Kerstin Gernig
Kerstin Gernig (* 1964 in Berlin ) is a German author and former editor-in-chief of the specialist magazine “bestattungskultur”.
Life
She studied German, Romance studies and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. After passing the 1st and 2nd state exams, she taught from 1994 to 1997 as a DAAD lecturer at the Université des Sciences Humaines in Strasbourg and received her doctorate in 1998 from the Free University of Berlin on " Kafka Reception in France".
As a postdoctoral fellow, from 1999 to 2001 she conducted research in the DFG graduate college "Body Staging" at the Free University of Berlin on dealing with the body, staging nudity , the perception of the other and the rituals of death and dying in a cultural comparison.
From 2001 to 2011 she was editor-in-chief of the trade journal “bestattungskultur”, for whose relaunch she was awarded the shortlist of the German trade press and, as an expert on sepulchral culture, published numerous conference proceedings and cultural stories.
She has lived and worked as an author and blogger in Berlin since 2011 and deals with the topics of entrepreneurship , founding , start-up companies and mental change processes in mid- life.
Her book “Become what you can! How to Become an Unusual Entrepreneur ”was nominated by Murmann Verlag for the German Business Book Prize.
Publications
As an author
- The Kafka reception in France. A diachronic comparison of French translations in the context of hermeneutical translation studies. Königshausen & Neumann Verlag, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1694-7 .
- Become what you can! How to become an unusual entrepreneur. Murmann Publishers , Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86774-383-9 .
As editor
- Who does not advertise dies! Advertising in the funeral industry. Documentation of the conference of the Kuratorium Deutsche Bestattungskultur in cooperation with the German Marketing Association from September 17-18, 2009 in Berlin. 2nd Edition. Specialized publisher of the German funeral industry , Düsseldorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-936057-29-4 .
- Impoverished, buried, forgotten? Documentation of the conference of the Kuratorium Deutsche Bestattungskultur eV in Munich from 22-23 November 2007. Specialized publisher of the German funeral industry, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-936057-23-2 .
- Musica et memoria. Funeral music through the centuries. 6 CDs. Specialized publisher of the German funeral industry, Düsseldorf 2005.
- Funeral culture - shaping the future. 2nd Edition. Specialized publisher of the German funeral industry, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-936057-14-0 .
- Nudity. Aesthetic stagings in a cultural comparison. Böhlau Verlag , Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-412-17401-7 .
- Foreign bodies. On the construction of the other in European discourses. dahlem university press, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-934504-04-3 .
Award
In 2014 she was recognized as a model entrepreneur in Germany by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy . Then she initiated the volunteer-led entrepreneur safari.
Web links
- Literature by and about Kerstin Gernig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Kerstin Gernig homepage
- SWR2 Matinee: Conversation with Kerstin Gernig: From crooked life paths and mid-life boomers , October 29, 2017
- Businesswomen safari
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gladly, Kerstin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |