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Carolyn Amann, MA

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University Assistant

Carolyn Amann has been working as a university assistant at the Department of Cultural Studies since March 2025 and is a member of the Research Collective. In her artistic-scientific PhD project "Superhuman. From Well-Being to Being-Good" she deals with the mode of action of affect-sensitive media and emotion recognition systems in the context of a techno-ecology.

Short biography

Carolyn Amann studied theater, film and media studies at the University of Vienna and worked as an assistant director at the Schauspielhaus Graz, the Schauspielhaus Wien, the Wiener Festwochen and the Bregenz Festival. Since 2014, she has written stage works for spoken theater and opera, which have premiered at the Landestheater Linz, Theater Münster and the Lucerne Theater, among others. In her performances, she combines lyrical and dramatic texts with jazz and new music.

www.carolynamann.at

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & WORKS (SELECTION)

  • Drama & libretto 
    "Uffrur" (text) Director: Martin Butler, commissioned by the Württemberg State Museum, premiere: Altes Schloss Stuttgart 30.04.2025
  • "Totentanz" (concept, text, performance) together with Aron Kitzig (video, concept), Mesnerstüble am Liebfrauenbarg, world premiere: Rankweil Basilica 29.10.2023
  • "Dido & Aeneas" by Henry Purcell (Text: Prologue for Dido) Direction: Magdalena Fuchsberger, Musical direction: Jonathan Bloxham, Theater Luzern 09.09.2023
  • "Petit Mal" Jazzorchester Vorarlberg feat. Carolyn Amann & Philip Yaeger. (Libretto, performance) Director: Marie Steiner, Composition: Philip Yaeger. World premiere: Collini Hohenems, 16.06.2023
  • "Great Open Eyes" (libretto) director: Carmen C. Kruse, composition: Manuel Zwerger. world premiere Theater Münster 13 May 2023
  • Concertino A. Schönberg's "Verklärte Nacht" (Text: Prelude) together with the Trio Amnis. Director: Marie Steiner, video: Aron Kitzig. Jeunesse Austria & Wiener Konzerthaus. Berio Sall. 14.01.2023
  • "The Broken Jug. Comedy by Heinrich von Kleist in a version by Bérénice Hebenstreit and with a new final monologue by Carolyn Amann." (Text: final monologue for Eve) Directed by Bérénice Hebenstreit, Landestheater Linz, premiere 29.05.2021

Literature

  • Amann, Carolyn. "Flying sparks" in Heimatstern. V#34. Edited by Mörth, Wolfgang & Gabriel, Ulrich. Vorarlberger Zeitschrift für Literatur: Bregenz, 2019. p.199-205.
  • Amann, Carolyn. "Körperfragmente " (excerpt) in if:faktum. Equality compact. 3_2019. Ed.: Functional area Women and Equality Office Vlbg. LR. Samson Druck, Bregenz: 2019 p.15.
  • Amann, Carolyn. "Warm water" in VN, D6 Feuilleton author contributions. Russ. Mediaverlag GmbH, Schwarzach: April 27/28, 2019. p.24-31
  • Amann, Carolyn. "New America" (excerpt) in Miromente. Magazine for good and evil. Edited by Mörth, Wolfgang. Gabriel, Ulrich. Issue: 55. Dornbirn: 2019. p.28-31.
  • Amann, Carolyn. "Play alone" in Mosaik. Journal for Literature and Culture. Edited by Kirchner, Josef & Oswald, Sarah. Issue 22. Salzburg: 2017. p.19-21.
  • Amann, Carolyn. "A folk festival" in Oozy. Periodical for language & eroticism. Edited by Jordan, Gerhard. Diploma project of the Design course, Graphic Design class (University of Applied Arts). Vienna: 2015. p.60-65.
  • Amann, Carolyn. "Die Fischer" in Die Lichtungen. Journal for literature, art and contemporary criticism. Edited by Brunner, Helwig/ Jaroschka, Markus/(...) Issue 142/2015. Graz: 2015.

Reviews

Hartmann, Fedora. Amann, Carolyn. "'Cutting together apart?'. Feminist double-slit experiments, trans-Baradian apparatuses and governmental materialities." In: Journal of Media Studies, vol. 29 (2/2023), pp.173-78. doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/20058