Viola King

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Viola König (* 1952 in Duisburg ) is a German ethnologist ( ancient American ). From 2001 to 2017 she was director of the Ethnological Museum of the State Museums in Berlin . She is a specialist in graphic communication systems from Mesoamerica.

biography

Viola König studied ethnology , prehistory and early history , sociology and paleoanthropology in Freiburg and majoring in ancient American languages ​​and cultures in Hamburg . She did her doctorate on the Mixtec Codex Egerton 2895 (1979) and conducted field research in Mexico , Canada and Alaska .

Viola König has been working in the museum sector since 1979, initially as a trainee at the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg from 1979 to 1981 , from 1981 to 1986 as a scientific consultant for museum education at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne and from 1986 to 1991 as director of the ethnology department of Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover . From 1992 to 2001 she was director of the Übersee-Museum Bremen , whose new permanent exhibition she completed on its centenary in 1996. During this period, she realized the digital collection of data and the new construction of the “ Übermaxx ” show magazine she had designed (opened in 1999). In 2001 Viola König was appointed director of the Ethnological Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin with the express mandate to redesign his exhibition in the future Humboldt Forum .

Viola König curated / co-curated a large number of special exhibitions, such as “Aztecs” (Berlin, 2003), “The tropics. Views from the middle of the globe ”(Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, Capetown, Bangkok, 2008–2010),“ Indian Modernism. Art from North America ”(Berlin, 2012),“ Humboldt Lab Dahlem ”(Berlin, 2012–2015).

Viola König taught ancient American studies at the University of Hamburg (until 2000) and is honorary professor for cultural anthropology at the University of Bremen . In 2000 she was visiting professor at the Art Department (Latin American Studies) at Tulane University in New Orleans and since 2004 she has been an honorary professor at the Latin America Institute (LAI) of the Free University of Berlin (FU).

From 2009 to 2012, Viola König conducted research on the subject of "One History - Two Perspectives" using the collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin : Culture-specific translation functions of the "exotic foreign" using the example of the "Terms of Trade" on the Pacific Northwest coast, funded by the BMBF ( Federal Ministry of Education and Research ) together with the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2012 she has been researching "Pre-Columbian mapping methods of the." As part of "Topoi - The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations", an excellence initiative funded by the DFG ( German Research Foundation ) and the FU ( Free University of Berlin ) Ancient Mexico to the early modern period ”.

Viola König publishes numerous exhibition catalogs as well as monographs and essays on museums, Meso- North and South America.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • La batalla de Siete Flor. Conquistadores, caciques y conflictos en mapas antiguos de los zapotecos, chinantrecos y mixes. (Secretaría de Cultura de Oaxaca & Fundación Alfredo Harp Helú Oaxaca) 2010.
  • with Peter Bolz: Native American Modernism. (German and English editions. Imhof Petersberg) 2012.
  • People, seas, continents - the earth in 80 minutes. The Übersee-Museum adventure world. (Keyser Munich / Berlin) 1996.
  • The Battle of Seven Flower. Conquistadors, caciques and conflicts on old maps of the Indians of South Mexico. (Temmen Bremen) 1993.
  • Indian graphics from Alaska in the ethnology department of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover. (Lower Saxony State Museum Hannover) 1992.
  • with Lu, HL Chinese handicrafts from Anhui Province from three millennia. (Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover) 1988.

Editorships

  • (as Associate Editor) Northwest Coast Representations: New Perspectives on History, Art and Encounters. (Reimer Berlin) 2014.
  • Germans in the North Pacific. Contribution to the discovery and exploration of the North Pacific region (Historia Scientiarum. Ed. Bernhard Fabian. Olms Hildesheim) since 2011.
  • (as co-editor) Códice Humboldt Fragmento 1 (Ms. amer. 2) y Códice Azoyú 2 (Reverso). Nómina de tributos de Tlapa y su provincia al Imperio Mexicano. (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin SPK, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social CIESAS) México) 2009.
  • Measured. Cartography of the tropics. (Ethnological Museum Berlin) 2006.
  • (as co-editor) “The long road to the Humboldt Forum - The 1999-2012 process”. Special volume Baessler archive No. 59. (Reimer Berlin) 2012.
  • (as co-editor) Os Trópicos, a Arte ea Exposição. In: Os Trópicos. Visões a partir do centro globo. (Rio de Janeiro) 2007.
  • (as Associate Editor) The Tropics. Views from the Middle of the Globe (German and English editions). Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2008.
  • Ethnological Museum Berlin. (German and English editions. Prestel Museum Guide. Prestel, Munich / Berlin / London / New York) 2003, 2007.
  • (as co-editor) Baessler Archive (Ethnological Museum. Reimer) since 2001.
  • (as co-editor) Hugo H. Schauinsland. On the move overseas. From travel diaries and documents of the former director of the Bremen Übersee-Museum. (Übersee-Museum Bremen. Hauschild Bremen) 1999.
  • (as co-editor) TenDenZen. Yearbook IX Übersee-Museum Bremen- 1992–2001.
  • (as editor) Author Alex Smejkal: Cult and everyday life in Tibet. The Tibetan collections in the ethnology department of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover. (Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover, Ethnology Department, Hanover) 1990.
  • Ethnological treatises. (Ethnology department of the Lower Saxony State Museum and Ethnological Society Hanover, Reimer Berlin) 1987–1993

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Viola King. In: www.lai.fu-berlin.de. January 25, 2013, accessed May 9, 2016 .
  2. ↑ King, Viola | Topoi. In: www.topoi.org. Retrieved May 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Übersee-Museum Bremen: Show magazine. In: www.uebersee-museum.de. Retrieved May 9, 2016 .
  4. ^ Senate press office - Viola König leaves Bremen. In: senatspressestelle.bremen.de. Retrieved May 9, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME King, Viola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg