Prof. Thomas Thiemeyer
Thomas Thiemeyer is Professor of Museum Studies at the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft at the University of Tübingen. From 2003 to 2006, he worked as a curator at HG Merz, where he aided in developing the concepts for the Mercedes-Benz Museum (2006) and the Porsche-Museum (2009). From 2006 to 2009, he completed his PhD under Gottfried Korff on the topic of the presentation of WWI and WWII in museums. From 2009 to 2012 he coordinated the museum studies research project wissen&museum, a cooperation between the German Literature Archive in Marbach, the Ludwig-Uhland-Institute, the Kunsthistorisches Institut, and the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien. His research and teaching focus on museum and archival research, memorial culture, and cultural theory. He is currently supervising three projects, one on scenography in exhibitions, one on how German museums deal with collections from the colonial era, and one on the remembrance of the Shoah in an immigration society.
Select publications
Monographs
Das Depot als Versprechen – Warum unsere Museen die Lagerräume ihrer Dinge wiederentdecken [The Storeroom as Promise – Why our Museums are Rediscovering their Objects’ Storage Spaces], forthcoming 2017.
Fortsetzung des Krieges mit anderen Mitteln. Die beiden Weltkriege im Museum [Continuing the War with New Instruments: The World Wars in the Museum], Paderborn 2010.
As an editor
(with Heike Gfrereis und Bernhard Tschofen) Museen verstehen. Begriffe der Theorie und Praxis [Understanding Museums. Concepts of Theory and Practice], Göttingen 2015.