Collection History in Reverse. Art and Culture from Cameroon in German Museums (renewal proposal)

来自喀麦隆的40,000多件藏品目前保存在德意志联邦共和国的公共博物馆。这是喀麦隆的德昌大学和德国的柏林工业大学合作项目第一阶段的核心成果，该项目于2020年12月授予，专门研究喀麦隆文化遗产在德国的存在和在喀麦隆的缺失，目前的续展建议提到了这一点。通过出版《Abwesenheit的Atlas der Abwesenheit.Kameruns Kulturerbe in Deutschland》，实现了第一个供资阶段的目标。除了对项目的详细介绍外，地图册共包含16章，包括科学研究、评估和论文，并记录了第一阶段项目的研究成果。此外，该地图集包括大约50幅地图和图形，直观地展示了喀麦隆物质文化遗产在德意志联邦共和国境内的地理和统计分布情况。在实现该项目目标的同时，喀麦隆与德国成功地在结构上建立了合作关系，并在两种不同的学术文化之间开展了相关的谈判进程。这需要付出非凡的努力。鉴于这一背景，这项延期提案的目标之一是现在从这项投资中可持续地获利，并扩大现已建立的合作。项目合作到目前为止的经验反映在更新提案工作方案的设计中。认识到保存在德国民族博物馆中的喀麦隆物质文化遗产的巨大规模，同时在喀麦隆和德国都没有意识到这一点，因此传播迄今为止产生的研究成果，特别是在喀麦隆，成为更新建议的关键问题。在这样做的过程中，从“书面结果”的文化向“口头传递的结果”文化转变。除了对地图集进行法英翻译和根据已开展的研究进行补充科学研究外，还将在喀麦隆实施一项交流方案，包括视频剪辑、播客和巡回展览以及讲座和讨论形式。

Over 40,000 objects from Cameroon are currently held in public museums in the Federal Republic of Germany. This is a central result of the first project phase of the cooperation between the Université de Dschang in Cameroon and the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, which was granted in December 2020 and is dedicated to the presence of Cameroonian cultural heritage in Germany and its absence in Cameroon, and to which the present renewal proposal refers. The objectives of the first funding phase have been achieved with the publication "Atlas der Abwesenheit. Kameruns Kulturerbe in Deutschland". In addition to a detailed introduction to the project, the atlas contains a total of 16 chapters, which include scientific studies, evaluations and essays and document the research achievements of the first project phase. In addition, the atlas includes around 50 maps and graphics that provide a visual representation of the geographical and statistical distribution of Cameroon's material cultural heritage on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. The achievement of the project aims took place parallel to the challenges of the successful structural establishment of a Cameroonian-German cooperation and the associated negotiation processes between two different academic cultures. This required an extraordinary effort. Given this background, one of the goals of this renewal proposal is to now profit sustainably from this investment and to expand the now established cooperation. The experiences from the project cooperation up to now are reflected in the design of the work programme for the renewal proposal. Realising the immense dimensions of the material cultural heritage from Cameroon that is present in German ethnological museums, and at the same time the great unawareness of it, both in Cameroon and in Germany, make the dissemination of the research results produced so far, especially in Cameroon, the essential concern of the renewal proposal. In doing so, a transition is made from a culture of "written results" to a culture of "orally transmitted results". In addition to a French-English translation of the atlas and supplementary scientific studies based on the research already carried out, a communication programme with video clips, podcasts and a travelling exhibition as well as lecture and discussion formats will be implemented in Cameroon.