Primeval Times and Environment. Staging Prehistory in Modern Age

该研究项目通过现代古生物学和地质学考察原始时代的媒介和表现形式。它基于这样一个问题：1800年左右，由于发现了深时间而打开的不可思议的时间深渊是如何想象和表现的。因此，该项目的主要论点是，对原始时代的探索总是需要空间星座中的时间转移，因此需要重建史前环境。因此，它的目的是（1）分析各种科学和艺术技术和媒体，用于舞台，目前和代表原始环境：科学和流行的科学著作，文学文本，绘画和图片系列，以及立体模型和场景，这是在展览和戏剧舞台上使用，允许调查科学家之间的密切合作，艺术家和工程师以及这些合作的诗学和认识论后果。该项目的重点是（2）作为这些跨学科合作的结果，生态和环境概念的形成，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制的问题。因此，地质学和古生物学将成为现代生态学形成的重要领域。

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.