Published March 3, 2024 at 4:41 pm / © Thomas Kaiser
World-renowned media and culture scholar Marie-Louise Angerer died yesterday at the age of 66 after a long battle with serious illness. The sadness is great.
Yesterday, Saturday, March 2, is World-renowned media and cultural scholar Marie-Louise Angerer At the age of 66, he “died too soon after a long battle with serious illness,” according to a press release issued today. The scholar, who was born in Bregenz in 1958, creates innovative methods for cultural studies through her diverse activities. Although her academic path took her to Germany, she kept in touch with Austria, for example as a university advisor at the Linz University of the Arts (2018 to 2023).
“The anger was groundbreaking.”
Angerer was one of the pioneers of this research topic with her studies and scientific work on theories of the body in relation to media technologies. The volume Body Choices was published in 1999, in which Angerer already placed the body in relation to digitalization and virtual spaces at the center of her research. Eva Plemlinger, culture and science spokesperson for the Green Partyterrified of dying too soon.
“Angerer tirelessly tried to build structures”
“Marie-Louise has always sought to promote and support female colleagues, has always been a mentor to doctoral candidates and those who have gone into science, and has always been at the interface between media, art and science, not least in her position as professor at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne (2000 to 2015) and at the University of Potsdam.” She has tried tirelessly to build structures, for example as a speaker at the graduate school “Sensing: Sensible Media Knowledge,” which she founded with her colleagues in 2018. My deepest condolences to her partner, family, friends and colleagues, Plemlinger concluded.
“Total coffee aficionado. Travel buff. Music ninja. Bacon nerd. Beeraholic.”
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