Eva Kimminich

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Eva Kimminich (born April 28, 1957 in St. Blasien, Black Forest ) is a cultural scientist, Romance scholar and semioticist . She holds the professorship for Cultures of Romance Countries at the University of Potsdam .

Life

Eva Kimminich studied in Freiburg i. Br. And received his doctorate in 1985 from the University of Freiburg with the thesis of the Devil's Advertiser, developed in Florence. Subsequently, she was commissioned as a research assistant with the research project "Customs on the Upper Rhine", from which the two monographs Religious Customs in the Wheelwork of Authorities and Procession Devils, Herrgottsmaschinen and swastika flags. The history of the Corpus Christi procession in Freiburg and Baden emerged . She then worked as a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center "Written Form and Orality" at the University of Freiburg with the monograph Erlebte Lieder. An analysis of 19th century handwritten song records . In 1989 she received a research grant from the German Research Foundation in Bonn and completed her habilitation in 1992 at the University of Freiburg with a collective reformulation theory of social realities using the example of censored chansons from Parisian café concerts of the 19th century ( Stitched songs. Censored chansons from Paris café concerts. Attempt of a collective reformulation of social realities ) for the subject Romance Philology. From 1993 to 2009 she held various guest and substitute professorships at German universities and carried out research projects on rap in France and West Africa. In 2009 she was offered the professorship “Cultures of Romance Countries” at the University of Potsdam . In 2000 the first volume of twelve essay volumes of her interdisciplinary series "World - Body - Language" appeared with Tongue and Sign . In 2002 she founded the section "Semiotics of Youth and Subcultures" in the German Society for Semiotics, from which she was entrusted with the presidency from 2009 to 2011, and for which she still works as an adviser for youth and subcultures and on the board is.

Research priorities

Kimminich sees culture as practice. In her research she therefore starts from a constructivist point of view and examines in particular central metaphorical concepts of a culture or subculture. These allow conclusions to be drawn about the development and innovation or the transmission of cultural reality designs, identity constructions and the associated social processes. On the one hand, the interplay between sensual perception and meaningful representation plays an important role, as Kimminich shows in her analysis of the cultural history of synaesthesia or Western food culture. On the other hand, she focuses on the interactions between the sign units and the individuals, social groups and social orders of a culture that set signs and shows how culture is shaped and renewed through the emergence and change of symbolic forms. She concentrates particularly on individual or group-specific acts of punctuation, which have an innovative effect on semioses and symbolic forms of existing cultural programs of a society: In her research on sub- and youth cultures as well as on protest and countercultures, Kimminich shows a particularly dense play with symbolic ones Shapes according to.

Works

Monographs
  • Illégal ou légal. Anthologie du rap français. Reclam, Stuttgart 2002 ISBN 3-15-009093-8
  • Choked songs. Censored chansons from Paris café concerts. Attempt at a collective reformulation of social realities. (Romanica et Comparatistica, 31) Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1998 ISBN 3-86057-081-1
  • Experienced songs. An analysis of 19th century handwritten song records. (ScriptOralia, 20) Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1990 ISBN 3-8233-4237-1
  • Procession devils, machines of God and swastika flags . On the history of the Corpus Christi procession in Freiburg and Baden. (City and History, 14) Schillinger, Freiburg 1990 ISBN 3-89155-051-0
  • Religious folk customs in the machinery of the authorities. A contribution to the effects of educational reform programs on the Upper Rhine and in Vorarlberg. (People and structures, 4) Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1989 ISBN 3-631-40356-9
  • The devil's advertiser. Medieval depiction of vices and forms of Shrovetide. (Artes Populares, 110) Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1986 ISBN 3-8204-9500-2
Essay volumes (selection)
  • with Judith Stein (Ed.): Mythos Stadt - Stadtmythen. (World - Body - Language. Perspectives of cultural forms of perception and representation, 10) Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2013 ISBN 978-3-631-62849-2
  • with Mara Persello (ed.): City and characters. Berlin 2011
  • Utopias, youth cultures and realities of life: aesthetic practice as political action. (World - Body - Language. Perspectives on cultural forms of perception and representation, 7) Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2009 ISBN 978-3-631-59938-9
  • Metaphors of Power - Power of Metaphor. Shaker, Aachen 2008 ISBN 978-3-8322-7111-4
  • with H. Geuen, M. Rappe u. S. Pfänder (Ed.): Express Yourself! Europe's creativity between the market and the underground. Transcript, Bielefeld 2007 ISBN 978-3-89942-673-1
  • with Christophjacket, Siegfried J. Schmidt (ed.): Kulturschutt: About the recycling of theories and cultures. Transcript, Bielefeld 2006 ISBN 3-89942-394-1
  • GastroLogy. (World - Body - Language. Perspectives on cultural forms of perception and representation, 5) Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2005 ISBN 978-3-63154283-5
  • Rap: More Than Words. (World - Body - Language. Perspectives on cultural forms of perception and representation, 4) Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2004 ISBN 3-631-51961-3
  • Cultural Identity: Constructions and Crises. (World - Body - Language. Perspectives on cultural forms of perception and representation, 3) Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2003 ISBN 3-631-50206-0
Essays
  • Power and magic of words. On the function of writing in Annie Ernaux 's work. In: Wolfgang Asholt Hg .: Intertextuality and Subversiveness. Studies of novel literature in France in the 1980s. Series: Siegen, contributions to literature, language and media studies, 120. Winter, Heidelberg 1994, pp. 149–159

Prices

  • 2012 Potsdam Congress Prize in the "Best Individual Event" category for the 13th International Congress of the German Society for Semiotics on the subject of "Representation - Virtuality - Practice", which was held in 2011 at the University of Potsdam.
  • 2008 teaching award from the University of Freiburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Synesthesia and disembodiment of perception. Remarks on a historical development in Europe from the 17th to the 20th century. In: Journal of Semiotics. 24/1, 2002, pp. 71-109.
  2. ↑ Remarks on the cultural paradises of homo gastrologicus. In: GastroLogie. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 2005 (= world - body - language. Perspectives on cultural forms of perception and representation, 5). Pp. VII-LXXII.
  3. ^ I-Stories and Histories. Rap and Slam: Working on Identity, Community and History. In: Yearbook for European Ethnology. Görresgesellschaft. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2011, pp. 173–196.
  4. ↑ HipHop B-Boys Dance and Body Images. In: Birgit Richard, Heinz-Hermann Krüger (eds.): Inter_cool 3.0. Young people's image and media worlds. A compendium on current youth culture research. Fink Verlag, Munich 2010, pp. 81–97.
  5. ↑ Culture (rubble) recycling: From kids and barbarians, Jesus slippers and dreadlocks - youth in the field of tension between concepts and cultural programs. In: Christoph Jacket, Eva Kimminich, Siegfried J. Schmidt (Eds.): Kulturschutt: About the recycling of theories and cultures. Transcript, Bielefeld 2006, pp. 34-69.
  6. ↑ Black Barbie & Co. Migration and racism experiences in the lyrics of French rappers. In: Freiburg gender studies. 25, 2011: Migration, Mobility, Gender, pp. 75–92.
  7. ↑ Self-creation, self (discovery), self-assertion - a cultural program disorder? In: E. Kimminich, H. Geuen, M. Rappe, S. Pfänder (eds.): Express Yourself! Europe's creativity between the market and the underground. Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, pp. 51-73.
personal data
SURNAME Kimminich, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist and Romance philologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Blasien