Person on Paper – Group Fellowship in Wiepersdorf

Identification, Invisibilization, and Anonymization as Literary Practice

From May 20 to 22, ten scholars from the fields of modern Greek studies, philosophy of law, German studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and visual cultures gathered for a research residency in Wiepersdorf. Starting from bureaucratic procedures and the failure of identification processes by both humans and apparatuses, the participants conducted deep literary-historical and epistemological investigations. Their goal was to trace the poetic tradition of an alternative, more unstable history of recognition and its structural elements.

The participants of the group fellowship in Wiepersdorf were: Prof. Ino Augsberg (Kiel University), Prof. Doerte Bischoff (University of Hamburg), Dr. Lutz Graner (Bielefeld University), Dr. Hans-Joachim Hahn (RWTH Aachen University), Prof. Mona Körte (Bielefeld University), Prof. Britta Lange (Humboldt University of Berlin / Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin), Mathieu Mezler (Bielefeld University), Prof. Maria Oikonomou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Ronja Rieger (Bielefeld University), Dr. Sebastian Schönbeck (Bielefeld University), and Dr. Philipp Sperner (University of Vienna).