Gabriele Brandstetter

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Gabriele Brandstetter (born February 21, 1954 in Munich ) is a German theater scholar , literary scholar and dance scholar .

Life

Gabriele Brandstetter grew up in Munich and studied German , history , political science and theater studies at the universities in Erlangen , Munich , Regensburg and Vienna . For her state examination she wrote about Così fan tutte with a major in German studies . In 1983 Gabriele Brandstetter received her doctorate from the University of Munich with her dissertation on eroticism and religiosity. On the poetry of Clemens Brentano .

Since 1981 Gabriele Brandstetter worked as a lecturer in the field of modern German literary studies at the University of Munich , later as a research assistant at the Research Institute for Music Theater at the University of Bayreuth , where she also worked as an editor on the series Thurnauer Schriften on music theater. In 1986 Gabriele Brandstetter became a senior academic adviser. Currently at the same institute; at the time she worked on Piper's encyclopedia of musical theater . The first stay abroad followed in 1987: at the German Department of the University of Adelaide / Australia, and in 1990/91 she had a research stay at the University of Salzburg , at the Derra de Moroda Dance Archives, thanks to a Feodor Lynen grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . At the same time, Gabriele Brandstetter taught at the Institute for Musicology and at the Institute for Cultural Sociology at the University of Salzburg.

In 1993 Gabriele Brandstetter qualified as a professor at the University of Bayreuth and received the venia legendi in the subjects of modern German literature and theater studies. The title of the habilitation thesis was Lecture corporelle. Dance, theater and literature at the beginning of the 20th century . It was published in 1995 in a shortened version by Fischer Verlag under the title Tanz-Lektüren. Body images and spatial figures of the avangarde published. In 2013 the extended edition was published (Rombach-Verlag) and in 2015 the English version Poetics of Dance. Body, Image and Space in the Historical Avent-Gardes.

In 1993 she was appointed professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , Institute for Applied Theater Studies in the subject of Drama - Theater - Media . In 1997 she became professor for modern German literary studies at the German Department of the University of Basel . Gabriele Brandstetter has been Professor of Theater Studies and Dance Studies at the Free University of Berlin since 2003 . In 2005 she founded the Center for Movement Research at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Free University of Berlin and the MA in Dance Studies. Since 2008 she has been co-director of the International College, Entanglement of Theater Cultures. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . Her main research interests are the history and aesthetics of dance, theater and literature from the 18th century to the present day, virtuosity in art and culture and the relationship between body, image and movement. In 2004 she received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation, and in 2011 the Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Lectureships

Brandstetter's international reputation came about through numerous visiting professorships, including a. in:

  • 1987: Adelaide (Australia), visiting professor at the University of Adelaide (with a focus on the reception of Kleist's dramas; “Drama and gender”).
  • 1990/91: Lisbon (Portugal), guest lecturer at the Department for Art and Theater, “Acarté”, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon: Lectures, seminars and scientific colloquium in the department of the University of Media and Theater.
  • 1995: Tokyo (Japan), visiting professor at a Tateshina seminar and in cooperation with Keio University, Tokyo, lectures and seminars on topics such as “Reception of Japanese theater in Europe in the 20th century”, “Butoh and European dance theater "," On the situation of the theater in Germany ".
  • 1995: Lisbon (Portugal), lectures at the Universidade de Lisboa on "Pygmalion in 18th century theater" and (as part of a comparative research project) on "Theater, dance and literature around 1900".
  • 1996: São Paulo (Brazil), visiting professor at the University of São Paulo.
  • 1997: Melbourne (Australia): visiting professor in the context of “gender studies” and modern German literature at the University of Melbourne; Lectures, lectures and seminars on Rainer Maria Rilke, Heinrich von Kleist and "Drama from antiquity to the 20th century".
  • 1998: Tokyo (Japan), guest lecturer (graduate seminar) at the German Department of the University of Tokyo, Todai, on the topic of "Romantic Language Crisis" and participation in the symposium of the Keio University, Tokyo, on the topic of "Postmodernism in Japanese and European Dance" .
  • 1999: Princeton (USA), lecture and conference “Goethe and Romanticism”.
  • 2000: Kyoto (Japan), lecture and conference “Strangeness. Gender and Culture ”.
  • 2002: New York (USA), Distinguished Max-Kade Visiting Professor at Columbia University.
  • 2004: Cambridge (USA), lecture and seminar on "Contemporary Theater" at the German Department of Harvard University; Lecture and seminar on “Virtuosity” at the Department of Music.
  • 2004: Chicago (USA), invitation to the University of Chicago, Department of Germanic Studies and Performance: Conference on “Performance”.
  • 2005: Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (Israel), visiting professor at the universities in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv: lectures and seminars on contemporary theater and dance; Invitation by the Benjamin Institute (Jerusalem), Goethe Institute and the Institute of Theater and Performance (Tel Aviv).
  • 2005: Princeton (USA), invitation to Princeton University, Department of German Studies; Lecture on "The other stage of theatricality: movere as a figure of representation in Schiller's writings on aesthetics", conference "Friedrich Schiller and the path to modernity".
  • 2006: Baltimore (USA), invitation to Johns Hopkins University: Lecture and seminar on “Contemporary theater and dance in Germany - Christoph Marthaler and Pina Bausch”.
  • 2007: Chiang Mai and Bangkok (Thailand), invitation to the Alexander von Humboldt Colloquium and to a meeting with cooperation institutions in Bangkok, the Thai Research Foundation and the Goethe Institute
  • 2008: Japan Invitation to short-term lectureships at the 50th Tateshina seminar and to lectures and workshops at various universities in Japan
  • 2008: Bern (Switzerland), invitation to a guest seminar at the “Diploma of Advanced Studies” (DAS), “Dance Culture” of the University of Bern
  • 2009: Providence (USA): Invitation to Brown University for a lecture and guest seminar "Theatricality and Power"
  • 2011: New Delhi (India), invitation by the DFG to New Delhi for a "Leibniz Lecture": Lecture on "Interweaving Dance Cultures"
  • 2011: Baltimore (USA), invitation to a workshop at Johns Hopkins University "Material Emotionality: the Path of the Soul of the Dancer"
  • 2012: Santa Catarina (Brazil), invitation to the Anthropologies in Performance conference at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
  • 2012: North Carolina (USA), invitation to The Rite at 100, University of North Carolina
  • 2014: Bern (Switzerland): Seminar: “Dance Aesthetics” at the “Diploma of Advanced Studies” (DAS) “Dance Culture” of the University of Bern
  • 2014: Princeton (USA), Distinguished Guest Professor at Princeton University
  • 2014: Providence (USA), visiting professor at Brown University
  • 2015: Jerusalem (Israel), Springer Lecture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 2015: St. Catarina / Florianopolis (Brazil), international conference and workshop "Anthropologies in Performance"
  • 2016: Mexico City (Mexico), International Conference Humboldt Kolleg, "The Senses"
  • 2017: Ghent (Belgium): International conference "Work with (out) boundaries: Precarity and / in contemporary dance"

Memberships

Gabriele Brandstetter is involved in the following institutions:

  • Vice President of the "Society for Theater Studies" (1996–2000)
  • Member of the Heisenberg Committee of the German Research Foundation (1997–2000)
  • Member of the Commission for the Historical Museum Basel (1997–2003)
  • Member of the supporting association of the Basel Literature House (1997–2003)
  • Member of the University Council of the University of Freiburg i. B. (1999-2007)
  • Member of the Assessment Board for IRCHSS Senior Schemes, Dublin (2003/04)
  • Member of the Foundation for German Humanities Institutes Abroad ( DGIA ) (2003–2009)
  • Review board "Art history, musicology, theater, film and media studies" of the German Research Foundation (DFG) (2004–2012)
  • Member of the committee for the award of research awards in the Wolfgang Paul Program and the Sofja Kovaleskaja Program of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2005–2007)
  • Member of the specialist commission of the "Inter-University Center for Dance Berlin" (2005–2008)
  • Juror for the Advisory Board "General Project Funding" of the Federal Cultural Foundation (2008–2011)
  • Co-director of the international research college "Interweaving Performance Cultures" (since 2008)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Japanese Society for German Studies (since 2009)
  • Full member of the Academia Europaea (since 2011)
  • Liaison lecturer at the German National Academic Foundation (2012-2016)
  • Member of the commission of the expert committee "Intangible Cultural Heritage" (2014-2018)
  • Vice President of the Heinrich von Kleist Society (since 2016)

Researches

Gabriele Brandstetter's main research areas include the theory of representation, body and movement concepts in writing, image and performance, as well as research on dance, theatricality and gender difference. Your third-party research projects in recent years include a .:

  • 1989–1992: Project in the DFG research group on the subject of “Changing the world. Self-meaning and self-awareness ”from the University of Bayreuth on“ Dance and Avant-garde. For the reception of external images. "
  • 1995–1997: International research project as part of the DAAD program “Acções Integradas” on the topic of “Dance and Literature. Relationships in European Modernism ”, in cooperation with the University of Lisbon.
  • 1996–2002: Research project in the DFG focus "Theatricality" on "Masquerade": "Castrati in the Opera" and "Voice in Performance in the 20th Century"
  • 2001–2005: Research project in the macro-focus “Culture” at the University of Basel: “Image - Figure - Number” (together with Gottfried Boehm and Achatz von Müller); January 2005 Final conference of the project "Image - Figure - Number" in Basel under the title "Figur / ationen"
  • 2003–2005: Research project on “Figure as a scene. On the structures and processes of figural representation in literature and theater "
  • 2003–2009: Research project “Iconic Criticism - Bildkritik. Power and meaning of images "(eikones)
  • 2004–2010: Research project on the subject of "The Virtuoso Scene" within the framework of the SFB 447 "Cultures of the Performative"
  • 2005–2009: Project “Image and Movement” within the framework of the research project “Iconic Criticism - Image Criticism” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and led by Gottfried Boehm . Power and meaning of images "(eikones)
  • 2005–2009: Research project “Dance and Knowledge”, funded by the DFG
  • 2007–2009: Research project “Predictions on Movement”, funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation
  • 2007–2014: Research project “Topographies of the Fleeting” within the framework of the SFB 626: “Aesthetic Experience in the Sign of the Dissolution of Limits in the Arts”
  • Since 2008: Co-applicant of the Cluster of Excellence of the Free University of Berlin “Languages ​​of Emotion” and head of the sub-project “Touching and stirring - 'Movere' in dance”.
  • Since 2008: International Research Training Group “Interweaving of Performance Cultures”; funded by the BMBF
  • Since 2011: Research project “Ballet University” in cooperation with the Berlin State Ballet
  • Since 2012: Research project “Praxes of Theory” in cooperation with the University of Chicago, USA
  • 2013–2017: Research project “Synchronization of physical proper times and choreographic aesthetics” in SSP 1688 “Aesthetic proper times. Time and representation in polychronic modernism "
  • Since 2014: Research project on "Rhythm, Resonance, Balance", in cooperation with the International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin
  • Since 2017: Research project “Awareness. Techniques of visualization and subjective reappropriation of time in contemporary dance ”in SPP 1688“ Aesthetic proper times. Time and representation in polychronic modernism "

Awards

With the prize money from the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Gabriele Brandstetter founded the Center for Movement Research at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Free University of Berlin. As part of the research, a number of projects and conferences arose, for example: “Hold it! - On the politics of the pose between image and performance ”or“ Theatrical hostility and antitheatricality ”as well as the 2007 research project:“ Predictions on Movements ”, also funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation and in cooperation with the Hebbel am Ufer Theater.

Publications

Monographs

  • Poetics of Dance. Body, Image and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes. Oxford University Press, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-991655-9 .
  • Dance readings. Body images and spatial figures of the avant-garde (edition extended by a third part). Rombach, Freiburg i. Br. 2013, ISBN 978-3-7930-9719-8 .
  • Image jump. Dance theater movement in the change of media (= theater of the time. Research 26). Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-934344-53-4 .
  • Dance readings. Body images and spatial figures of the avant-garde (= Fischer TB Volume 12396: ZeitSchriften ). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 978-3-596-12396-4 (partial print of the habilitation thesis Universität Gießen 1993, 495 pages with illustrations, 19 cm, under the title: Lecture corporelle, Tanz, Theater und Literatur zu Beginning of the 20th century ); English translation by Elena Polzer, Mark Franko: Poetics of Dance, Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes (= Oxford Studies in Dance Theory ). Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York, NY 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-991655-9 / ISBN 978-0-19-991657-3 .
  • with Brygida Ochaim: Loïe Fuller. Dance, play of light, Art Nouveau. Rombach, Freiburg i.Br. 1989, ISBN 978-3-7930-9052-6 .
  • Eroticism and religiosity. A study on the poetry of Clemens Brentano (= Munich Germanistic contributions . Volume 33). Fink, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7705-2330-X .

Contributions

  • Re-sourcing Nijinsky: The Rite of Spring. In: The Rite of Spring at 100, Edited by Severine Neff, Maureen Carr, and Gretchen Horlacher with John Reef, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2017, pp. 39–46. ISBN 978-0-253-02420-6 .
  • Human, Animal, Thing. Shifting Boundaries in Modern and Contemporary Dance. In: Gabriele Brandstetter and Holger Hartung (Eds.): Moving (Across) Border. Performing translation, intervention, participation. Transcript, Bielefeld 2017, pp. 23–42, ISBN 978-3-8376-3165-4 .
  • Dance avant-garde and bath culture. Crossing the boundaries between the leisure world and motion stages . In: Erika Fischer-Lichte (Ed.): TheaterAvantgarde. Perception - body - language. Francke, Tübingen / Basel 1995, pp. 123–155.
  • Defigurative choreography. From Duchamp to William Forsythe . In: Gerhard Neumann (Ed.): Poststructuralism . Challenge to literary studies (= German symposia report volumes 18). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-476-01507-6 , pp. 598–623.
  • Choreography as a grave mark. The memory in motion. In: Gabriele Brandstetter, Hortensia Völckers: ReMembering the Body. Body images in motion. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, ISBN 3-7757-0902-9 , pp. 102-134.
  • Defiguration and displacement. Body concepts in performance and movement theater of the 20th century. In: Orlando Grossgesse, Erwin Koller: Literary Theory at the End? 50 years of Wolfgang Kayser's “linguistic work of art”. Francke, Tübingen / Basel 2001, ISBN 3-7720-2763-6 .

Editor

  • with Katja Schneider: SACRE 1913/2013. Dance, sacrifice, culture. Rombach, Freiburg i. Br./Berlin/Wien 2017.
  • with Nanako Nakajima: The Aging Body in Dance. A cross-cultural perspective. Routledge, London / New York 2017, ISBN 978-1-138-20005-0 .
  • with Holger Hartung: Moving (Across) Borders. Performing translation, intervention, participation. Transcript, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-3165-4 .
  • with Gerko Egert and Sabine Zubarik: Touching and Being Touched. Kinesthesia and Empathy in Dance and Movement. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029186-5 .
  • with Gabriele Klein: Dance [And] Theory. Transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2151-8 (extended edition: Transcript 2015).
  • with Reinhild Hoffmann and Patricia Stöckemann: Callas. A dance piece by Reinhild Hoffmann 1983/2012. Transcript, Bielefeld 2013.
  • with Gerhard Neumann: genius - virtuoso - dilettante. Configurations of romantic creation aesthetics. Könighausen & Naumann, Würzburg 2011.
  • with Hans-Friedrich Bormann and Annette Matzke: Improvising. Paradoxes of the unpredictable. Art - Media - Practice. Transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1274-5 .
  • with Franck Hofmann and Kirsten Maar: notations and choreographic thinking. Rombach, Freiburg i. Br./Berlin/Wien 2010.
  • with Birgit Wiens: Theater without a vanishing point. Adolphe Appia's legacy: scenography and choreography in contemporary theater. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2010.
  • with Gunhild Oberzaucher-Schüller : Dialect of Viennese Modernism. The dance of Grete Wiesenthal (= dance research. Vol. 10). Kieser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-935456-23-4 .
  • with Sibylle Peters and Kai van Eikels: Predictions about movements. b_books, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-933557-97-1 .
  • with Sibylle Peters: Scenes of the curtain - cut surfaces of the arts (= Rombach Sciences. Series: Scenae. Vol. 9). Rombach, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7930-9539-2 .
  • with Bettina Brandl-Risi and Kai van Eikels: Schwarm Emotion. Movement between affect and mass (= Rombach Sciences. Series: Scenae. Vol. 3). Rombach, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7930-9500-2 .
  • with Gabriele Klein : Methods of Dance Studies. Model analyzes for Pina Bausch's “ Le sacre du printemps ”. Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-558-1 .
  • with Gottfried Boehm and Achatz von Müller : figure and figuration. Studies on perception and knowledge. Fink, Paderborn et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4264-2 .
  • with Gerhard Neumann: Romantic Poetics of Knowledge. The arts and sciences around 1800. Könighausen & Naumann, Würzburg 2004.
  • with Christoph Wulf : dance as anthropology . Fink, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4344-1 .
  • with Sibylle Peters: de figura. Rhetoric - movement - shape. Fink, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7705-3692-4 .
  • with Hortensia Völckers: ReMembering the Body. Body images in motion. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, ISBN 3-7757-0902-9 .
  • Invitation to dance. Stories and poems. Reclam, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 978-3-15-028842-9 .
  • with Helga Finter and Markus Westendorf: Border crossings. The theater and the other arts. Narr, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 978-3-8233-5224-2 .
  • Jacques Offenbach's stories of Hoffmann . Concept, reception, documentation (= Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater. Vol. 9). Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1988, ISBN 3-89007-115-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership directory: Gabriele Brandstetter. Academia Europaea, accessed June 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Brandstetter, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar, literary scholar and dance scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich