Juliane Rebentisch (born 1970,
Bonn) is a German philosopher and art historian whose research focuses on the history and politics of
aesthetics. She is the author of three books: ''Aesthetics of Installation Art'' (Sternberg, 2003), ''The Art of Freedom: On the Dialectics of Democratic Existence'' (Polity, 2012), and ''Theorien der Gegenwartskunst'' (Junius, 2013), and has edited numerous volumes on aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy in both German and English. Josef Chytry, in the academic journal ''
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism'', called ''Aesthetics of Installation Art'' a "formidable work." In 2017, she received the Lessing Prize from the city of
Hamburg, an award given to major German cultural figures who have a connection to the city; she was the first woman to be awarded the Lessing Prize since it was given to
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (, , ; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor. She is widely considered to be one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century.
Arendt was born ...
in 1959.
Rebentisch earned her
doctorate at the
University of Potsdam in 2002, and held a postdoctoral position at
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in
Frankfurt in 2010. Since October 2011, she has been professor of philosophy and Aesthetics at
HfG Offenbach (School of Design), where she also serves as vice president. From 2015 to 2018, she was President of the German Society of Aesthetics (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik'')'', and is a member of the Research Council of the
University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. In April 2019,
Princeton University announced that Rebentisch would become a permanent visiting professor in the Department of German beginning in the fall semester of 2019.
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1970 births
Living people
21st-century German philosophers
German women philosophers
21st-century German women writers
German art historians
University of Potsdam alumni
Writers from Bonn
German women historians
Professors of German in the United States