Dr. Manuela Hackel

Dr. Manuela Hackel

Project Manager "Film as a Catalyst of Social Transformation"

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Dr Manuela Hackel studied German and Russian literature, philosophy and German as a foreign language in Potsdam and St Petersburg. She completed her doctorate in philosophy in Vienna with a thesis on Self-relationship and deficiency in Søren Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre. For her dissertation, she received a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) and a faculty award from the University of Vienna. Research stays in Copenhagen and Paris. International presentations and publications as well as teaching activities. Project and partner management, strategic planning, advisory services at universities and for associations in the areas of internationalisation, teaching, research & transfer, culture, education & sustainability. Currently, she is working as a project manager on the project ‘Film as a Catalyst of Social Transformation’.

 

Academic discipline:

  • Practical philosophy / ethics; focus: 19th/20th century philosophy, in particular existential philosophy
  • Internationalisation
  • Education, sustainability and transfer
  • Culture and interculturality  

Research interests / fields of expertise:

  • The self and its abysses
  • The individual and the society: responsibility, alienation and power
  • Fundamentals and conditions for ethics to succeed

 

Projects:

 

Publications:

Monographs

  • Selbstverhältnis und Mangelhaftigkeit bei Søren Kierkegaard und Jean-Paul Sartre [Self-relation and Deficiency in Søren Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre]. University of Vienna: Dissertations of the Faculty for Education and Philosophy 2015. (https://utheses.univie.ac.at/detail/30578#)

Anthologies

  • (with Winnie-Karen Giera, Jana Buschmann, Tom Fischer) Lehrer:innenbildung und Schulpraxis im internationalen Kontext. Impulse für Wissenstransfer, kulturelle Sensibilität, Sprachbildung und Digitalität [Teacher Education and School Practice in an International Context: Impulses for Knowledge Transfer, Cultural Sensitivity, Language Education and Digitality]. Münster; New York: Waxmann 2024.
  • (with Anton Hügli) Karl Jaspers und Jean-Paul Sartre im Dialog. Ihre Sicht auf Existenz, Freiheit und Verantwortung [Karl Jaspers and Jean-Paul Sartre in Dialogue: Their View of Existence, Freedom and Responsibility]. Frankfurt/M.; Berlin; Bern; Brussels; New York; Oxford; Vienna: Peter Lang 2015.
  • (with Alfred Betschart, Marie Minot, Vincent von Wroblewsky) Sartre—Eine permanente Provokation / Une provocation permanente / A Permanent Provocation. (Carnets Jean-Paul Sartre.) Frankfurt/M.; Berlin; Bern; Brussels; New York; Oxford; Vienna: Peter Lang 2014.
  • (with Hans Feger) Existenzphilosophie und Ethik. [Existential Philosophy and Ethics]. Berlin; New York: de Gruyter 2013.

Articles (Selection)

  • “The Internationalization of Teacher Education at the University of Potsdam and the Project ‘UP Network for Sustainable Teacher Education’”. In: Freitag-Hild, Britta; Goertz, Stefanie; Malmberg, Isolde; Juang, Linda (Eds.): Educating Teachers for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship.Internationalising Teacher Education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals: (Potsdamer Beiträge zur Lehrkräftebildung.) Potsdam: Universitätsverlag 2025.
  • (with Julia Jennek) “Transfer als ein Ziel von Internationalisierung. Beispiele der Kooperation zwischen der Universität Potsdam und Deutschen Auslandsschulen [Transfer as an objective of internationalization. Examples of Cooperation between the University of Potsdam and German Schools Abroad].” In: Hackel, Manuela; Giera, Winnie-Karen; Buschmann, Jana; Fischer, Tom (Eds.): Lehrer:innenbildung und Schulpraxis im internationalen Kontext. Impulse für Wissenstransfer, kulturelle Sensibilität, Sprachbildung und Digitalität [Teacher Education and School Practice in an International Context: Impulses for Knowledge Transfer, Cultural Sensitivity, Language Education and Digitality]. Münster; New York: Waxmann 2024, pp. 63—78.
  • (with Caroline Felske, Andreas Hänssig, Jan Springob) “Praxisphasen im Ausland während des Lehramtsstudiums. Ein Blick in Bundesländer und Konzepte. [Practical Phases Abroad during the Teacher Education Programme. A Look at Federal States and Concepts]” In: Goethe-Institute e.V. (Ed.): Auslandspraktika in der Lehrkräftebildung. Erste Erkenntnisse aus dem SCHULWÄRTS!-Forschungshub des Goethe-Instituts [Internships Abroad in Teacher Training. First Insights from the Goethe-Institut’s SCHULWÄRTS! Research Hub]. Münster; New York: Waxmann 2022, pp. 17—51.
  • “Der Andere im Selbst. Kierkegaard und Sartre zu einer Abhängigkeit [The Other in the Self. Kierkegaard and Sartre on a Dependency]”. In: Betschart, Alfred; Hackel, Manuela; Minot, Marie; Wroblewsky, Vincent von (Eds.): Sartre—eine permanente Provokation / une provocation permanente / a Permanent Provocation. (Carnets Jean-Paul Sartre.) Frankfurt/M.; Berlin; Bern; Brussels; New York; Oxford; Vienna: Peter Lang 2014, pp. 173—196.
  • “Vom Wert der Unaufrichtigkeit [On the Value of Self-deception]”. In: Feger,Hans; Hackel, Manuela (Eds.): Existenzphilosophie und Ethik. [Existential Philosophy and Ethics]. Berlin; New York: de Gruyter 2013, pp. 435-465.
  • “Das Dämonische bei Kierkegaard [The Demonic in Kierkegaard]”. In: Schulz, Heiko; Stewart, Jon; Verstrynge,Karl (Eds.): Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2011. Berlin; New York: de Gruyter 2011, pp. 383—410.
  • “Jean-Paul Sartre: Kierkegaard’s Influence on His ‘Theory of Nothingness’”. In: Stewart, Jon (Ed.): Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources. Bd. 9. Kierkegaard and Existentialism. Aldershot: Ashgate 2011, pp. 323—354.
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