Primeval Times and Environment. Staging Prehistory in Modern Age

该研究项目考察了现代古生物学和地质学对原始时代的媒介和表现形式。它基于这样一个问题，即1800年左右因发现深层时间而打开的不可想象的时间深渊是如何被想象和表现的。谈论时间需要空间关系的阶段性。因此，该项目的主要论点是，探索原始时代总是需要在空间星座中转移时间，因此需要重建史前环境。因此，它的目的是：(1)分析用于上演、呈现和表现原始环境的各种科学和艺术技巧和媒介：科学和大众科学著作、文学文本、绘画和图片系列，以及展览和戏剧舞台上使用的立体和场景，从而能够调查科学家、艺术家和工程师之间的密切合作以及这些合作在诗学和认识论上的影响。该项目的重点是(2)作为这些跨学科合作的结果形成生态和环境概念，因为这些原始环境的产生引发了关于环境、环境和栖息地的质量和限度的问题。因此，地质学和古生物学将被作为现代生态学形成的重要领域进行研究。

The research project examines the media and forms of representations of primeval times by modern paleontology and geology. It is based on the question how the unconceivable temporal abyss that opened up around 1800 by the discovery of deep time was imagined and represented.Talking about time demands the staging of spatial relations. The main thesis of the project is thus that the exploration of primeval times always requires the transfer of time in spatial constellations and therefore the reconstruction of prehistoric environments. It aims thereby (1) at analysing the various scientific and artistic techniques and media that were used to stage, present and represent primeval environments: scientific and popular scientific writings, literary texts, paintings and picture series, as well as dioramas and scenes, which were used in exhibitions and on theater stages allow to investigate both the close cooperations between scientists, artists and engineers and the poetological and epistemological consequences of these collaborations. The project focuses (2) on the formation of ecological and environmental concepts as a result of these interdisciplinary collaborations, since the production of these primeval environments provoked questions about the qualities and limits of environments, milieux and habitats. Geology and paleontology will thus be investigated as important arenas for the formation of modern ecology.