Cornelia Vismann

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Cornelia Vismann (born May 26, 1961 in Hankensbüttel ; † August 28, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German legal historian , media theorist , philosopher and private lecturer in public law .

Life

Vismann studied law and philosophy in Freiburg im Breisgau , Hamburg and Berkeley . After working as a lawyer specializing in labor law in Berlin, she worked as a research assistant at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam . In 1999 she received her doctorate with the thesis Files - Media Technology and Law in the Faculty of Law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . There she received her habilitation in 2007 with a thesis on the constitution based on the computer . From 2002 to 2009 Vismann was also a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt / Main. After her habilitation , she initially held a professorship at the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus University Weimar . From 2008 until her death she was professor for the history and theory of cultural techniques there. Vismann was married and had a daughter.

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Vismann is best known for the monograph on files that emerged from her dissertation , in which she combines media theory and legal history. Exceptional for a legal theoretical treatise, it was positively discussed in several large daily newspapers such as the FAZ , the NZZ , the SZ and the TAZ . The work was published as a paperback and was published in an English translation on the initiative of Werner Hamacher in 2008. Vismann published anthologies mainly on legal theory and legal history topics. In the 1990s Vismann was active in autonomous groups in Berlin ; her texts in this context appeared under the pseudonym "Severine Lansac".

Shortly before her death, Vismann completed her last book "Media of Justice", which was published in June 2011 by S. Fischer Verlag . In it she analyzes the “court's farewell to its theatrical origins”, as it is represented in particular by the admission of media in the courtroom. In 2012 a selection of her most important writings followed under the title “The Law and Its Means”. Vismann was co-editor of the magazine for the history of ideas , von Tumult: Writings for traffic science , the German Law Journal as well as the series "To the introduction" in the Hamburg Junius Verlag .

The main topic of the journal for media and cultural research 2/2011 on the media of law is dedicated to the research of Cornelia Vismann.

Publications

Monographs

  • Files. Media technology and law . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 2000, 2nd edition 2001. ( Files: Law and Media Technology , Stanford University Press, 2008; translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young).
  • From Greece . Merve Verlag, Berlin 2001, together with Friedrich Kittler .
  • Judiciary media . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-067031-1 (edited by Alexandra Kemmerer and Markus Krajewski).
  • Law and its means . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-067032-8 (edited by Markus Krajewski and Fabian Steinhauer).
  • The beauty of law, expanded to include the funeral speeches by Friedrich Kittler and Werner Hamacher . Merve Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-88396-303-7 .

Publication of anthologies

  • Derrida and Legal Philosophy . together with Peter Goodrich, Florian Hoffmann and Michel Rosenfeld, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2008.
  • Law and Visual Culture . Guest Editor for Parallax, issue 49 (2008), Taylor and Francis, Abington, UK.
  • Image regime of the law . merz & solitude, Reflexiv series, Stuttgart 2007 (edited with Jean-Baptiste Joly and Thomas Weitin ), in it: "Image regime of the law - legal regime of the image", 15-32.
  • Roman (Tumult. Writings on traffic science, issue 30), diaphanes Verlag, Berlin and Zurich (together with Walter Seitter).
  • Judging / deciding . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich / Paderborn (together with Thomas Weitin), in it: “Introduction”, 11-16 and “The Drama of Deciding”, 91-100.
  • Jacques Derrida - Before, Through, Beyond (the) Law . Special issue of the German Law Journal vol. 6 (2005), (together with Florian Hoffmann), therein: “Derrida, philosopher of law”.
  • Pierre Legendre . Historian, psychoanalyst, lawyer (tumult. Journal of Transport Science, issue 26) Syndikat-Verlag, Berlin 2001.
  • Systems theory resistances. Cultural theoretical considerations on the work of Niklas Luhmann . Academy, Berlin 1999 (edited with Albrecht Koschorke ).
  • Body of history. On the topicality of Ernst H. Kantorowicz . Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1998 (edited with Wolfgang Ernst ).

Selected essays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alexandra Kemmerer: The band of the Greeks. In media of the law: On the death of Cornelia Vismann. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (print edition). August 31, 2010, p. 29.
  2. ↑ a b Unter den Arkaden: On the death of the media theorist and lawyer Cornelia Vismann. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 1, 2010, p. 14.
  3. ↑ Michael Stolleis : Obituary for Vismann, accessed July 10, 2018 , Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
  4. ↑ Gerd Bucerius Endowed Professorship for the History and Theory of Cultural Techniques
  5. ↑ Walter Grasnick: One more look, Mr. Hirsch, just one more! Cornelia Vismann has everything every special investigator should know about files. In: FAZ.NET. December 22, 2000, accessed on September 29, 2010 (review; printed version: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 22, 2000, No. 298, page 48).
  6. ↑ Mario Wimmer: Ten years later . Review: Cornelia Vismann, files. Media technology and law, Frankfurt a. M. 2000. In: Traverse. Journal of History 2011/2, 175-177.
  7. ↑ Markus Bauer: Cornelia Vismanns Praxis - On the violence of criticism , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 7, 2018, page N3
  8. ^ Peer Zumbansen, Russell Miller, Alexandra Kemmerer: Obituary - Cornelia Vismann. (PDF; 62 kB) (No longer available online.) In: 11 German Law Journal 965-966 (2010). Archived from the original on September 17, 2011 ; Retrieved September 29, 2010 . 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 / www.germanlawjournal.com
  9. ↑ taz of June 16, 2011: Review by Susanne Baer , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
personal data
SURNAME Vismann, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian, media theorist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hankensbüttel
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 2010
Place of death Berlin