Christina von Braun

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Christina von Braun (2012)

Christina von Braun (born June 27, 1944 in Rome ) is a German cultural scientist , gender theorist, professor emerita , author and filmmaker .

life and work

Christina von Braun is the daughter of Hildegard Beck-Margis and the former UN - and France - Ambassador Sigismund von Braun , who at the time of her birth was the legation secretary in the embassy at the Holy See in Rome. Her uncle was the rocket researcher Wernher von Braun , about whom she said in 2012 that he “collaborated with the greatest criminals of the 20th century”. Her sister is the FDP politician Carola von Braun . Her grandmother Hildegard Margis died in the women's prison in Barnimstrasse after she was arrested because of her resistance to National Socialism in connection with the group around Anton Saefkow and Franz Jacob .

Christina von Braun spent the first years of her life in the Vatican and did not come to Germany until 1949. She studied in the USA and Germany and was based in Paris from 1969 to 1981 as a freelance writer and filmmaker. From 1991 to 1993 she was a fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen .

In 1994 she was appointed to the chair for cultural theory with a focus on gender and history at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Her main areas of research and teaching include: gender, media, religion and modernity, secularization and the history of anti-Semitism .

Christina von Braun produced around fifty film documentaries and television plays on cultural-historical topics and wrote numerous books and essays on the relationship between the history of the mind and the history of the body .

In 2013 she was honored with the Sigmund Freud Culture Prize of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV) and the German Psychoanalytical Society (DPG) for her oeuvre as an outstanding scientist.

Christina von Braun is married to the psychoanalyst Tilo Held . The couple has two children.

University functions

  • Co-founder and board member of the Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg
  • Since 2010 member of the advisory board of the magazine Sexuality & Culture
  • 2009–2013 founder and head of the “College of Jewish Studies” at the Humboldt University in Berlin
  • 2005–2012 spokeswoman for the Research Training Group Gender as a Category of Knowledge
  • 2005–2007 Head of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt University
  • 2004–2009 member of the Charité Medical Council
  • since 1998 member of the advisory board of the magazine for sexual research
  • Initiator, co-founder and from 1996 to 2002 head of the Gender Studies course at the Humboldt University in Berlin
  • 1996–1998 Dean of the Philosophical Faculty III of the Humboldt University in Berlin
  • 1990–2000 co-editor of the magazine Metis. Journal for historical women's studies and feminist practice

Non-university functions

  • since 2010 member of the advisory board of the Forum for Intercultural Dialogue
  • since 2008 Vice President of the Goethe Institute
  • since 2007 member of the board of the German Orient Foundation
  • since 2002 member of the executive committee of the Goethe-Institut
  • since 1999 founding member and board member of the Green Academy in the Heinrich Böll Foundation
  • 1999–2005 member of the Presidium of the Evangelical Church Congress
  • 1990–1998 board member of the Federal Association of Film and Television Directors

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Editing

  • What was German Judaism? 1870–1933 , De Gruyter, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-040050-2
  • The unconscious. Crisis and Capital of Science. of knowledge and gender studies on relationship (GenderCodes; Vol. 9). transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1145-8 (together with Dorothea Dornhof and Eva Johach).
  • Gender @ knowledge. A handbook of gender theories. 2nd Edition. Vienna / Cologne 2009 (EA 2005, together with Inge Stephan).
  • Myths of the Blood. Campus, Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38349-1 (together with Christoph Wulf).
  • Secularization. Balance sheet and perspectives of a controversial thesis (religion, state, culture; vol. 5). LIT-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0150-2 (together with Wilhelm Gräb and Johannes Zachhuber ).
  • Gender in Conflicts. Palestine, Israel, Germany (Berlin Gender Studies; Vol. 3). LIT-Verlag, Münster / Berlin, 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9281-6 (together with Ulrike Auga ).
  • "Holy War" and Gender. Violence in religious discourses / “God's War” and gender (Berlin Gender Studies; Vol. 2). LIT-Verlag, Münster / Berlin, 2006, ISBN 3-8258-8109-1 (together with Ulrike Brunotte, Gabriele Dietze, Daniela Hrzàn, Gabriele Jähnert and Dagmar Pruin ).
  • Gender studies. An introduction. 2nd updated edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-476-02143-2 (EA Stuttgart 2000, together with 2006 Inge Stephan).
  • The "moving" prejudice. Aspects of International Anti-Semitism. Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2820-1 (together with Eva-Maria Ziege).
  • The eternal hatred of Jews. Book accompanying the film trilogy of the same name (Studies on Intellectual History; Vol. 12). 2nd Edition. Philo Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8257-0149-2 (EA Bonn 1990, together with Ludger Heid).
  • The multiple personality. Illness, medium or metaphor? On the intellectual-historical background of a modern clinical picture. New Critique Publishing House, Frankfurt / M. 1999, ISBN 3-8015-0326-7 (together with Gabriele Dietze).

Essays

  • We all pay the price of money . In: Kursbuch . Vol. 172: Living well. Hamburg (Murmann) 2012, pp. 41–55.
  • The service to money . In: Schauspiel Frankfurt am Main (program booklet), Frankfurt / M. 2012, pp. 852-853.
  • The price of money . In: DGB (Hrsg.): Gegenblende. The Union Debate Magazine , Vol. 18 (2012).
  • Nudity, shame and masculinity . In: Lentos Museum Lin7 / Ludwig Museum Budapest (ed.): Der nackte Mann (exhibition catalog), Nuremberg (Verlag für Moderne Kunst) 2012, pp. 25–36.
  • The snake . In: Christian Kassung, Jasmin Mersmann, Olaf B. Rader (eds.): Zoologicon. A cultural-historical dictionary of animals . W. Fink, Munich 2012, pp. 354-361.
  • The gender of the unconscious in the knowledge order . In: Günter Gödde, Michael B. Buchholz (eds.): The broom with which the witch flies. Science and Therapeutics of the Unconscious, Vol. 1: Psychology as a science of complementarity . Psychosozial, Gießen 2012, pp. 139–158.
  • Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy . In: Evangel. Stadtkirche (Ed.): Beatitudes . Freshup Publ. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 7-26.
  • The gender of the canon . In: Berthold Franke, Ulrich Ribbert, Joachim Umlauf (eds.): Canon and best list. What is true in culture? What counts for Germany's neighbors? Steidl, Göttingen 2012, pp. 19–32.
  • The hysteria and the vibrator . In: Cuvilliés-Theater (program booklet), Munich 2011/12, pp. 6–13.
  • What does secularization mean for Jews and Christians. Aspects of education, exclusion and fear . In: Marta S. Halpert, Leon Widecki (eds.): Religion today. What for? (Jewish echo 60). Vienna 2011/12, pp. 21–26.
  • Image and gender in the three religions of the book. Judaism, Christianity and Islam . In: Christoph Wulf, Jacques Poulain, Fathi Triki (eds.): Emotions in a transcultural world (Paragrana issue 20). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011, pp. 28–40.
  • Symbolic gender order. Image and gender in Judaism, Christianity and Islam . In: German Embassy Ankara (ed.), Ankara 2011, pp. 11–28.
  • Gender orders reflect the relationship between God and man . In: Goethe-Institut (ed.): How are women actually doing? Reports, pictures, conversations . Munich 2011, pp. 3–6.
  • The Headscarf. To Empty Signifier . In: Jill Winder and others: The Return of Religion and Other Myths. A Critical Reader . BAK, Utrecht 2009, pp. 32-55.
  • The Symbol of the Cross. Secularization of a Metaphor From the Early Church to National Socialism . In: Doris Bergen (Ed.): Lessons and Legacies, Vol. 7: From Generation to Generation . Northwestern University Press, Evanston Ill. 2008, pp. 5-33.

Movies

The numerous film and television productions include:

  • Beauty - desperately sought. To the story of beauty. (2002)
  • The divided me. Shaping the Self in the Modern Age. (The literary motif of the doppelganger and the clinical picture of the multiple personality) (WDR, 1996)
  • Bad blood. Myths and history of the effects of syphilis. (WDR, 1993/94, 60 min.)
  • From the sense of sight. Eye glances of the sexes. (The change in gaze and the influence of its change on gender perception). (WDR, 1994)
  • The fear of the satiated. On the history of the hunger strike as a political weapon. (WDR, 1991, 45 min.)
  • The eternal hatred of Jews. Film trilogy: I. Christian anti-Judaism II. German national anti-Semitism III. Racist anti-Semitism (WDR, 1990, l35 min.)
  • The heirs of the swastika. The history of denazification in the two German states. Episode I: West Germany. Episode II East Germany. (WDR, 1988, 120 min.)

Web links

literature

  • Ulrike Auga (Ed.): Demons, Vamps and Hysterics: Gender and Race Figures in Knowledge, Media and Everyday Life around 1900 , Festschrift for Christina von Braun (= GenderCodes , Volume 14), Transcript, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376 -1572-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link (mp3) ( Memento from March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Christina von Braun: Brief Vita ( Memento from November 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ "Eros can hardly be verbalized"; Interview with Alem Grabovac in taz, the daily newspaper, issue 1./2. September 2012.
  4. ↑ http://www.zentrum-juedische-studien.de/event/2016-01-26-5-berliner-salon-fuer-juedische-kultur-und-wissenschaft/
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.hu-berlin.de
  6. ↑ http://www2.hu-berlin.de/gkgeschlecht/
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Christina von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist, gender theorist, author and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome