Gabriele Klein

Gabriele Klein (* 1957 in Wanne-Eickel ) is a German sociologist , cultural and dance scholar .

Life

Between 1977 and 1987 Gabriele Klein studied sociology, history , sports science , contemporary dance and education at the Universities of Bielefeld , Bochum and Essen as well as at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten . In 1990 she received her doctorate in social sciences from the University of Bochum. Her dissertation was published in 1992 under the title: Women Body Dance. A civilization history of dance . Since the publication of her dissertation, Gabriele Klein has been one of the pioneers of dance studies in Germany. She completed her habilitation in 1998 with the study published in 1999: Electronic Vibration. Pop culture theory . In 2002 she took over a professorship at the University of Hamburg . Since 2005 she has also headed the interdisciplinary center for performance studies and the postgraduate course of the same name (www.performance.uni-hamburg.de). She has taken on numerous international visiting professorships.

Since 1994 she has been the head of various research projects and the organizer of numerous national and international scientific events. Between 1997 and 2001 she was chairwoman of the Society for Dance Research .

Research work

Gabriele Klein's research focuses on body, movement and dance research as well as pop culture research , performance studies, gender studies and urban research . The social-scientific and gender-theoretical perspectives developed by her, for which she has received international awards, were expanded in subsequent research work, above all by investigations into popular dance forms in youth and pop-cultural scenes, especially in techno and hip-hop culture, and Latin American dances and cultural performances , which she examines primarily in everyday life, sports and the arts.

More recent research has focused on the globalization and transnationalization of dance cultures as well as the appropriation and embodiment of dance and movement patterns and their contexts of meaning in various local and urban cultures. Gabriele Klein sees dance figurations as special modes of social interactions, in which the physicality of the social and the particularity become clear. Dance research thus becomes a field of investigation for a sociology of the body . Gabriele Klein played a key role in shaping the contours of this social science discipline through her research.

Book publications

Author

Pina Bausch's Dance Theater. Company, Artistic Practices and Reception. Transcript, Bielefeld 2020.
Pina Bausch and the dance theater. The art of translation. Transcript, Bielefeld 2019.
WomenBodyDance. A civilization history of dance. Beltz Quadriga, Weinheim 1992.
Electronic vibration. Pop Culture Theory. Rogner & Bernhard at Zweiausendeins , Hamburg 1999.
with Malte Friedrich: Is this real? The culture of hip hop. 4th edition. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2011.
with Gitta Barthel and Esther Wagner: Choreographic construction kit. Transcript, Bielefeld 2011.

Editor

with Annette Treibel : Desire and deprivation. (= Bochum contributions to gender research ). Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1993, ISBN 3-89085-642-X .
with Katharina Liebsch: civilization of the female self . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1997.
Dance image media. (= Dance research. Volume 10). LIT, Berlin a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-8258-4448-X .
with Christa Zipprich: Dance Theory Text. (= Dance research. Volume 12). LIT, Berlin a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-8258-5901-0 .
Move. Social and cultural science concepts. Transcript, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89942-199-X .
City. Scenes. Artistic productions and theoretical positions. Passagen, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85165-710-1 .
with Wolfgang Sting: Performance. Positions on contemporary scenic art. Transcript, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89942-379-8 .
with Michael Meuser : Serious games. On the political sociology of football. Transcript, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-977-0 .
with Jürgen Funke-Wieneke: Space for movement and urban culture. Social and cultural science perspectives. Transcript, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-8376-1021-5 .
Tango in Translation. Dance between media, cultures, art and politics. Transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1204-2 .
with Sandra Noeth: Emerging Bodies. The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography. Transcript, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1596-8 .
with Bojana Kunst: On Labor and Performance. (= Performance Research. Vol. 17, No 6). Routledge 2012.
with Gabriele Brandstetter : Dance (and) Theory . Transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2151-8 .
with Gabriele Brandstetter: Methods of Dance Studies. Model analyzes of Pina Bausch's Le Sacre du Printemps. 2nd, revised and expanded new edition. Transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2651-3 .
Choreographic kit. The book . Transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-3186-9 .
with Robert Gugutzer and Michael Meuser: Handbuch Körperoziologie. Volume 1: Basic concepts and theoretical perspectives . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04135-9 .
with Robert Gugutzer and Michael Meuser: Handbook body sociology: Volume 2: Research fields and methodological approaches . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04137-3 .
with Hanna Katharina Göbel: performance and practice. Practical explorations in dance, theater, sport and everyday life . Transcript, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-3287-3 .
with Claudia Benthien: Translate and frame. Practices of media transformations . Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-6107-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Hermann Korte , Bernhard Schäfers (Ed.): Introduction to main terms in sociology. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1992, p. 211. (PDF)

personal data
SURNAME	Small, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sociologist, cultural and dance scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wanne-Eickel

[1] Hermann Korte , Bernhard Schäfers (Ed.): Introduction to main terms in sociology. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1992, p. 211. (PDF)