Sabine Kienitz

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Sabine Kienitz (* 1958 in Tübingen ) is Professor of Folklore / Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg .

Life

After completing her internship from 1978 to 1981 and working as an editor for the Allgäuer Zeitung / Augsburger Allgemeine , she studied empirical cultural studies at the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen from 1981 to 1989 . From 1990 to 1992 she was awarded a doctoral scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg State Graduate Fund. After completing her doctorate in 1995, she received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation from 1997 to 1999 . From 1999 to 2009 she was a research assistant at the DFG Collaborative Research Center 437 "War Experiences - War and Society in Modern Times" at the University of Tübingen. After completing her habilitation in 2003 at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, she taught from 2006 to 2008 as a substitute professor at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology at the Georg August University in Göttingen . Since 2009 she has been Professor of Folklore / Cultural Anthropology in Hamburg .

Her research and work focus are historical crime research, sexuality and body history, war and violence as central experiences of modernity (internment, disability and body, war and memory culture, childhood and family relationships), urban research and mechanization of the body (prosthetics, age and technology) .

Fonts (selection)

  • On the way - women between need and norms. Way of life and mentality of vague women around 1800 in Württemberg . Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3925340610 .
  • Sexuality, Power and Morality. Prostitution and gender relations at the beginning of the 19th century in Württemberg. A contribution to the history of mentality . Berlin 1995, ISBN 3050027592 .
  • Damaged heroes. War Invalidity and Body Images 1914–1923 (= War in History , Vol. 41). Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76537-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kienitz, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen