Siedlungsforschung. Archäologie-Geschichte-Geographie: Landschaft-Region-Identität

Abstract

Mit dem Begriff „Region“ wird ein Raumausschnitt gefasst, den gemeinsame physische und/oder kulturelle Merkmale prägen. Regionen sind aber auch Handlungs- und Gestaltungsräume, die durch ein Netz regionaler Akteure konstruiert werden. Landschaft und Region stehen in einem engen Bezug, denn Landschaften sind die Träger der Merkmale, die Regionalisierung erst möglich macht. Die Frage nach den identitätsstiftenden Merkmalen von Regionen stellt ein verbindendes Element für Archäologie, Geschichte und Geographie dar. In den Beiträgen dieser Festschrift für Winfried Schenk, der über zwei Jahrzehnte den Lehrstuhl für Historische Geographie an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn bekleidet hat und in dieser Zeit Vorsitzender des Arbeitskreises für historische Kulturlandschaftsforschung in Mitteleuropa (ARKUM) gewesen ist, werden Fragen der Abgrenzung von Regionen genauso thematisiert wie die Herausbildung regionaler Identitäten sowie deren Bedeutung in Geschichte und Gegenwart.

Biographical Note

Haik Thomas Porada (Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg & Insititut für Länderkunde, Leipzig, Germany)

Haik Thomas Porada is a honorary professor of Historical Geography at Otto-Friedrich-University in Bamberg. His research focus are Historical and Geographical Landscapes, Interdisciplinary cultural landscape analysis, Cartographic History, Applied Historical Geography and German regional history. Since 2002 he is a research associate at IfL in Leipzig where he is responsible for the coordination of the inventory and presentation of selected cultural landscapes in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Andreas Dix (Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Germany)

Andreas Dix is a professor and holder of the proffesur for Historical Geography at Otto-Friedrich-University in Bamberg. His research areas are concepts and methods of historical geography, map and image sources, territorialization processes, Critical Toponymies – Landscape Names, Spatial Perception and Memory Landscapes, planning and settlement policies in rural and urban areas since the early modern period, historical geographies of consumption and well-being, environmental history, natural hazards and natural disasters, land use and cultural landscape history as well as applied historical geography.

Matthias Hardt (Leibniz-Insitut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa, Leipzig, Germany)

Matthias Hardt studied History, German Studies and pre- and early History. Since 1997 he is a research associate at the GWZO in Leipzig. From 2000 onwards he holds the position as subject coordinator for medieval history and archaeology and since 2017 he is the head of department “Individual and Environment” at GWZO.

Ulrich Harteisen (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/ Holzminden/ Göttingen, Germany)

Ulrich Harteisen is professor for regional management and regional geography of the faculty of resource management at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/ Göttingen. His research fields are rural areas, village development and cultural landscape research. Moreover, in 2000 he got awarded with the Karl Zuhorn Scholarship of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe for fundamental and trend-setting work on cultural landscape research and regional studies in Westphalia and in 2013 he got the “Science Prize of Lower Saxony 2013” for outstanding achievements in applied research.

Ute Wardenga (SFB 1199 & Leibniz-Insititut für Länderkunde, Leipzig, Germany)

Ute Wardenga is an honorary professor of global studies at Leipzig University (Germany) and serves on the executive boards of the Centre for Area Studies and the Graduate School Global and Area Studies. Since 2012, she has been the deputy director of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig where she coordinates the research group “History and Geography”. Ute Wardenga’s current research interests focus on geography as a space-related practice in the process of globalization and in this regard leads the SFB project C1, which compares international histories of geographical societies since the early 19th century. Most recently, she has co-directed the research project entitled “Digital Atlas of Geopolitical Imaginaries of Eastern Central Europe”, which explored the impact of cartographic and mass media representations of space in Eastern Central Europe since 1989.