SFB 482:  Phenomenon Weimar-Jena. Culture around 1800

• Subject Area: Humanities ; Social and Behavioural Sciences
• Term: from 1998 to 2010
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5482527

In Weimar-Jena, around 1800, enlightenment, classicism, idealism, and romanticism were simultaneously present. The collaborative research centre aims at reconsidering this blend of intellectual movements from the viewpoints of history, aesthetics, and natural science. Due to academic specialization, research has hitherto focused on single aspects of a cultural whole, thus neglecting the interrelatedness of culture in Weimar and Jena. The interaction between the Weimar Court and the Jena University has never been taken into account. It is the intention of the collaborative research centre to break new ground in this field by integrating methodologically different approaches, and to develop a comprehensive understanding of the culture of Weimar-Jena, a culture which was both exemplary and unique.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres

Completed projects

• A01 - Court, Government and Political Culture (Project Heads Klinger, Andreas ;  Schmidt, Georg )
• A02 - From a Society of Estates to a Society of Citizens: Social Change, Political Ideas and their Diffusion 1750 to 1830 (Project Head Hahn, Hans-Werner )
• A3 - Wirtschaft, Finanzen und Kameralwissenschaften (Project Head Walter, Rolf )
• A04 - Gender Relations and Enlightenment (Project Heads Grochowina, Nicole ;  Hahn, Hans-Werner ;  Schmidt, Georg )
• A05 - The Culture of Time: Feasts and Celebrations (Project Head Maurer, Michael )
• B1 - Die Neuordnung der Universität Jena (Project Head Walther, Helmut G. )
• B02 - Theology, Religion and Church (Project Head Leppin, Volker )
• B3 - Goethe als politischer Gestalter (Project Head Golz, Jochen )
• B4 - Friedrich Justin Bertuch (Project Heads Greiling, Werner ;  Seifert, Siegfried )
• B05 - Weimar and Russia. Political Stabilization in Cultural Context 1799-1828 (Project Head von Puttkamer, Joachim )
• B06 - Strategies of Communication and the Radiating Flow of Ideas (Project Head Greiling, Werner )
• B07 - Law, State and Nature (Project Heads Halbig, Christoph ;  Lingelbach, Gerhard )
• C01 - Literatur und kulturelles Gedächtnis (Project Head Manger, Klaus )
• C02 - Aesthetic visions of the world (Project Head Wegner, Reinhard )
• C03 - Zeitschriften und Periodika (Project Head Matuschek, Stefan )
• C5 - Skeptizismus - Realismus - Idealismus. Die Jenaer Skeptizismus-Debatte 1801-1806 (Project Heads Vieweg, Klaus ;  Welsch, Wolfgang )
• C6 - Geschichtlichkeit des Wissens: Entwicklungsgeschichtliche Rekonstruktion und systematische Analyse des Hegelschen Geschichtsbegriffs in der Jenaer Zeit (1801-1806) (Project Head Welsch, Wolfgang )
• C08 - Music and Theater (Project Head Altenburg, Detlef )
• C11 - Authorial Monuments (Project Heads Golz, Jochen ;  Heinz, Jutta )
• C12 - Der Kulturaustausch mit Frankreich und Italien (Project Heads Costadura, Edoardo ;  Grimm, Reinhold R. ;  Kaiser, Gerhard R. )
• C13 - Heuristics between Science and Poetry (Project Heads Gabriel, Gottfried ;  van Zantwijk, Temilo )
• C14 - Beyond Semantics. The Aesthetical Transition from Language Theory to Music Theory (Herder, A. W. Schlegel, Novalis, Hegel) (Project Head Oschmann, Dirk )
• D01 - The Structures of Natural Research in Jena (Project Heads Hellwig, Frank ;  Robin, Nicolas )
• D03 - Anthropology and cultural morphology (Project Head Bach, Thomas )
• E1 - Empirische Psychologie und Anthropologie - Physiologie oder Seelenlehre? (Project Head Eckardt, Georg )
• E02 - Empiricism versus Speculation? Conceptualised and Experienced Nature (Project Head Breidbach, Olaf )
• E03 - Medicine in Jena: Theory and Practice (Project Heads Bauer, Joachim ;  Zimmermann, Susanne )
• E04 - Ästetik und Experiment bei Goethe (Project Head Vogl, Joseph )
• T01 - Transdisziplinäre Präsentation: Ereignis Weimar (Project Head Schmidt, Georg )
• Z - Zentrales Verwaltungsprojekt (Project Heads Breidbach, Olaf ;  Schmidt, Georg )
• ÖA - Die Welt aus Weimar - Zur Geschichte des Geographischen Instituts (Project Head Breidbach, Olaf )

• Applicant Institution: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
• Participating University: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar; Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar
• Participating Institution: Klassik Stiftung Weimar
• Spokespersons: Professor Dr. Olaf Breidbach, since 7/2007 (†); Professor Dr. Georg Schmidt, from 1/2004 until 7/2007