Thanks to

The exhibition 200 Years - 100 Objects. Parts of the Whole - Selected Objects from the History of KIT was made possible by the cooperation of many people. Due to the diversity of their contributions, they cannot be honored according to the extent of their achievements.

The project was supported by a scientific advisory board: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hirth/Karlsruhe, Prof. Dr. Giesela Hürlimann/Dresden, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Logge/Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Marcus Popplow/Karlsruhe, Prof. Dr. Dieter Speck/Freiburg, Prof. Dr. Helmuth Trischler/Munich.

The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe hosted and supported the physically presented selection of exhibition objects as well as the overall digital show in the most hospitable way imaginable. The following worked here: Alistair Hudson, Anne Däuper, Natascha Daher, Dr. Helga Huskamp, Jens Lutz, Miriam Stürner, Manuel Weber, Philipp Ziegler and other members of the ZKM team who cannot be mentioned here by name.

The objects shown in the exhibition were proposed by Mikail Albayrak (object 75), Kerstin Bausch (object 55), Dr. Michael E. Becker (object 24), Christine Bender (object 65), Emanuel Bronka (object 64), Eckhard Dietrich (object 36, 95), Jochen Dietrich (object 76), the Mechanical/Chemical Engineering Student Council at KIT (object 79), Frank Geyer (object 61), Dr. Mathias Heckele (object 63, 69), Dr. Rixt Hoekstra (object 53), the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (Atmospheric Environmental Research) at KIT in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (object 7), the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at KIT (object 90), Dr. Ferdinand Leikam (object 78), Dr. Heiko Maaß (object 71), Alexander Markert (object 80), Dr. Peter Müller (object 12), Magdalena Pfeiffer (object 86), Hans Richter (object 88), Hans-Christan Schneider (objects 54, 62), Prof. Dr. Kathrin Valerius (object 85), Anja Weindel (object 68) and Christel Wessely (object 59). A large number of other objects were suggested by people who cannot be named here. Their participation has contributed significantly to sharpening the selection criteria.

Objects were loaned, reproductions were made available and permission for use was granted by the Archiv für Ingenieurwesen | saai at KIT (objects 3, 53), the Bismarck-Gymnasium Karlsruhe (object 11), the Scientific Computing Center at KIT (objects 57, 87), Jochen Dietrich (object 76), Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA/Lübeck (object 48), the Engler-Bunte Institute at KIT (object 94), Kerntechnische Entsorgung Karlsruhe GmbH (objects 8, 60, 89, 97), Peter Faulhaber (object 66), the General State Archive Karlsruhe (objects 4, 44), the Geodetic Institute at KIT (object 2), the Institute for Applied Materials (Materials and Interface Mechanics, Fusion Materials Laboratory) at KIT (object 62), the Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics at KIT (object 82), the Institute for Astroparticle Physics at KIT (object 85), the Institute for Automation and Applied Computer Science at KIT (object 71), the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (Atmospheric Environmental Research) at KIT in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (object 7), the Institute for Technical Physics at KIT (object 72), the Institute for Information Processing Technology at KIT (object 56), the Institute for Thermal Process Engineering at KIT (object 38), the KIT Archive in the KIT Library (objects 6, 10, 13-17, 20-25, 27, 29-35, 37, 39, 43, 45-52, 55, 59, 63-65, 68-70, 74, 76, 77, 79, 81, 83, 84, 86, 90, 92, 95, 96, 100), the KIT Library (objects 5, 19), the KIT Faculty of Architecture (object 54), the KIT Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (object 18), Anette Kup (object 34), Alexander Markert (object 80), Prof. Dr. Claus Mattheck (object 70), the Deutsches Museum München (objects 73, 75), the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe (object 12), Nucleonica GmbH/Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, the Presidential Board of KIT (objects 9, 26, 83), the Karlsruhe Research Accelerator KARA at KIT (object 61), Dr. Rüdiger Rombach (object 28), Prof. Dr. Heike Sahm (object 41), the KIT Symphony Orchestra (object 88), the Karlsruhe City Archive (object 78), the Technoseum | State Museum of Technology and Work in Mannheim (object 67), the Freiburg University Archive (object 1) and Christel Wessely (object 58).

The following experts contributed texts or advice on individual topics: Mikail Albayrak, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tamim Asfour, Dr. Michael E. Becker, Dr. Marco Birn, Prof. Dr.-Ing.Ing. Matthias Kind, Prof. Dr. Rolf-Ulrich Kunze, Dr. Maria Männig, Dr. Thomas Meyer, Prof. Dr. Michael Mönnich, Prof. Dr. Kurt Möser, Jonas Moosmüller, Prof. Dr. Peter Nick, Len Piltz, Prof. Dr. Marcus Popplow, Katja Protte, Prof. Dr. Holger Puchta, Prof. Michael Rotert, Dr. Klaus Rümmele, Dr. Anja Sattelmacher, Dr. Enrico Savio, Prof. Dr. Swantje Scharenberg, Dr. Joachim Schulz, Dr. Alice Seibert, Dr. Zsolt Sóti, Prof. Dr. Kathrin Valerius, Dr. Heiko Wegmann, Anja Weindel, Dr. Henning Wöhler and Prof. Dr.-Thomas Zwick.

From the project group set up at KIT for the anniversary, the project manager Wiebke Reiß from the Staff and Strategy service unit worked on this sub-project with the following members of this organizational unit and the two service units Campus Services and Innovation and Relations Management as well as the Presidential Board: Lydia Albrecht, Alina Aldinger, Dr. Jens Fahrenberg, Viktoria Fitterer, Dorothea Flößer, Isabelle Hartmann-Dietsch, Prof. Dr. Thomas Hirth, Christina Klag, Isabell Knapper, Lara Loos, Domenica Riecker-Schwörer and Brigitte Stahl-Busse.

The Media Production department in the Campus Services unit at KIT created the majority of the images of exhibition objects in various media formats, supplied material from its media database and worked on a consistent design approach for the physical and digital exhibition as well as the catalog. Here we worked with: Lydia Albrecht, Amadeus Bramsiepe, Hangyan Chen, Adrian Dickhoff, Ilvy Egler, Christoph Engel (ARCH) and Crina Preda.

Further video productions for the digital exhibition and the public relations work for the exhibition were carried out by Tatjana Schwarzbeck, Anja Sefrin and Adrian Yass from the Overall Communication department in the Staff and Strategy service unit.

The physical presentation of the exhibition objects and their digital presentation as an online version as well as for the multi-touch table within the physical exhibition at the ZKM Karlsruhe were realized by the team of PONG Li Studios/Karlsruhe: Mirijam Binder/art direction, Dominik Fraßmann/conceptual collaboration, Thomas Heck/graphic design, Dorothea von Holtey/project management, Sergiy Ptushkin/website development, Andreas Siefert/creative direction, Chiara Stopfkuchen/project assistance, Jonas Sulzer/multitouch table application development, Anastasia Varfolomeev/3D artist.
The exhibition construction was realized by "die möbelwerkstatt" Bentzen Karlsruhe, Jan-Nicolas Bentzen and team.

Dr. Anton F. Guhl laid the groundwork for the exhibition concept from 2021 to 2022 and organized the Call for Objects, researched objects and selected most of the objects on display. Anja Weindel and the student assistants Luna Labenz, Magdalena Pfeiffer and Benjamin Martin Ullmann were part of his team at the KIT Archive.

The following members of the KIT Archive team provided support in the form of assistance, proofreading, expert advice, discussion and research: Steven Bruskowski, Simone Dahringer-Boy, Kerstin Hundsdorf, Judith Käpplinger, Dominique Kretz, Gesine Marek, Thomas Müller and Inka Resch.

We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to all of them!

Karlsruhe, April 2025

Klaus Nippert (curator), Andrea Stengel (curator), Jonas Zilius (creative direction, scenography and technical management)