Assistant Professor Dr. Barbara Wittmann
Assistant Professor of European Ethnology with Focus on Intangible Cultural Heritage
2022 Assistant Professorship of European Ethnology with Focus on Intangible Cultural Heritage at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg.
2021 Researcher in Residence, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich
2020 Parental leave
2020 Completion of doctoral studies (summa cum laude) at the University of Regensburg
2016-2019 Doctoral Fellow German Federal Foundation for the Environment (DBU)
2018 Lecturer University Salzburg, Gastrosophical Sciences
2015-2016 Research Assistant Comparative Cultural Studies, Institute for Information and Media, Language and Culture, University of Regensburg
2011-2014 Master studies Comparative Cultural Studies University of Regensburg, University of Lucerne
2008-2011 Bachelor studies University of Regensburg; Subjects: Comparative Cultural Studies, Russian Philology, Art History
2005-2008 Vocational training as a Church Painter
2022 Research Award of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies of the University of Regensburg for the dissertation
2020 Sponsorship Award of the Bavarian Academy of Rural Areas
for the dissertation "Intensivtierhaltung. Agricultural positioning in the field of tension between ecology, economy and society"
2016 Young Scientist Award of the German Society for Agricultural History.
for the master thesis "Cultural science perspectives on stations and structures of the German poultry industry 1948 to 1980"
Monographs
Wittmann, Barbara (2021): Intensivtierhaltung. Landwirtschaftliche Positionierungen im Spannungsfeld von Ökologie, Ökonomie und Gesellschaft. Reihe Umwelt und Gesellschaft Bd. 25. Göttingen. Link zur open access-Publikation: https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/literatur-sprach-und-kulturwissenschaften/kulturwissenschaft/56170/intensivtierhaltung
Editorship
Wittmann, Barbara/Hirschfelder, Gunther (Hrsg.) (2013): Fremde Nähe. Migrantische Perspektiven auf Bayern. Münster u.a.
Contributions to anthologies and journals
Wittmann, Barbara: Vom Hähnchenschlegel zur Insektenfarm? Nutztierhaltung im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. In: May, Herbert/Rodenberg, Markus (Hrsg.): Tierisch nützlich. Der Mensch und sein Vieh. Bad Windsheim 2023, S. 32-43.
Wittmann, Barbara (2022): München - Bayern mal ganz anders. (Anm.: Feldforschungen und Interviewstudien in jüdischen Restaurants) In: Hirschfelder, Gunther/Reck, Antonia/Stöxen, Jana/Schreckhaas, Markus: Foodguide Jüdische Küche. Berlin 2022, S. 127-140.
Wittmann, Barbara (2022): Fatigue vor Covid 19: Eine Patientinnensicht auf Gender-Aspekte, Psychosomatisierung und medizinische (Nicht-)Wissensregime bei ME/CFS. In: Kuckuck. Notizen zur Alltagskultur 1/22, S. 12-16.
Wittmann, Barbara (2022): Beruf Massentierhalter:in. Landwirtschaft zwischen Fürsorge, Ausbeutung und Natur-Beherrschung. In: ForAP 5/22, S. 9-23. Link zur open access-Publikation: http://rzbvm049.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/slk/article/view/70
Wittmann, Barbara (2021): Herr L., das Ferkelchen und ich. Forschungserfahrungen und Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen im Feld landwirtschaftlicher Intensivtierhaltung. In: Fenske, Michaela/Best, Daniel/Peselmann, Arnika (Hrsg.): Ländliches vielfach! Leben und Wirtschaften in erweiterten sozialen Entitäten. Würzburg, S. 141-168.
Wittmann, Barbara (2020): Skandal Massentierhaltung. Der bundesdeutsche Käfighuhn-Diskurs ab 1973. In: Steinberg, Swen/Jacob, Frank (Hrsg.): Semmeln aus Sägemehl. Lebensmittelskandale des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts als Orte des Wissens. Reihe „Wissen über Waren – Historische Studien zu Nahrungs- und Genussmitteln“, Band 2, S. 211-243.
Wittmann, Barbara (2020): Stallbauproteste als Indikatoren eines kulturellen Anerkennungsverlustes konventioneller Landwirtschaft. In: Trummer, Manuel/Decker, Anja (Hrsg.): Das Ländliche als kulturelle Kategorie. Aktuelle kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Stadt-Land-Beziehungen. Bielefeld, S. 167-184. Link zur open access-Publikation: https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/44641/10/09_WITTMANN_185%E2%80%93204.pdf
Wittmann, Barbara (2019): Politisierte Ernährung. Vegane Lebensstile als kulturelle Positionierungen. In: Trummer, Manuel/Gietl, Sebastian/Schwemin, Florian (Hrsg.): „Ein Stück weit ...“ Relatives und Relationales als Erkenntnisrahmen für Kulturanalysen. Münster/New York, S. 113-128.
Wittmann, Barbara (2017): Vorreiter der Intensivtierhaltung: Die bundesdeutsche Geflügelwirtschaft 1948 bis 1980. In: Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie 65, S. 53-74.
Wittmann, Barbara (2017): Vom Mistkratzer zum Spitzenleger. Stationen der bundesdeutschen Geflügelwirtschaft 1948–1980. In: Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes, Sonderheft „Tiere nutzen. Ökonomien tierischer Produktion in der Moderne“, S. 134-153.
Wittmann, Barbara/Hirschfelder, Gunther (2015): „Was der Mensch essen darf“ – Thematische Hinführung. In: Hirschfelder/Plöger/Rückert- John/Schönberger (Hrsg.): Was der Mensch essen darf. Ökonomischer Zwang, ökologisches Gewissen und globale Konflikte. Wiesbaden, S. 1-18.
Wittmann, Barbara/Rückert-John, Jana (2015): „Was der Mensch essen darf“ – Abschließende Zusammenschau. In: Hirschfelder/Plöger/Rückert-John/Schönberger (Hrsg.): Was der Mensch essen darf. Ökonomischer Zwang, ökologisches Gewissen und globale Konflikte. Wiesbaden, S. 391-404.
Wittmann, Barbara/Hirschfelder, Gunther (2014): Zwischen Fastfood und Öko-Kiste. Alltagskultur des Essens. In: Theologisch-Praktische Quartalschrift 2, S. 132-139.
Wittmann, Barbara/Hirschfelder, Gunther (2013): Mitsommernacht. In: Lexikon zur Geschichte der Hexenverfolgung. Hrsg. v. Gudrun Gersmann, Katrin Moeller und Jürgen-Michael Schmidt. Auf: historicum.net, www.historicum.net/no_cache/persistent/artikel/ 9927/
Wittmann, Barbara (2013): Ich bin hier so ganz mit meinem Herzen. Geboren in Kasachstan, beheimatet in Bayern. In: Wittmann/Hirschfelder (Hrsg.): Fremde Nähe. Münster, S. 25-63.
Wittmann, Barbara (2012): Einblicke in die Lebenswelt Sexarbeit. In: Fensterplatz. Studentische Zeitschrift für Kulturforschung, URL: www.zeitschrift-fensterplatz.de/2012/09/die-denken-wir-sind-von-nem-anderen-planeten/
Lectures
- Intangible Heritage. An Introduction (WS 2022/23)
- Nature-culture conceptualizations and environmental discourses. European ethnological perspectives (SS 2022)
Seminars
- Franconia and the World: Migration from, around and to Bamberg (WS 2023/24)
- Gender Medicine. Cultural scientific perspectives on feminist approaches, body norms and historical developments (WS 2023/24)
- Water is Life. Dealing with a Natural Resource as Intangible Cultural Heritage (WS 2023/24)
- European-ethnological perspectives on cultural practices of collecting (SS 2023)
- Idyllic, backward, affordable? Cultural analysis of rural areas (SS 2023)
- Food Culture 2.0. European Ethnological Perspectives on the Present and Future of Nutrition (WS 2022/23)
- Culture 100 years ago: The "Golden Twenties" between Art, War and Emancipation (WS 2022/23)
- Intangible Cultural Heritage. Empirical approaches and theoretical concepts (SS 2022)
- History of food culture (WS 2017/18, University of Salzburg)
- Housing practices in the context of flight and migration (WS 2017/18, in cooperation with Gunther Hirschfelder, University of Regensburg)
- Environmental movements: Origins, goals, structures. Perspectives on the Field of Tension Nature - Culture (SS 2016, University of Regensburg)
- Preservers of tradition, animal abusers, TV jerks. Society's Perception of the Rural (WS 2015/16, University of Regensburg)
- Utopia and social criticism in science fiction. Everyday life on the Enterprise (WS 2015/16, University of Regensburg)
- A perfect world in a petticoat? Living and working worlds in the economic miracle of the 1950s and 60s (SS 2015, University of Regensburg)
- Rural Everyday and Agricultural Culture between Tradition, Transformation and Medialization (SS 2015, University of Regensburg)
Field Trips (in selection)
- Bad Windsheim. Insights into the concept and professional field Open Air Museum
- Tavern Culture Regensburg
- Visit to the Mühldorfer Hart Concentration Camp Memorial Site
- NaturVision 2015. Evaluation of an International Film Festival (multi-day)
- Open Air Museum Neusath-Perschen
- Visit of the Hermannsdörfer Landwerkstätten Glonn
- Insight into the Regensburg Initial Reception Facility for Refugees
Since assuming of the Assistant Professorship
2023
- "Gender Medicine. European-Ethnological Perspectives on Medial Reception and Institutional Hierarchies"; Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Art and Cultural History University of Augsburg, November 30, 2023 (held in German).
- ",Oldʻ or ,newʻ normal of work? On the continuity of paradigms of self-disciplining, subjectivization, and flexibilization in craft and agriculture"; conference "New Normal of Work" of the dgekw Commission on Work Cultures, Munich, November 2-4, 2023 (held in German).
- "Of pigeons, carps and cows - European-ethnological perspectives on animals in the context of intangible cultural heritage"; symposium "Animals as cultural heritage", Halle, September 28-29, 2023 (held in German).
- "Factory farming between ecology, economy and society"; Munich Volkshochschule, June 29, 2023 (held in German).
- "Research field of intensive animal husbandry: on the messiness of agrarian levels of relationships between exploitation, care and economic pressure"; Institute of Sociology, Munich, June 29, 2023 (held in German).
- "Chronic fatigue and chronic denial. Subject-centered insights into the failure of the medical system concerning treatment and diagnosis of the disease ME/CFS"; SIEF Congress, Brno/CZ, June 8, 2023.
- "Research field of intensive animal husbandry: qualitative methodology and results from guided interviews"; Online Oral History Ring Lecture at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, March 2023 (held in German).
2022
- "Intensive Animal Husbandry. Insights into agricultural positioning with consideration of Christian-religious motivations"; Bamberg Theological Forum, December 15, 2022 (held in German).
- "Intensive animal husbandry in the field of tension between economy, ecology and society"; Conference "Bioeconomy and Agriculture" in Freiburg, November 24, 2022 (held in German).
- "100 years of food culture: from Sunday roast to vegan schnitzel"; Fall Forum of Forum 1.5 Mittelfranken in Erlangen, October 22, 2022 (held in German).
- "Sport is always good? On the stigmatization of chronically ill people by (lay) medical exercise imperatives"; Annual Conference of the Görres Society in Aachen, September 24, 2022 (held in German).
- "Farms instead of agricultural factories? Discourses around threat, reshaping and preservation of rural structures"; Commission Conference Cultural Analysis of the Rural of the dgekw in Cloppenburg, September 22, 2022 (held in German).
- "Planability vs. pressure to adapt. Perceptions of time as a conflict between agriculture and animal welfare"; dgekw congress, Regensburg/Online, April 7, 2022 (held in German).
The Assistant Professorship for European Ethnology with focus on Intangible Cultural Heritage at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg has been filled with Assistant Professor Dr. Barbara Wittmann in summer semester 2022.
The position holder represents the field of European Ethnology with a focus on intangible cultural heritage in research and teaching. Her responsibilities also include active involvement in the bachelor and master’s programs in European Ethnology and other programs in which the discipline participates, as well as interdisciplinary collaboration within the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies and, in particular, in the research profile field "Analysis and Preservation of Cultural Heritage" at Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg.