In the second funding period the CRC 1015 Otium consisted of 14 subprojects. Collaboration of all members took place in the research areas “Boundaries”, “Chronotopes” and “Practices” as well as in six working groups in total. The Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG) facilitated the CRC’s qualification protocol and mentoring concept for its doctoral students, while the Information Infrastructure (INF) ensured the constant development of the digital working place as well as the CRC’s data management. Finally, all scientific subprojects contributed to the conceptualization and realization of the transfer project, the Mußeum – Museum of Muße (otium) and Literature in Baden-Baden.
Please click below to find more information on the individual subprojects and the working groups.
Research Areas and Subprojects
Research Area G: Boundaries
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Subproject |
Title |
Specific Field(s)
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Head(s) |
G1 |
Otium – a Cultural Transfer between East and West. Transformations of Asceticism and Monasticism |
Theology, Ecclesiastical History and Patrology |
Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Böhm, JProf. Dr. Thomas Jürgasch, Department of Biblical and Historical Theology
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G2 |
vita mixta. A Clerical Concept Transformed for Lay Culture |
Medieval German Studies |
Prof. Dr. Henrike Manuwald, Department of German Philology, Georg-August-University, Göttingen
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G3 |
Decreeing Work, Regulating Leisure – and Otium? Marxism and dosug in Soviet Culture |
Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies |
Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Cheauré, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
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G4 |
Leisure in Contemporary Indian Literature |
English Literature |
Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik, Department of English
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G5 |
Otium and Illness – Leisure Time and Reorientation in Times of Resignation and Loss |
Rehabilitation Psychology and Psychotherapy |
Prof. Dr. Dr. Jürgen Bengel, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Lucius-Hoene Department of Psychology
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G6 |
Learning Otium? Leisure, Creativity and Deceleration in the Context of Performance Enhancement and Self-Improvement |
Cultural Anthropology |
Prof. Dr. Markus Tauschek Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology
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Research Area R: Chronotopes
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Subproject |
Title |
Specific Field(s)
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Head(s) |
R1 |
Otium and the Experience of Immersion in Music |
Musicology |
Prof. Dr. Anne Holzmüller-Riechers, Department of Musicology, Freiburg
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R2 |
Urban Otium in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century. Flânerie in German Literature |
Modern German Literature |
Prof. Dr. Peter Philipp Riedl, Department of German, Freiburg
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R3 |
Otium in the Forest: The Construction of a Concept in Past and Present |
Forest Sciences |
Prof. Dr. Daniela Kleinschmit, Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy, Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Uwe Eduard Schmidt, Chair of Forest History, Freiburg
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R4 |
Spaces of Otium: Theory, Practice and Empirical Evidence of Modern and Contemporary Architecture |
Art History |
Prof. Dr. Hans W. Hubert, Department of Art History
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R5 |
Waiting and Expecting in Spaces of Otium: An Empirical Study on the Connection between Expectation, Atmosphere and Sense of Time |
Psychology |
Prof. Dr. Roland Thomaschke, Department of Psychology, Freiburg |
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Research Area P: Practices |
Subproject |
Title |
Specific Field(s)
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Head(s) |
P1 |
Experiencing Places and Moments of Otium in Contemporary European City Tourism |
Human geography |
Prof. Dr. Tim Freytag, Institute for environmental social sciences and geography, Freiburg
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P2 |
Worship and Otium. Religiosity in Everyday Life and the Experience of Church Services in Namibia |
Social and Cultural Anthropology |
Prof. Dr. Gregor Dobler, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology |
P3 |
Otium in the hospital? A Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Resident Physicians |
Occupational and Consumer Psychology/ Psychology |
Prof. Dr. Anja Göritz, Department of Psychology, Freiburg
Prof. Dr. phil. Stefan Schmidt, Department for Psychsomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Freiburg
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P4 |
Machiavellian Otium: Strategies of Retreat in Niccolò Machiavelli’s Letters from 1512 to 1527 |
Romance Literature |
Prof. Dr. Judith Frömmer, Department of Romance Literatures
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P5 |
Immersion and Otium in the Theme Park: Media and Landscapes at Ontario Place (Toronto, 1971-2011)
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Media and Cultural Studies |
Prof. Dr. Robin Curtis, Department of Media and Cultural Studies
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Working Groups