Learning „Muße“ (otiose leisure)? Leisure, creativity and deceleration in the context of performance enhancement and self improvement (D11 (G06))

• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: from 2017 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 197396619

The ethnographic project investigates experiences of otium of pensioners. By destabilizing biograph-ical orders and subsequently renegotiating them, otium acquires a special relevance, since it requalifies the time now available. The project elaborates the biographical dimensions of otium and assumes that pensioners, with an increase in freely available time, specifically seek new orientations and activities that are interpreted as meaningful, which are then placed in a paradoxical relationship to inactivity analogous to the concept of otium.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1015: Muße (Leisure/Otium). Concepts, Spaces, Figures
• Applicant Institution: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Markus Tauschek