CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · People & Ideas

Martin Burckhardt

German author

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
People and ideasInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ16003133 ↗
Source-derived summary

Martin Burckhardt (born 28 July 1957 in Fulda) is a German author and cultural theorist. His first novel, Score, was published in 2015.

Works

Books

Metamorphosen von Raum und Zeit. Eine Geschichte der Wahrnehmung. Campus, Frankfurt/M. 1994, ISBN 978-3-88375-927-2.

Vom Geist der Maschine. Eine Geschichte der kultureller Umbrüche. Campus, Frankfurt/M. 1999, ISBN 978-3-593-36275-5.

Brandlhuber. Eine Fiktion.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Martin Burckhardt” as german author. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Martin, Burckhardt and German.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957, 2015, 1994, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1957-07-28. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Martin, Burckhardt and German providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Martin Burckhardt”, the useful work is to connect “german author” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16003133. VIAF identifies the subject as 27893459. The Library of Congress control number is n96015017. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957, 2015, 1994 and 1999.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
Verify next

Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Martin Burckhardt”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Martin Burckhardt primary sources, Martin Burckhardt archive and Martin research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Martin Burckhardt”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Martin Burckhardt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.