Sylvia Sasse

Sylvia Sasse (* 1968 in Magdeburg ) is a German Slavic scholar and literary scholar .

Life

Sasse studied Slavic and German at the University of Konstanz and the University of St. Petersburg . In 1999 she received her doctorate in Konstanz at the Graduate College “Theory of Literature and Communication” with a thesis on the philosophy of language of Moscow Conceptualism , in particular the groups Collective Actions and Medical Hermeneutics as well as on the prose of Vladimir Sorokin . Between 1999 and 2002 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate College “Body Staging” at the Free University of Berlin , from 2002 to 2005 she was a research assistant at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research and in 2003 Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at UC Berkeley.

In November 2005 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin. In 2005/06 she was initially visiting professor at the Institute for Slavonic Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin , after which she was offered a professorship for East Slavic literatures and cultures. In 2008 she was appointed to the chair for Slavic literary studies at the University of Zurich , which she took up in August 2009.

In 2018, together with Inke Arns and Igor Chubarov , she received the Justus Bier Prize for Curators for the project and publication "Storming the Winter Palace - Forensics of an Image" in the Hartware MedienKunstVerein im Dortmunder U.

She is co-founder of the Center for Arts and Cultural Theory and publisher of the online magazines History of the Present and Novinki . She is also a member of the Center for the History of Knowledge at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich .

Sasse lives in Zurich with her partner and two sons.

Fonts

As an author

Texts in action. Speech and language files in Moscow Conceptualism , Fink, Munich, 2003, ISBN 978-3-7705-3575-0
Word sins. Confession and Confession in Russian Literature, Fink, Munich, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4629-9
Michail Bachtin for an introduction, Junius, Hamburg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-88506-659-0

As editor (selection)

with Gertrud Koch and Ludger Schwarte : Art as punishment. On the aesthetics of discipline , Fink, Munich, 2002

with Stefanie Wenner: collective body. Art and Politics of Connection , transcript, Bielefeld, 2002

with Magdalena Marszałek: Geopoetics. Geographical drafts in Central and Eastern European literatures , Kadmos, Berlin, 2010

Mikhail Bakhtin. To the philosophy of the action . (Translated from the Russian by Dorothea Trottenberg .) Matthes & Seitz, Berlin, 2011

with Gianna Frölicher: court theater . Three Soviet agit courts , LLV, Leipzig, 2015

with Inke Arns, Igor Chubarov: Nikolaj Evreinov & others: The storm on the Winter Palace , diaphanes, Berlin, Zurich, 2017, ISBN 978-3037349809

with Dieter Mersch , Sandro Zanetti : Aesthetic Theory , diaphanes, Berlin, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3037349816

with Kata Krasznahorkai: Artists & Agents. Performance art and secret services , spector books Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3959053136

Exhibitions

with Inke Arns: Storming the Winter Palace: History as Theater , Gessnerallee Zurich , 23 Sept. - 25 Oct 2017; The storm on the Winter Palace. Forensics of an image, HMKV Dortmund , November 25, 2017 - April 8, 2018; Atak na Palac Zimowy. Dochodzenie w sprawie pewnego obrazu ( Assault on the Winter Palace. Forensics of an image), Muzeum Sztuki (ms1), Lodz (PL), April 7–3. June 2018.

with Inke Arns and Kata Krasznahorkai: Artists & Agents. Performance art and secret services , HMKV Dortmund , October 26, 2019 - April 19, 2020.

Web links

Literature by and about Sylvia Sasse in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Portrait at the Slavic Seminar of the University of Zurich

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c University of Zurich: Sylvia Sasse. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
↑ Justus Bier Prize 2018. Helga Pape Foundation Jens and Helga Howaldt, accessed on November 10, 2019 .
↑ Sylvia Sasse. Accessed November 17, 2019 (German).
↑ Georg Imdahl: Secret Services and Art: When the Stasi wrote itself anti-stasi poems . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 8, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Sasse, Sylvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Slavic scholar and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg

[UZ-1] A ^b ^c University of Zurich: Sylvia Sasse. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .

[2] Justus Bier Prize 2018. Helga Pape Foundation Jens and Helga Howaldt, accessed on November 10, 2019 .

[3] Sylvia Sasse. Accessed November 17, 2019 (German).

[4] Georg Imdahl: Secret Services and Art: When the Stasi wrote itself anti-stasi poems . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 8, 2020]).