Wiebke Ahrndt

Wiebke Ahrndt (born November 6, 1963 in Braunschweig ) is a German ethnologist and university professor . Since 2002 she has been the director of the Überseemuseum in Bremen . Since 2006 she has been working as a professor at the University of Bremen in the Institute for Art Research and Art Education.

Life

After two semesters in Braunschweig, Wiebke Ahrndt studied ethnology , ancient history as well as prehistory and early history at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1984 . This was followed by a year of study at the US University of California Los Angeles . Ahrndt completed his studies in Bonn with a master's degree. In 1995 the doctorate took place. Her studies focused on the ethnology of Ancient America. From 1996 she completed a scientific traineeship at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg . As part of an exchange with the German Research Foundation in Mexico, she deepened her knowledge of America. She then worked freelance in Basel on exhibition concepts and was employed as a permanent curator . In 2002 she moved to the Übersee-Museum in Bremen.

Works

• with Ilka Backmeister-Collacott, Peter-René Becker, Dunja Brill , Dorothea Deterts, Wolfgang Freund: All about Evil - Das Böse. Catalog for the exhibition at the Überseemuseum Bremen, 2007–2008. (Ed .: Silke Seybold)
• with Andreas Lüderwaldt and Peter-Rene Becker: Asia. Continent of contrasts. Catalog for the permanent exhibition in the Übersee-Museum Bremen from 2006. von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 2006
• (Red. :) Oceania. Living worlds in the South Seas. Exhibition texts. Overseas Museum Bremen. Überseemuseum, Bremen 2003
• (Collective of authors :) Indians of the Plains and Prairies. Texts and photos. [Exhibition at the Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg, from October 31, 1996 - August 31, 1997], Ed .: Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg, Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg 1997
• Red cloud, blue horse. Pictures from the life of the Sioux. [Exhibition: Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg]. Christians, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-7672-1277-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wiebke Ahrndt in the catalog of the German National Library
• therein p. 6: (Wiebke Ahrndt)
• P. 28: Wiebke Ahrndt (PDF; 4.5 MB)
• Deutschlandfunk cultural issues. Debates and documents of December 9, 2018: "Pandora's box is open". Wiebke Ahrndt on the consequences of the restitution report by Bénédicte Savoy and Felwine Sarr