Axel Bannert

Axel Bannert is a Researcher at the Institute of History, Faculty of Philosophy I, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. His academic focus spans emotional practices, body history, and cultural/media dynamics of the Weimar Republic and Wilhelmine Germany, with a particular emphasis on poststructuralist approaches and the reception of antiquity in modernity.

• Master's Degree in History (Free University of Berlin, 2022)
• Bachelor's Degree in History & General and Comparative Literature (Free University of Berlin, 2019)

Research Interests: Bannert explores emotional practices during the Weimar Republic, examining how emotions were cultural tools for self-regulation in crisis-ridden modernity. His work connects body history, media discourses, and life reform movements, analyzing intersections of gender, ethnicity, and age.

Current Research: His dissertation project investigates media engagement with emotions as a diagnostic space for modern life. Topics include jazz music, expressive dance, urban nightlife, and hormone therapies as emotional stabilization mechanisms during 1920s mass culture.