Thomas Otten

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Thomas Otten (2020), Museum Director of the MiQua.
Thomas Otten (right) on November 10, 2013 on the occasion of the LWL Monument Preservation Award

Thomas Heinz Otten (born September 28, 1966 in Bonn ) is a German archaeologist , monument conservator and founding director of the Archaeological Zone / Jewish Museum Cologne (MiQua - LVR-Jewish Museum in the Archaeological Quarter Cologne).

Life

From 1989 to 1994 Thomas Otten studied Prehistory , Classical Archeology and Ancient History at the University of Bonn and the University of Munich . In 1999 he started working for Volker Bierbrauer in Munich with the dissertation The excavations under St. Viktor zu Xanten . Doctorate of Dom and Immunity . Since 1992 Otten has worked on the Pergamon excavation of the German Archaeological Institute . From 2000 to 2006 Otten was managing director of the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection .

Since 2006, Otten was Head of the Department of Soil Monument Protection and Conservation in the Ministry of Building, Housing, Urban Development and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

On December 6, 2013, the landscape committee of the Rhineland Regional Association voted for Otten as the project manager of the Archaeological Zone / Jewish Museum . Otten thus became the designated founding director of the planned Jewish Museum in Cologne. Due to a lawsuit by the former head of the Archaeological Zone, Sven Schütte , against the vacancy (among other things due to "formal deficiencies"), the procedure to fill the director's position was suspended in March 2014, a new advertisement was made and after the conclusion of legal disputes, Otten resigned in June 2016 Service to.

In 2010, Otten was appointed to the board of the Foundation for the Promotion of Archeology in the Rhenish Lignite District for the 6th term (May 22, 2010 to May 21, 2014) . Since 2002 he has also been a member of the board of trustees of the North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation for Nature Conservation, Heritage and Culture . On October 18, 2018, Otten was elected to the board of the Archaeological Society of Cologne by the general assembly.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Canon Cornelis de Pauw, an important Xanten personality of the 18th century. (= Xanten lectures on the history of the Lower Rhine, Volume 32), University of Duisburg-Essen 2002.
  • The excavations under St. Viktor zu Xanten. Cathedral and immunity (= Rhenish excavations volume 53), Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-3148-7 (= also dissertation Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1999).
  • Focus on archeology. From scientific excavations and illegal robbery excavations (= series of publications of the German National Committee for Monument Protection Volume 53), German National Committee for Monument Protection, Bonn 2008, revised version 2012, ISBN 3-922153-09-7 .
    • English translation: Archeology in focus. Of scientific and illicit excavations (= series of publications by the German National Committee for Monument Protection Volume 53.0), revised version 2012.
  • with Dimitrij Davydov, Ernst-Rainer Hönes, Birgitta Ringbeck: Monument Protection Act North Rhine-Westphalia. Commentary , 4th edition, Kommunal- und Schul-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2014, 5th edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-8293-1107-6 .

Editorships

  • with Karl Peter Wiemer (Ed.): Ora et labora. Sources and elements of the sustainability of Cistercian life. Festschrift for Pastor Georg Kalckert. (= Cistercians in the Rhineland Volume 5), Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-88094-892-5 .
  • with Jörg Engelbrecht, Norbert Kühn, Georg Mölich, Karl Peter Wiemer (eds.): Rheingold. People and mentalities in the Rhineland. A country study. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2003.
  • with Hansgerd Hellenkemper , Jürgen Kunow , Michael Rind (eds.): Fundgeschichten. Archeology in North Rhine-Westphalia. (= Writings on the preservation of soil monuments in North Rhine-Westphalia Volume 9), Zabern, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-8053-4204-9 and 978-3-8053-4236-0.
  • with Martin Müller, Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt (Ed.): Protective structures and reconstructions in archeology. From excavation to presentation. Xanten, 21.-23. October 2009. A conference of the Institutum Archaeologicum Germanicum. (= Xantener reports Volume 19), Zabern, Mainz 2011, ISBN 978-3-8053-4344-2 .
  • with Stefan Kraus, Jürgen Kunow, Marcus Trier , Michael Rind (eds.): The emergence and development of state monument preservation in the Prussian provinces of Rhineland and Westphalia. (= Writings on the preservation of soil monuments in North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 10), Linden-Soft, Aichwald 2012, ISBN 978-3-929290-34-9 and 978-3-929290-37-0.

Articles (selection)

  • The early Byzantine bronze lamps from Pergamon , in: Istanbuler Mitteilungen Volume 54, 2004, pp. 359–374.
  • Martyrs worship since late antiquity? Results of the excavations under the Xanten cathedral , in: New research on the beginnings of Christianity in the Rhineland , Münster 2004, pp. 71–92.
  • with H. Becker: An extraordinary knife find from Pulheim near Cologne , in: Bernd Päffgen , Ernst Pohl and Michael Schmauder (eds.): Cum grano salis. Contributions to European prehistory and early history. Festschrift for Volker Bierbrauer on his 65th birthday , Likias, Friedberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-9807628-5-4 , pp. 97-109.
  • with Jane Evans, Angela Lamb, Gundula Müldner, Andrea Pirson and Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen: An early Byzantine gun grave from Pergamon. Possible interpretations from an archaeological and scientific point of view , in: Istanbuler Mitteilungen Volume 61, 2011, pp. 347–422.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger dated December 6, 2013: Archaeological Zone Archaeologist Otten becomes project manager .
  2. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Köln of March 7, 2014: Archaeological Zone: Schütte can apply again , accessed on March 8, 2014.
  3. ^ Museum director of the Archaeological Zone with the Jewish Museum in office ( Memento from June 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Otten, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otten, Thomas Heinz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn