Felix Brönner, M.A.

Since 2021, I have been working at the Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage, conducting research for a doctoral project on the “Institutionalization of Provenance Research in Germany since 1990.” Originally, my background is in law and international relations, but thanks to the interdisciplinary setting of the HCCH, I have been able to reorient myself.
My approaches are characterized by interdisciplinarity, with a focus on (international) political negotiation processes, the history of ideas, and critical approaches to Cultural Heritage Studies.
My current research focuses on state-organized provenance research in Germany and the conditions under which it developed into a discipline that is now widely recognized. In doing so, I am attempting to analyze the institutionalization in connection with the developments in the politics of memory since 1990.

The Institutionalization of Provenance Research in Germany since 1990 with links to Memory Studies. Doctoral Thesis.