The Foundation Staff

Head of "Team International", responsible for old and non-European languages and cultures as well as for (European) ethnology. Up to now, Adelheid Wessler supervised collection-based research projects at museums as well as cooperations between Africa and Germany.

Background: Studies of social anthropology, sociology and political science in Bonn and Cologne, PhD on "Museale Repräsentationen des Selbst und des Anderen im (De-) Kolonisierungsprozess Namibias". Longer research stays abroad, e.g. in Bolivia and Namibia and participation in various (international) exhibition projects. Professional background includes working for the Lower Saxony State Museum Hannover and the University of Cologne.

Subject areas:

• Cultural Studies
• Non-European Languages and Cultures, Social Anthropology

Funding initiatives:

• Global Issues – Integrating Different Perspectives on Cultural Heritage and Change
• Arts and Science in Motion – Wissenschaft und Kunst in Bewegung (completed)
• Research in Museums (completed)