Sigrid Weigel

As member of the director's board of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen from 1990 to 1993 she conducted interdisciplinary fellow groups on ‘memory research’ and 'topography of gender'.

[5] She founded the semi-annual journal Trajekte[6] and a program of prominent Honorary Members (Ginzburg, Kristeva, Didi-Huberman, Bhabha et al.).

Weigel regularly gives guest seminars, summer courses, and PhD-workshops abroad;[8] from 2005 to 2016 she served as permanent Visiting Professor at the German Dept.

Other authors of Weigel's publications include William Shakespeare, Heinrich Kleist, Heinrich Heine, Sigmund Freud, Aby Warburg, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Jakob Taubes, Susan Taubes, Alfred Andersch, Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Wolf, Unica Zürn, and Yoko Tawada (who did her PhD with her).

Whereas violently disrupted by Nazi-Germany, the intellectual legacy of Kulturwissenschaft found successors in authors such as Gershom Scholem,[16] Hannah Arendt,[17] Stéphane Mosès[18] and Susan Taubes.

Cross disciplinary scholarship of humanities and natural sciences “The boundary between the body accessible to empirical methods and the language in the broadest sense (including gestures, feelings, images, music, etc.)

which demands deciphering and understanding, is the hot zone of research: contested area and a promising field of interdisciplinary scholarship at the same time.

[36] Weigel pleads for the regular implantation of the knowledge of experts of foreign cultural policy in the political decision processes of other ministries.