Ass.-Prof.in Dr Diana Lohwasser
Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck
Department of Education
Innrain 52 a, A-6020 Innsbruck
Room 08G040 (8th floor)
0043-512-507/40020
diana.lohwasser@uibk.ac.at
Profile
Main areas of work
Educational theory and philosophy of education
Historical and pedagogical anthropology
Memory practices
Historical educational research
Aesthetic education, cultural theories
- Theories of sustainability
Social theories
Vulnerability
Current work
- Lohwasser, D. (2025): Technologies of the Self. In: Bilstein, J./Winzen, M./Zirfas, J. (eds.): Pedagogical Anthropology of Technology. Practices, Objects and Ways of Life. Berlin: Springer VS, pp. 193-202. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-47540-6
- Lohwasser, D. (2023): The staging of the past. "Collective un/guilt": How memory practices become reality-structuring identification practices, ZDfm - Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 1+2-2023, pp. 57-70. https://doi.org/10.3224/zdfm.v8i1-2.05
- Lohwasser, D. (2023) Becoming another... Failure using the example of Édouard Louis' novels. In: Journal for School Theatre, No. 52/2023, pp. 11-13.
Lohwasser, D./Jäger, S. (2023): From Lionel Messi to Serena Williams - top athletes as role models in social media. In: Schütte, A./Nielsen-Sikora, J. (eds.): Who to follow? On the meaning, change and relevance of role models. Berlin: J.B. Metzler, pp. 97-108.
Vita
| Funktion | |
|---|---|
| June 2025 - today | Assistant Professor of Educational Sciences specialising in Anthropology, Department of Educational Science, UIBK |
| August 2019 - May 2025 | University Assistant in the LuF General Educational Sciences and Historical Educational Research, Department of Educational Science, UIBK |
| 2016-2019 | Academic assistant at the Department of General Education, PH Schwäbisch Gmünd |
| 2015 | Doctorate (Dr phil.) (Educational Sciences) at the University of Cologne |
| 2013- 2015 | Research assistant at the Chair of General Educational Sciences, University of Cologne |
| 2011-2016 | Research assistant at the Institute of Education, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 2011 | Master of Arts in Education and Nordic Philology at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| 2008/2009 | Erasmus at the University of Umeå (literature, social geography, politics) |
| 2006-2011 | Master's degree in Education and Nordic Philology, German Philology, American Studies |
| 2003-2006 | Diploma programme at the Protestant FH Nuremberg |
| 2003 | Advanced technical college entrance qualification |
Publications
Monographs/editorials
- Klepacki, L./Zirfas, J./Lohwasser, D. (2014): History of aesthetic education. Volume 3.1: Enlightenment. Paderborn.
Lohwasser, D./Zirfas, J. (eds.) (2014): The body of the artist. Events and Processes of Aesthetic Education. Munich. - Lohwasser, D. (2015): "It is life, nothing else." Existence in terms of educational theory in Camus, Cioran and Lévinas. [USB Cologne] [http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/6387/]
- Zirfas, J./Burghardt, D./ Klepacki, L./Lohwasser, D./Höhne, T. (2016): History of Aesthetic Education. Volume 3.2: Classicism and Romanticism. Paderborn.
- Dederich, M./Burghardt, D./Dziabel, N./Höhne, T./Lohwasser, D./Stöhr, R./Zirfas, J. (2017): Pedagogical approaches to vulnerability. Stuttgart.
- Dederich, M./Burghardt, D./Dziabel, N./Lohwasser, D./Noack Napoles, J./Krebs, M./Stöhr, R./Zirfas, J. (2019): Key works of vulnerability. Stuttgart.
- Zirfas, J./Burghardt, D./ Klepacki, L./Klepacki, T./Lohwasser, D./Noack Napoles, J./Krebs, M. (2021): History of aesthetic education. Volume 4: The 20th century. Paderborn: Remembering and passing on. Cultural memory as a pedagogical challenge. Paderborn 2014.
Essays and contributions to edited volumes:
- Lohwasser, D. (2014): The gentleman as an aesthetic paradigm. On the experience-orientated gentlemanly education of John Locke. In: Klepacki, L./Zirfas, J./Lohwasser, D.: History of aesthetic education. Volume 3.1: Enlightenment. Paderborn, pp. 33-48.
- Lohwasser, D./Zirfas, J. (2014): Aesthetic and physical figurations. A historical-pedagogical introduction. In: Lohwasser, D./Zirfas, J. (eds.): The body of the artist. Events and Processes of Aesthetic Education. Munich, pp. 9- 28.
- Lohwasser, D. (2014): Stylising life and death or How I learned to love dying life. In: Lohwasser, D./Zirfas, J. (eds.): Der Körper des Künstlers. Events and Processes of Aesthetic Education. Munich, pp. 253-267.
- Lohwasser, D./Zirfas, J. (2014): The body in motion. Perspectives on the body and the arts. A systematic conclusion. In: Lohwasser, D./Zirfas, J. (eds.): The body of the artist. Events and Processes of Aesthetic Education. Munich, pp. 271-279.
- Lohwasser, D. (2016): Nietzsche and French existentialism. In: Gödde, G./Loukedelis, N./Zirfas, J. (eds.): Nietzsche and the Art of Living. Stuttgart. 221-227.
Klepacki, L./Klepacki, T./Lohwasser, D. (2016): Aesthetic teaching. In: Fuchs, M./Braun, T. (eds.): Kulturelle Schulentwicklung II. Weinheim, pp. 22-66. https://www.kubi-online.de/artikel/aesthetisches-lehren-kritisch-reflexive-begriffsbefragung
- Lohwasser, D. (2016): Aesthetic education as aesthesiology. Language, culture, senses and aesthetics as modes of holistic experience in Johann Gottfried Herder. In: Zirfas, J./ Lohwasser, D./ Burghardt, D./ Klepacki, L./ Höhne, T.: Geschichte der ästhetischen Bildung. Volume 3.2: Classicism and Romanticism. Paderborn, pp. 73-88.
- Lohwasser, D. (2016): The aesthetic experience of existence. Music as an ideal medium in Søren Kierkegaard. In: Zirfas, J./ Lohwasser, D./Burghardt, D./ Klepacki, L./Höhne, T.: Geschichte der ästhetischen Bildung. Volume 3.2: Classicism and Romanticism. Paderborn, pp. 207-222.
- Lohwasser, D. (2016): Existence as an aesthetic phenomenon. Aesthetic education as a critical-reflexive life practice in Friedrich Nietzsche. In: Zirfas, J./ Lohwasser, D./Burghardt, D./ Klepacki, L./Höhne, T.: Geschichte der ästhetischen Bildung. Volume 3.2: Classicism and Romanticism. Paderborn, pp. 257-272.
- Burghardt, D./Dederich, M./Dziabel, N./Höhne, T./Lohwasser, D./Stöhr, Robert//Zirfas, J.: Vulnerability in different sciences: An overview. In: Disabled people. Journal for living, learning and working together. 2/2016.
- Lohwasser, D. (2017): Economy of the self. In: Zirfas, J./Bilstein, J.: On giving and taking. Economics and pedagogy. Wiesbaden.
- Lohwasser, D. (2017): The critical-anthropological representation of childhood in the US animated series South Park. In: Blaschke, G./Stenger, U. (eds.): Conference proceedings on educational anthropology. Wiesbaden.
- Lohwasser, D. (2017): When humans become animals. Analyses of fictional animal becomings. In: Westphal, K. (ed.): Proceedings of the Commission on Educational Anthropology. Wiesbaden.
- Lohwasser, D. (2017): Self-efficacy - a socio-psychological concept of self-assessment. In: Taube, G./Fuchs, M./Braun, T. (eds.): Handbuch Das starke Subjekt. Key concepts in theory and practice. Munich.
- Lohwasser, D. (2018): Emmanuel Levinas. In: Dederich, M./Burghardt, D./Dziabel, N./Lohwasser, D./Stöhr, R./Zirfas, J.: Key works on vulnerability. Stuttgart.
- Lohwasser, D. (2019): The regime of the aesthetic. In: Quarterly Journal for Scientific Pedagogy. 95th JG, issue 1/2019, pp. 91-102.
- Lohwasser, D. (2019): Identical - non-identical? A cultural thought-provoking impulse on home. In: Althans, Birgit/Daryan, Nika/Sorgo, Gabriele/Zirfas, Jörg (eds.): Flucht und Heimat. Explorations in pedagogical anthropology. Weinheim, pp. 112-121.
- Lohwasser, D./Zirfas, J. (2019): Nudity. On body and education. In: Casale, Rita/Rieger-Ladich, Markus/Thompson, Christiane (eds.): Embodied education. Körper und Leib in geschichtlichen und gesellschaftlichen Transformationen. Weinheim, 130-147.
- Lohwasser, D. (2020): Technologies of the self. In: Bilstein, Johannes/Winzen, Matthias/Zirfas, Jörg (eds.): Pedagogical Anthropology of Technology. Practices, objects and forms of life. Wiesbaden, pp. 252-260.
- Lohwasser, D. (2020): The quantified concern for the self or The concern for the quantified self? In: Dietrich, Cornelie/Uhlendorf, Niels/Beiler, Frank/Sanders, Olaf (eds.): Anthropologies of care in education. Weinheim, pp. 290-296.
Lohwasser, D. (2020): The educator as manager. A critical reflection. In: Quarterly Journal for Scientific Pedagogy. 95th JG, issue 4/2019, pp. 517-530.
Lohwasser, D. (2021): The power of myths. Roland Barthes and the semiology of everyday life. In: Zirfas, J./Lohwasser, D./Burghard, D./ Klepacki, L./Klepacki, T./Noack Napoles, J./Krebs, M.: Geschichte der ästhetischen Bildung. Volume 4: The 20th century. Paderborn, pp. 219-233.
Lohwasser, D. (2021): Crisis and critique. Aesthetic education as a form of criticism in times of crisis in Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. In: Zirfas, J./Lohwasser, D./Burghard, D./ Klepacki, L./Klepacki, T./Noack Napoles, J./Krebs, M.: Geschichte der ästhetischen Bildung. Volume 4: The 20th century. Paderborn, pp. 109-123.
- Lohwasser, D./ Jäger, S. (2023): Children in high-performance sport. Between self-determination and heteronomy. In: Peskoller, H./Zirfas, J. (eds.): The art of enthusiasm. Anthropological insights and pedagogical practices. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, pp. 211-223.
Lohwasser, D./Jäger, S. (2023): From Lionel Messi to Serena Williams - top athletes as role models in social media. In: Schütte, A./Nielsen-Sikora, J. (eds.): Who to follow? On the meaning, change and relevance of role models. Berlin: J.B. Metzler, pp. 97-108.
- Lohwasser, D. (2023) Becoming another... Failure using the example of the novels of Édouard Louis. In: Journal for School Theatre, No. 52/2023, pp. 11-13.
Lohwasser, D. (2023): The staging of the past. "Kollektive Un-/Schuld": Wie Erinnerungspraxen zu wirklichkeitsstrukturierenden Identifizierungspraxen werden, ZDfm - Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 1+2-2023, pp. 57-70. https://doi.org/10.3224/zdfm.v8i1-2.05
- Lohwasser, D. (2025): Technologies of the Self. In: Bilstein, J./Winzen, M./Zirfas, J. (eds.): Pedagogical Anthropology of Technology. Practices, Objects and Ways of Life. Berlin: Springer VS, pp. 193-202. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-47540-6
Reviews
Lohwasser, D. (2021): Review of Gabriele Weiß/Jörg Zirfas (eds.): Handbuch Bildungs- und Erziehungsphilosophie. In: Quarterly journal for scientific pedagogy. Volume 97: Issue 1 (2021). S. 109-112.
- Lohwasser, D. (2023): Review of: Bach, Clemens: Pädagogik, Kunst und kritischer Neuhumanismus, Lázló Moholy-Nagy zwischen Friedrich Schiller und einer Ästhetik der Moderne. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh 2021. in: EWR 22 (2023), No. 3 (Published on 19 July 2023), URL:
- Lohwasser, D. (2023): Review of: Dirnberger, Lothar Wigger, Marie (ed.): Remembrance - Responsibility - Reconciliation, Challenges for Education in Germany and Japan. Berlin: J.B. Metzler 2022. in: EWR 22 (2023), No. 4 (Published on 20 October 2023), URL:
Project reports
Liebau, E./Jörissen, B./Lohwasser, D./Hartmann, S./Werner, F. (2014): Research on cultural education. In: BMBF (ed.): Perspectives of research on cultural education. Berlin.
Liebau, E./Jörissen, B./Lohwasser, D./Hartmann, S./Werner, F. (2015): Research on Arts Education in Germany - Project Report. Erlangen and Berlin.
Translation
- Lohwasser, D./Wagner, E.: Unofficial working translation of the "UNESCO Seoul Agenda - Goals for the Development of Arts Education". [
Online publication
Lohwasser, D. (2015) "It is life, nothing else." Existence in terms of educational theory in Camus, Cioran and Lévinas. [USB Cologne] [http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/6387
Memberships and functions in scientific associations:
- DGfE Section General Educational Sciences
- Board of DGfE Commission for Educational Anthropology
- Society for Historical Anthropology