Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Jonas Nesselhauf "Mondsüchtig: Eine kurze Kultur- und Kunstgeschichte"

In the organizer's words:

The moon has probably always been an object of longing in the starry night sky, which was observed and interpreted from afar: Since European antiquity, texts have imagined possible journeys (on horses and swans, with balloons and capsules) or shown images of the flora and fauna of the Earth's satellite in fictional journalistic newspaper reports. In the Romantic era, the Earth's satellite became an object of longing, and even in the age of rocket technology and actual scientific expeditions, the moon does not seem to have lost its power of attraction, for example in works by Georgia O'Keeffe, Marlene Dumas or Silke Otto-Knapp.

Jonas Nesselhauf (Dr. phil.), born 1987, is Professor of European Cultural and Comparative Media Studies at Saarland University. His research interests include media cultural studies, gender media studies and pop(ulary) cultures.