Announcements

From March 20th, 2023 to March 31st, 2023 and from April 13th, 2023 to May 5th, 2023 Sylka Scholz (Sociology, Jena) will be working as a guest researcher at the SFB 948. She researches the project: „Von hegemonialer Männlichkeit ueber männliche Herrschaft bis fürsorgliche Männlichkeit“.

Homepage:
https://www.soziologie.uni-jena.de/arbeitsbereiche/qualitative-methoden-und-mikrosoziologie/personen/prof-dr-sylka-scholz

Contact:
sylka.scholz@uni-jena.de
T: +49 (0)761 203 54101

From March 7th, 2023 to May 27th, 2023 Martin von Koppenfels (Romance Philology/Comparative Studies, Munich (GER)) will be working as a guest researcher at the SFB 948. He researches the project:  „Strukturen, Funktionen und Helden des Abenteuers in den Binnenerzählungen des Don Quijote“.

Homepage:
https://www.komparatistik.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/koppenfels/index.html

Contact:
koppenfels@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
T: +49 (0)761 203 54101

From February 25th 2023 to March 25th, 2023 Elisabeth Stein (Mediaeval Studies/Latin Philology, Wuppertal (GER)) will be working as a guest researcher at the SFB 948. She researches the project: „Macht durch Sprache: Enea Silvio Piccolomini“.

Website:
https://germanistik.uni-wuppertal.de/de/teilfaecher/aeltere-deutsche-literatur-im-europaeischen-kontext/personen/elisabeth-stein/

Contact:
estein@uni-wuppertal.de
T: +49-(0)761 - 203-54100

Registration:

Please send an email by March, 31. 2023 to
veranstaltungen@sfb948.uni-freiburg.de

The workshop is organized by Anne Hemkendreis (University of Freiburg) and Anita Hosseini (University of Applied Arts Vienna).

More information about the event can be found here...

When: 06.10 - 07.10.2022
Where: Hörsaal 1015, KG I (Thursday) & Alter Senatssaal, Wilhelmstraße 26 (Friday)

Registration:

Please send an email by September 26, 2022 to veranstaltungen@sfb948.uni-freiburg.de

Further information about the program can be found here...

From August 2022 to February 2023, Manja Herrmann (Judaic Studies/History, Berlin) will be working as a guest researcher at the SFB 948. She researches the project: „Von Gerechten unter den Völkern und Unbesungenen Helden: Deutsch-Israelische Dynamiken der Heroisierung“.

Website & contact: https://www.selma-stern-zentrum.de/mitglieder/wiss-ma/postdocs/herrmann-manja/index.html

From August 2022 to February 2023, Anja Peltzer (media sociology, Mannheim) will be conducting research at the SFB 948 on the project:„Haunted Heroes. Ein filmsoziologisches ‚Unthinking‘ des Narrativs vom Kriegshelden“.

From 30.6. until 31.7. Berny Sèbe (History, Birmingham) is a guest researcher at the SFB 948. He cooperates with sub-project S1 and conducts research on the project "Rethinking Imperial Heroism in Post-Colonial Times: The Lives and Afterlives of 'Great Figures' of Western Colonialism.

Website & contact: 

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/languages/sebe-berny.aspx

Martin Kovacs: Vom Herrscher zum Heros. Die Bildnisse Alexanders des Großen und die Imitatio Alexandri

The book goes back to the author's habilitation, which he mainly developed in project B1

Further information on the publishing house's website...

Antiquity did not know only one image or only one idea of the figure of Alexander the Great. On the contrary, hardly any other historical figure of antiquity proved to be so divergent, controversial and literally multiform for contemporaries. The monograph seeks to grasp this diversity through a critical presentation of the representations of Alexander the Great, to reorganise the deleterious survivals and to make them useful for cultural-historical analysis. For this purpose, not only the round sculptures are taken into account, but also other media are consistently included: the coinage, large-scale monuments such as votives in greek sanctuaries, as well as the literary and epigraphic tradition. A decisive result is the finding that the figure of Alexander the Great could be restaged in different contexts either as a divinely or heroically impregnated being, as an energetic but potentially approachable general, or as a mythological figure with paradigmatic significance. These different conceptualisations will be elaborated on the basis of the highly divergent portrait designs between Hellenism, the Roman imperial period as well as Late Antiquity, recontextualised both historically and in terms of cultural history, and in particular asked about the role of the actors who commissioned the images in each case. This perspective counters a traditional conception of the image of Alexander, in which a rather selective perception has predominated up to now, with a preference for the lifetime portraits of Alexander. The study shows that divergent images of the Macedonian ruler were created at different times, in different places and in different political and cultural contexts, and that their specific iconography also reflects specific ideas of the figure of Alexander the Great. These figurations of Alexander in different cultural contexts illustrate the preferences of the actors who created them. For the imperial period in particular, it can be shown that Alexander was also visually staged as a mythological rather than a historiographical figure. The final analysis of the visual Imitatio Alexandri, the pictorial imitation of the Macedonian king in different historical and cultural contexts during the Hellenistic period, is based on the results obtained.

Isabell Oberle: Von der Handlung zur Haltung. Heroischer Attentismus im westeuropäischen Drama der Kriegs- und Zwischenkriegszeit (1914–1934).

The book is based on the author's dissertation, which she worked on in project D6.

Here's the directly link...

Under the impact of the First World War, waiting had replaced fighting in an emphatic sense, had become a generational experience both in the field and at home, and had been transformed into a form of heroism involving perseverance and endurance. The accent had shifted away from heroism as an external deed; instead, it was interiorised and enthroned as an attitude. This study is dedicated to this new heroism as a guiding motto during the war, its critical consideration in the post-war period and its re-functionalisation as a strategy for coping with the present in the 1920s. Using the example of Western European theatre during both the war and the interwar period, it examines how such heroism was aesthetically conveyed, reflected and evaluated.