Das Ereignis, Geschichtsschreibung Zwischen Vorfall Und Struktur

Papers of a workshop on history, held in Berlin, in October 2008. There are three main chapters. "History between construct, medium and evidence" discusses what 'history' means in the sense of a historical narrative and how it is transferred to us. History is defined as a construct, coined by specific medial patterns and continually transformed over time in the shape of an archaeological record. The second chapter, "History between event, condition and structure" deals with 'history' as epistemological category: how 'events' and, from this, 'history' are made. 'Events' evolve out of certain 'incidents' by 'experiencing' them as something extraordinary. 'History' is shaped by the logical combination of such 'events' targeting a specific objective. The final section, "Archaeology of history" summarizes perspectives on the practical historiography of ancient civilisations. It is stressed that the archaeological record is hyper-complex on the one hand, but by no means universal on the other: it bears practically infinite potential for historiographical interpretation, but at the same time always remains fragmentary. Papers mainly in German, with some English contributions.