Research Areas

Research Area G: Boundaries
Subproject	Title	Specific Field(s)	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, Dr. des. Thomas Jürgasch, Department of Biblical and Historical Theology
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
G3	Decreeing Work, Regulating Leisure – and Otium? Marxism and dosug in Soviet Culture	Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies	Prof. Prof. h.c. Dr. Dr. h.c. Elisabeth Cheauré, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
G4	Leisure in Contemporary Indian Literature	English Literature	Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik, Department of English
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
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

Research Area R: Chronotopes
Subproject	Title	Specific Field(s)	Head(s)
R1	Otium and the Experience of Immersion in Music	Musicology	Dr. Anne Holzmüller-Riechers, Department of Musicology, Freiburg
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
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
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
R5	Waiting and Expecting in Spaces of Otium: An Empirical Study on the Connection between Expectation, Atmosphere and Sense of Time	Psychology	PD Dr. Roland Thomaschke, Department of Psychology, Freiburg

Research Area P: Practices
Subproject	Title	Specific Field(s)	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
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 PD Dr. phil. Stefan Schmidt, Department for Psychsomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Freiburg

Research Area IGK

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IGK

Prof. Dr. Gregor Dobler,
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Freiburg

Prof. Prof. h.c. Dr. Dr. h.c.
Elisabeth Cheauré,
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Freiburg

Research Area INF

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INF

Transfer projekt MUßEUM - Museum of Muße and literature Baden-Baden

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Title

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Transfer projekt

Prof. Prof. h.c. Dr. Dr. h.c.
Elisabeth Cheauré,
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Freiburg

Prof. Dr. Hans W. Hubert,
Department of Art History, Freiburg

Prof. Dr. Markus Tauschek,
Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Freiburg

Dr. Roland Thomaschke,
Department of Psychology, Freiburg