Dr phil. Anja Herrmann

Research assistant

Gender Studies in Art and Cultural Studies
Theory and History of Art and Visual Culture

About the person

Studied art history, comparative literature and philosophy at the Ruhr University Bochum and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. 2003 to 2005 research assistant in the research project "The Post-Communist Condition. Art and Culture after the End of the Eastern Bloc" at the Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe. 2005 to 2012 research assistant at the Berlin University of the Arts, specialising in art studies and gender. 2012 to 2013 freelance academic editor for Wienand Verlag Cologne. 2013 to 2014 research assistant at the Institute for Art Studies at the Braunschweig University of Art. Since 2014 research assistant at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oldenburg. Teaching assignments in Vienna and Berlin; since 2016 editor at FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, www.fkw-journal.de. February to August 2018 administration of the professorship for cultural sociology at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts; since August 2018 member of the DFG junior researcher network "Fat Studies - Doing, Becoming and Being Fat" together with Friedrich Schorb, Paula Irene Villa, Nina Mackert, Evangelia Kindinger and others.

PhD 2012 "Photography as practice. Social uses of early portrait photography using the example of Marie Bashkirtseff and the Countess of Castiglione" at the Braunschweig University of Art.

Research focus

Art and visual culture of the 19th to 21st centuries, fat studies, history and theory of photography, film and television theory, masquerade concepts, fashion and modernity.

Current projects and activities

About Size. Visual Fat Studies between Identity and Biopolitics (working title)

Projects/conferences (conception & organisation)

  • Doing Fat. Performance and Representation of Fat Bodies, organised and moderated by Dr Fritz Schorb and Dr Anja Herrmann, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, November 2017
  • Fragments of an art of life. On the relationship between biography, art and media (in honour of Renate Berger), together with Linda Hentschel and Carola Muysers, Berlin University of the Arts, July 2007
  • Theory and Trash. Gestaltung und Un-Ordnung, together with Annette Geiger, Stefanie Hennecke, Christa Kamleithner and Christin Kempf, Berlin University of the Arts, November 2006
  • Teaching Arts & Gender in East and West Europe. International conference of the Gendernet, Berlin University of the Arts, December 2005
  • The Post-Communist Condition. Art and Culture after the End of the Eastern Bloc. International Congress, Das MOSKAU, together with Boris Groys, Anne von der Heiden and Julia Warmers, Berlin 2004
  • Privatisation. Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe, Kunst-Werke Berlin in co-operation with the research project "The Post-Communist Condition" funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation at the Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe 2004
  • Mitra Tabrizian. Beyond the Limits, Photographic Collection of the Folkwang Museum, Essen 2003
  • Collection in Motion. The Cremer Collection, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund 1999
  • Superman in Bed. Contemporary Art from Great Britain, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund 1999

Publications

MONOGRAPHY

  • The photo studio as a place of modernity. On the photographic practice of Marie Bashkirtseff and the Countess of Castiglione, Braunschweig: Online-Ressource 2015

EDITORSHIPS

  • Visual Fat Studies. 62nd issue of FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, Summer 2017, www.fkw-journal.de (ed. with Kea Wienand)
  • Tattoo. Landscape format. Journal for contemporary, art and popular culture. Issue 4/2011, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (ed. with Sabine Kampmann, Jörg Petri, Ralf de Jong)
  • Paris, Paris! Paula Modersohn-Becker and the women artists around 1900, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag 2009 (ed. with Renate Berger)
  • Fragments of an art of life. Art and cultural-historical contributions to biography, the arts and media, Freiburg i. Br. 2008 (ed. with Linda Hentschel and Carola Muysers)

ESSAYS & INTERVIEWS

  • Under one Flag?! Notes on the visual culture of the EU flag. In: Renate Möhrmann (ed.) with the academic collaboration of Anja Herrmann: Europa, Stuttgart 2019 (forthcoming)
  • Of Whales and Monsters: Visual Fat Politics in Contemporary Children's Picture Books. In: Food, Fatness and Fitness. Critical Perspectives, URL: foodfatnessfitness.com/2018/05/01/fat-in-childrens-books, last accessed September 2018
  • Reclaim Defloration. Reflections on the visual defloration of feminised image spaces. In: Renate Möhrmann with the academic collaboration of Anja Herrmann (ed.): "Da ist denn auch das Blümchen weg" (Faust). The Deflowering - Fictions of Defloration, Stuttgart (forthcoming 2017)
  • Louise Stomps, The Couple, 1938, in: The Black Years. Geschichten einer Sammlung 1933-1945, edited for the Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, by Dieter Scholz and Maria Obenaus, Berlin 2015, pp. 219-221
  • Imaginary Flaneries. The photo studio as a place of modernity. In: Photography Newsletter, autumn 2014
  • Constructed maternalities. Depictions of mothers and motherhood in advertising and film. In: Exhib. cat. Zwischen Madonna und Mutter Courage - Zur Darstellung der Mutter in der Kunst von 1905 bis 1935, ed. by August-Macke Haus, Bonn 2011
  • Editorial. In: Tattoo. Landscape format. Magazine for contemporary art and popular culture. Issue 4/2011, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (with Sabine Kampmann)
  • Image patterns of the feminine. A conversation about the relationship between art and gender. Interview with Inka Graeve Ingelmann. In: Goethe-Institut online, Gender Dossier, URL: www.goethe.de/ges/mol/dos/gen/geb/de4249575.htm
  • "Elastic design". How gender roles are commercialised. Interview with Uta Brandes. In: Goethe-Institut online, Gender Dossier, URL: www.goethe.de/ges/mol/dos/gen/geb/de4249700.htm
  • Notre-Dame the sleeping car or the masquerades of Marie Bashkirtseff. In: Paris, Paris! Paula Modersohn-Becker and the women artists around 1900, ed. by Renate Berger and Anja Herrmann, Stuttgart 2009, pp. 39-58
  • Woman under influence. Paula Modersohn-Becker's reception of Marie Bashkirtseff. In: Elective Affinities. Beiträge zu künstlerischen Selbstentwürfen, ed. by Doris Berger and Bernd Milla, Berlin 2007, pp. 28-39
  • Problematic self-portraits. The photographs of the Countess of Castiglione. In: Fragments of an art of life. Kunst- und kulturgeschichtliche Beiträge zu Biografie, den Künsten und Medien, ed. by Linda Hentschel, Anja Herrmann and Carola Muysers, Freiburg i. Br. 2008, pp. 118-138

REVIEWS & TRANSLATION

  • Ina Saltz: Typographic or text tattoos. Literature, poetry and a homage to letters. In: Tattoo. Landscape format. Magazine for contemporary art and popular culture. Issue 4/2011, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (translation from the American together with Ralf de Jong)
  • Photographed working life: Ulrich Linse, Ulmer Arbeiterleben. Vom Kaiserreich zur frühen Bundesrepublik, published by Stadtarchiv Ulm, Ulm 2006, in: Mitteilungen. Archive of the Labour Youth Movement, 2008/1, pp. 38-41
  • Stages of the Self. On autobiography in the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. Edited by Theresa Georgen, Carola Muysers. Kiel: Muthesius-Kunsthochschule 2006. in: Arthist. Rezensionen, 2006, 12/05. arthist.net/download/book/2006/061205Herrmann.pdf

PROOFREADING & EDITORIAL CO-OPERATION

  • Renate Möhrmann with the academic assistance of Anja Herrmann (ed.): "Da ist denn auch das Blümchen weg" (Faust). Die Entjungferung - Fiktionen der Defloration, Stuttgart (forthcoming 2017)
  • Renate Möhrmann (ed.): "So muß ich weinen bitterlich". On the cultural history of tears. Stuttgart: Kröner 2015
  • Exhib. cat. Le Geste suspendu. Estampes Kabuki du Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques, ed. by Christian Rümelin and Hans Bjarne Thomsen, Cologne: Wienand 2014
  • Exhib. cat. Mark Leonhard, ed. by Klaus Honnef, Cologne: Wienand 2014
  • Exhib. cat. BEGAS-HAUS, ed. by Rita Müllejans-Dickmann and Wolfgang Cortjaens, 2 vols, Cologne: Wienand 2013
  • Renate Möhrmann (ed.): Women's fantasies. The imagined man in the work of female film and book authors, Stuttgart: Kröner 2014
  • Exhib. cat. Dietrich Pusch, ed. by Gabriele Oberreuter, Cologne: Wienand 2013
  • Back from the future. Eastern European Cultures in the Age of Post-Communism, ed. by Boris Groys, Anne von der Heiden, Peter Weibel with the collaboration of Anja Herrmann and Julia Warmers, Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp 2005
  • The New Humanity. Biopolitical Utopias in Russia at the Beginning of the 20th Century, ed. by Boris Groys, Michael Hagemeister, Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp 2005
  • At the Zero Point. Positions of the Russian Avant-Garde, ed. by Boris Groys, Aage Hansen-Löve, Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp 2005
  • Exhib. cat. Privatisations. Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe, ed. by the research project The Post-Communist Condition, Frankfurt a. M.: Revolver Verlag 2004

LECTURES (SELECTION)

  • "Such a fat dog". On health policies in children's picture books. At: The food of children. Between pedagogy, consumption and children's culture, organised by Dr Friederike Schmidt, Prof. Dr Lotte Rose and Prof. Dr Marc Schulz, Bielefeld University, December 2018
  • Save the Children? Visual Fat Politics in Contemporary Children's Films and Books. At: Doing Fat. Performance and Representation of Fat Bodies, organised by Dr. Fritz Schorb and myself, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, November 2017
  • In the train, in the head, in the text, in the image. The motif of movement in the works of Marie Bashkirtseff. In: Biography - Gender - Mobility. 7th workshop of the working group Biography and Gender, Research Centre Music and Gender, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, June 2017
  • Imaginary Flaneries. The photo studio as a place of modernity. At: Conference "Fragments of Time. New Tendencies in the History of Photography" organised by the German Photographic Society at the Museum für Photographie Berlin, October 2013
  • Images that get under your skin (together with Jörg Petri). At: Event series "Beyond Borders. Border Spaces of the Visual Arts", 8 December 2011 at Tattoostudio Tätowierhandwerk Kirschner, Düsseldorf
  • With the photographer. On the supposed representation of madness using the example of the photographs of the Countess of Castiglione. At: Workshop "Modern Times/Times of the City", 27 February 2010, Humboldt University Berlin
  • Chez le photographe. On the confusion in the photo studio. At: Research Day of the School of Design, Berlin University of the Arts, 30 October 2009, Berlin
  • Paris, Paris! Paula Modersohn-Becker and the women artists around 1900. An introduction. At: Book launch and panel discussion, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, October 2009, Bremen
  • Notre-Dame of the sleeping car. The masquerades of Marie Bashkirtseff. At: "Life as if intoxicated". Paula Modersohn-Becker and Modernism: Conference on the 100th anniversary of the artist's death, 1 December 2007, Irsee
  • Woman under influence. Paula Modersohn-Becker's reception of Marie Bashkirtseff. In: Elective Affinities. Symposium on artistic self-designs", Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, September 2007, Worpswede
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