Stephan Oettermann

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Stephan Oettermann (born November 5, 1949 in Detmold ) is a German literary scholar , cultural historian , curator and publicist. As a collector, he has one of the largest private archives on entertainment culture of the 19th century.

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Stephan Oettermann studied English , modern German literature , politics and education at the Philipps University in Marburg . He received his doctorate there in 1979 with a thesis on the panorama . After a few years as a freelance author (including for the course book and for Der Spiegel ), he worked as an assistant to the film director Uli Edel .

Together with Sibylle Spiegel , he curated exhibitions on cultural history in the 1990s, including Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742–1799: Risk of Enlightenment in Darmstadt and Göttingen (1992) and Friedrich Nietzsche in Weimar (2000). In 2002 he gave up exhibiting and has since worked as the city archivist in Gerolzhofen . From 2009 to 2014 he worked for the Pergamon - and Leipzig 1813 - panoramas by Yadegar Asisi .

Stephan Oettermann holds one of the largest private collections of archivals and literature on 19th century entertainment culture, the holdings of which he occasionally presents in national exhibitions. His work Das Panorama. The history of a mass medium , published in 1980, became the standard work on the perspective circular paintings popular in the 19th century and was published in American translation in 1997 in New York . Oettermann's Elephantographia Curiosa , published in 1982, was voted “Book of the Month” by the Darmstadt jury in April 1983 .

Publications (selection)

  • Signs on the skin. The history of the tattoo in Europe. Syndikat, Frankfurt am Main 1979 ( paperback syndicate EVA. 61). 3rd edition. Europäische Verlags-Anstalt, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-434-46221-X ( EVA-Taschenbuch 221). Also translated into Swedish 1984, ISBN 91-7139-280-7 .
  • The panorama. The history of a mass medium. Syndikat, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-8108-0152-6 (also University of Marburg, dissertation 1979). Translation into English: Stephan Oettermann: The Panorama. History of a Mass Medium. Zone Books, New York 1997, ISBN 0-942299-83-3 . Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider. (Bibliography pp. 383-401).
  • The elephant curiosity. An Elephantographia Curiosa. Syndikat, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-8108-0203-4 (bibliography, pp. 191-207).
  • Runner and precursor. On a cultural history of running . Syndikat, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-434-46040-3 ( paperback syndicate EVA. 40).
  • Adolph Friedländer Lithograph. A directory by numbers. (With Jan J. Seffinga) Oettermann, Gerolzhofen 2002, ISBN 3-931177-03-3 ( Studies and sources on the history of entertainment culture . Issue 4).
  • Bio-bibliographical encyclopedia of magicians. (With Sibylle Spiegel) Edition Huber, Offenbach am Main 2004, ISBN 3-921785-86-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How the Gerolzhöfer Stephan Oettermann saved the stars of the fairgrounds from being forgotten . In: Mainpost , June 4, 2009 (with details: About the person ; accessed on August 21, 2010)
  2. ↑ Norbert Finster: Immersed in the spirit of Pergamon. In: Main-Post. June 17, 2014, accessed February 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Harald Wieser : 19th century cinema . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1980, pp. 218-223 ( online review).
  4. ^ Stephan Oettermann: The Panorama. History of a Mass Medium . New York 1997 Review ( Memento from November 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ About Darmstadt Jury - Association "Book of the Month"
  6. ↑ Full steam ahead into the dead end . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1985, pp. 158 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Oettermann, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, cultural historian, exhibition organizer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold