Michael Niedermeier (art historian)

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Michael Niedermeier (* 1954 in Gotha ) is a German literary and art historian who deals with the topic of garden art and the literature, language and culture of the Goethe era .

Live and act

Michael Niedermeier studied German and English from 1976 to 1980 at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He then completed a research study and in 1983 with a thesis novel Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe doctorate . From 1983 to 2000 he was a research assistant at the German Studies section at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1985 he was a guest lecturer at the Universities of Vienna and Klagenfurt and from 1985 to 1988 at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. In 1992 he was on an IREX scholarship at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and at the Institute of Landscape Architecture Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC. From 1996 to 1997 he was visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst .

In 2007 he completed his habilitation and became a lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy, Literature, Science and Technology History at the Technical University of Berlin .

Michael Niedermeier has been the head of the Goethe dictionary at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences since 2000 . He is a board member of the Pückler Society Berlin, board member of the Dessau-Wörlitz Commission of the Interdisciplinary Center for Research into the European Enlightenment of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, member of the Friends of the Goethe and Schiller Archives and member of the Collaborative Research Center 644 “Transformations of Antiquity” at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Fonts

  • The end of the idyll. On the character of the relationship to the world in Goethe's novel “Die Wahlverwandationen”. Dissertation. Humboldt University of Berlin 1983.
  • The end of the idyll. Symbolism, reference to time, “Garden Revolution” in Goethe's novel “Die Wahlverwandschaften”. Lang, Berlin a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-86032-003-3 .
  • Eroticism in gardening. A cultural history of love gardens. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-361-00436-5 .
  • The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz as a cultural and literary center around 1780. Part 6 by Erhard Hirsch , Thomas Höhle (ed.): Dessau-Wörlitz contributions. City History Museum, Dessau 1995.
  • with Clemens Alexander Wimmer (ed.): The spring day in the garden (1811/12) / Friedrich Ludwig Karl von Finckenstein . Two didactic garden poems from the Mark Brandenburg. Pückler Society, Berlin 1997.
  • with Jost Hermand : Revolutio germanica. The longing for the “old freedom” of the Teutons 1750–1820. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-631-39671-6 .
  • with Annette Dorgerloh , Hanno Schmitt (eds.): Life, lust and death in gardens around 1800. Rochow Museum, Reckahn 2004, ISBN 3-9809752-0-7 .
  • with Michael Seiler (Red.): The gardens of Ermenonville. Pückler Society, Berlin 2007.
  • Memory landscape and secret knowledge. Staged memoria and political symbolism in German literature and the other arts (1650–1850). Habilitation thesis. Technical University of Berlin 2007.
  • with Annette Dorgerloh, Horst Bredekamp (eds.): Classicism / Gothic. Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the patriotic architecture. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-422-06686-1 .
  • (Ed.): The landscape park by makers. Pückler's gardener JH Rehder . Pückler Society, Berlin 2009.
  • with Annette Dorgerloh, Marcus Becker (ed.): Grave and memoria in the early landscape garden. Fink, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-7705-5442-3 .
  • Ancestral landscapes, mystical initiation rooms and Arcadian love gardens. Garden art from the time of Goethe (= communications from the Pückler Society. Volume 31). VDG, Kromsdorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-89739-887-0 .
  • (Ed.): Izabella Czartoryska: Various thoughts on the way to create gardens (1805/1808). The garden book of Princess Izabela Czartoryska (= messages from the Pückler Society. Volume 32). VDG, Weimar 2018, ISBN 978-3-89739-909-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Niedermeier on the website of the TU Berlin
  2. ^ Curriculum Vitae on the website of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
  3. ^ Board of the Pückler Society
  4. ↑ Board of the Dessau-Wörlitz Commission
personal data
SURNAME Niedermeier, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha