First funding period (2013-2016)

In the first funding period (2013-2016) the CRC 1015 consisted of 15 subprojects collaborating in the three research areas "Concepts", "Spaces" and "Figures". Additionally, all subprojects also joined one of the three working groups focusing on "Chronotopes", "Semantics" and "Otium and Society". The Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG) facilitated the training and mentoring programme for the doctoral students while the Information Infrastructure (INF) provided and constantly developed the digital work environment and the data management for the entire CRC 1015.

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Research Areas and Subprojects

Research Area A: Concepts
Subproject	Title	Specific Field(s)	Head(s)
A1	Otiose Leisure as Spatial Freedom	Philosophy, History of Philosophy	Prof. Dr. Günter Figal Department of Philosophy
A2	‘Otium’ as a Way of Life in Late Antiquity: ‘Theoría’ and the Monastic Tradition	Theology, Ecclesiastical History and Patrology	Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Böhm JProf. Dr. Thomas Jürgasch Department of Biblical and Historical Theology
A3	The Societal and Ethical Relevance of the Concept of Muße / Leisure	Philosophy	Prof. Dr. Lore Hühn Department of Philosophy
A4	Promoting Leisure (Muße), Creativity and Psychological Health: Applying Elements of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in a Grammar School Context	Psychosomatic Medicine, Medical Psychology, Stress Prophylaxis	Prof. Dr. Joachim Bauer Prof. Dr. phil. Stefan Schmidt University Medical Center
A5	Self-Transcendance in Otiose Leisure: Reconstructing and Transcending Sociology through Otiose Leisure	Sociology	Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatca , Prof. Dr. Alexander Lenger, Prof. Dr. Hermann Schwengel (†) Institute of Sociology

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Research Area B: Spaces
Subproject	Title	Specific Field(s)	Head(s)
B1	Loci of Leisure in Greek and Roman Letters	Classical Philology	Prof. Dr. Bernhard Zimmermann Department of Classical Philology
B2	Leisure Spaces in Courtly Residences: Topography and Form in Architecture and Nature	Art History	Prof. Dr. Hans W. Hubert Department Of Art History
B3	‘Performing Idleness’: British Theatre in the Eighteenth Century as a Space of Leisure, Idleness and Otium	English Literature	Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik Department of English
B4	Leisured Travel vs. Tourism: Individualism and Deceleration in British Travel Writing between 1840 and 1914	English Literature	Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte Department of English
B5	Loci of Imaginary Communication: Functions of Otiose Leisure in Bibliographical, Anthological, and Anecdotal Literature (16th through 19th century)	Modern German Literature	Prof. Dr. Ralph Häfner Department of German

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Research Area C: Figures
Subproject	Title	Specific Field(s)	Head(s)
C1	Paradoxes of Leisure in the Middle Ages. Paradigms of Active Inactivity in Courtly and Mystical Literature	Medieval German Studies	Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hasebrink Prof. Dr. Henrike Manuwald Department of German
C2	Suspended Time and Narrational Spaces of Seclusion. Leisure and Authorship in Autobiographically Structured Narrative	Romance Literature, Modern German Literature	Prof. Dr. Thomas Klinkert Department of Romance Languages and Literature Prof. Dr. Dieter Martin Department of German
C3	Figures of Idleness in 18th-Century British Colonial Discourse: Nabob, Nawaab, and ‘lazy native’	English Literature	Dr. Miriam Nandi Department of English
C4	Forced Leisure? Russia in the Nineteenth Century: Leisure and Gender	Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies	Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Cheauré Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
C5	The Performativity of Leisure: Practices of Free time in Two Peasant Societies	Social and Cultural Anthropology	Prof. Dr. Gregor Dobler Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

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Research Area IGK
Subproject	Title	Head
IGK	The Integrated Research Training Group	Prof. Dr. Sabina Becker Department of German

Research Area INF
Subproject	Title	Heads
INF	Information Infrastructure	Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Böhm Department of Biblical and Historical Theology Dr. Antje Kellersohn University Library Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schneider University IT Services

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Working Groups

Working Groups	Theme	Head(s)
Working Group 1	Chronotopes	Prof. Dr. Günter Figal Prof. Dr. Hans W. Hubert
Working Group 2	Semantics	Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik Prof. Dr. Thomas Klinkert
Working Group 3	Otium and Society	Prof. Dr. Thomas Böhm Prof. Dr. Gregor Dobler

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