Katja Lembke

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Katja Lembke (2012)

Katja Lembke (* 1965 ) is a German classical archaeologist and Egyptologist and director of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover .

Career

Katja Lembke studied Classical Archeology , Egyptology and Latin from 1984 to 1992 at the Leibniz College ( Studium Generale ) at the University of Tübingen , at the University of Munich , the Universities of La Sapienza and Gregoriana in Rome and at the University of Heidelberg . In 1992 she received her doctorate in Heidelberg with Tonio Hölscher with the dissertation Das Iseum Campense in Rome . In 1992/93 she received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . From 1994 to 1996 Lembke worked as an assistant at the Egyptian Museum Berlin . Then she headed a project to document the grave of Siamun in the Siwa oasis until 2000 , and then until 2003 the research project “The sculptures from the spring sanctuary of Amrit / Western Syria”. In 2002 she also started coordinating the sub-project “Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection” of the “Restoration and Building Clearance Pergamon Museum” project, which ran until 2004. From 2000 to 2003 she headed the research project “The favissa of the Herakles Melqart sanctuary in Amrit” as part of the DFG priority program “Forms and ways of acculturation in the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea region”. In 2002 Lembke began her two-year activity as an expert on Egyptian art for the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR). Here she was responsible in particular for the planning of the restoration and clearance of the Egyptian Museum in the Neues Museum . From 2005 to 2011 Lembke was Executive Director and Managing Director of Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museums Hildesheim GmbH . During her tenure, numerous cultural and historical exhibitions (including "Cult around the Ball" (2006), "Beauty in Ancient Egypt. Longing for Perfection" (2006/07), "Maya. Kings from the Rainforest" (2007/08), " Paradises of the South Seas. Myth and Reality ”(2008/09),“ Cyprus. Island of Aphrodite ”(2010) and“ Giza. At the foot of the great pyramids ”(2011)) as well as the new installation of the Egyptian permanent exhibition planned and implemented. She also taught at times as a lecturer at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Göttingen .

On May 1, 2011, she succeeded Jaap Brakke as director of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover.

In 2004 she initiated the research and restoration project "The Petosiris Necropolis of Hermupolis / Tuna el-Gebel", which was carried out by the DFG in 2004–2011, by the DAAD in 2011–2014 , by the Volkswagen Foundation in 2015–2018 and again by the DFG since 2017 and is currently funded by the Federal Foreign Office . Lembke has been an honorary professor at the University of Göttingen since 2015 , where she has been a lecturer since 2001. Since 2018 she has acted as the spokesperson for the research project "Provenance Research in Non-European Collections and Ethnology (PAESE) in Lower Saxony", which is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and as a joint project with the Universities of Göttingen and Hanover, the State Museum "Nature and Man" Oldenburg , the Municipal Museum Braunschweig and the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim .

Honorary positions

Katja Lembke is involved in various museum-cultural areas and in various church organizations: She is a member of the Lower Saxony Scientific Commission , Chairwoman of the Advisory Board of the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg , member of the Advisory Board of the Berlin Museum in the Humboldt Forum Berlin and a member of the Jury for the allocation of funds from the central exhibition fund of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Lembke was a member of the 12th Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany and the 25th Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover chosen. She has taken on further memberships in the presidium of the Protestant Church Building Day, in the committee for development-related education and journalism in Lower Saxony of the KED (Church Development Service of the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Braunschweig and Hanover) and in the jury of the Foundation for the Preservation of Church Monuments in Germany. She is the 2nd chairwoman of the church building and development association Propsteikirche Basilika St. Clemens e. V. Hannover, member of the selection committee of the German National Academic Foundation and mentor at the Leibniz University Hannover and the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg .

Katja Lembke has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 2003 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Iseum Campense in Rome. Study of the Isis cult under Domitian (= archeology and history. Volume 3). Verlag Archeology and History, Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 3-9801863-2-6 .
  • Phoenician anthropoid sarcophagi (= Damascus research . Volume 10). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-8053-2662-9 .
  • The sculptures from the spring shrine of Amrit. Study on acculturation in Phenicia (= Damascus research. Volume 12). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-8053-3403-6 .
  • Egypt's late bloom. The Romans on the Nile (= Zabern's illustrated books on archeology . Special volumes of the ancient world ). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-8053-3276-9 .
  • Hanover's Nefertiti. The portraits of Sent M'Ahesa by Bernhard Hoetger (= NahSichten , Volume 2). Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2627-9 .
  • The tomb of Siamun in the Siwa oasis. Ammoniaca II (= archaeological publications of the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department , Volume 115). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-4471-0239-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Here and below: Simon Benne: Katja Lembke becomes the new director of the State Museum in Hanover . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , from January 12, 2010, p. 1; CV on the EKD homepage; Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the Archaeological Institute of the University of Göttingen.
  2. ↑ Simon Benne: Katja Lembke becomes the new director of the State Museum in Hanover . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , from January 12, 2010, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Lembke, Katja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist and Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965