Barbara Mittler

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Barbara Mittler (2009)

Barbara Mittler (born February 15, 1968 in Hagen ) is a German sinologist .

life and work

Barbara Mittler, daughter of the librarian Elmar Mittler and the flautist Uta Mittler, studied Sinology, Musicology and Japanese Studies in Oxford ( BA 1990), Heidelberg and Taipei ( Taiwan ). She received her doctorate in 1994 and qualified as a professor at Heidelberg University in 1998 after a research stay at Harvard University . From 2002 to 2004 she was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) . After having been appointed to the USA ( Barnard College , Columbia University ), she has held a chair in Sinology at Heidelberg University since 2004 and was director of the Sinological Institute until 2012. She was a founding member of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” and from 2007 headed the “Public & Media” research section. Since November 2012 she has been Co-Director of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”. Mittler became a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2008 and a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences in 2013 .

In 2000, Barbara Mittler received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the DFG for her achievements . In 2009, Barbara Mittler was awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize by the American Philosophical Society for her essay Popular Propaganda? Art and Culture in Revolutionary China awarded. In it she deals with the question of why the propaganda products from the time of Mao are still popular in China today and how Mao became a mythical figure. In 2013 her monograph “A Continuous Revolution. Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture "by John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History of the American Historical Association awarded.

Barbara Mittler is married to the classical philologist Thomas A. Schmitz and has two sons.

Research priorities

Barbara Mittler conducts research on Chinese and Taiwanese music, literature and cultural history, encyclopedias, comics, historical and contemporary news media, satirical and women's magazines and deals with questions of visuality and historiography. Her most recent projects dealt with depictions of Gandhi and Mao, Chinese musicians on the world's stages, and questions of periodization in a transcultural context.

Fonts (selection)

Selected monographs

  • Dangerous tunes. The Politics of Chinese Music in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China since 1949. (= Opera sinologica 3). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997 (= dissertation).
  • A Newspaper for China? Power, Identity and Change in Shanghai's News Media (1872-1912). (= Harvard East Asian Monographs Series 226). Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2004.
  • A continuous revolution. Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture. (= Harvard East Asian Monographs Series 343). Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2013.

Book projects

  • "Portrait of a Trope: New Women and New Men in Chinese Women's Magazines, 1898-2008"
  • "And there is only one Lang Lang ..." —Music in China from a Transcultural Perspective "
  • “No parallel — The Fatherly Bodies of Gandhi and Mao” (with Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University)
  • “Chronologics: Why China did not have a Renaissance and why that matters — an interdisciplinary Dialogue” (with Thomas Maissen , German Historical Institute Paris,)
  • “Recorded Soundscapes - the Liu Yuan Collection” joint book project with Andreas Steen Aarhus University.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Barbara Mittler" ( Memento from September 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" (April 30, 2013).
  2. ↑ Member entry of Barbara Mittler at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 30, 2013.
  3. ↑ Member entry of Barbara Mittler at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on September 21, 2015.
  4. ^ "Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize" , German Research Foundation (April 30, 2013).
  5. ^ "Henry Allen Moe Prize" ( Memento of May 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), American Philosophical Society (April 30, 2013).
  6. ↑ Historians from the USA distinguish Sinologist Barbara Mittler . Press release from November 12, 2013 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de).
  7. ↑ Preface Dangerous Tunes. (April 30, 2013); Foreword A Newspaper for China? April 30, 2013.
  8. ^ "Barbara Mittler" , Institute for Sinology, University of Heidelberg (April 30, 2013).
personal data
SURNAME Mittler, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th February 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen