Benita Joswig CURRICULUM VITAE
	1965 Born in Freiburg, Black Forest, Germany Educational Background 1986-1989 University studies: Protestant Theology at Heidelberg 1989-1993 University studies in Fine Arts in Kassel. University Kassel. Department of Fine Arts and Department of Protestant Theology 1993 First state examination for secondary education. Subjects: Protestant Religion and Fine Arts 1994-1996 Inservice training at Friedrichs Grammar School in Kassel. Second state examination 1997-2001 Research assistant for teacher training. University of Paderborn. Secondary education in Protestant Theology Dec. 2001 Doctorate: Altars: Interdependence between Table and Altar 2002-2005 Academic research assistant (Assistant Professor). University Hamburg, Institute for Practical Theology. Department of Protestant Theology 2004-2005 Vicariate in the Luthern North Elbian Church, Germany 2004 Several art projects in Germany and abroad in stained glass painting. 2005 Second theological examination of the Protestant-Lutheran Church North Elbe. Sep. 2005 Teacher and instructor for art and religion at the Elisabeth-von-Thadden-School in Heidelberg (protestant private school); lectureship at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2006 Guest lecturer at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley/California, linking art and religion: Memory training in the areas of art and religion – tracing vestiges within personal biographies and youth work (programme: The Arts and Religion) Since 2006 Head of the Protestant University Students`dormitory of the Keller-Thoma-Foundation, Heidelberg, beside the teaching assignments. About 50 students german and international origin. Exhibitions and projects 1989 Group exhibition Angels in cooperation with Ulrike Bolenz and Barbara Wilhelmi. Iserlohn and Bad Nauheim. Printed graphics and drawings 1989 Group exhibition The Restless Dead. Memorial of Breitenau/Guxhagen, site of one of the first German "reeducation" camps during Nazi time (Cataloge 1989) 1991 Exhibition Red Circle, Drawings and Paintings: Sleeping Boats, Weinheim 1991 Participation and price winner in the international competition Five Hundred Years Discovery and Conquest of Latin America in cooperation with Paulo Sanches (Columbia), Manuel Costa (Portugal) and Birgitta Schwansee (Germany). Production of an leporello (Didactic materials for junior and senior students. Printed graphics and drawings 1991 Art scholarship of the Academy of Hofgeismar. Paintings and drawings 1993 Examination exhibition. Paintings and drawings. House of Culture dock 4: Animals and Saints. 1994 The art project: altars on the square of the fairs, Kassel (Cataloge 1994) 1994 Prize for the promotion of fine arts. Dr. Wolfgang-Zippel-Foundation for the art project altars in the square of fairs in Kassel (Cataloge 1994) 1995 The art project: Return of the Furniture and Remains of the Side Walk. Berlin. In cooperation with the architect Boris Schwitalsky and the Evangelical Consolation Parish in Berlin/Wedding. Realization of the installation, Return of the Furniture, on the former Berlin Wall strip (Bernauer Straße). (1995). Since 2000 this installation is an integrated part of the Center of Documentation Berlin Wall, Bernauer Straße. 1995 Exhibition ScriptSignsTraces. GaleAry Kunstraum, Berlin (1995). 1996 Teaching project of the Art School Potsdam for students (average age 18 years). Topic: Inside out. 1996 Participation in the Galery of Art Producers. Kassel. Paul Dietrich Prize 1997 Cooperation in the guides‘ service of documenta X 1998 Student project East/West. Director, in cooperation with the actress Regina Thein. Imprints of the Former KGB-Prison at Potsdam. (Cataloge 1998) 1998 The art project: Green Ears in cooperation with the artist Barbara Bux. Interdisciplinary art project. Objects in wax (400 green ears). Compositions by Michael Vorfeld "For Green and other Ears" and Tilmann Küntzel "Madhyana", Göttingen, Hannover and Kassel, (Cataloge 1998) 1998 Sound installation Answers to the questions of home, alienation, refuge and political asylum. Palatine of the German Emperors in Paderborn. (Cataloge1998) 1998 The art project: The Washing of the Feet in cooperation with the artist Sigrid Sandmann. Bridge across the river Fulda. Art project within context of the larger project: "City and Urban space", Kassel 1998 First prize winner of the competition of the Evangelical Church Kurhessen-Waldeck: New Paraments for St. Martin‘s/Kassel. In cooperation with the artist Barbara Bux. Commissioned work. 1998 The art project: Hammock. Room installation. Tower of Lutheran Church in Kassel with compositions by Rachel Seifert and Anja Kreysing. Since 1998 member of the project group and round table Church Tower Lutheran Church. Reclaiming and reviving urban space in Kassel. In cooperation the Protestant Forum, representatives of cultural policy, the Institution of Church Construction of the Protestant Church in Germany, Department of Conservation and others 1999 Member of the jury for the new stained windows for the tower of Lutheran Church 2000 The art project The Hand Whip of the Disciplinary Master Konrad of Marburg. Room installation in the Old University Auditorium of Philipps University Marburg 2000/2001 Studies in Bosnia and Herzegowina/Mostar 2000 Future prize 2000. Bonn. Evangelical Trinitatis Parish. For the motion picture memorial Cologne in the Mirror of Stari Most in cooperation with Dr. Viola Michely (art historian) 2001 Presentation of the motion picture memorial Cologne in the Mirror of Stari Most in Mostar/Bosnia and Herzegovina. International Cultural Festival, Mostar, in cooperation with the art historian Dr. Viola Michely. Oct. 2002 Presentation of the motion picture memorial Cologne in the Mirror of Stari Most in Cologne. Artist Centre Köln-Braunsfeld 2001 Artist in Residence at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Three months invitation and stay on a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service. Development of the art project Books Writing 2002 Prize winner of Queens‘ Roads of the maecenia-Foundation in Frankfurt/Main. Presentation of the motion picture memorial Cologne in the Mirror of Stari Most at Frankfurt Art Society 2002-2003 Books Writing – a Transnational Books Project. Room installation and books writing project. At Burke Library (New York), Philipp’s University Marburg, State Library Hamburg, Humboldt University Berlin. In cooperation with the artist and graphic designer Johanna Bolkart 2004 The Art Project: Mirror Painting about the work of Teresa of Avila at the Ansverus Community, Hamburg Oct. 2006 Books Writing Handwriting and bodylanguage. Dance production with female students at the Elisabeth-von-Thadden-School, Heidelberg, in cooperation with choreographer Heinke Burkhard, Heidelberg June 2007 Prayers on glass: Temporary stained glass series of religious paintings in dialogues with texts of the mysticist Gertrud von Helfta and prayers of the abbas of Mariensee, Odilie von Ahlden (16th cantury) in the cloisters of the convent Mariensee near Hannover June 2008 Distance to God very near: Stained glass project in memory of the 800th anniversary of Mechthild von Magdeburg, Akademie/Roncallihaus, Magedeburg Oct. 2008 LifeArtDeath: Joined Exhibition. Saints in Mourning as contribution, historical churches in Heidelberg Lectureships Part-time lectureship 1996 Potsdam Art School (Art and Pedagogy) 1997 at Kassel University (Biblical Theology, Art History; especially Early Christian Art) 2000 Philipp’s University Marburg (Art Hsitory, Theology and Art) 2001/2003 Union Theological Seminary (Religion and the Arts) 2001/02/03 ATTIG: African Training in Germany/Hamburg (Practical Theology, Pastoral Care and Art History). ATTIG is a special Training for african parish priests, who work in Germany. 2006 guest lecturer at the Pacific School of Religion/Berkeley/California, Linking Art and Religion: Memory training in the areas of art and religion – tracing vestiges within personal biographies and youth work (programm: The Arts and Religion) 2007 Chairwoman of conference. Presence and Presentation during devine services. Paulus-Akademie Zürich-Witikon (Liturgy and The Arts) Lectures and courses giveng Fine arts, history of art and religion Interdependence of table and altar from a point of view of biblical sciences, history of religion, liturgy and the history of art. (Doctoral Thesis) Urbanism, use of memorials and remembrance in public space (Archäologie der Gegenwart) Theology of the Cross from a traditional and feminist point of view Creativity and identity (Religious education) Hand writing and digital codes (Books Writing) Theological writing on glass (Temporary stained glass painting) Memberships Member of ESWTR, European society for Women in Theological Research. Member of "Grenzgängerin e. V." Society for the Promotion of Feminist Theology Member of Study Group on Theology and Popular Culture Publications Benita Joswig (editor), altars, Kassel 1994 Benita Joswig/Barbara Bux (editors), Green Ears, Kassel 1997 art-box/Benita Joswig and Potsdam School of Arts, Berlin (editors), Imprints of the former KGB-Prison at Potsdam, Kassel 1997 Benita Joswig, Crucifixion and Vision. Strategies of viewing in the field of tension between Theology and Art. Claudia Janssen, Benita Joswig, editors. In: Erinnern und aufstehen – antworten auf Kreuzestheologien, Mainz 2000 Benita Joswig/Paderborn University (editors), Answers – Home Country, Alianation, Refuge, Paderborn 2000 Claudia Janssen/Benita Joswig (editors), Remembering and Rising – Answers to Theologies of the Cross, Mainz 2000 Benita Joswig, There is Life in the Kitchen, in: "nm" Schwerpunkt Brasilien – Eine Reise, Nordelbisches Zentrum für Weltmission und kirchlichen Weltdienst (Hg.), Heft 1/2000, Breklum 2000 Benita Joswig, Strategies of Viewing the Cross, in: EPD-Documentary, Nr. 24/01, 11-12, Gütersloh 2001 Benita Joswig and Viola Michely, Terra Firma of Normalization, in: KulturAustausch, Kurt Jürgen Maaß (hrsg. vom Generalsekretär des Instituts für Auslandsbeziehungen) Zeitschrift (Jg.) Heft 2/01, Stuttgart Benita Joswig, Creativity and Imagination, in Handbook of Religious Pedagogy, Neukirchen 2001 Benita Joswig, Art (Present), in Dictionary of Feministic Theology, 2nd edition, Gütersloh 2001 Kirsten Beuth, Benita Joswig, Gisela Matthiae (editors), Outlines, Positions and Criticism – a Dialogue between Makers of Culture and Female Theologists, Herboltzheim 2002 Benita Joswig, The power of Worlds Reflected, in: Der Sprung in der Schüssel. Theologinnen und Künstlerinnen im Austausch, Herboltzheim 2002 Benita Joswig, Theology and contemporary art in urban space – an table-project, Gütersloh 2003 Benita Joswig, Christ Made of Almonds and Sugar. "My body – given for you", in: Zeitschrift für Gottesdiennst und Predigt (21. Jg.) Heft 3/2003, 18-20. Benita Joswig: Migrant Birds and the Longing of Travellers, in: Reisen. Fährten für eine Theologie unterwegs, Helga Kuhlmann, Martin Leutzsch, Harald Schroeter-Wittke (Hg.), INPUT Bd. 1, Münster 2003, 208-211. Benita Joswig, The flow in session: or the window of opportunity, in: How does art works?, Eva Voermanek, Silke Wißmann (editors), Kassel 2004 Benita Joswig, The table as altar. – an art project in public urban spac, in: Neues Erahnen, Hadwig Ana Maria Müller (Hg.) Ostfildern 2004, 176-181 Benita Joswig (a. o..), Alienship – Alien Existance – Alienation. Conference of the German section of ESWTR, in: Holy Texts: Authority and Language, Charlotte Methuen, Angela Berlis (Hrsg u.a.), Yearbook of the European Society of Women in Theological Research, Vol 12, Leuven 2004, 228-234 Benita Joswig, The return of the furniture – Memory, in: Zeitschrift Junge Kirche (66 Jg.) Heft 3/2005, 31 Benita Joswig, Art,, in: Handbuch Religion und Populäre Kultur, Kristian Fechtner, Gotthard Fermor, Uta Pohl-Patalong (Hg. u.a.), Stuttgart 2005 Benita Joswig, When rooms grow wings – Service in prison, in: Zeitschrift für Gottesdienst und Predigt ( 23. Jg.) Heft 4/2005, 23-25 Benita Joswig, When rooms grow wings – Drawings on glass in the women´s prison Preungesheim, in: KunstRaumKirche Eine Festschrift für Horst Schwebel, Lautertal 2005, 251 - 259 Benita Joswig, Building bridges –overcoming violence. A challenge for Europe with the example of the bridge at Mostar, in: Brücken bauen in einem vielgestaltigen Europa. Religiöse Ursprünge, Traditionen, Kontexte und Identitäten, Sabine Biberstein, Kornélia Buday, Ursula Rapp (Hrsg. u.a.), Journal of the European Society of Women in Theological Research, Vol 14, Leuven 2006, 68-79 Benita Joswig, Hammock. A short swinging sequence out of a special church tower für Dietrich Zilleßen´s birthday. Magazin für Theologie und ästhetik 45/2007 www.theomag.de/45/bj1.htm Benita Joswig, Surviving in life, incognito, in: Zeitschrift für Gottesdienst und Predigt (225. Jg.) Heft 1/2007, 22-25 Benita Joswig, A dance on paper. Manuscripts in body language – Live books, travelling the world, in: Marion Keuchen/Matthias Lenz (Hg. u.a.), Tanz und Religion. Theologische Perspektiven, Frankfurt am. Main 2008, 66-76 Benita Joswig, Christ made of almonds and sugar, my body given for you, in: Silke Petersen, Angela Standhartinger (Hg. u.a.), „Eine gewöhnliche und harmlose Speise. Von den Entwicklungen frühchristlicher Abendmahlstraditionen, Gütersloh 2008, 320-331 Benita Joswig, „I am with you “ (Ex 3, 12-14). God´s name in dialogue. Looking back and forward from a practical-theological perspective, in: Christine Gerber, Benita Joswig, Silke Petersen, Gott heißt nicht nur Vater. Zur Rede über Gott in den Übersetzungen der „Bibel in gerechter Sprache“, Göttingen 2008, 243-255 Benita Joswig, The art of teaching religion: The river in the class and the chance of opening windows, in: Thomas Klie, Silke Leonhard, Performative Religionsdidaktik. Religionsästhetik – Lernorte – Unterrichtspraxis, Stuttgart 2008, 130-142 Benita Joswig, Prayers on glass: stained glass painting in the convent Mariensee, in: Siegfried Ringler (Hg.), Aufbruch zu neuer Gottesrede - Die Mystik der Gertrud von Helfta, Mainz 2008 Video Productions Video on Return of the Furniture, Bernauerstrasse/Berlin by Rainer Just (Berlin 1955). Video with compositions by Rachel Seifert and Anja Kreysing: Hammock by Benita Joswig (Kassel 1998) Motion Picture Memorial in cooperation with Dr. Viola Michely and Benita Joswig: Cologne in the Mirror of Stari Most (Paderborn 2001) Books Writing, Documentary by Annamaria Benckert, abc Produktion (Hamburg 2003) Books Writing 2006/07, Manuscripts in body language. Annamaria Benckert, abe produktion (Hamburg 2007) Prayers on glass: Film on the picture programme on glass about the mystic Gertrud von Helfta, Klostermariensee/Hannover, Produktion Fernando Vargas (Kassel 2008 The stained glass painter, TV-production of MDF 1 (Magdeburg 2008) Field Studies Ecumenical social project of the Presbyterian Church in Portugal in a fishing community at the coast. Co-worker of the fishermen’s parish Cova e Gala. Development of the project Centro Social. (12 months in 1985-1986) Rumania: Studies of history, situation, art and liturgy in Rumanian convents mainly on the foothills of the Carpatian mountains. (1997) Brasil: Field studies in coastal and central Brasil with main area of interest in basic parishes of the landless movement. (1999) Former Jugoslavia: Field studies and art project in Bosnia and Hercegovina and Croatia. Intereligious and intercultural barriers after the civil war. (2000/200 Rumania: Project Longing for Liturgy with students of the Department of Protestant Theology, University Hamburg. Ecumenical encounter and challenge in a post communist country. In cooperation with a modern Orthodox parish in Câmpina. Testing long term relationship and exchange through social work, liturgy and religious art. Bridging the gap between university training and grassroots experience for students and staff.(Project leader: Benita Joswig. Fall 2004) Angel Island/San Francisco/USA: Field studies, excursions, seminar and art project. Interreligious and intercultural confrontation with the history of immigration of the USA, especially of the Chinese immigrants and their internation on the island „Angel Island“/San Francisco. (Project leader: Benita Joswig, 2006). Excursion within the university seminar: Living with the dead. Changing attitudes in dealing with death and mourning in der late modern age to Bad Dürkheim/Palatine. Visit of a grove of peace of the RuheForst GmbH. Discussion on alternative ways of burial. (Project leader: Benita Joswig, Sep. 2006)
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