Diverging perceptions of danger. The foundation of the first professional fire brigade in Germany (1851)

在19世纪，城市火灾深深植根于人们的集体记忆中，而新的火灾危险也随着城市的发展而不断涌现。然而，对危害的范畴必须进行理论分析。危险不仅仅是事实。它们都是对现实挑战做出反应的概念，也是集体想象、媒体呈现和国家行政影响之间相互作用的产物。这个计划中的文化历史项目以德国第一个专业消防队为例，调查人们对危险的不同看法。它首先展示了特定时期的典型危险（危险的主要修辞）是如何从想象、表演和基于权力的危险感知的异质相互作用中产生的。在此基础上，它追溯了柏林职业消防队从1851年开始的发展历程。作为一个具有明确军事组织的纯粹的国家和警察机构，消防队不仅对一个不断发展的大都市的消防需求作出反应。在1848年的事件之后，通过媒体宣传和作秀的审判，引发了革命纵火袭击的威胁，而消防队这种特殊的制度动力也源于它作为专制国家团内部秩序要素的功能。

In the nineteenth century, city fires were deeply embedded in the collective memory, while new fire dangers emerged through urban development. The category of endangerment must, however, be subjected to theoretical analysis. Dangers are not simply facts. They are both conceptualisations that react to real challenges and products of the interaction between the collective imagination, media presentation and state-administrative influences. This planned cultural historical project investigates the varied perceptions of danger on the example of the first professional fire brigade in Germany. It first shows how period-specific prototypival endengerment (master tropes of endengerment) emerge from the heterogeneous interaction of imagined, performed and power-based perceptions of danger. On this basis, it traces the development of the Berlin professional fire brigade from its beginnings in 1851. Created as a purely state and policing institution with an explicitly military organisation, the fire brigade reacted not only to the needs of fire protection in a growing metropolis. The particular institutional dynamic of the fire brigade also emerged from its function as an element of order within an authoritarian state regiment that, after the events of 1848, evoked the threat of revolutionary arson attacks through media propaganda and show trials.