Markus Schindlbeck

Markus Schindlbeck (* 1949 ) is a German ethnologist . He was the head of the specialist section "Oceania and Australia" in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin and the curator of the permanent exhibition "South Seas" there.

Life

From 1969 to 1978 Markus Schindlbeck studied ethnology , history and geography at the University of Basel (Switzerland) . From 1972 to 1974 he took part in a scientific expedition of the Ethnological Seminar of the University of Basel under the direction of Meinhard Schuster (some of the photos he took on this expedition are now part of the permanent exhibition "Oceania. Life Worlds in the South Seas" of the Überseemuseum in Bremen ). From 1978 to 1979 Schindlbeck worked as a research assistant at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Basel , during which time he completed his doctorate . In 1983 he worked as a research assistant at the ethnological seminar at the University of Basel.

From 1984 to 1985 he did a traineeship at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, in the specialist department South Seas and Australia. Since 1986 he has been the head of the specialist department. In the same year 1986 he went on a research trip to the Caroline Islands . Another research and collecting trip to New Zealand followed in 1993. In 2001 and 2004 the permanent exhibition "South Seas" in the Berlin Ethnological Museum was redesigned according to his specifications. It is considered to be the most important exhibition of oceanic art in the world in terms of both quality and quantity. Schindlbeck retired in 2014. Markus Schindlbeck regularly holds seminars at the Free University of Berlin.

He publishes the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie and is a board member (2011 to 2014 President) of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory .

Fonts

• Sago with the Sawos. Studies on the importance of sago in the economy, social order and religion . 1980.
• The ethnographic lens. Photographs from the Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin . 1989.
• From coconut to plastic. South Sea cultures in transition . 1993, ISBN 3-496-02524-7 .
• The Art of Collecting. Interactions between Collectors and the People they visit . In: Journal of Ethnology . Volume 118, 1994, pp. 57-68.
• The Art of the Head-Hunters. Collecting Activity and Recruitment in New Guinea at the beginning of twentieth Century . In: HJ Hiery and JM MacKenzie: European Impact and Pacific Influence . 1997, pp. 31-43.
• New Zealand - Land of the Long White Cloud / New Zealand. Land of the long white cloud . In: James Cook . Treasures of the South Seas. The Cook / Forster Collection // Gifts and treasures from the South Seas. The Cook / Forster Collection in Göttingen . Edited by / published by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and Gundolf Krüger. 1998, pp. 172-194, ISBN 978-37913-1868-4 , formerly 3791318683.
• German scientific expeditions and research in the South Seas until 1914 . In: HJ Hiery: The German South Seas. A manual . 2001.
• Waves of the south seas . In: Ingo Kühl , Nordsee - Südsee: Oil paintings, works on paper, clay reliefs 2001–2003; [to the exhibition Südsee-Wellen, pictures by Ingo Kühl , Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2004], pp. 18, 20, Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Verlagsgruppe Husum 2004, ISBN 3-86530-001-4 .
• Expeditions to the South Seas: Book accompanying the exhibition and history of the South Sea Collection of the Ethnological Museum / SMS, Ethnological Museum, National Museums in Berlin . Dietrich Reimer Verlag , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-496-02780-5 .
• Old Hawaiʻi: an ethnography of Hawaiʻi in the 1880s: based on the research and collections of Eduard Arning in the Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin / edited by Adrienne L. Kaeppler, Markus Schindlbeck and Gisela E. Speidel. SMB, Ethnological Museum, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-88609-621-3 .
• Found and lost: Arthur Speyer, the 1930s and the losses of the Südsee Collection of the Ethnological Museum Berlin . Verlag Kettler, Bönen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86206-131-0 .
• Out and about in the South Seas: Adolf Roesicke and his journeys on the Sepik . Nicolai Verlag , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89479-916-8 .
• War, ritual and art: the cultural characteristics of the Sawos . In: Tanz der Anhnen: Kunst vom Sepik in Papua New Guinea (on the occasion of the exhibition Tanz der Anhnen. Kunst vom Sepik in Papua New Guinea , Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin, Museum Rietberg , Zurich, Musée du quai Branly , Paris), Hirmer Verlag , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7774-2339-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Markus Schindlbeck in the catalog of the German National Library