie Schmidt & Winfried Schüngel) Stürzelberg. Impressions from the air. Dormagen 2009, ISBN 978-3-938473-11-5 .
• (with Petra Hiller) History of a former farm in Dormagen-Stürzelberg. Six essays. Dormagen 2016, ISBN 978-3-938473-21-4 .
• Karl Lorenz Auler Pascha (* 1854, † 1930). Prussian officer, military advisor in the Ottoman Empire, travel writer and World War II general. A short biography. Dormagen 2018, ISBN 978-3-938473-22-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jost Auler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website from Jost Auler