Marie-Louise von Plessen
Marie-Louise von Plessen (maiden name: Marie-Louise Jutta Marion Countess von Plessen ; born September 9, 1950 in Neustadt in Holstein ) is a German cultural historian , writer and museologist . She is also the author and editor of numerous specialist books and director of documentaries and short films.
ancestry
Marie-Louise Countess von Plessen comes from the Danish- Holstein line Scheel von Plessen of the von Plessen family . Her parents were the major of the reserve and landowner to Sierhagen and Mühlenkamp Carl Ludwig Cay Lehensgraf von Scheel-Plessen and his wife Anita, nee. from Scheven. The writer Elisabeth Plessen is her older sister; the Holstein politician Carl von Scheel-Plessen was her great-great-grandfather.
Life
Marie-Louise von Plessen studied history and sociology in Munich and received her doctorate in 1974 (Dr. phil.). In addition to other international artists and museum directors, she has been associated with Daniel Spoerri since the mid-1970s . In her private life she lived with the Swedish art historian Pontus Hultén until 2006 .
Today she is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Musée de l'Europe in Brussels, the European cultural institute Pierre Werner in Luxembourg and the Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe in Lausanne. Countess von Plessen is also a senator of the European Parliament of Culture and advisor to the cultural path of the Council of Europe in Luxembourg (“Institut Européen des itinéraires culturels”).
As a curator, cultural historian and museologist, she organizes and organizes, in particular, international historical exhibitions.
Exhibitions (selection)
The following cultural and art-historical exhibitions were designed and directed by Marie-Louise Countess von Plessen (selection):
- Le musée sentimental de Prusse ( Berlin Museum 1981)
- Berlin through the flower or cabbage and beet ( Schloss Charlottenburg 1985)
- Berlin, Berlin ( Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin 1987)
- Bismarck - Prussia, Germany and Europe (Martin Gropius-Bau Berlin 1990)
- Magic tones - Mozart in Vienna ( Künstlerhaus Vienna 1991/92)
- The Elbe - a curriculum vitae ( German Hygiene Museum , National Museum Prague , Deichtorhallen Hamburg 1993/94)
- Sehsucht - the panorama as a mass phenomenon of the 19th century ( Art and Exhibition Hall Bonn 1993)
- The State Russian Museum St. Petersburg (Art and Exhibition Hall Bonn 1995)
- Marianne and Germania (Martin Gropius-Bau Berlin, Petit Palais Paris 1997)
- Time travel on foot in Weimar - a cultural and historical guidance system (multimedia installation in the urban space of Weimar 1999/2000)
- Mare Balicum - The Baltic Sea: Myth - History - Art in 1000 Years ( National Museum Copenhagen 2002/03)
- The European Idea: Drafts for Eternal Peace ( Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin 2003)
- Cultural history of the heart ( Schloss Neuhardenberg 2004)
- Prince Eugene of Savoy - general, philosopher and art lover ( Belvedere Palace Vienna 2010)
- Art and Design for All - The Victoria and Albert Museum (curation with Julius Bryant; Art and Exhibition Hall Bonn, Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts Budapest 2012)
- The Rhine. A European River Biography (Art and Exhibition Hall Bonn 2016/17)
Works (selection)
- The effectiveness of the Verein für Socialpolitik from 1872-1890: Studies on Catholic and State Socialism , Duncker & Humblot Publishing House, 1975
- Healing rituals at Breton sources (with Daniel Spoerri ), private print Gredinger, 1978
- Le musée sentimental de Prusse (with Daniel Spoerri), Verlag Frölich & Kaufmann, 1981
- Two millennia of childhood (with Peter von Zahn ), Egmont vgs Verlagsgesellschaft, 1995
- Marianne and Germania. France and Germany. Two worlds - one revue. Exhibition of the Berliner Festspiele, Verlag Argon, 1996
- Time travel on foot in Weimar. A network of paths between the Goethehaus and Buchenwald. Hatje Publishing House, 1999
- Flora Exotica: A Botanical Masterpiece from 1720 (with Adrian von Buttlar , Helga de Cuveland and Johann G. Simula), Verlag Hatje Cantz, 1999
- State Russian Museum Saint Petersburg. Art and cultural history of Russia in works and pictures , Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001
- All my heart. This side and beyond of a symbol. (with Cornelia Kruse), Verlag Nicolai, Berlin 2004
- Wall anchor and bull - Plesse | Plessen - A Thousand Years of a North German Noble Family (with 43 other authors of Volume I), Volume I and II, Schwerin. Helms 2015
- The Rhine. A European river biography . Published with the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Prestel Verlag, Munich, London, New York 2016
She has also written numerous multilingual publications on contemporary art, museology and transnational historiography.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Naumann: MARIE-LOUISE Jutta Marion Countess of Plessen. In: The Plessen - family line on the XIII. to XX. Century . Published by Helmold von Plessen on behalf of the family association. 2nd revised and expanded edition. CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn, 1971, pp. 134-136.
- ↑ Lorenz Tomerius: Happiness to find. The desire to show . In: Zeit Online, May 28, 1993, p. 2 (accessed April 26, 2013).
- ^ Meta Sentimental. Summary of the course with the following publication, carried out at the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen from the summer semester 2010 to the end of the summer semester 2011. In: Joanneum Museum Academy (accessed on August 19, 2013).
- ^ Ulrich Schacht: Wanderlustige barbarians . In: Zeit Online from 2001 (accessed on August 19, 2013).
- ↑ Dr. Marie-Louise von Plessen . In: uni-frankfurt.de .
- ↑ Marie-Louise Countess of Plessen . In: Europe in the 17th Century , p. 389 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plessen, Marie-Louise von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Plessen, Marie-Louise Jutta Marion Countess von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cultural historian and museologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neustadt in Holstein |