Student and scientific activities

since WS 2019/20: lecturer at the department 05 - social sciences

10/2019-09/2022: research assistant in the DFG project "Grenzen des Komischen? Satire and social change in Germany and France using the example of the magazines Titanic and Charlie Hebdo (1960/62-2017)" and PhD student at the University of Kassel.

  • Working on the subproject: "Limits of the comic? Satire and social change in Germany and France using the example of the magazines Titanic and Charlie Hebdo (1990-2017)" (also working title of the dissertation)

11/2017-09/2019: research assistant and PhD student at the Chair of 18th-20th Century History of Western Europe at the University of Kassel with Prof. Dr. Jörg Requate

01/2019: scholarship holder at the Franco-German Institute in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

08/2017 - 12/2018: research assistant at the Department for Practical School Studies Kassel with a focus on mentor qualification during the practical semester

01/2017 - 06/2017: research assistant at the Department of History of Great Britain and North America at the University of Kassel with Prof. Dr. Anke Ortlepp

07/2017 - 10/2017: research assistant at the Department 05 of the University of Kassel - coordination of the Kassel International Graduate Center for Social Sciences (KIGG).

10/2015 - 12/2016: research assistant at the Department 05 of the University of Kassel - coordination of the Kassel International Graduate Center for Social Sciences (KIGG)

02/2013 - 09/2015: student assistant at the Chair of Didactics of History at the University of Kassel with Prof. Dr. Christine Pflüger

11/2012 - 09/2015: student assistant at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Kassel with Prof. Dr. Winfried Speitkamp

School education and studies

10/2016: Extension exam in the subject History

11/2015: First state examination for the teaching profession at grammar schools in the subjects German and French

01/2014 - 05/2014: Study abroad at the Université de Lorraine, Faculté des Lettres in Nancy/France

10/2008 - 10/2016: Studies of German, Romance Studies (French) and History in the course of studies for the teaching profession at grammar schools at the University of Kassel

06/2008: General qualification for university entrance with bilingual profile (French) at the Albert Schweitzer School in Kassel

Boundaries of Religion-Related Satire in Transition - A Comparison between Germany and France (1990/1992-2020) (working title).

In January 2015, the debates about caricatures of Muhammad, which had been going on since the so-called "cartoon controversy" in 2006 and which were repeatedly published in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, culminated in an assassination attempt on the editorial office. Two assassins had murdered numerous editorial staff members on behalf of the Islamic State; the prophet was to be avenged. The attack also sparked a global debate about the limits of what can be said and shown. In 2006, satire became the focus of general interest for the first time when the images of Muhammad printed in the Danish daily Jyllands Posten provoked a debate about the limits of what can be said and shown and even resulted in riots with fatalities. In the 1990s, it still seemed that satire was largely allowed to do anything, because the limits of what could be said and shown were debated only rarely and on a much smaller scale, and lawsuits filed against satirical magazines were upheld. Courts were largely liberal in their rulings on satire, and the Federal Court of Justice defended a broad interpretation of freedom of expression, arguing that it was a fundamental component of democratic societies. Discussions about the limits of what can be said and shown were not limited to satire critical of Islam, as in the "cartoon controversy" or in the context of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo editorial offices. In 2010, for example, the front page of the German satirical magazine Titanic, which referred to the scandal surrounding the cases of abuse in the Catholic Church, was the focus of media debate. Once again, the limits of what can be said and shown were discussed with regard to religion-related satire, as in 2012 when Titanic showed Pope Benedict XVI wearing a sullied cassock in the wake of the "Vatileaks affair." The development since the 1990s illustrated by some events shows that the perception of the limits of what can be said and shown has fundamentally changed, that religion-related satire has been debated much more intensively in the recent past than it was immediately before the turn of the millennium. The examples also show that religion-related satire in particular is at the center of this change. The dissertation project therefore addresses the question of how the tension between religion-related satire and the limits of what can be said and shown changed between 1990 and 2017. On the one hand, it asks how religions are referred to in satire, which actors are portrayed, and with which topics religions are associated. On the other hand, the project negotiates how the boundaries of what can be said and shown are debated with regard to religion-related satire, how religion-related satire is dealt with, and what is found offensive in the public or in partial publics. The diachronic perspective of the project, which covers the period 1990 to 2017, allows any shifts to be made visible. A comparison of the German satirical magazine Titanic with the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo also makes it possible to highlight national characteristics. Germany and France are particularly suitable for comparison because of their different relationship between state and church.

For a description of the project as a whole, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

  • Between Decontextualization and Incomprehension - The consequences of media change for the reception of satire in the context of the interdisciplinary conference of the University of Kassel (in cooperation with Caricature Kassel) on the subject of "Laughter and ridicule. Comedy and Satire in Situations of Social, Political and Cultural Change since the 19th Century," May 12, 2022.
  • "But it was only a joke..." - Debates on religion-related satire in social media in the context of the interdisciplinary workshop of the Center for Media and Interactivity Giessen on the topic of "Comical-satirical varieties of the 21st century in old and new media," September 15, 2021
  • Religious Satire and Violence in Germany and France since the so-called 'Caricature Controversy' as part of the Modern Research Colloquium, University of Kassel, January 27, 2020, 6-8 p.m.
  • The Visibility of Invisible Violence in Satire: Visual Representations of Sexual Abuse in the Ecclesiastical Context and Medial Debates on Follow-up in Germany and France as part of the conference of the Zeitgeschichtlicher Arbeitskreis Niedersachsen on "The Visualization and Medialization of Violence from the Late 19th Century to the Present," November 8-9, 2019.
  • Du stéréotype au sexisme ? Les femmes dans la caricature antireligieuse in the context of the Journée d'étude "Femme fatale ou fatalisme ? The position of women in Germany and France," University of Kassel, July 11, 2019, 2-6 p.m.
  • Satirical Magazines and the Cartoon Controversy - A Transnational Comparison Using the Example of Charlie Hebdo and Titanic at the Interdisciplinary Conference on "Limits of What Can Be Said and Shown - Humor in the Image from 1900 to Today," June 27-29, 2019, University of Duisburg-Essen (flyer).
  • Limits of Satire in Germany and France. 19th and 20th Century, January 9, 2019, Deutsch-Französisches Institut Ludwigsburg (To the dfi report).

Monographs

  • Kinz, Carina, Forgotten Victims? Kassel Skeleton Finds and the History of the Napoleonic Wars (Intervalle - Schriften zur Kulturforschung 14), Kassel 2016.

Essays

  • Gabriel-Kinz, Carina, together with Jörg Requate, Between Cold War and Pop Culture. The First Manned Moon Landing in the French Media, in Grampp, Sven (ed.), Cold Moon Rising. The Coverage of the First Manned Moon Landing as Global History in Times of the Cold War, Wiesbaden 2021, pp. 305-321.
  • Gabriel-Kinz, Carina, Provocation or Struggle for Republican Values? Charlie Hebdo and the Limits of What Can Be Said and Shown in the So-Called "Cartoon Controversy" in: Becker, Frank/ Gießmann-Konrads, Antonia (eds.), Limits of what can be said and shown. Humor in the picture from 1800 to today, Darmstadt 2020.
  • Gabriel-Kinz, Carina, The Controversy over the Muhammad Cartoons: A Comparison of Titanic and Charlie Hebdo, in: Block, Friedrich W./ Wirth, Uwe (eds.), Boundaries of the Comic (Cultures of the Comic 6), Bielefeld [forthcoming].

Conference Proceedings

 

Winter semester 2022/23:

  • 1968 als Medienereignis - Ein Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich (Blockseminar mit Einführungssitzung)

  • 60 Jahre deutsch-französische Freundschaft?! Die bilateralen Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich im Spannungsverhältnis von Kooperation und Konflikt seit dem Elysée-Vertrag (Blockseminar mit Einführungssitzung)

Winter semester 2020/21:

  • Zwischen Bildern von Veränderung und Veränderung durch Bilder: Repräsentationen gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche in Titanic und Charlie Hebdo seit den 1960er Jahren (Blockseminar mit Einführungsveranstaltung, gemeinsam mit S. Hoffmann)

Winter semester 2019/20:

  • Religion und Öffentlichkeit in Deutschland und Frankreich nach 1945 (Blockseminar mit Einführungsveranstaltung)

Summer semester 2019:

  • Religion und Satire in Deutschland und Frankreich nach 1945 (Seminar)

Winter semester 2018/19:

  • Karikaturen als Spiegel der Gesellschaft: Satirische Bilder in Deutschland und Frankreich im 20. Jahrhundert (Seminar)

Summer semester 2018:

  • Erinnerungspolitische Aufarbeitung des französischen Kolonialismus (Seminar)

Winter semester 2017/18:

  • Politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen in Frankreich nach 1945 (Blockseminar mit Einführungsveranstaltung)
  • Equipe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur l'Image Satirique (EIRIS)
  • DFI Ludwigsburg
  • Kassel International Graduate Center for Social Sciences (KIGG)