Publications
Selected writings in English language
In a blur of fear - from dreams to permanent explosion. Towards an ethno-psychoanalytic semiotics of everyday crisis experience. In: Maran, Merit; Madisson, Mari-Liis; Ventsel, Andreas (eds.) (2025): Through the Lens of Dread: Exploring the Meaning-Making of Fear in the Mediasphere. Tallinn: Tallinn University Press 2025. (Forthcoming)
"The Borders of the Heart:" Space, Memory, Ethnography - A Conversation in Northern Ireland. In: Mairéad Nic Craith/ Katerina Strani/ Alastair Mackie (eds.): Heimatkunde. Explorations of Place and Belonging . Berlin: LIT Verlang 2024, pp. 55 - 72.
Curiosity and Commitment: Perspectives on the Transformation of European Universities. Graz: University Library Publishing 2024, ed. with Lydia Arantes / Burkhard Pöttler / Johann Verhovsek. Open access: https://doi.org/10.25364/9783903374300https://library-publishing.uni-graz.at/index.php/lp/catalog/book/57
Exploring the Neoliberal Transformation of European Universities. An Anthropological Rollercoaster Journey. In: Lydia Arantes/ Katharina Eisch-Angus/ Burkhard Pöttler/ Johann Verhovsek (eds.): Curiosity and Committment. Perspectives on the Transformation of European Universities. Graz: Graz University Library Publishing 2024, pp. 11-26 (With Lydia Arantes)
Locked-In Liminality. From anxiety to method in present-day crisis experience. In: Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft / Journal for Cultural Analysis and European Ethnology 118,1+2, 2022, I-XXVIII. Open access: doi:10.31244/zekw/2022.39
Crime and Narration. The Creation of (In)Security in Everyday Life. In: Martina Althoff/Bernd Dollinger/Holger Schmidt (eds.): Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2020, pp. 87-112. Online: SpringerLink
The placeless chapel. Memory, meaning and destruction in sacred space. In: Traditiones 47 (2018) 3, pp. 13-25. Open access: file:///C:/Users/hp/Downloads/_moldissues,+7185-Article+Text-18389-1-10-20190109.pdf
Fluid Classics. Ethnographic Challenges in Everyday Fields. In: European Ethnology Revisited. Ethnologia Europaea 44 (2014) 2, pp. 123-129. Open access: 10.16995/ee.1132
Erwin Eisch - Clouds Have Been My Foothold All Along. Glass and Paintings. Munich: Hirmer 2012 (ed. with Ines Kohl, Karin Schrott, bilingual).
"Narcissus, an interior". Wie man sich von innen nach außen malt / Narcissus, an Interior - How to Paint Yourself from the Inside Outwards. In: Katharina Eisch-Angus / Ines Kohl / Karin Schrott (eds.): Erwin Eisch. "Clouds have always been my last stop". Munich: Hirmer 2012, pp. 71-128 (with Peter Kobbe).
"You Can't Argue with Security." The Communication and Practice of Everyday Safeguarding in the Society of Security. In: Behemoth. A Journal on Civilisation 4 (2011) 2, pp. 83-106. download
The Glass Curtain: Bridges from Ethnography to Art. In: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 18 (2009) 1, pp. 90-106. download
1000 miles to Frauenau. In: Dudley College / Denise Hunt (ed.): 1000 glass miles: from Stourbridge to Frauenau. A celebration of four generations of glass making at the International Glass Centre. Dudley: Dudley College's International Glass Centre 2007, pp. 5-6.
"Glass workers would never put up with no borders!" Ethnographic considerations on border crossing experiences and mentalities along the Czech-German borderline. In: Reginald Byron / Ullrich Kockel (eds.): Negotiating Culture. Moving, Mixing and Memory in Contemporary Europe (=European Studies in Culture and Policy 5). Münster et al: Lit Verlag 2006, pp. 76-86.
The Life of Glass. Ethnographic Approaches for the New Frauenau Glass Museum. In: The Glass Art Society Journal (2002), pp. 98-100.
Film
"My Paranoia is Not Without Reason." A film on the safe side. A 2020, 90 min. (with Sirvan Alici, Klaus Hernitschek, Andreas Hollerer, Stefanie Jamnig, Ulrika Lang, Desiree Nischt, Karl Pfeiffer). Online: https://ethnografiezursicherheit.wordpress.com/
The Journey of the Glass Ark. D 2007, 90 min. (With Klaus Hernitschek)
Museum - Permanent exhibition
The journey with glass - living and working with glass. The permanent exhibition in the New Glass Museum Frauenau. Texts, concept, visualisation. Frauenau 2005 (with Jörg Haller). To the homepage