Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff

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Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff (2004), photo: Andreas Thull

Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff (born August 21, 1944 in Cottbus ; † February 14, 2013 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German art historian and professor with a particular research interest in the fields of gender studies and post-colonial studies .

life and work

Schmidt-Linsenhoff studied art history, classical archeology and modern German literature . In 1973 she received her doctorate from Erich Hubala at the University of Kiel with a thesis on Guido Reni . A one-year traineeship enabled her to join the collection of paintings and graphics at the Frankfurt Historical Museum as a curator .

Following a substitute professorship at the University of Oldenburg (1990) and working at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen (1992), Schmidt-Linsenhoff was Professor of Art History with a focus on women's studies at the University of Trier from 1992 until her retirement in 2008 . Her interdisciplinary research was institutionalized with the Center for Postcolonial and Gender Studies (CePoG) founded on her initiative in 2005, of which she remained a member of the Advisory Board until her death , now including the course "Intercultural Gender Studies".

Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff was from 1986 to 1991 co-editor of the art history journal Kritischeberichte .

From 2001 to 2004, Schmidt-Linsenhoff initially took on the Käthe-Leichter visiting professorship at the University of Vienna and then taught at the University of Cotonou in Benin . This was followed by a stay in the USA as a visiting professor at Dartmouth College , New Hampshire .

In 2008 she made the film Der Hof together with her partner, the filmmaker Dieter Reifarth . This is a documentary about the court of the Senegalese artist Joe Ouakam, known under the name Issa Samb .

Projects

  • 1997–2000 DFG project The Subject and the Others. Interculturality and gender difference from the early modern era to the present
  • 1999–2002 Member of the research group Feminism and Enlightenment 1650–1850: a Comparitive History (University of London)
  • 2000–2006 Research Training Group Identity and Difference. Gender construction and interculturality 18. – 20. Century (speaker)
  • 2004–2013 member of the Graduate School Slavery, Bondage and Compulsory Labor, Forced Labor
  • 2005–2013 Center for Postcolonial and Gender Studies at the University of Trier (founding member and management)

Movie

  • La Cour - Der Hof , director: Dieter Reifarth; Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff; Documentary, 2012, Germany / Senegal, 85 min

Publications (selection)

  • Guido Reni in the judgment of the 17th century. Studies on literary reception history and catalog of reproduction graphics . Dissertation. Kiel 1974.
  • Slave or citizen? French Revolution and New Femininity 1760–1830 . Exhibition catalog Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt 1989.
  • with Herbert Uerlings, Karl Hölz ​​(ed.): The subject and the others. Interculturality and Gender Difference from the 18th Century to the Present . Berlin / Bielefeld / Munich 2001.
  • with Karl Hölz, Herbert Uerlings (Ed.): White looks. Gender myths of colonialism . Marburg 2005.
  • Aesthetics of Difference. Postcolonial Perspectives from the 16th to the 21st Century . 2 vol. Marburg 2010. 2nd edition 2014. ISBN 3-89445-434-2 , ISBN 978-3-89445-434-0

literature

  • Detlef Hoffmann, Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat , Alexandra Karentzos: Obituary Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff. In: Critical Reports 41, 2013, 2, pp. 2–5.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ memorial page by Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff. In: trauer.sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved August 24, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Silke Förschler, Kerstin Schankweiler, Melanie Ulz, Kea Wienand, obituary for Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff . In: Journal for Gender Research and Visual Culture 54, 2013, pp. 118–123, here p. 119 ( PDF ).
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Linsenhoff, Viktoria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2013
Place of death Frankfurt am Main