Prof. Stefan Krankenhagen
Stefan Krankenhagen, born in 1969, is Professor for Cultural Studies and Popular Culture at the University of Hildesheim. Currently, his research focuses on theories of materiality, especially within Popular Culture. Moreover, he has done extensive research on processes of Europeanization in the museal field, taking up topics as Contemporary Collecting, the Mapping of objects, Digitalisation, and Participatory Strategies from a European and transnational perspective. While he has also published about sports- and fan culture, his first academic work was about aesthetic strategies of representing the Holocaust. For his dissertation "Auschwitz darstellen. Ästhetische Positionen zwischen Adorno, Spielberg und Walser" he was awarded a grant to study the United States Holocaust Museum and its museal strategy of authenticity.