Silke Tammen
Silke Tammen (born June 25, 1964 in Detmold ; † April 2, 2018 ) was a German art historian and university lecturer .
Career
Tammen studied art history, medieval and modern history and Romance studies in Marburg and Trier and graduated in 1990 with a doctorate on the topic: Manifestations of anti-clericalism in the art of the late Middle Ages in Trier. From 1992 to 1999 Tammen was a research assistant at the University of Bonn and the University of Hamburg . She completed her habilitation in Hamburg in 1999 with the text: In the Sea of Images: Ecclesia, the Christians and the Others. Studies on the ideology, functions and readability of the Bible moralisée of the 13th century . After various substitute professorships in Tübingen , Karlsruhe and Gießen, she was Professor of Art History at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen since 2003 .
From 2003 to 2009 Tammen was a representative for art history on the advisory board of the Medievalists Association , from 2006 to 2009 project manager in the SFB “Cultures of Remembrance” of the DFG . Since 2009 she has been a member of the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC). She was also the editor of the sensus series together with Barbara Schellewald, Ulrich Rehm and Bruno Reudenbach . Studies on medieval art history at Böhlau Verlag .
Tammen's main research areas were medieval book illumination , the visual history of the Holy Body - here she researched, among other things, the topics of holiness and gender - reliquaries , medieval jewelry and textile arts, in particular their mediality and materiality from the Middle Ages to contemporary art.
Publications (selection)
- Editor with Kristin Böse: Relationship-rich tissues. Textiles in the Middle Ages. Lang, Frankfurt am Main and others 2013, ISBN 978-3-6316-3664-0 .
- Body - Section - Image. About depictions of martyrdom on head and bust reliquaries or "(not) lose your head". Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library , Frankfurt am Main 2016 ( online publication ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Silke Tammen in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Seer - on the death of Silke Tammen , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung April 12, 2018, page 12
- ^ Obituary from the University of Giessen
- ^ Uni Giessen members Silke Tammen ( Memento from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Justus Liebig University Gießen: Silke Tammen ( memento from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on June 22, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tammen, Silke |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detmold |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd April 2018 |