advisory Boards

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The museum and Zentralinstitut für Sepulkralkultur The Working Group for Cemetery and Monument (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal e. V.) and the Working Group for Cemetery and Monument (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal e. V.) are organized in a way that allows for open collaboration between them. Scientific advisory boards have been established for the various areas of responsibility and for research. They support basic research on sepulchral culture, research in the field of cemeteries and burials, and advise the museum on its exhibition work and the upcoming redesign.

Advisory Board for Basic Research

The advisory board deals with fundamental research on sepulchral culture and the publication activities of the Central Institute. In 2016, it also formed a subgroup, the so-called "Lexicon Group." This group produced the series of the Great Lexicon on Burial and Cemetery Culture (Volumes 1–5), which was completed in 2020 with the publication of the fourth volume.
Comprehensive encyclopedia of funeral and cemetery culture
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PD Dr. Thorsten Benkel

Position: Senior Academic Advisor for Sociology at the University of Passau

benkel@uni-passau.de

Department: Sociology with a focus on, among other things, dying, death and grief

Prof. Dr. Norbert Fischer

Position: Freelance cultural scholar and publicist, honorary professor at the University of Hamburg, Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies

Uni Hamburg
Institute of Folklore
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (West)
20146 Hamburg

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Stephan Hadraschek MA

Position: Funeral director; speaker for networking and public relations as well as specialist advisor at Grieneisen GBG Bestattungen GmbH

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Prof. em. Dr. Thomas Macho

Position: Director of the IFK (International Research Center for Cultural Studies I University of Art Linz in Vienna)

Department: Cultural studies, philosophy

Dr. Jane Redlin

Position: Museum of European Cultures, National Museums in Berlin

Dr. Andreas Ströbl

Position: Working Group Research Center Crypt, Lübeck

Department: Archaeologist, art historian, specializing in the study of modern burial culture

Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Wils

Position: Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen

Department: Philosophy, ethics, Catholic theology

Museum Advisory Board

To keep pace with the constant changes in cemetery and burial culture and the resulting evolving needs of museum visitors regarding educational programs at our institution, it became urgently necessary to update the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Sepulchral Culture. For this purpose, a temporary "Scientific Advisory Board for the Reconceptualization of the Permanent Exhibition of the Museum of Sepulchral Culture" was established for the first time in 2017. Since 2022, the planning for the reconceptualization has been taking concrete form with the participation of architects, scenographers, and other stakeholders. Therefore, in 2023, the group, now restructured as the "Museum Advisory Board," reorganized.
The "Reconceptualization" project
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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bunzel

Position: Head of Research, German Romanticism Museum

Reto Bühler MAS

Position: Head of Cemetery Forum of the City of Zurich

ao. Univ.-Prof., Mag. Dr., Bakk. Birgit Heller

Position: Deputy Head of the Institute for Religious Studies, University of Vienna (Retired)

Christina Reinsch MA

Position: Managing Director of the Hessian Museums Association e. V.

Dr. Guus Sluiter

Position: Director of the Museum Tot Zover, Amsterdam

Department: Art history

Dr. Frauke von der Haar

Position: Director of the Munich City Museum

 

Dr. Doreen Hartmann

Position: Head of the Exhibitions Department at the German Hygiene Museum Dresden

Department: Interdisciplinary knowledge transfer, sustainability, diversity and digitalization.