Marie-Luise Angerer

In memory of Marie-Luise Angerer (1958-2024)

We mourn the loss of Marie-Luise Angerer, friend and supporter of Frauen.Kultur.Labor. thealit. 

The internationally renowned media and cultural scientist passed away on March 2, 2024 after a serious illness. Marie-Luise Angerer is considered a pioneer of modern feminism and gender theory.

Marie-Luise Angerer was professor of Media Studies at the Department for Art and Media, University of Potsdam. Before that she was professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Visiting fellow and researcher in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Member of the European Network How Matter comes to Matter (2014-2018), and of the Research Network Affective and Psychotechnology Studies (DFG 2015-2017). Spokesperson of the Graduate Program Sensing: The Knowledge of Sensitive Media (funded by Volkswagen Foundation) and Acting Director of the Brandenburg Center of Media Studies (ZeM). 

The focus of her research is on media technology, affect and neuroscientific reformulations of desire, sexuality, and the body. Her most recent publications include Ecology of Affect. Intensive milieus and contingent encounters (2017), Desire After Affect (2014), Timing of Affect (with Bernd Bösel and Michaela Ott, 2014), Choreography, Media, Gender (with Yvonne Hardt and Anna-Carolin Weber, 2013), numerous articles in books and journals on the topic of affect, politics and media theory.

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More about Prof. Dr. Marie-Luise Angerer: Universität Potsdam

• Speech given in April 2006 by Prof. Dr. Marie-Luise Angerer on the occasion of Thealit's 15th anniversary