Inge Baxmann

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Inge Baxmann (born October 20, 1954 ) is a German cultural and theater scholar at the University of Leipzig .

Live and act

After studying Romance studies and general and comparative literature at the Ruhr University in Bochum and at the Université de Paris I , she worked at the Institute for French Literature at the TU Berlin and did her doctorate in 1987 at the University of Siegen on the subject of the festivals of the French Revolution .

After research stays in Paris and Santa Cruz , further work in the graduate college "Communication Forms as Forms of Life" at the University of Siegen and in the project group "Cultural Semiotics" at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin, she completed her habilitation in 1997 at the Department of Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin on the subject of myth: Community. Body and dance cultures in modern times .

Baxmann has been a professor at the Institute for Theater Studies at Leipzig University since 2001. In addition, she was director of the Leipzig Dance Archive from 2002 to 2009 .

Her main research interests are the symbolization and staging of the nation between the French Revolution and the present, as well as body techniques, media technologies and sensory knowledge since modern times.

Inge Baxmann is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft .

Fonts (selection)

  • The festivals of the French Revolution. Staging society as nature. Weinheim / Basel 1989
  • Myth: community. Body and dance cultures in modern times . Munich 2000.
  • Mayans, Pochos and Chicanos. The transnational nation . Munich 2007.
  • (together with Timon Beyes and Claus Pias ): Social masses - new media . Berlin / Zurich / Paris 2013
  • (together with Mark B. Hansen): The Terms of Media: Flesh . London 2016

Editing

  • Together with F. A. Cramer: Interpretation spaces. Knowledge of movement as a cultural archive of modernity . Munich 2005.
  • Together with C. Rousier and P. Veroli: Les Archives Internationales de la Danse 1931–1952 . Paris 2006.
  • Body knowledge as cultural history: The Archives Internationales de la Danse . Munich 2008. (Vol. 2 of the series Knowledge Cultures in Transition)
  • Together with M. Gruß, S. Göschel and V. Lauf: Work and Rhythm - Forms of Life in Transition . Munich 2009 (Vol. 3 of the series Knowledge Cultures in Transition)

translation

  • Frédéric Bluche: Danton . Stuttgart 1989

Essays

  • Revolutionary Festivals: The Natural Order of the Social World . In: Hans Joachim Neyer (Ed.): Vive la Révolution. Freedom, equality. Brotherhood . Berlin 1989
  • Perception "InBetween". Reflections on the aesthetics of performance . In: Weimar Contributions, issue 1/1995
  • Gender and / as performance. For the staging of femininity in current female performance artists . In: Julika Funk u. a. (Ed.): Body Concepts and Gender Studies. Tübingen 1999
  • The Transnation . In: Ballettanz, issue 6/7. November 2002
  • The “unstable person” as a cultural ideal. Perceptual utopias of modernity. In: Barbara Lange (Ed.): Visualized body concepts . Berlin 2006
  • At the boundaries of the archive: movement, rhythm and muscle memory. In: Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts. Vol. 32, no 1, London 2009
  • Modern work science and the rhythm of life. In: Anett Zinsmeister (ed.), The shape of movement . Berlin 2012
  • Empathetic cooperation and neural self-hacking: utopias of communication in digital capitalism . In: Claus Pias u. a. (Ed.): Complete understanding. Utopias of communication . Berlin 2016
  • Utopies du travail heureux au début du XXe siècle. In: Rhuthmos. Plateforme Internationale et transdiciplinaire de recherche sur les rythmes dans les sciences, les philosophies et les arts. No. February 2016
  • Movement, rhythm and unstable balance. Dance as a basic epistemological figure of modernity. In: Rita Rieger (Ed.): Freedom of movement. Dance as a cultural manifestation (1900-1950) Bielefeld 2017
  • The Technical and the Organic: Art and Technologies of Life in Weimar Avant-Garde Culture. In: Museum SZTUKI Lódz: Moved Bodies. Choreographies of Modernity . Lódz 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inge Baxmann: Myth: Community. Body and dance cultures in modern times , Munich, Fink (2000).
personal data
SURNAME Baxmann, Inge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1954