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Einführung in Theorien des Körpers

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Subject according curriculum
Politics & Aesthetics
Teachers
Katharina Alsen , Dr. Benjamin Sprick
Scope
Wednesdays, 2-5 p.m. 6 block dates: 22.04.; 29.04.; 27.05.; 03.06.; 10.06.; 24.06.
Room
Wiesendamm - Raum 1.15 (Seminarraum 3)
Duration
1.5 Semesterwochenstunden
Description

Far back, behind the mountains of words, far from the countries of vowels and consonants, live the blind texts. They live in seclusion in Buchstabhausen on the coast of the Semantik, a large linguistic ocean. A small stream called Duden flows through their village and supplies them with the necessary Regelialien. It's a paradisiacal land where fried sentence fragments fly into your mouth. Not even the almighty punctuation rules the blind texts - an almost unorthographic life. One day, however, a small line of dummy text, her name was Lorem Ipsum, decided to go out into the wide world of grammar. The great Oxmox advised her against it, as it was teeming with nasty commas, wild question marks and sneaky semicolons, but the little blind text was undeterred. It grabbed its seven capitals, slipped its initial into its belt and set off. When it had climbed the first hills of the Italic Mountains, it took one last look back at the skyline of its home town of Buchstabhausen, the headline of Alphabetdorf and the subline of its own street, Zeilengasse. A rhetorical question ran wistfully down its cheek, then it continued on its way. On the way, it met a copy. The copy warned the blind text that it was coming from ...

Literature

Foucault, Michel (2005), "The Utopian Body", Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2005.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1966), "Phenomenology of Perception", Berlin: de Gruyter.
Butler, Judith (1991), "Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter", Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
Nancy, Jean-Luc (2003), "Corpus", Berlin: diaphanes.
Plessner, Helmut (1928), "Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch", Berlin: de Gruyter.

Credits
2 Creditpoints
Comments

Interest in the connection between theory and artistic practice, a presentation in the seminar and a written reflection are required to obtain credit points. Various approaches to theory work will be tested, including dialogic reading, clustering or AI-supported readings. Optional participation without the awarding of credit points is also possible and takes place after consultation with the lecturers.

Registration: Please register by 31.03.2026 to katharina.alsen@hfmt-hamburg.de and benjamin.sprick@hfmt-hamburg.de

Modules
Modul Theorie Master Dramaturgie, Wahlmodul Master Dramaturgie, Theorie 1, Theorie 2, Theorie 1, Theorie 2, Modul Theorie 1 Schauspiel, Regie Schauspiel, Regie Musiktheater, Modul Theorie 2 Schauspiel, Regie Schauspiel, Regie Musiktheater, Modul Theorie 3 Schauspiel, Regie Schauspiel, Regie Musiktheater, Wahlmodul 2 Regie Musiktheater, Regie Schauspiel, Wahlmodul freie Wahl (alle Studiengänge), Wahlmodul Lehramt, Studium generale Wahlmodul Master, Wahlmodul 1 Regie, Wahlmodul 2 Regie