A Greenhouse Research Talk by Eike-Christian Heine, Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities, University of Stavanger.
Hans Fricke (*1941) is a German marine biologist and underwater documentary filmmaker. In the late 1970s, he operated an underwater habitat at a depth of 11 meters in the Red Sea, and since 1981, two submersibles that took him to depths of 200 and 400 meters, respectively. During the 1970s and 80s, Fricke operated in a niche between marine science and documentary film. While his oceanographic style represents a small-science approach to the submarine environment in an age of big science, his perception of the undersea represents the transition from high-modern approaches to those of the environmental age.
Eike-Christian Heine (he/him) works at the intersection of environmental history with the histories of science and technology. As part of the PITCH-project he is currently analyzing the role of Petroculture in the exhibition practices of European technology museums. His recent publications include the special issue Submerged: Diving and the Undersea in Environmental History that he edited for the Journal for the History of Environment and Society JHES (in print) and the edited volume Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production, University of Pittsburgh Press 2022 (co-edited with Martin Meiske).