Stefan Lüddemann

Stefan Lüddemann (born January 5, 1960 in Bremen ) is a German cultural journalist , cultural scientist and book author . He heads the “Culture and Knowledge” section of NOZ Medien / Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung in Osnabrück . Stefan Lüddemann is honorary professor at the University of Osnabrück and a member of the PEN Center Germany and the international PEN Club .

Life

Lüddemann studied German and history from 1978 to 1985 , as well as journalism , philosophy and art history at the University of Münster (first state examination) and from 1993 to 1996 cultural management at the Fernuniversität Hagen (university certificate). In 2003 he received his doctorate from the Fernuniversität Hagen with his dissertation “Art Criticism as Communication”. phil. (“Summa cum laude”) doctorate.

Lüddemann volunteered at the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from 1987 to 1989 . Since 1998 he has headed the feature section of the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung and in 2009 took over the management of the “Culture and Knowledge” section. The subject area belongs to the central editorial office based in Osnabrück, which also supplies publications belonging to the group and external customers such as the Schleswig-Holstein newspaper publisher in Flensburg, the Schweriner Volkszeitung and other titles with national content. Lüddemann is responsible for art and literary criticism in the subject area "Culture and Knowledge". He comments on cultural-political issues, writes essays and cultural reports.

He was appointed honorary professor by the University of Osnabrück in 2019 . In the linguistic and literary studies department, he teaches cultural journalism, features and literary criticism. Lüddemann has been teaching at the University of Osnabrück (cultural journalism and art studies) and at the FernUniversität Hagen (cultural management) since 1998.

Lüddemann is active as an author for art - Das Kunstmagazin , Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen , Graphische Kunst and other publications. Stefan Lüddemann was elected as a member of the PEN Center Germany in 2019. He is also a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (AICA) as well as other associations and societies such as the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft, Fachverband Kulturmanagement.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Art criticism as communication. From judge's office to evaluation agency . Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 978-3-824-44565-3 (also dissertation at FernUniversität Hagen 2003)
• Worlds of images from a turn of the century. Texts on art criticism and art criticism 1996-2006 . V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-899-71290-2
• Communicate with art. Theories, strategies, case studies . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15581-4
• Harry Kramer. Contemporary art from Lower Saxony . Vol. 64, Lower Saxony Lotto Foundation, Hanover 2007, ISBN 978-3-000-22396-9
• Cultural management of the future. Perspectives from theory and practice . Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15553-1
• Cultural management glossary . Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-16248-5
• Blockbusters. Viewing an exhibition format . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-775-72976-5
• Cultural journalism. Media, issues, practices . Springer, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-10025-4
• with Thomas Heinze: Introduction to image hermeneutics. Methods and sample analyzes . Springer, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-10025-4
• Culture. An introduction . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-23136-1

Fonts

• Appointment with the past. Rolf Escher's “Paris Sketches” as a passage through the ages . In: Rolf Escher: Passages. Parisian sketchbook . Bönen 2010, pp. 11-20
• The war as a hidden object. With Winfried G. Sebald in the landscapes of memory . In: Carl-Heinrich Bösling, Lioba Meyer, Angelika Schlößer, Thomas F. Schneider (eds.): War begins in the mind. Literature and Political Awareness . Osnabrück 2011, pp. 89-98
• Bodies made of fictions. Jochen Piece Paris . In: Jochen Pieces: Paris album II . Bönen 2013, pp. 12–39
• Peintre engagé? Camille Pissarro between anarchism and art . In: Gerhard Finckh (Ed.): Camille Pissarro. The father of impressionism . Exhibition catalog, Wuppertal 2014, pp. 114–129
• Art market and art criticism: accomplices, competitors, combatants? In: Andrea Hausmann (Ed.): Handbook Art Market. Actors, management and mediation . Bielefeld 2014, pp. 251–267
• The rediscovered culture. Rolf Escher's visual art as a memory project . In: Thomas Hengstenberg (Ed.): Rolf Escher. Lifelines . Exhibition catalog, Bönen 2016, pp. 23–31
• “No art is less spontaneous than mine”. Artistic modernity with Edgar Degas and Auguste Rodin . In: Gerhard Finckh (ed.): Degas & Rodin. Race of the giants to modernity . Wuppertal 2016, pp. 45–71
• Art business and art criticism . In: Heiko Hausendorf u. Marcus Müller (Hrsg.): Handbook Language in Art Communication . Berlin 2016, pp. 225–241
• "Showing is the question of life". Edouard Manet and his strategies of staged visuality . In: Gerhard Finckh (Ed.): Edouard Manet . Exhibition catalog, Wuppertal 2017, pp. 23–31
• The practice of art. The expansion of contemporary art as a question of cultural sociology . In: Hubertus Busche, Thomas Heinze, Frank Hillebrandt, Franka Schäfer (Ed.): Culture. Transdisciplinary approaches . Wiesbaden 2018, pp. 81–106

Web links

• Homepage of Stefan Lüddemann
• Literature by and about Stefan Lüddemann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcements. In: University of Osnabrück. Retrieved March 3, 2020 . 
2. ^ Members. In: PEN Center Germany. Retrieved May 30, 2019 (German). 
3. ↑ Short biography , Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft, accessed on December 3, 2018
4. ↑ Lüddemann at the University of Osnabrück , accessed on December 3, 2018
5. ^ [1] , AICA member portrait
6. ^ [2] , Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart-Initiative
7. ↑ [3] , review of the book "Art Criticism as Communication":
8. ↑ [4] , about the documenta artist Harry Kramer
9. ↑ [5] , review of the book "Blockbuster"
10. ↑ [6] , About the book “Culture. An introduction"