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The Carousel Ensemble
Dr. Marie-Luise Angerer
Professor of Cultural and Media Studies at Kunsthochschule für Medien
(KHM), Cologne, 2007-2009 principal of KHM, research interests:
media technology and feministic theory, return of life, nature and
affects in art, media and digital environments
Dr. Armen Avanessian
Literary Scholar, Research Fellow at the Collaborative Research
Center “Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic
Limits”, lecturer at Peter-Szondi-Institute for Comparative
Literature, Freie Universität Berlin
İmran Ayata
Author, managing director of communications agency A&B ONE,
and co-founder of Kanak Attak
Dr. Malek Bajbouj
Professor of Psychiatry at Charité Berlin, Campus Benjamin
Franklin, and head of the cluster’s Junior Research Group
“Artificial modulation of emotions” and of the project
„The Neurobiology of Empathy in Narcissistic Personality Disorder”
Dr. Natalija Basic
Historian, Postdoc-scholarship holder with the cluster project “War
criminals, concepts of enemy, emotions”
Dr. Jürgen Baudewig
Mathematician, head of the cluster’s Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(MRI) lab
Christoph Biermann
Freelance journalist, sports editor of Spiegel and Spiegel-Online,
author, current publications (selection): Fast alles über Fußball
(2005), Wie ich einmal vergaß, Schalke zu hassen (2007)
Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter
Professor of Dance Studies at the Institute for Theatre Studies,
and head of the cluster project “Touching and to be touched:
‘movere’ in dance”
Dr. Mario Braun
Psychologist, Associate at the Research Area General and Neurocognitive
Psychology, head of the Neurocognitive Laboratories of the Department
of Education and Psychology and the cluster
Jörg Buttgereit
Horror film director, amongst others “Nekromantik” and
“Schramm”, radioplay-maker for public service broadcasting,
and filmcritic for epd Film, Splatting Image, deadline, fluter
Martin Clausen
Actor and teacher of Alexander-Technik, founder of TWO FISH together
with Angela Schubot, worked with nico & the navigators, Lubricat,
Lajos Talamonti, Hannah Hegenscheidt, posttheater, Gob Squad and
Bairishe Geisha
Dr. Helga de la Motte-Haber
Professor (emeritus) of Musicology at the Institute of Language
and Communication, Technische Universität Berlin
Dr. Andreas Degen
Literary Scholar and head of the cluster project “Fascination
as an aesthetic category. A Conceptual history”
Dr. Isabel Dziobek
Psychologist, head of the cluster’s Junior Research Group
“You make me feel so... Understanding Interaffectivity”,
and head of the projects “Training socio-emotional competencies:
Development and evaluation of a new software tool for adults”
and „The Neurobiology of Empathy in Narcissistic Personality
Disorder”
Dr. Michael Eid
Professor of Methods of Psychology at the Department of Education
and Psychology, and head of various cluster projects, amongst them
‘”Honor and Dishonor – pride, shame and anger:
an investigation into the norms of experiencing, expressing and
regulating self-related feelings in sub-populations of German and
Turkish origin”
Dr. Philipp Ekardt
Literary and Art History Scholar at Peter-Szondi-Institute for Comparative
Literature, and Associate of the speaker of the cluster, Winfried
Menninghaus
Samuel Finzi
Stage and movie actor at the theatres in Cologne, Hamburg, Bochum,
Frankfurt, Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, worked
with the directors Dimiter Gotscheff, Frank Castorf, Jürgen
Flimm and Jürgen Gosch, lives in Berlin
Dr. Benno Gammerl
Historian, Research Fellow at Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development,
head of the project “Homosexuality and emotional life in the
West German countryside (1960-1990)”
Dr. Anette Gerok-Reiter
Professor of Older German Literature and Language at the Institute
for German and Dutch Philology, Freie Universität Berlin, and head
of the cluster project „Spaces of fear in novels in the Middle Ages
and Early Modern Period“
Dr. Julian Hanich
Film Scholar, Lecturer at the Institute for Media and Arts, Universität
Potsdam, and Associate of the cluster project “Aesthetic modulation
of affective valence: the pleasure taken in disgust and related
phenomena”
Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein
Professor of North American Literature at John-F.-Kennedy-Institute
of North American Studies and co-director of the cluster project
„Coolness. Types and function of cultural affect control in
American and Japanese literature and culture“
Dr. Hauke Heekeren
Professor of Psychology of Emotions and Affective Neuroscience at
the Department of Education and Psychology, Vice speaker of the
cluster, and head of various cluster projects (selection) „Training
socioemotional competencies: Development and evaluation of a new
software tool for adults“
Dr. Isabella Heuser
Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus
Benjamin Franklin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin
Berlin, Professor of Neuropsychiatry, and head of various cluster
projects (selection): „Neurophysiology und Psychometry for
the detection of Alexithymia“
Jochen Hick
Writer, director and producer for TV and Independent Cinema, founder
of the production company Galeria Alaska Productions (Hamburg),
in 2008 his film „East/West – Sex & Politics“
was shown at the Berlinale Panorama, chief editor of the TV-Station
TIMM
Dr. Arthur M. Jacobs
Professor of General and Neuro-cognitive Psychology at the Department
of Education and Psychology, head of various cluster projects (selection):
„Affective and aesthetic processes involved in reading short
texts such as proverbs and aphorisms“
Dr. Thomas Jacobsen
Professor of General Psychology at the Department of Educational
Sciences at Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of German Armed
Forces Hamburg, head of the cluster project “Aesthetic modulation
of affective valence: the pleasure taken in disgust and related
phenomena”
Dr. Gisela Klann-Delius
Professor of Linguistics at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology,
director of the Graduate School and member of the Executive Committee
of the cluster, head of various cluster projects (selection): „Perception
of affect and rhythm in prematurely and maturely born infants at
the age of 6 months“
Dr. Getrud Koch
Professor of film studies, Principal Investigator of the Excellence
Cluster “Languages of Emotion”, Freie Universität
Berlin, and film critic, Berlin
Dr. Klaus Krüger
Professor of Art history and managing director of the Institute
of Art History, head of the cluster project „The pictorial
representation of emotions in the Early Modern period“
Dr. Nicolas Langlitz
Medical Historian, Philosopher, Postdoctoral Fellow at Max-Planck-Institute
for History of Science Berlin, from 2010 onwards he will be Assistant
Professor at the Anthropology Department of the New School for Social
Research in New York
Sandra Leupold
Opera Director with focus on baroque opera and music from the 20th
century, she works at Oper Leipzig, Semperoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper,
Deutsche Oper Berlin, National Theatre Zagreb and „Proms“
London
Susanne Linke
Dancer and choreographer for international dance companies in New
York, Paris, Israel, the Netherlands, Bonn and Essen
Dr. Ute Luig
Professor of Ethnology at the Institute of Social Anthropology,
and head of the cluster project „Emotion, violence and memory
in coping with civil wars. A cultural comparison“
Dr. Thomas Macho
Professor of Cultural History and director of the Institute for
Cultural Science at Humboldt-Universität Berlin, current publication:
Tiefenrausch. Ein Lesebuch zur Unterwelt (2008)
Dr. Hans J. Markowitsch
Professor of Psychological Psychology at the Faculty for Psychology
and Sport Science at University Bielefeld
Diana McCarty
Agent of Cultural Provocation, co-founder of media and radio projects
- reboot.fm, herbstradio, faces-l.net, nettime.
Dr. Winfried Menninghaus
Professor of Comparative Literature at the Peter-Szondi-Institute,
speaker of the cluster and head of various cluster projects, amongst
others: “Aesthetic modulation of affective valence: the pleasure
taken in disgust and related phenomena”
PD Dr. Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek
Lecturer of New German Philology at the Institute of German Philology
at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, and visiting scientist
at the cluster, head of the cluster project „Depth: on the
fascination of brooding“
Dr. Catherine Newmark
Associate at the Institute of Philosophy and head of the cluster
project „Authority, regard, trust, respect“
Dr. Kerstin Palm
Biologist, teaches at the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies
at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Visiting Professor at the
Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, Universität
Wien
Dr. Oliver Peters
Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, head of the Department of the
Gerontopsychiatric Ambulant Clinic and Memory Consultation at the
Charité Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin
Cord Riechelmann
Author of e.g. „Wilde Tiere in der Großstadt”
(2004), and columnist for the newspapers Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung and tageszeitung amongst others
Dr. Clemens Risi
Assistant Professor for musical theatre at the Institute of Theatre
Studies and head of the cluster project „The power station
of emotions: Expression and transmission of affects in the Italian
and French opera of the 19th century“
Curt A. Roesler
Dramatic adviser, from 1980 till 2001 dramatic adviser and head
of the dramaturgy department at Deutsche Oper Berlin, since 2001
head of the childrens‘ music theatre at the same venue
Dr. Stefan Röpke
Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the Clinic for Psychiatry
and Psychotherapy at Charité Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin,
and head of the cluster project „The Neurobiology of Empathy
in Narcissistic Personality Disorder”
Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler
Professor of Ethnology of Emotions at the Institute of Social Anthropology,
and head of various cluster projects, amongst others „Socialisation
and ontogenesis of emotions in cultural comparison“
Dr. Conctance Scharff
Professor of Behaviouristic Biology at the Institute of Biology
and head of various cluster projects, e.g. „Do birds tango?
Biological origins of rhythm as a carrier of emotions“
Dr. Christian von Scheve
Professor of Sociology of Emotions at the Institute of Sociology,
head of various cluster projects, e.g. „Fear and Anger: Dimensions
of social inequality”
Dr. Britta Schinzel
Professor of Informatics and Society, head of the department „Model-building
and its social consequences“ at the Institute of Informatics
and Society, Universität Freiburg
Lars Schnell
Fan‘s representative of the FC Union Berlin
Libgart Schwarz
Actress, from 1976 with Peter Stein at the Schaubühne am Halleschen
Ufer, frequent works with Andrea Breth in the 1990s, today actress
at the Wiener Burgtheater
Dr Gavin B. Sullivan
Senior Lecturer for Psychology at the Monash University in Melbourne
and head of the cluster project „The language of self-conscious
emotion: a thoroughly social account of pride and related emotions“
Dr. Holm Sundhaussen
Professor (emeritus) of the History of South-Eastern Europe at the
Institute for Eastern Europe, Freie Universität Berlin
Sasha Waltz
Choreographer and founder of the dance company Sasha Waltz &
guests, her choreographies and projects are being shown all over
the world, lives in Berlin
Dr. Eva Weber-Guskar
Associate at the Department of Practical Philosophy at the Seminar
of Philosophy Göttingen
Dr. Sigrid Weigel
Director of the Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, chairwoman
of the Centres of Human Sciences of Berlin, Professor at the Institute
for Literature, Technische Universität Berlin
Ekkehard Windrich
Violinist with additional studies in electronic music, co-founder
of „ensemble courage“ in Dresden, working as a soloist and chamber
musician in the field of contemporary music
Dr. Johannes Windrich
Scholar of Literature and head of the cluster’s Junior Research
Group „Adoration and admiration“
Veronika Zink
Sociologist and Associate of the Cluster’s Junior Research
Group „Adoration and admiration“
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