Susanne Regener

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Susanne Regener, June 2016

Susanne Regener (born June 1, 1957 in Bremen ) is a German cultural scientist . Since April 2006 she has held the chair for media history with a focus on visual culture at the University of Siegen . Since 2012 she has also been teaching and researching as an affiliate professor at the University of Copenhagen .

Professional background

From 1976 to 1982 Susanne Regener studied Folklore / European Ethnology , Social and Economic History , Sociology and Scandinavian Studies at the Universities of Kiel and Hamburg . She received her doctorate in 1986 with a thesis on the history of the bourgeois girl. She was a research assistant for European ethnology at the Universities of Kiel , Hamburg and Aarhus .

With her research on the history of image discourse on the history of media constructions of the criminal (“photographic recording”) she qualified as a professor at the University of Bremen in 1998 with the Venia Legendi for cultural studies .

After visiting and substitute professorships for cultural studies, Scandinavian cultural history, media studies , history and theory of photography, European ethnology and gender studies at the universities in Aarhus , Copenhagen , Essen , Tübingen , Vienna , Klagenfurt , Basel and the Zurich University of the Arts , Susanne Regener became Appointed to the Siegen Chair for Media History in 2006 .

Focus in research and teaching

Her teaching and research focus is on visual culture with a focus on photography and documentary images. Susanne Regener's visual discourse analytical work examines the institutional and artistic representation as well as self-portrayals of criminals , serial killers , shooters , terrorists and other “outsiders”. She devoted a monographic study on “visual violence” to images of humans from 20th century psychiatry .

One of the long-term research projects at the Siegen chair dealt with media amateurs in homosexual culture. Susanne Regener is a member of the Queer Nations initiative . An exemplary visual history on the history of crime and violence in the 20th century was created in a cooperation project on the history of the “medializations of evil” . Your currently funded research project examines “Images of Outrage. Amateur Practices of Visualizing Protest ”.

Monographs

  • with Axel Doßmann: Fabrication of a criminal. The criminal case Bruno Lüdke as media history , Leipzig 2018.
  • Visual violence. Images of Man from 20th Century Psychiatry , Bielefeld 2010 (also published as an eBook)
  • Photographic capture. On the history of media constructions of the criminal , Munich 1999. The full text of this book is available free of charge from the Bavarian State Library in cooperation with the DFG.
  • The girl listed. On the representation of the bourgeois girl in photography, doll, text in the late 19th century , Marburg 1988.

Editing (selection)

  • with Katrin Köppert (ed.), private / public. Media self-designs of homosexuality, Vienna / Berlin 2013.
  • (Ed.): Amateurs. Laypeople change visual culture (= photo history: contributions to the history and aesthetics of photography, issue 111 (2009)).
  • with Niels Ole Finnemann (ed.), Synets medier (“The media of the gaze”) (= Kulturstudier 11), Aarhus 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Media history of the University of Siegen. Retrieved June 24, 2017 .
  2. ^ Staff Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies. Retrieved June 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Susanne Regener: The registered girl: For the representation of the bourgeois girl in photography, doll, text in the late 19th century . Jonas, Marburg 1988, ISBN 978-3-89445-144-8 .
  4. ^ Susanne Regener: Photographic recording. On the history of media constructions of criminals . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7705-3432-8 .
  5. ↑ Susanne Regener: Visual violence: Images of human beings from 20th century psychiatry . Transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-89942-420-1 , p. 256 .
  6. ^ Susanne Regener: private / public. Medial self-designs of homosexuality . Ed .: Katrin Köppert. Turia + Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-85132-692-5 .
  7. ↑ Axel Doßmann, Susanne Regener: Fabrication of a criminal. The criminal case of Bruno Lüdke as media history . Spectormag GbR, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-95905-034-0 , p. 250 .
  8. ^ Media history University of Siegen. Retrieved June 24, 2017 .
  9. ↑ DIGI20. Retrieved June 24, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Europeana. Retrieved June 24, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Regener, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen