Anna Schober (historian)

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Anna Schober (also Anna Schober-de Graaf) (* 1966 in Wolfsberg (Carinthia) ) is an Austrian historian and image scientist. She is Professor of Visual Culture at the Institute for Cultural Analysis at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt . Anna Schober is the daughter of the politician Albin Schober .

Life

Schober studied history, art history and political science in Vienna , Frankfurt am Main and Colchester . In 2009 she completed her habilitation at the University of Vienna with a thesis on aesthetic tactics as a means of political emancipation in modern times and the present. Schober completed a number of international research stays a. a. at the Center for Theoretical Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Essex, Colchester (2000 - 2003) and at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (2003). She led the FWF projects "Aesthetic tricks as a means of political emancipation" (2003-2006) and "City-Squats: The Cinema as a space for political action" (2006-2009). From 2009 to 2011 Schober was a Marie Curie Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Verona , where she carried out the “Picturing Gender” project. In 2011 she took on a Mercator guest professorship at the Institute for Sociology at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen , where she also worked as a substitute professor and head of a DFG research project until August 2016.

Anna Schober has been Professor of Visual Culture at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt since September 2016.

Scientific contribution

In her dissertation “Blue Jeans. An artificial mythology ”, Schober reconstructed how the blue jeans myths could be constituted in various visual worlds (silent films, documentary photography, Hollywood films and youth subcultures) as well as in various consumer milieus in the USA and Western Europe since the end of the 19th century and how these were passed on transnationally and were transformed in the process.

In her habilitation, Schober examined the invention of an avant-garde and neo-avant-garde tradition in Western and Southeastern Europe in conjunction with a history of protest movements in the 20th and 21st centuries. The aim was to create a critical genealogy of these practices and to come to a re-evaluation of aesthetic intervention in which the incalculability of these interventions and their contingent participation in the constitution of aesthetic-political hegemony were placed in the foreground. In the DFG research project "Everybody - a transnational iconography ", Schober is continuing her genealogical research and is writing a genealogy and iconography of "everybodies", ie of iconically figured invocation and attraction figures.

In a research project on the topic of cinema as a movement in Central and Southeastern Europe, Schober examined the transnational upheaval that took place in 1968 in the work of amateur filmmakers and "authors" in Germany, Austria and Yugoslavia and the related transformation of the public into pluralistic, democratic and one-party states.

Memberships (selection)

Schober is a member of various scientific associations. She is on the Scientific Board of the Research Committee (RC57) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) for the 2014–2018 and 2018–2022 periods .

Publications

A comprehensive list of publications by Anna Schober can be found on research gate or on her homepage.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Visiting card Schober-de Graf Anna. University of Klagenfurt, accessed on March 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Anna Schober. Anna Schober, 2016, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Schober, Anna (2009). Irony, montage, alienation. Aesthetic Tactics and the Political Shape of Democracy. Munich: Wilhelm Fink.
  4. ↑ Aesthetic tricks as a means of political emancipation. FWF - the science fund, accessed on March 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ City Squats: The Cinema as a space for political action. FWF - the science fund, accessed on March 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Schober, Anna (2016). Gender in the picture. Collective imagination and public debate in postmodern Europe. In: Schober, Anna and Langenohl, Andreas (eds.) (2016). Metamorphoses of culture and gender. Genealogies, practices, imaginations. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2016, 169 - 201.
  7. ↑ Dr. Anna Schober takes on the Mercator guest professorship at the Institute for Sociology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. University of Vienna, September 28, 2011, accessed on March 20, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b "Everybody". A transnational iconography. German Research Foundation, 2019, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Schober, Anna (2001). Blue jeans. About life in fabrics and images. Frankfurt / New York: Campus.
  10. ↑ Christina Zink: Tougher than the toughest. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 9, 2002, accessed on March 5, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Schober, Anna (2019). Popularization and Populism in the Visual Arts: Attraction Images, London and New York: Routledge (Arts and Visual Culture Series).
  12. ↑ Schober, Anna. The Cinema Makers. Public life and the exhibition of difference in south-eastern and central Europe since the 1960s. Exeter: Intellect books.
  13. ^ The Cinema Makers. University of Vienna, accessed on March 12, 2019 .
  14. ↑ RC57 Visual Sociology. International Sociological Association, 2018, accessed March 27, 2019 .
  15. ^ Publications. In: Anna Schober. Doris Griesser, 2016, accessed on March 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schober, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schober-de Graaf, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfsberg (Carinthia)