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Prof Dr. Markus Tauschek

Prof Dr. Markus Tauschek

Executive Director

Since WS 2015/2016 Chair holder

Since WS 2018/2019 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts

Director of the Center for Popular Culture and Music (ZPKM)

Room: 01 006

Phone: 0761-203-3306
Mail:
 
Notes on writing bachelor theses with Prof. Tauschek can be found here.
Research interests:

  • Cultural heritage (UNESCO, monument, memorial discourse, museum-making, historical culture)
  • Popular culture (medial competition formations, transmediality, scene, festival)
  • Traditional culture in the late modern
  • Competition and competition (performance and success discourses, optimization practices)
  • Political Anthropology (Energiewende, Kulturpolitik)
  • Custom and ritual research (performance theories, framing concepts)
  • Regional Ethnography
  • Ethnographic research methods

 

Research Projects:

 

Biographical:

  • since October 2015 Professor of European Ethnology with a focus on Popular Culture at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Freiburg
  • Positive interim evaluation of the junior professorship in the summer semester 2012
  • Since October 2009 Junior Professor of European Ethnology / Folklore at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
  • April to August 2009: Speaker of the Graduate Academy, Leibniz Universität Hannover
  • March 2009: Doctorate in Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Dissertation: "Value Creation from Tradition. The carnival of Binche and the constitution of cultural heritage. "
  • April 2004 to March 2009: Research assistant at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • 1999-2003: studied folklore, German and Romance studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; Internships at the Swabian Farm Museum Illerbeuren, at the Goethe-Instituts in Lyon and Munich, at the SWR in Stuttgart, stud. Assistant at the Johannes Künzig Institute for East German Folklore in Freiburg
  • March 1998 to March 1999: Civil service at a home for multiple disabled adults
  • 1996-1998: studied German and Romance studies at the University of Eichstätt
  • Born 1977 in Memmingen

 

Memberships:

 

Supervised habilitations:

  • Dr. Barbara Sieferle: Life after prison. Cultural orders between dis- and reculturation
  • Dr. Fatma Sagir: 'Muslim Lifestyle in Digital Culture: Negotiating Religion and New Muslim Identities' (working title)

 

Supervised dissertations:

  • Uwe Baumann: Expiration fascination as a destination. Place-making of "abandoned" difficult heritage in relation to Internet-based adventure tourism.
  • Karen Breiholz: Perception, interpretation, (ver) densities. Creative writing in the context of social aestheticization. (Title)
  • Ina Kuhn: Utopias live? For the discursive and performative negotiation of alternative plans for life and the future at festivals (working title)
  • Nicola Nölle: Festivals and the performative production of scenes (working title)
  • Ruth Weiand: City, Land, Sustainability - Ideas, Images and Practices of Ethical Travel (working title)
  • Inga Wilke: Meditating, Forest Bathing and Co. - Deceleration and Mindfulness Learn in 'Courses of Study' (working title)
  • Gisela Zimmermann: Pilgrims in the age of digital communication (working title)
  • Jing Zhao: Knowledge, Practices and Emotions in Migration - Living Worlds of Chinese in Germany
  • Maria Grewe: Containers, file sharing and repair shops. Everyday cultural figurations of finiteness and sustainability discourses (completed)
  • Maren Mecke-Matthiesen: Upheavals, contact zones, logic of ideas: Zum Wandell in a small town in East Holstein under the influence of the Bundeswehr 1962-2012. The example Lütjenburg (completed) 

 

Monographs:

 

Editorship:

  • Burkert, Karin; Angel, Alexander; Heimerdinger, Timo; Tauschek, Mark; Werron, Tobias (ed.): In the footsteps of the competition. Cultural and social science perspectives. (Freiburg Studies on Cultural Anthropology, 2). Munster, New York 2019.
  • Wienker-Piepho, Sabine; Tauschek, Markus (ed.): Reasoned! How fairy tales and popular narrative materials are used, ideologized and updated. (Series of lectures of the fairy tale foundation Walter Kahn, 16). Volkach 2018.
  • Giray, Joerg; Tauschek, Mark; Zinn-Thomas, Sabine (ed.): Maximilianstr. 15. 50 years Institute of Folklore in Freiburg - a souvenir album (Freiburg Studies on Cultural Anthropology, 1). Muenster, New York 2017.
  • Tauschek, Markus (ed.): Agency, resistance and cultural order. Potentials of cultural-scientific thinking. Muenster, New York 2017.
  • Tauschek, Markus (ed.): Power, Political Culture, Resistance. Student protests at the University of Kiel. Münster and others 2016th
  • Tauschek, Mark; Grewe, Maria (ed.): Shortage, lack, abundance. Cultural scientific positions dealing with limited resources. Frankfurt a.M. 2015.
  • Adell, Nicolas; Bendix, Regina; Bortolotto, Chiara; Tauschek, Markus (ed.): Between 'Imagined Communities' and 'Communities of Practice': Participation, Territory and the Making of Heritage. (Göttingen Studies in Cultural Property - Göttingen Studies on Cultural Property, 8). Göttingen 2015.
  • Tauschek, Markus (ed.): Cultures of Competition. Formations of competitive logics. (Kiel studies on folklore and cultural history, 10). Münster and others , 2013.
  • Tauschek, Markus (ed.): Competitions. Student sketches on the practice of the competitive. Kieler Blätter zur Volkskunde 43/2011.
  • Hemme, Dorothee; Tauschek, Markus (ed.): Life in World Heritage. Ethnographic sketches on the everyday cultural treatment of the UNESCO World Heritage title on the example of Goslar and Hildesheim. (Göttingen Cultural Studies, Vol. 2). Göttingen 2008.
  • Hemme, Dorothee; Tauschek, Mark; Bendix, Regina (ed.): Predicate "HERITAGE" - value added from cultural resources. (Studies on Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology, Vol. 1). Berlin 2007.

 

Essays (selection):

  • Tauschek, Markus: Conspiracy and conspiracy theory as object of social and cultural analysis - approaches and potentials of cultural-scientific narrative research. A conference report. In: Swiss Archives of Folklore 115/1 (2019): 81-88.
  • Tauschek, Markus: Competitive narrative. For the experience and interpretation of competitive constellations. In: Bürkert, Karin u.a. (Ed.): In the footsteps of the competition. Cultural and social science perspectives. (Freiburg Studies on Cultural Anthropology, 2). Münster, New York 2019: 87-101.
  • Tauschek, Markus: Cultural Heritage: Presencing the Past from a Cultural Anthropological Perspective. In: Nihon-Minzokugaku. Bulletin of the Folklore Society of Japan 295 (2018): 108-132. (in Japanese)
  • Tauschek, Markus: Heritage. Cultural anthropological reflections on the visualization of the past. In: Moser, Johannes (ed.): Themes and trends of German and Japanese folklore in exchange. (Münchner Beiträge zur Volkskunde, 46). Münster, New York 2018: 161-185.
  • Tauschek, Markus: From folklore to cultural anthropology - a Freiburg foray. In: Giray, Joerg; Tauschek, Mark; Zinn-Thomas, Sabine (ed.): Maximilianstr. 15. 50 years Institute of Folklore in Freiburg - a souvenir album (Freiburg Studies on Cultural Anthropology, 1). Muenster, New York 2017: 27-47.
  • Tauschek, Markus: structure, resistance, agency. Student protests at the University of Kiel. In: ders. (Hg.): Agency, resistance and cultural orders. Potentials of cultural-scientific thinking. Munster, New York 2017: 233-247.
  • Tauschek, Markus: Hybridization, Sensuality and Performance. The Wave Gothic Meeting in Leipzig. In: Betz, Gregor J. et al. (Ed.): Hybrid Events. For the discussion of zeitgeistiger events. Wiesbaden 2017: 267-281.
  • Tauschek, Markus: When tradition becomes cultural heritage. A cultural-anthropological-folklore contribution to the valorization of culture. In: Yearbook Volkskultur Steiermark 2016: 86-93.
  • Tauschek, Markus: On the transmediality of rituals. A case study. In: Drascek, Daniel; Wolf, Gabriele (ed.): Customs: Media: Transformations. On the relationship between performative practices and media (re-) presentations. (= Bavarian writings on folklore, 11). Munich 2016: 23-40.
  • Tauschek, Markus: Customs and Politics - Customs Policy. A cultural anthropological sketch for the instrumentalization of the fifth season. In: Retterath, Hans-Werner (ed.): Rewind. Werner Mezger on his 65th birthday. Freiburg 2016: 133-140.
  • Tauschek, Markus: instrument, tactic or strategy? On the ambiguity of popular culture. In: Austrian Journal of History 27/2 (2016): 148-167.
  • Tauschek, Markus: Power, political culture, resistance. Student protest at Kiel University - introduction. In: ders. (Hg.): Power, political culture, resistance. Student protest at the University of Kiel. Münster, New York 2016: 9-16.
  • Tauschek, Markus: "Energy Pioneers". A cultural-anthropological research sketch on finiteness and agency in the context of renewable energies. In: Bihrer, Andreas and others. (Hg.): Finiteness. On the transience and limitations of man, nature and society. Bielefeld 2016: 311-330.
  • Tauschek, Markus: materialization of competition. Techno-doping and the formative force of competitive constellations. In: Braun, Karl u.a. (Ed.): Materialization of culture. Discourses, things, practices. Würzburg 2015: 428-437.
  • Tauschek, Markus: Shortage, lack, abundance - cultural anthropological positions. To the introduction. In: Tauschek, Markus; Grewe, Maria (ed.): Shortage, lack, abundance. Cultural scientific positions dealing with limited resources. Frankfurt a.M. 2015: 9-33.
  • Tauschek, Markus: Measuring science? On ambivalence of university rankings. In: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 1 (2015): 51-63.
  • Tauschek, Markus: Imaginations, Constructions and Constraints: Some Concluding Remarks on Heritage, Community and Participation. In: Adell, Nicolas et al. (Hg.): Between 'Imagined Communities' and 'Communities of Practice': Participation, Territory and the Making of Heritage. Göttingen 2015: 291-306.
  • Tauschek, Markus: Coast. In: Cultures 48 1,2 (2014): 49-53.
  • Tauschek, Markus: World Heritage Site. In: Encyclopedia of the fairy tale. Vol. 14. Berlin, Boston 2014: 1858-1863.
  • Tauschek, Markus: Competitive conditions. Cultural scientific theses on difference and homogenization in competitions. In: Everyday Life - Culture - Science. Contributions to European Ethnology 1 (2014): 123-136.
  • Tauschek, Markus: Competition: A mode of action and its cultural effects. In: Jessen, Ralph (ed.): Competition in History. Practices - Values ​​- Institutionalizations. Frankfurt / Main 2014: 95-118
  • Tauschek Markus: On the conception of the exhibition "Unterwasserwelten". In: TOP 46. Reports of the Society for Folklore in Schleswig-Holstein 23 (2013): 58-62.
  • Tauschek, Mark: Vlasništvo nad kulturnim dobrom kao strategija: carnival u Bincheu, stvaranje kulturne baštine i kulturnog dobra. In: Hameršak, Marijana et al. (Ed.): Proizvodnja baštine: Kritičke studije o nematerijalnoj kulturi. Zagreb 2013: 157-177; Croatian translation of the entry in: Ethnologia Europaea 39 (2009).
  • Tauschek, Markus: Lemmata "Congress" and "Note". In: Frietsch, Ute; Rogge, Jörg (ed.): On the practice of cultural studies work. A hand dictionary. Bielefeld 2013: 219-224; 294-299.
  • Tauschek, Markus: "Casting mania" - To establish a competitive self between entertainment and performance ideology. In: Bareither Christoph; Maase, Kaspar; Nast, Mirjam (eds.) Cultures of popular entertainment and entertainment. Würzburg 2013: 183-195.
  • Tauschek, Markus: On the culture of competition. An introduction. In: Tauschek, Markus (ed.): Cultures of Competition. Formations of competitive logics. (Kiel studies on folklore and cultural history, 10). Münster and others 2013: 7-36.
  • Tauschek, Markus: The Bureaucratic Texture of National Patrimonial Policies. In: Bendix, Regina et al. (Ed.): Heritage Regimes and the State. (Göttingen Studies in Cultural Property, 6). Göttingen 2012: 195-212.
    Tauschek, Markus: Competition Cultures? A cultural anthropological problem sketch. In: Zeitschrift fur Volkskunde 108 / II (2012): 177-197.
  • Tauschek, Mark: Filmer le Patrimoine, produire de la valeur. In: ethnographiques.org. Revue en ligne de sciences humaines et sociales 24 (2012).
  • Tauschek, Markus: Reflections on the Metacultural Nature of Intangible Cultural Heritage. In: Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 5/2 (2011): 49-64.
  • Tauschek, Markus: Competitions. Student sketches on the practice of competition - for introduction. In: Kiel Folklore 43 (2011): 7-12.
  • Tauschek, Mark: Beni culturali demologia: alcune osservazioni su un rapporto complicato. In: La ricerca folklorica 64 (2011): 37-43.
  • Hemme Dorothee; Tauschek, Markus: Science policy developments in the light of Parkinson's Law. In: Fenske, Michaela (ed.): Everyday life as a policy - politics in everyday life. Dimensions of the political in the past and present. (Studies on Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology, 5). Berlin 2010: 177-200.
  • Tauschek, Markus: Monument against the will? Cultural Anthropological Perspectives on a Kiel Conflict. In: Kiel Folklore 42 (2010): 5-22.
  • Tauschek, Markus: Cultural Property as Strategy. The Carnival of Binche and the Creation of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Property. In: Ethnologia Europaea 39 (2009): 67-80.
  • Tauschek, Markus: "Writing Heritage" - Considerations for format application dossier. In: Berger, Karl C .; Schindler, Margot; Schneider, Ingo (ed.): Erb.gut? Cultural heritage in science and society. Vienna 2009: 437-448.
  • Tauschek, Markus: The staging of the production. The carnival of Binche in the competition for a UNESCO title. In: Simon, Michael and others (Hg.): Images. Books. Bytes. On the mediality of everyday life. (Mainz contributions to cultural anthropology / folklore, 3). Münster and others 2009: 438-446.
  • Tauschek, Markus: "Plus oultre" - World Heritage and no end? For example, Binche. In: Hemme, Dorothee;
  • Tauschek, Mark; Bendix, Regina (ed.): Predicate "HERITAGE" - value added from cultural resources. (= Studies on Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology, Vol. 1). Berlin 2007: 197-224.
  • Tauschek, Markus: From the hortus conclusus to a wellness oasis? The commodification of monastic culture. In: Knedlik, Manfred; Scrap, Georg (ed.): Res naturae. The Upper Palatinate monasteries and the gifts of creation. (= Publications of the culture and meeting center Abbey Waldsassen, Bd. 2). Kallmünz 2006: 209-228.
  • Tauschek, Markus: The relevance of the term home in a mobile society. In: Kiel Folklore 37 (2005): 63-85.
  • Tauschek, Markus: Aspects of a Current Home Concept. In: Folklore in Lower Saxony 22 (2005): 14-24.
  • Tauschek, Markus: The importance of language in Carpathian German youth in Slovakia. A content analysis of articles of the Carpathian leaf. In: Yearbook for East German Folklore 46 (2004): 123-141.

 

Lectures (selection):

  • "Heritage and authenticity as global resources", colloquium of the SFB 1070 "RessourcenKulturen", Tübingen, 28.05.2019
  • "Popular Culture and Aesthetic Practices: Comparative and Discursive Construction of Scenes", 14th Congress of the Société d'Ethnologie et de Folklore, Santiago de Compostela, 15.04.2019
  • "Customs and Traditions as Resources of Urban Culture", 19th German City Marketing Day, Chemnitz 18.03.2019
  • "Leisure and the idea of ​​a loss-making self" in the workshop "Living Basic Income". New creation through different (active) being? "Of the DFG-Kolleg" Postwachstumsgesellschaften ", Jena, 15.11.2018
  • Intangible Heritage as a Bureaucratic Project and Governmental Tool. Critical Reflections ", 2018 World Forum for Intangible Heritage, Jeonju (South Korea), 26.10.2018
  • "Artifact, body, performance. Aesthetization as a cultural technique "in the context of the conference" Cool Retro Camp Trash. Aesthetic Concepts in Popular Culture "at the Center for Popular Culture and Music, University of Freiburg, May 3, 2018
  • "Must work?", Acc. with Inga Wilke, interdisciplinary conference "Muße und Arbeit", Freiburg 13.04.2018
  • "Heroes of Capitalism: Steve Jobs and Jack Ma", together with Nicola Spakowski and Jennifer Stapornwongkul, Freiburg China Talks, 13.11.2017
  • "Heritage as a global resource? On the staging, use and instrumentalization of culture ", HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen, Studium Generale, 17.10.2017
  • "Difficult Heritage? A cultural-anthropological counter-speech ", Villa Vigoni, 05.09.2017
  • "Nature" as a Contested Resource - Cultural Studies Approaches ", Kiel, 29.05.2017
  • "Competition and Competition", Workshop of the DFG Network "History of Examination Techniques 1900-2000", Trier, 02.03.2017
  • "Criticism of Critical Heritage Studies. A Cultural Anthropological Replica ", Conference" Cultural Heritage: Conceptual Debates and Empirical Research ", Hannover 21.10.2016
  • "Scene, popular culture and sensual worlds. For a performance-oriented cultural analysis! ", Inaugural lecture University of Freiburg, 30.06.2016
  • "Hybridization, Sensuality and Performance: The Wave Gothic Meeting in Leipzig", part of the conference "Hybridization of Staged Events. For the discussion of zeitgeistiger events ", TU Dortmund 08.04.2016
  • "Structure, Attachment, Power of Action - Resistance and the potentials of the historical dimensioning of everyday culture", Institute for European Ethnology of the University of Vienna (in the context of the appointment process for the appointment of Professor of Historical Dimensioning of Everyday Culture), Vienna 18.11.2015
  • "Sensuality and tactical action: The role of the senses in the performative construction of the 'black scene'", 40th DGV Congress 2015 "Cultures of the Senses", Zurich, 25.07.2015
  • "Cultural Anthropological Theses on the Figure of the Third in Competitive Settings", Workshop of the Research Network "Competitive Cultures. Social Practice, Perception and Institutionalization of Competition in a Historical Perspective ", Cologne 25.03.2015 (by invitation)
  • "For the cultural construction of competition. Cultural Anthropological Questions to a 'General Social Phenomenon' ", 50th German Historians' Day on" Winners and Losers ", Göttingen, 24.09.2014
  • "Contact zones? On the Bureaucratic Order of Cultural Heritage ", Workshop, Mosaics of Legitimacy" in the Cluster of Excellence 16 "Cultural Foundations of Integration", Konstanz, 04.07.2014 (by invitation)
  • "To popularize competitive ideologies. A Cultural Anthropological Plea ", Research Colloquium at the Department of European Ethnology / Folklore of the University of Würzburg, 07.05.2014
  • "Cultural Research in Ethnologies", Workshop "Urban Research Meets Heritage", Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Research Berlin 24.01.2014 (by invitation)
  • "Competitive conditions. On the Ambivalence of Homogenization and Pluralization ". Trial in the context of filling a W3 professorship for Empirical Cultural Studies / Folklore with a focus on Ethnography of Cultural Diversity at the Ludwig-Uhland-Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies of the University of Tübingen, 05.11.2013
  • "The emergence of a competitive self: some conceptual reflections". 11th Congress of the Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore, Tartu 30.06.-04.07.2013
  • "Assigned Memory: Cultural Heritage as a Bureaucratic Project". Research Colloquium "Remember? Explore! Discursive contexts, cultural forms, social practices ", Department of Folklore / European Ethnology, LMU Munich, 20.06.2013 (by invitation)
  • "'Energy Pioneers': Finiteness and Agency in the Context of Renewable Energies"; Lecture Series "Experience and Dealing with Finitude", Kiel 28.05.2013
  • "Competition and competition. A mode of action and its cultural effects ", Institute Colloquium Institute of Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt, 15.05.2013 (by invitation)
  • "'The most important of the best' - Preliminary thoughts on an anthropology of competition". Conference "Competitive cultures in a historical perspective. Practices - Values ​​- Institutionalization ", Cologne 22.-23.11.2012 (by invitation)
  • "'Castingwahn' - to establish the competitive self between entertainment and performance ideology." Workshop "Cultures of Popular Entertainment and Pleasure", Tübingen, Ludwig-Uhland-Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies, 15.-17.06.2012
  • "Circulations: the Transmediality of Rituals", Convention "Customs: Media: Transformations. On the relationship between performative practices and media (re-) presentations ", Munich 26.-28. April 2012
  • "Domination by tradition? Four theses on the ritual construction of Heimat ", Cultural Congress of the Landeskulturverband Schleswig-Holstein, Rendsburg 29.11.2011. (on invitation)
  • "Meta-culture? Four Theses on Cultural Research ", Institute Colloquium Ludwig-Uhlad-Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies, University of Tübingen, May 26, 2011. (by invitation)
  • "Water into Wine? The Construction of Intangible Heritage ". Meertens-Instituut Amsterdam, April 27, 2011. (by invitation)
  • "Heritage, Knowledge, and Conflict". 10th Congress of the Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore, Lisbon 17.-21. April 2011
  • "Cultural Heritage Policy in Belgium. At the same time theoretical-critical comments on current Heritage research. "Plenary lecture, Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Social Anthropology, 12.-13. November 2010 in Bern. (on invitation)