Vita
Studied sociology and political science at the University of Kassel. From 2017 to 2021 Scientific associate at the Department of Macrosociology at the University of Kassel. PhD project Time and Belonging. Six portraits from the documenta city of Kassel (WT) supervised by Heinz Bude and Philipp Oswalt. Since October 2020 Coordinator at the documenta Institut.
Forschungsvorhaben
Zeit und Zugehörigkeit. Sechs Portraits aus der documenta Stadt Kassel (Time and Belonging. Six portraits from the documenta city of Kassel)
The dissertation project focuses on Kassel's relationship to documenta. It is based on Kassel's assertion of identity as a documenta city and explores the question of how urban affiliations are conveyed, shifted and occluded in Kassel through the documenta. It thus follows the trail of Kassel's official self-declaration as a documenta city and aims to find out how this self-declaration is taken up and lived by the local people. The empirical material of the work consists of interviews with people in Kassel who talk about their personal history with documenta. What role does the official urban identity anchor documenta play in their affiliation with Kassel?
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Sociology of social belonging
Sociology of urban events and festivals
Press/Interviews
HNA (2024), Wie die Kasseler mit der documenta leben: „Die Unruhe gehört mit zum Erfolgsrezept“, erschienen am 19.03.2024.