LVR’s commitment to the region
The region between Aachen, Cologne, Mönchengladbach and Zülpich has already experienced many upheavals. geSCHICHTEN Rheinisches Revier looks at some of them, from Neolithic times to the present and into the future. The focus is on how people have dealt with major changes over the centuries.
A particular focus is on the current upheaval. The imminent lignite phase-out is affecting life and everyday life in the entire region and structural change is in full progress at a wide variety of levels.
geSCHICHTEN Rheinisches Revier is
- decentralised: geSCHICHTEN can be discovered everywhere! We think across the region, plan routes to network cultural venues and are on the move throughout the region.
- modular: We develop specific levels of presentation for the region’s cultural heritage. Among other things, we are connecting future information centres at the open-cast mines as part of the MENSCHgeMACHT concept.
- cooperative: Our network with cultural stakeholders such as associations, initiatives, museums, municipal organisations and committed private individuals is constantly growing and offers an attractive platform for exchange and collaboration.
- participatory: With our participatory formats – e.g. the geSCHICHTEN-Werkstatt – we let people have their say.
- digital: On the geSCHICHTEN-blog, we work with you to make the diverse geSCHICHTEN of the region visible to everyone and locate them on our geSCHICHTEN map.
- interdisciplinary: We explore the cultural heritage of the region from the perspective of archaeology, history and cultural anthropology as part of the concept ‘living with upheavals’. We communicate our interdisciplinary perspectives at specialist conferences and in publications.
OUR TEAM
ALRUN BERGER
Project Coordinator; Research Associate
Historian. Researches processes of change and geSCHICHTEN from early industrialisation to the present. Particularly interested in memory-cultural dimensions of action and future concepts as well as the emergence of historical landscapes.
MARIAN FRITZ
Research Associate
Historian. Researches upheavals and geSCHICHTEN from the early modern period to the present. Particularly interested in global networking and exchange processes and the associated changes in perspective.
DR. KERSTIN SCHIERHOLD
Research Associate
Archaeologist. Researches upheavals, processes of change and geSCHICHTEN from the Neolithic Age to the Early Middle Ages. Particularly interested in the transformation of landscapes through human activity.
GIULIA FANTON
Research Associate
Cultural anthropologist. Researches upheavals and geSCHICHTEN in the present. Particularly interested in the life and everyday life of people in the lignite mining area in times of the energy transition.
DR. ANNETTE SCHNEIDER-REINHARDT
Research Associate
European ethnologist. Researches upheavals and histories in the 20th and 21st centuries. Particularly interested in cultural processes of structural change, especially with regard to the development of landscapes of memory and their material and immaterial characterisation by humans.