Historical cultural representation
“Reenactment is the theory of historiography formed by the philosopher and historian Robin George Collingwood. Through the method of Reenactment, meaning the revival of concrete historical occurrences, history should become understandable by means of perceptibility. The reenacting of historical and legendary events dates back to antiquity.”
(translated from de.wikipedia.org)
Historical cultural representation, as realized by the ASK Alamanni, also focuses on the perceptibility of the past. In contrast to Reenactment it does not aim for the recreation of a certain historical incidence. The basic intention is to explicitly display a bygone culture’s way of life.
Yet the method in itself means more than “Living History”, for it should not only offer an atmospheric view on a certain era, but strives for a sound understanding and presentation of all aspects of living that define a culture. It differs from Experimental Archaeology by the fact that it does not aim for the serial testing of hypothetical technical processes (e.g. bronze-casting), although such researches are often executed in the preparation prior to a presentation.
Historical cultural representation is a medium of educational museum presentation; in a concrete and colourful way visitors are introduced to contents hardly understandable solely by texts or exhibits.
