Eva Meyer

Eva Meyer (* 1950 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German philosopher , writer and filmmaker .

life and work

Eva Meyer studied philosophy , art history , archeology and Romance studies in Freiburg and Berlin . At the Bochum puppet theater school she received training as a puppeteer . In Berlin she co-founded the women's bookshop Lilith and the feminist publishing house of the same name . In 1982 she received her doctorate with her work Counting and Telling: For a Semiotics of Feminine . She held various visiting professorships in Europe and the USA.

In her theoretical as well as literary , film and art criticism Eva Meyer has taken up suggestions of the philosophy of cybernetics by Gotthard Günther , the deconstruction of Jacques Derrida and the social philosophy of Hannah Arendt . In collaboration with the artist Eran Schaerf , she has also made a number of radio plays and films since the 1990s .

Elfriede Jelinek attested to Eva Meyer's theoretical essays : “She also has such a grace in theory . [...] She knows how to write things down without hatred and aggression. "

Fonts (selection)

Counting and telling. For a semiotics of the feminine. Medusa, Vienna / Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-85446-086-4 .

Architecture textures. Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Basel / Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-87877-271-8 .

The difference that creates an environment. In: In the network of systems. Published by Ars electronica (Linz) . Merve, Berlin 1990, ISBN 978-3-88396-072-2 , pp. 110-122.

Ottinger's artifact. In: Ulrike Ottinger. Texts and documents. Friends of the German Kinemathek Berlin, Berlin 1995 = Kinemathek ( ISSN 0173-3710 ), 32nd year, no . 86 (October 1995), pp. 7-8.

Table company. Stroemfeld, Basel / Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 978-3-86109-125-7 .

Folded thing. Stroemfeld, Basel / Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 978-3-86109-137-0 .

From now on I will be several. Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 2003, ISBN 978-3-86109-166-0 .

Be a legend. Stroemfeld / Nexus, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-86109-202-5 .

Web links

Literature by and about Eva Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library
Theater der Zeit: Directory of authors (as of 2006)
Elfriede Jelinek: Hold on to the handle. About the films by Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf (2000), Elfriede's photo album on elfriedejelinek.com
Eva Meyer: The War Tourist: Essay on Hermann Broch's novel "Hugenau or the Objectivity" , BR 2009
The Whole Earth: Panel End of Philosophy, Beginning of Cybernetics? with Hans Christian Dany, Erich Hörl and Eva Meyer (June 22, 2013) on youtube.com

Individual evidence

↑ Lt. DNB ("Writer") ; see also Meyer: Counting and storytelling ( blurb ) and DNB ("artist") .
↑ Lt. Thealit: Women.Culture.Lab .
↑ Eva Meyer not only frequently worked with, but also analyzed their texts ; see. for example Eva Meyer: Framed by Language: On Elfriede Jelinek's ‚Totenauberg '. In: Elfriede Jelinek: Framed by Language. Edited by Jorun B. Johns, Katherine Arens. Ariadne, Riverside, CA 1994, pp. 8-17; Eva Meyer: Recitation and Emigration. In: LiteraturMagazin 37 (1997), pp. 181-190.
↑ Elfriede Jelinek: Nothing is realized. Everything has to be redefined now. A conversation with Rudolf Maresch. in: future or end. Viewpoints - analyzes - drafts. Edited by Rudolf Maresch . Boer, Munich 1993, p. 140.

personal data
SURNAME	Meyer, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philosopher and artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freiburg in Breisgau

[1] Lt. DNB ("Writer") ; see also Meyer: Counting and storytelling ( blurb ) and DNB ("artist") .

[2] Lt. Thealit: Women.Culture.Lab .

[3] Eva Meyer not only frequently worked with, but also analyzed their texts ; see. for example Eva Meyer: Framed by Language: On Elfriede Jelinek's ‚Totenauberg '. In: Elfriede Jelinek: Framed by Language. Edited by Jorun B. Johns, Katherine Arens. Ariadne, Riverside, CA 1994, pp. 8-17; Eva Meyer: Recitation and Emigration. In: LiteraturMagazin 37 (1997), pp. 181-190.

[4] Elfriede Jelinek: Nothing is realized. Everything has to be redefined now. A conversation with Rudolf Maresch. in: future or end. Viewpoints - analyzes - drafts. Edited by Rudolf Maresch . Boer, Munich 1993, p. 140.