Moritz Kinzel

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Moritz Kinzel (* 1976 ) is a German building researcher .

Moritz Kinzel studied at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin architecture and at the TU Berlin Heritage Conservation Studies . He completed his studies as an Elsa Neumann doctoral scholarship holder from the State of Berlin in 2011 as a doctoral engineer at the Technical University of Berlin . The subject of the dissertation was house building in the pre-ceramic Neolithic period in today's Jordan . In this work he combined “the submission and interpretation of architectural findings with innovative methodological and theoretical considerations on the relationship between building research and archeology”. Kinzel then became a research fellow at the Carsten Niebuhr Center for Multicultural Heritage at the University of Copenhagen . For his Danish employer, he held various, often managerial or coordinating positions in excavations in Jordan, Qatar and Turkey . This included, for example, the broad-based Heritage in Threat project .

Since 2017, Kinzel has been the lead building researcher in the research project in Göbekli Tepe . This is a joint project funded by the German Research Foundation between the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute and the University of Copenhagen in conjunction with the Şanlıurfa Museum . After the head building researcher in the Istanbul Department of the DAI, Katja Piesker , moved to the DAI's head office in Berlin, succeeding Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt , Kinzel took over the interim work area of ​​building research and cultural preservation at the Istanbul Department of the DAI since July 2019 . During this time, together with Lee Clare and the other colleagues, he gained new groundbreaking insights into the history of the construction and use of the Göbekli Tepe circular systems. In addition, he leads phase three of the project Stewards of Cultural Heritage of the Archaeological Heritage Network - Project Zero Hour , which, together with local experts from Syria, contributes to the communication of the country's cultural heritage and its preservation in various forms such as workshops, exhibitions or via the Internet should perform.

After an amendment to the statutes in 2019 for the first time after the management position at the DAI that had become vacant due to Piesker's departure following an advertisement via an appointment committee made up of representatives of the directorate and central management of the DAI and the scientific advisory board of the Istanbul department, Kinzel was able to apply in March 2020 enforce and became the new Second Director of the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute.

Kinzel's research focuses on the Arab and Anatolian regions. In doing so, he pursues a cross-epoch approach that extends from prehistory to modern Arab buildings, especially Arabia. Other focal points of the activity are the preservation of historical monuments , the preservation of culture in conflict regions as well as the communication of the cultural heritage. One of the latter, for example, the study of architecture and interior design in the Tim-and-Tintin comic books by Hergé .

Fonts

  • At the beginning of the house construction. Studies on PPNB architecture by Shkārat Msaied and Baʻja in the Petra region, southern Jordan. (= Studies in early near eastern production, subsistence, and environment. Volume 17), Ex Oriente, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-944178-04-2 [dissertation].
  • with Pernille Carstens, Thomas Bo Nielsen and Lars Schmidt: Eyes on Syria. (= Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus. Volume 12), Forlaget Orbis, Copenhagen 2015, ISBN 978-87-997908-3-8 .
  • with Mette Elisabeth Bangsborg Thuesen and Ingolf Thuesen (editor): Den truede kulturarv. (= Conflict & Culture ), Forlaget Orbis, Copenhagen 2019, ISBN 978-87-970640-5-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Message - Dainst. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Dilan: Dr. Moritz Kinzel: In Göbekli Tepe we are still at the beginning. In: Yeni Özgür Politika. May 16, 2018, accessed on May 6, 2020 (tr-TR).
  3. ↑ Conflict & Culture. Retrieved May 6, 2020 (Danish).
  4. ^ Children's academy: Moritz is a professional digger. October 20, 2007, accessed May 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kinzel, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1976