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European Ethnology

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  10. Nicolas Jagla M.A.

Nicolas Jagla M.A.

External Doctoral Candidate

Research Interests

  • Cultural History
  • (Industrial) Cultural Heritage
  • Local and Regional History
  • Museums

Current Research

“Remembering Upper Franconia’s Industrial Culture: Forms, Actors, Content” (working title)
 (Ph.D. project)

  • Since 2024: Research Associate at the Franconia Research College at the Institute for Franconian Regional History of the Universities of Bamberg and Bayreuth
  • 2022–2024: Museum Director and General Manager at the Mönchsondheim Fortified Church Open-Air Museum
  • 2020–2022: Research Associate at the Levi Strauss Birthplace Museum in Buttenheim
  • 2020–2021: Project assistant for “Cataloging and Digitization of Upper Franconian Parish Descriptions” at the Institute for Franconian Regional History at the Universities of Bamberg and Bayreuth
  • 2017–2020: Master’s degree in European Ethnology at Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg
  • 2014–2017: Bachelor’s degree in History and Geography at Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg
  • 2013–2014: Bachelor’s degree in Biology at the University of Bayreuth
  • 2009–2013: General university entrance qualification through adult education at the Theresianum Bamberg
  • 2006–2009: Dual vocational training as an architectural draftsman at the Archdiocesan Ordinariate of the Archdiocese of Bamberg
     

  • “The Legacy of Industry: Industrial Culture and Its Traces in Local Memory Culture” (Local History Symposium, Rügheim, February 28, 2026).
  • “‘…retain lasting value for times to come.’ Protestant parish descriptions as sources of local history” (Regional Meeting of Local History and Archives Curators at the Fränkische-Schweiz Museum Tüchersfeld, Tüchersfeld, November 22, 2025).
  • “‘…to gather diligent information on this suspicious fellow.’ Early modern wanted posters as sources for cultural and social history” (Colloquium Historicum Wirsbergense e.V., Baunach, March 26, 2025, and Weismain, March 27, 2026).
  • “Churches as Reflected in Parish Descriptions” (Symposium “The ‘Margrave Churches’ in Kulmbach/Bayreuth in a European Context: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Questions,” June 24–26, 2021).
     

Monographs

  • Wanted Posters and Lists of Criminal Groups as Sources for Historical Clothing Research. A Critical Comparison (= Publications on Folklore and Cultural History, Vol. 108). Bamberg 2021.

Contributions to Anthologies and Journals

  • Report on Museum Work at the Mönchsondheim Fortified Church Open-Air Museum in 2023. In: Franken unter einem Dach 45 (2023), pp. 159–172.
  • “...the Kerwa is coming, the Kerwa is here...”. A Rural Church Fair: The Case of the Main-Franconian Village of Mönchsondheim. In: Bünz, Enno/Weiß, Wolfgang (eds.): Region – Culture – Religion. Festschrift for Klaus Reder on his 65th birthday. (= Sources and Research on the History of the Diocese and Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg, Vol. 82). Würzburg 2023, pp. 199–218.
  • Report on Museum Work at the Mönchsondheim Fortified Church Open-Air Museum in 2022. In: Franken unter einem Dach 44 (2022), pp. 157–164.
  • “...Retain Lasting Value for Future Generations.” Cataloging and Digitization of Upper Franconian Parish Descriptions. In: Archive for the History of Upper Franconia 102 (2022), pp. 147–156.
  • “Presenting Itself as a Magnificent Work of Architecture.” “Margrave Churches” as Reflected in Upper Franconian Parish Descriptions. In: Dippold, Günter et al. (eds.): “Margrave Churches.” Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Protestant Religious Buildings of the Principality of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Bayreuth 2022, pp. 461–480.
  • “…wear pointed or wrapped trousers made of yellow goatskin.” Lists of Thieves and Wanted Posters as Sources for Clothing Practices in the First Half of the 18th Century. In: Schönere Heimat 111, No. 1 (2022), pp. 27–34.
  • “For the Protection of People and Animals.” Walpurgis Night customs in Upper Franconia in 1909, based on a survey conducted by the Bavarian Association for Folk Art and Folklore in Munich. In: Schönere Heimat 109, no. 2 (2021), pp. 119–130.

Exhibition Brochures

  • “Sustainable?! How We Treat Clothing Then and Now” at the Levi Strauss Birthplace Museum. Buttenheim 2022.
  • “From Franconia to the New World: Jewish Emigrants in the 19th Century” at the Levi Strauss Birthplace Museum. Buttenheim, 2021.

Reviews

  • on “District of Middle Franconia (ed.): Heimat im Gepäck. Displaced Persons and Their Traditional Costumes. Munich 2023.” In: Schönere Heimat 112, No. 4 (2024), p. 342.
  • on “Kuschy, Sabrina/Mietk, Thomas: Mehr als eine Tracht / Wecej ako drastwa. Sorbian/Wendish Life in the Dahme-Spreewald District / Serbske žywjenje we wokrejsu Dubja-Blota (= Individual Publications of the Dahme-Spreewald District Archive, Vol. 9). Berlin 2023.” In: Yearbook of Brandenburg Regional History 74 (2023), pp. 262–264.
  • on “Peter Fischer: Contributions to House Research and Folklore of the Altmark, edited by the Museums of the Altmark District of Salzwedel and the Landesheimatbund Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. Diesdorf 2019.” In: Yearbook for Brandenburg Regional History 73 (2022), pp. 204–206.
     

  • Reading and Understanding Texts Efficiently – Reading Seminar (Winter Semester 2021/22 at the Chair of European Ethnology at the University of Bamberg)