Michael Tellenbach

Michael Tellenbach (born October 20, 1950 in Munich ) is a German prehistoric archaeologist and director of the two museums Museum Weltkulturen and Bassermannhaus for music and art , which belong to the Reiss-Engelhorn museums in Mannheim . He is the second chairman of the Curt Engelhorn Foundation and second chairman of the Bassermann Foundation for Music and Art in Mannheim .

Life

After graduating from the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium Heidelberg , Tellenbach studied cultural anthropology at the anthropological faculty of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico City . There he took part in archaeological excavations. He completed his studies at the University of Heidelberg with a dissertation on the pre-ceramic Neolithic in Southeast Europe . He completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin on the origins of the development of high culture in the central Andean region.

For the Commission for General and Comparative Archeology of the German Archaeological Institute in Bonn , Michael Tellenbach directed and published, among other things, a major excavation in Peru. As a research assistant he taught at the universities of Berlin , Würzburg and Bonn. In 1994 he hosted and organized the International Max Uhle Symposium in Dresden with participants from Peru , Ecuador , USA , Poland , Italy , Spain , France and Germany . From 1994 to 2002 he worked as a department head for the development of archaeological monument preservation in Saxony and for the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden . Since 2009 he has been director of the Museum Weltkulturen with the departments of archeology and cultures of the world and their environment, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim. Tellenbach is the son of the German psychiatrist Hubertus Tellenbach .

Researches

Tellenbach has carried out and published extensive research on the archeology of the Middle East , Southeast Europe and the Central Andean region. He carried out long-term excavations and field research in Mexico , Peru and Ecuador , the Middle East and Southeast Europe. He brokered the restoration of the richest state graves in the new world, the princely graves of Sipan , Peru, to the central workshops of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum (RGZM), Mainz .

At the request of John Howland Rowe , he became the first German Research Associate at the Institute of Andean Studies , Berkeley (California) in 1984 . As a representative of the German federal states, he was involved in the RAPHAEL program committee of the EU Commission from 1998 to 2000 . He is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute. Since 2007 he has been the coordinator of the DressID project . Clothing and Identity in the Roman Empire by seven European research institutions ( Brussels , Copenhagen , Mannheim , Rethymnon , Sheffield , Valencia , Vienna ), the largest approved EU project by a German museum to date.

Exhibitions in Mannheim

In its exhibition activities, Tellenbach maintains international collaborations with other global museums, universities and other institutions. The exhibitions he has developed include:

• To the forces of nature. Myths of the old Peruvian Nasca Indians (Mannheim, 2002, 2003 together with Tanja Vogel)
• New world in transition. From the Maya to the Spanish. Guatemala, the land of the Quetzal (Mannheim, together with Alfried Wieczorek and others)
• Horsepower. The horse moves mankind (Mannheim, 2007, together with Nicola Crüsemann and others)
• Mummies - The Dream of Eternal Life (Mannheim, 2007/2008, together with Wilfried Rosendahl et al.)

Tellenbach was u. a. Participated in the international exhibition Alexander the Great and the Opening of the World (October 3, 2009 to February 21, 2010).

Exhibitions in Dubai

• To the Holy Lands. Pilgrimage Centers from Mecca and Medina to Jerusalem. (Dubai, 2008, together with Claude Sui, Tobias Wüstenbecker and others)
• Saladin and his Epoch - Encounters between East and West. (Dubai, in preparation, together with Alfried Wieczorek and others)

Publications (selection)

• Materials from the pre-ceramic Neolithic in South-East Europe. Typological-stratigraphic studies on lithic equipment. In: Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission. Vol. 64, 1983, ISSN  0341-9312 , pp. 21-137, (Heidelberg, Universität, Dissertation, 1983).
• The excavations in the formative period settlement of Montegrande, Jequetepeque Valley, northern Peru. = Las Excavaciones en el Asentamiento Formativo de Montegrande, Valle de Jequetepeque en el Norte del Perú (= materials for general and comparative archeology. Vol. 39). CH Beck, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-406-31933-5 .
• with Walter Alva Alva , Maiken Fecht, Peter Schauer : The princely grave of Sipán. Discovery and restoration. = La tumba del Señor de Sipán. Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-88467-022-0 .
• Chavin. Investigaciones acerca del desarrollo cultural Centro-Andino en las épocas Ofrendas y Chavín Tardío (= Andes. Vol. 2, 1-2, ISSN  1428-1384 ). 2 volumes. Universidad de Varsovia - Sociedad Polaca de Estudios Latinoamericanos - Misión Arqueológica Andina, Warsaw 1999.
• as editor with Alfried Wieczorek : To the powers of nature. Myths of the old Peruvian Nasca Indians (= publications of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums. Vol. 5). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-8053-2941-5 .

literature

• Alfried Wieczorek: Privatdozent Dr. Michael Tellenbach on his 60th birthday. In: Mannheim history sheets. NF Vol. 20, 2010, ISSN  0948-2784 , p. 153.

Web links

• Interview with Michael Tellenbach