Uta Hall

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Uta Halle (born November 18, 1956 in Detmold ) is a German archaeologist and Bremen state archaeologist .

Career

Uta Halle studied after graduating from high school in 1977 at the city high school Detmold Prehistory at the University of Hamburg and graduated in 1986 with Wolfgang Hübener with a thesis on the high medieval pottery from the Old Schildesche / Bielefeld from. In Hamburg, she received her doctorate in 1989 with a thesis on medieval ceramics in the Schieder -Barkhof settlement ( Lippe district ). This was followed by two grants, on the one hand a postdoc grant from the German Research Foundation for early modern ceramic production in Lippe, on the other handLise Meitner scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the subject of "Politicization and instrumentalization of the subject in National Socialism" (habilitation subject). In this habilitation thesis , she dealt with the propaganda instrumentalization of the Externsteine as an alleged Germanic place of worship.

Halle's habilitation took place in 2001 at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where she taught as a private lecturer until 2008 . She worked as a substitute for a professorship and with teaching assignments at the universities of Leipzig , Greifswald , Münster and Bamberg . As the state archaeologist of Bremen, Halle has been the head of archaeological monument preservation and at the same time professor for prehistory at the University of Bremen since 2008 . She is also head of the Prehistory and Early History department at the Focke Museum in Bremen. In 2011 she was elected Vice President of the newly founded German Association for Archeology at the 7th German Archeology Congress. In 2014 she was confirmed in this office.

Uta Halle is primarily concerned with research on ceramic production in the Middle Ages and modern times and the specialist and research history of prehistory and early history. Her current focus is on the research project Homo debilis , led by Cordula Nolte , Sonja Kerth and the research project they are responsible for , which examines the issue of disability studies and the use of archaeological sources to deal with disabilities in the pre-modern era.

Fonts (selection)

  • Pottery in Lippe (with Bettina Rinke), Westfälisches Freilichtmuseum , Detmold 1991 (Writings of the Westfälisches Freilichtmuseum Detmold - Landesmuseum für Volkskunde, Vol. 8) ISBN 3-926160-12-8
  • Medieval ceramics from Schieder. Fragments from the Barkhof excavation , Institute for Lippe Regional Studies, Detmold 1992 (Lippische Studien, Vol. 12) ISBN 3-9802787-0-0 (Dissertation)
  • (Ed.) Village society and rural settlement. Lippe and the Paderborn monastery in a supraregional perspective , Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Bielefeld 2001 (series of publications by the Wewelsburg district museum, vol. 5 / special publications of the natural and historical association for the state of Lippe, vol. 59) ISBN 3-89534-326-9
  • "The Externsteine ​​are Germanic until further notice!" Prehistoric archeology in the Third Reich , Institute for Lippe Regional Studies, Detmold 2002 (special publications of the Natural Science and Historical Association for the Land of Lippe, vol. 68), Verlag für Regionalgeschichte Gütersloh, 608 pp., 100 ill., ISBN 3-89534-446- X (habilitation)
  • The Judenwerk. On the history of the Lippische Thonwarenfabrik in Dörentrup , Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Lippe eV, Detmold 2005 (Panu derech, Vol. 23) ISBN 3-935345-04-6
  • Dig for Germania. Archeology under the swastika , Stuttgart 2013. (Co-editor)

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personal data
SURNAME Hall, Uta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold