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Eva Zimmermann (M.A. Cultural Mediation for Theater)

Dissertation Project

Dramaturges designing discursive spaces. Cultural translation as dramaturgical practice.

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerald Siegmund, Applied Theater Studies, JLU

Teaching Experience

  • Summer semester 2021 Methods of ethnography, Applied Theater Studies, JLU (taught in German)
  • Summer semester 2021 Subjectivity and Multiperspectivity: Interviews in Performance and Artistic Research, Applied Theater Studies, JLU (taught in English)
  • Summer semester 2019 Ethnography as a method in theater studies and as an artistic strategy in rehearsal and performance. Applied Theater Studies, JLU (taught in German)
    (Awarded 1st Prize in Excellent Teaching by the Dr. Herbert Stolzenberg Foundation)
Publications

  • Eva Zimmermann, Europa als Heterotopie. Inszenierung von Identitätskonzepten während des Kulturhauptstadtjahres Donostia-San Sebastián 2016, Hildesheim: Universitätsverlag 2020.
  • Eva Zimmermann, Von Untoten - Die aristotelische Poetik auf theatertheoretischem Prüfstand [Review of: Dupont, Florence: Aristoteles oder der Vampir des westlichen Theaters. Aus dem Französischen von Kerstin Beyerlein. Berlin: Alexander 2018.], in: KULT_online 59 (2019).
  • Eva Zimmermann, Kulturelle Übersetzung - ein Theorie-Konzept zur Neuperspektivierung transkultureller Kulturpraxis? [Review of: Dätsch, Christiane (Ed.): Kulturelle Übersetzer. Kunst und Kulturmanagement im transkulturellen Kontext. Bielefeld: transcript 2018], in: KULT_online 62 (2020).

 

  • Sanches Neto, Miguel: Erlöser. Aus dem brasilianischen Portugiesisch übersetzt von Eva Zimmermann. S. 108 -116 in: Bosshard, Marco u. Marco Machado Nunes (Ed.): RIO de Janeiro. Eine literarische Einladung. Berlin: Wagenbach (2013).
Research Interests

  • International dramaturgy research
  • Anthropological methods in theatre studies and artistic research
  • Heterotopias as discursive spaces
  • Translation and transculturality as concepts of cultural theory
Research Activities

  • Currently: Participant observation with dramaturges in international cooperation projects
  • 2016-2018: Multiple research stays in Donostia-San Sebastián for fieldwork on the European Capital of Culture 2016
    (incl. participant observation, expert interviews in Spanish and English)
  • 2015: Bachelor's thesis project Creative activism as a form of non-violent protest. Functions and effects.
  • 2012-2014: Collaborative work on the qualitative and quantitative research project Cultural-political strategies and economic aspects of the staging of national culture at book fairs in Rio de Janeiro + Frankfurt a. M., Ruhr University Bochum
Conference Presentations

  • The Influence of Affect on the Positioning of Dramaturgical Work within Discursive Spaces. 06/2021, Hermes Summer School, Universidad Santiago de Compostela, Spain.


  • European Heterotopia. Curators facilitating the impossible dialogue. 01/2020, Arts and Cultural Management Conference "Curating Europe", University of Groningen, Netherlands.
Memberships

  • Editorial Board On_Culture, Open Access Journal in the Study of Culture, peer-reviewed
  • Research Area 8: Cultures of Knowledge, Research and Education
  • Scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
  • International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture
  • Dramaturgische Gesellschaft (Society for Dramaturgy)
Academic Education


  • Master of Arts in Cultural Mediation for Theater, University of Hildesheim
  • Bachelor of Arts in Theater Studies and Comparative Literature, Ruhr University Bochum

Study abroad Literatura General y Comparada (General and Comparative Literature), Universidad Complutense Madrid