Anne Storch

Anne Storch (born September 16, 1968 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German linguist and professor of African studies at the University of Cologne . In 2017 she was awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation.

Career

Anne Storch studied African linguistics, ethnology, and prehistory in Frankfurt and Mainz .

From 1995 to 1999 she worked in the DFG special research area 268 Cultural Development and Linguistic History in the West African Savannah Natural Area at the University of Frankfurt . As a doctoral student, she documented the Hõne language during several research stays in Nigeria ; In 1999 she did her doctorate in African Linguistics with the subject Das Hone and its position in the Central Jukunoid . From 2000 to 2004 she held a junior professorship at the Institute for African Linguistics at the University of Frankfurt. Since 2004 she has been a full professor and member of the board at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Cologne.

In addition to Nigeria, Anne Storch completed research stays in Sudan and Uganda .

From 2006 to 2009 she was the chairwoman of the Germany-wide African Studies Association. From 2014 to 2016 she was also President of the International Association for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics .

In 2018 Storch was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

Scientific focus

Anne Storch's main areas of work are Benue-Congo ( esp . Jukun ), Atlantic , West Nilotic , comparative African studies and typology. In particular, she examines how the specific reality of life affects the respective language. Recently, for example, she has dealt with language acquisition and the use of language by African migrants in the Balearic Islands , who, as street artists or other service providers, in turn record and use linguistic elements of the tourists vacationing there.

The reason for the award of the Leibniz Prize 2017 states:

"[...] a highly innovative and world-renowned Africanist, who with her pioneering work has contributed to a far-reaching realignment of her subject. For example, Storch opened up new thematic and methodological dimensions in theory and practice for African studies based on questions and methods from cultural anthropology and social sciences. In exemplary investigations, she has also shown how linguistically sound analyzes can be made fruitful in an interdisciplinary opening for a cultural-anthropological understanding of contemporary Africa. Particularly significant was, for example, Storch's study on taboos and secret languages ​​in Central Africa from 2011, which describes linguistic observations in such a way that they lead to complex sociological descriptions of power practices and political mechanisms of action. Storch's case studies, which are rooted in the linguistic description of languages ​​and grow far beyond this, have become international model studies for modern and self-critical African studies. "

- Justification of the Leibniz Prize

Publications (selection)

• The initial permutation in the West Atlantic languages. Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter, special issue 2, 1995, ISBN 978-0-00937-303-9
• The hone and its position in the central jukunoid. (Dissertation), Köppe, Cologne 1999, ISBN 978-3-89645-107-1
• Forthcoming. Tourism and Discourses on Ruination (with Angelika Mietzner)
• Magic and Gender (with Sabine Dinslage). Köppe, Cologne 2000, ISBN 978-3-89645-108-8
• Textbook of the Hausa language (with Herrmann Jungraithmayr , Wilhelm JG Möhlig ). Köppe, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-89645-006-7
• The Noun Morphology of Western Nilotic. Köppe, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-89645-139-2
• Secret Manipulations: Language and Context in Africa. Oxford University Press , New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-19976-902-5
• Repertoires and Choices in African Languages. (with Friederike Lüpke) De Gruyter Mouton , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-1-61451-194-6
• A Grammar of Luwo. An Anthropological Approach. (Culture and Language Use Studies in Anthropological Linguistics) John Benjamin Publishing, Amsterdam 2014, ISBN 978-9-02720-295-6

For a comprehensive list of articles and editorships, see the list of publications.

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Anne Storch. In: afrikanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de. University of Cologne, Faculty of Philosophy, Institute for African Studies and Egyptology, accessed on December 8, 2016 (English). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ulrike Claudi: Annotated course catalog for the master’s course in African Studies, winter semester 2007/08. (No longer available online.) Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne, 2007, archived from the original on December 9, 2016 ; Retrieved December 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Prof. Dr. Anne Storch. In: afrikanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de. University of Cologne, Faculty of Philosophy, Institute for African Studies and Egyptology, accessed on December 8, 2016 (English). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Dirk Riße: What connects language with the world. Africanist from Cologne receives the Leibniz Prize, endowed with 2.5 million euros . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . Cologne December 9, 2016, p. 22 .
4. ↑ ^{a b} Leibniz Prizes 2017: DFG honors three female and seven female scientists. In: Press release No. 54. DFG - German Research Foundation, December 8, 2016, accessed on December 8, 2016 .