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People Involved in the Exhibition

Curators 

Prof. Dr Joachim Hamm, Dr Miriam Montag-Erlwein
for the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Faculty of Arts
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg

https://www.mfn.uni-wuerzburg.de
eMail: mfn@uni-wuerzburg.de

Other responsible persons

> Researchers involved at the JMU Würzburg

Prof. Dr Stefan Bürger, Chair of Art History
Prof. Dr Joachim Hamm, Chair of German Philology, esp. History of Literature
of the late Middle Ages and early modern period
Prof. Dr Stephan Kraft, Professorship of Modern German Literature
Prof. Dr Eckhard Leuschner, Chair of Early Modern and Modern Art History
Dr Miriam Montag-Erlwein, Didactics of History
Dr Ina Katharina Uphoff, Research Centre for Historical Visual Media

> Contributors to the storytelling

Franziska Becker, Clara Nüßlein and Nina Wintermeyer

> Exhibition design

FRIENDS - Menschen Marken Medien
Agency for communication, marketing and advertising

Participating students of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

The roll-ups, which will be shown as a poster exhibition in Würzburg in 2025 and formed the basis for this digital realisation, were designed by

Aspects of art in the time of the Peasants' Wars

Chair of Early Modern and Modern Art History -
Prof. Dr Eckhard Leuschner

Roll-up 1: The ambivalent image of the peasants and peasant warriors in the picture (Simon Eckhardt, Larissa Leclaire, Julia Paukert, Lisa Steeb)

Roll-up 2: Luther in dialogue and image teachings, image controversies (Naum Park, Irina Pavlovskaya,
Marleen Pichler, Lara Schauer)

Roll-up 3: A laconic monument of victory and A monument of humility or self-justification? (Corina Honke, Shiori Ohta)

The expansion of power - building after the 'Peasants' War'

Chair of Art History - Prof. Dr Stefan Bürger

Roll-up 1: Destruction and construction (Miriam Lüer), castle and official buildings (Simon Thesing)

Roll-up 2: Fortifications (Alexandra Rumpel), Sacred buildings (Hans Bieberstein)

Roll-up 3: Town halls (Michael Stock) Building industry (Stefan Bürger)

The Peasants' War - an event in the history of literature in the 16th century

Chair of German Philology, in particular literary history of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period - Prof. Dr Joachim Hamm

Roll-up 1: Journalism, Propaganda, Fake News: around 1525 (Stephan Hemmerich, Nicole Hüttenhofer, Leon Lutz, Oleksandr Medvediev, Katharina Oster, Hannah Walter), Poems on the 'Peasants' War' in Würzburg (Anne Engel, Benjamin Flammersberger, Lea Hoffmann, Charlotte Krautwurst, Isabell Neumann)

Roll-up 2: Götz von Berlichingen: Self-representation of a controversial imperial knight (Lucia Eberlein, Katharina Hess, Caroline Nagel, Josef Stankiewicz)

Roll-up 3: Thomas Müntzer - Luther's "Satan of Allstedt" (Lennart Behrens, Hans Bischof, Pauline Öhrlein, Christoph Schöppner, Katharina Schricker)

The 'Peasants' War' in dramas of the 18th-20th century

Professorship for Modern German Literary History - Prof. Dr Stephan Kraft

Roll-up 1: Resistance or murder in "Götz"? Goethe and the 'Weinsberg Bloody Deed' (Michelle Friedlein, Ronja Merold)

Roll-up 2: Gerhart Hauptmann's "Florian Geyer" - visionary or helpless hero? (Rebecca David, Denisa Muresan)

Roll-up 3: Everything for nothing?! Frankenhausen in the GDR drama "Thomas Münzer" (Lara Hintz, Franziska Kaiser)

Who determines the image of the 'Peasants' War' in schools and the public?

Didactics of History - Dr Miriam Montag-Erlwein

Roll-up 1: Educational material 'Peasants' War'? (Pascal Bayer, David Lütjens, Lena Mützel)

Roll-up 2: Film and television (Benedict Fischer, Jan Laudam, Jana Markert)

Roll-up 3: Remembering the 'Peasants' War' (Marlene Fleckenstein, Luis Escribano Navamuel, Dr Miriam Montag-Erlwein)

Sponsors

We would like to thank the Sparkassenstiftung für die Stadt Würzburg (Mr Rainer Ankenbrand) and the Faculty of Arts of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg for funding the exhibition.

We would also like to thank all other supporters of our project, in particular Mr Georg Rootering (Artistic Coordinator of the Peasants' War), Mr Klaus Heuberger (Head of the Department of Culture) and the entire project team of the City of Würzburg.