"In Farben gezeichnet". Orchestration and Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Symphonies and Overtures between Germany and Italy
Dr. Federica Di Gasbarro
In the late 17th century art theorists were engaged in a lively dispute over the relationship between drawing and colour, some challenging the prevailing view that line, as the essential expression of an idea, was primarily responsible for the perception of form, while colour was merely an ornamental addition. The famous Querelle du coloris emerged much later in the field of music. In the mid-19th century, the opinion prevailed that ...
Old Rulers of the Middle Ages. Kings, Doges and Popes. A Contribution to Gerontological Medieval Studies
Dr. Christian Alexander Neumann
Old age is a universal phenomenon that has multiple facets: on the one hand it is a gradual and continuous biological process, while on the other hand it is a cultural construction and therefore a variable research object. The overarching question is that of the relevance of the factor "age" on the nature of human behaviour, with particular focus on holders of political power. In concrete terms, the aim is to analyse the period of old ...
(De)constructing Mediterranean Europe. Italian Farmers Facing the EEC's Southern Enlargement (1970s–1980s)
Dr. Antonio Carbone
Immediately after its launch in 1962, the EEC's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) turned out to be quite unfavorable for the agriculture of Mediterranean regions: whereas "continental" farm goods were subsidized, Mediterranean products enjoyed only tariff protection. Initially underestimated, this disadvantage proved to be substantial as the CAP became the most expensive item in the EEC budget. An important opportunity to ...
The Sea and human maritime activities in the narrative sources of the early and high Middle Ages
Dr. Sebastian Kolditz
Recent historical research has paid growing attention to the seas as historical spaces. In addition to specific studies, a number of large summary reports testify to that tendency. In these works, the history of entire seascapes is explored and narrated in a variety of ways, following different schemes and approaches. For the earlier middle ages, however, any reports transmitted in narrative sources are based on ‒ besides rich archaeological ...
Der Wandel der weiblichen Sexualität in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und in Italien während der 60er, 70er und 80er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts
Dr. Fiammetta Balestracci
Bei dem Projekt geht es um die Veränderungen, denen die weibliche Sexualität während der im Titel genannten Jahrzehnte in den beiden europäischen Ländern im Spiegel der öffentlichen Darstellung, der sozialen Praxis und des Wertesystems unterworfen war. Dabei soll geprüft werden, ob die Vorstellungen und Erfahrungen damals in einem solchen Maße beeinflusst wurden, dass es auf ethischer Ebene zu einem dauerhaften Kontinuitätsbruch kam. Die These ...
The Simultaneity of the Non-simultaneous. Chronotopos and Chronopolitics
Dr. Fernando Esposito
Time is not only the most important category of history, it also has a history of its own. The project aims to tell the history of time and to contribute to the theory of historical times. It explores the historical-theoretical formula of the "simultaneity of the non-simultaneous" and delves into its changes, structure, and function. In terms of time, the study spans a broad time frame, from the recent present to the late Enlightenment ...
Role and Influence of Impresarios. Premises of Italian Opera Performances in the 18th Century
PD Dr. Richard Erkens
On the one hand, the research project focuses on the figure of the impresario and its influence on the historical developments of opera, on the other hand it refers to changing operatic topography in pre-revolutionary Italy, characterized by centre and periphery networks. Although the group of people who assumed the function of impresarios in the 18th century could not be more heterogeneous, the scope of their activity and thus their influence ...
De(constructing) Europe – Euroscepticism in the History of European Integration
Joint project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
The research project embeds the ideal of cohesion in the European Union with the history of scepticism towards Europe. On the one hand, this scepticism has conditioned and been an obstacle to European unification from the outset; on the other, it has created its own forms of cohesion at a European level. While the field of research is currently dominated by political science, with a focus on the recent past, this project combines historical, ...
European Counter-Movements. Eurosceptic Entanglements from the Beginnings of European Integration to the Present Day
Andrea Carlo Martinez M.Phil.
My research project aims to map out the development of 'Euroscepticism' in Italy during the post-war period. According to the common historical and popular narrative, Italy represents a traditionally pro-European country which "fell out of love" with European institutions, a process that can be traced back to the Treaty of Maastricht, having gained speed in the 2010s as a result of the Eurozone and migration crises.
Evidence from ...
Ferdinand Gregorovius: Poetry and Science. Collected German and Italian Letters
Dr. Angela Steinsiek (together with Prof. Dr. Martin Baumeister)
Ferdinand Gregorovius lived in Rome for more than 20 years, where he wrote his main work, the Geschichte der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter, which in 1876 made him an honorary citizen of Rome. In addition to his historiographical and literary oeuvre he has left several thousand letters in which he, a contemporary witness, sheds light on Italian and German history of science as well as on politics and culture of the 19th century. On the basis of ...
The History of the German Research and Culture Institutes in Rome (20th century)
A cooperative project
The four German foreign institutes based in Rome – the German Archaeological Institute, the German Historical Institute, the Bibliotheca Hertziana and Villa Massimo – have initiated a research project which will examine cross institutional history against the backdrop of major political and societal upheavals in the first half of the twentieth century (1918–1960). Rome will play a vital role in this shared history of the German foreign ...
Imperien im Krieg. Der Zweite Weltkrieg aus transimperialer und (post)kolonialer Perspektive
PD Dr. Daniel Hedinger
Der Zweite Weltkrieg war ein Kampf zwischen Imperien, ein Krieg um Imperien und um die Frage, welche imperiale Ordnung die Welt dominieren sollte. Doch sind wir daran gewöhnt, den Weltkrieg primär als einen Konflikt zwischen einzelnen Nationalstaaten zu verstehen. Die Hartnäckigkeit, mit der sich solche Lesarten halten, erstaunt vor allem dann, wenn wir einen Blick auf die Geschichtsschreibung zum Ersten Weltkrieg werfen: Hier haben sich im ...
Italian Colonialism in One Family. Two Biographies
Dr. Nicola Camilleri
The research project focuses on the story of a family that unfolds in the Horn of Africa and Italy between 1880 and 1962. Through a microhistorical and biographical lens, I aim both to tell the story of the Sengal family and to outline the history of Italian colonialism from its very beginning to postcolonial times. At the center of the investigation are an Ethiopian-Italian father, Sengal Workneh, and his daughter, Elena Sengal, in their roles ...
War diary of the German General to the Italian Eighth Army High Command – Italian edition
Dr. Gerhard Kuck (in collaboration with PD Dr. Thomas Schlemmer)
The war diary of the German General to the Italian Eighth Army High Command gains its importance from the fact that the war diary of the Italian Army High Command had gone missing. Although until recently numerous studies in Italy have been dealing with the Italian participation in the "Operation Barbarossa", the German invasion of the Soviet Union, little attention has been paid to the relevant German sources. Only the minor part of ...
Global Rural Development
Dr. Andreas Stucki
The research project aims at analyzing professional careers and networks in rural development. International organizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) were and are hubs of information and knowledge transfer and places of knowledge production. The work in the FAO archives as well as in the David Lubin Memorial Library in Rome will therefore contribute to reveal the global circulation of expert ...
Moderne, Nation und Tod. Eine deutsch-italienische Kulturgeschichte der Feuerbestattung im 19. Jahrhundert
Dr. Carolin Kosuch
1876 wurde in Mailand das erste Krematorium des neuzeitlichen Europa in Betrieb genommen. Nur zwei Jahre später konnte nicht zuletzt durch die Bemühungen eines Feuerbestattungsvereins der Bau einer zweiten Anlage im thüringischen Gotha fertig gestellt werden. Die Koinzidenz dieser Ereignisse ist nicht zufällig, sondern führt direkt in die Geschichte der beiden "verspäteten Nationen" Italien und Deutschland. Das Projekt hatte zum Ziel, ...
Conceptual history of music. Basic concepts of vocal music in terminological discourse
PD Dr. Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort
The fact that the designation of a subject and the subject itself influence each other in the formation of conceptual content, and that both strands of development are inextricably linked, adds a great deal to the fascination of conceptual history. The subject matter of the conceptual history of a discipline is to crystallise the process of the historical development of its technical terms. To analyse the contexts condensed in the technical ...
Myths and Monuments of the Nation. 'Early Music' in Italy between Unità and fascismo
Prof. Dr. Carolin Krahn
To what extent was the concept of 'early Italian music' shaped as some form of national reference point in the period between the political unification of Italy and the end of the fascist regime? How did this affect the repertories and representations of Italian musical traditions? Using these questions as starting point, the research project focuses on the idea of 'early music' and its practical usage in the period from 1861 to 1943.
The ...
States of Emergency in Transnational Perspective. Politics, Ideas, and Mentalities in Europe and its Colonies, c. 1800–1960
Dr. Amerigo Caruso
The multiple crises of the twenty-first century have brought into sharper focus emergency politics and the surrounding debates. However, this field remains a domain of political science, philosophy, and jurisprudence, whereas the practice and theory of emergency politics has not received the same degree of scholarly attention among historians. Most of the existing research focuses on national experiences, especially on the use and abuse of ...
Topoi der Friedensrepräsentation in der italienischen Kantate (17.–18. Jahrhundert)
Dr. Chiara Pelliccia
Von den italienischen Musikgattungen hat die Kantate zusammen mit der Oper im Europa des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts weiteste Verbreitung gefunden, was zweifellos damit zusammenhing, dass die italienische Halbinsel im Verlauf ihrer politischen Geschichte der Herrschaft und/oder der Einflusssphäre verschiedener, oftmals miteinander in Konflikt stehender fremder Mächte unterworfen war. Deshalb bietet die italienische Kantate einen privilegierten ...
History and Translation in the German-Italian Linguistic Area during the 19th and 20th Centuries
Dr. Gerhard Kuck
In the beginning of the 20th century the number of translations increased considerably both in the literary and – in the broadest sense – non-fictional field and did not even diminish during the period of Fascism and National Socialism. The project is aimed essentially at studying this period and primarily the field of non-fictional essays, the translation of which until now, in contrast to literary works, has been largely neglected. In the ...
Venice and the Radical Reformation
PD Dr. Riccarda Suitner
The religious landscape of the mid-16th-century Republic of Venice was characterized by the attempt of the Inquisition to infiltrate and repress the (prevalently Anabaptist) reformed conventicles which had sprung up throughout the Region. The penetration of ideas of the so-called “Radical Reformation” into this territory was easier than elsewhere in Italy, given many factors: the larger volume of international contacts and the existence of ...
Wahrheitsbegriffe im frühneuzeitlichen historischen Diskurs im Kontext von Kanon und Zensur
Dr. Andreea Badea
Ursprünglich als Waffe im interkonfessionellen Diskurs eingesetzt, wurde das Schreiben von katholischer Kirchengeschichte im Laufe des "langen nachtridentinischen Jahrhunderts" zunehmend zum Störfaktor römisch-kurialer Zentralisierungsversuche. Deshalb reagierte die Kurie nicht selten mit Zensur auf solche Devianzen.
Das Projekt beschäftigt sich mit circa 25 in den verschiedenen römischen Kongregationen verhandelten ...
