Heidrun Friese

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Heidrun Friese (born January 6, 1958 in Starnberg ) is a German anthropologist and cultural scientist. As a professor for intercultural communication , she teaches cultural theory and critical intercultural communication at the TU Chemnitz .

Live and act

Friese graduated from the Bertolt-Brecht-Gymnasium in Munich in 1978 and studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and at the Free University of Berlin , where she has been a lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute since 1985. She received her doctorate from the University of Amsterdam in 1991 and completed her habilitation in 2002 at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in the field of philosophy and history.

Teaching and research activities have taken her to the Humboldt University of Berlin (1999/2000), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the European University Institute in Florence , the University of Warwick , the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the University of California Berkeley as well as the Hyperwerk Institute and the Basel School of Art.

Research priorities

Friese's research interests and focuses include social and cultural theories, post-colonial perspectives, mobility (flight, migration and transnational practices) and cultural identities. The regional focus is the Mediterranean area . She carried out several years of field research, u. a. in Racalmuto (Sicily / Agrigento) on the conceptions of time, in Lampedusa on the reconstruction of local history and on migration and hospitality, most recently in Tunisia .

Publications (selection)

As an author

  • with Peter Wagner : The Scholar's Room. A topography of academic practice . Sigma, Berlin 1993
  • Lampedusa. Historical anthropology of an island . Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1997, ISBN 3-593-35603-1
  • Happy life . (= Series Denk-Schriften, Volume 14), European University Press , Bochum / Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3932329692
  • Limits of hospitality. The boat refugees from Lampedusa and the European question . transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2447-2
  • Refugees: Victims - Threats - Heroes. On the political imagination of the foreign . transcript, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-3263-7

As editor

  • with Aleida Assmann : Identities. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3518290040
  • Identities. Time, Boundaries and Difference . Berghahn. Oxford 2002, ISBN 978-1-57181-474-6
  • with Toni Negri and Peter Wagner: Europa Politica. Ragioni di una necessità . manifestolibri, Rome 2002, ISBN 9788872852651
  • The moment. Time and Rupture in Modern Thought . Liverpool University Press, Liverpool 2002, ISBN 978-0853239567
  • with Giuseppe Bronzini, Toni Negri, Peter Wagner: Europa, costituzione e movimenti sociali. La crisi delle sovranità statale, la dimensione europea e lo spazio d'azione dei movimenti . manifestolibri, Rome 2002
  • with Marcus Nolden, Gala Rebane, Miriam Schreiter: Social practices and digital everyday worlds . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3658083564
  • with Marcus Nolden, Miriam Schreiter: Racism in Everyday Life Theoretical and empirical perspectives after Chemnitz . transcript. Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4821-8

Photographs

  • En route. Images from multi-site fieldwork . 2009
  • Horizons. Horizon Lampedusa . 2009
  • Partire 2. Lampedusa. Cementary of boats . 2009
  • Objects left behind . Apple iBook, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg: Academic curriculum vitae PD Dr. Heidrun Friese. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Chemnitz University of Technology: Prof. Dr. Heidrun Friese. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Caroline Fetscher: Wanderer, are you from Lampedusa. In: Der Tagesspiegel . August 24, 2014, accessed January 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Friese, Heidrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthropologist and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Starnberg