SFB 948: Heroes - Heroisations - Heroisms. Transformations and Conjunctures from Antiquity to the Modern Age

自古以来，男女主人公对于欧洲内外的文化和社会的自我理解至关重要。SFB回应了对英雄人物的新一波兴趣，从跨文化的、长期的视角（从古代到现在）来研究英雄作为一种社会现象，这是同步的和历时的比较。SFB对英雄人物既能稳定社会秩序又能引发质疑的社会秩序特别感兴趣。该项目调查了女主角和英雄在何时以及以何种方式成为社区可以关注自我理解的人物。该项目旨在解释文化、历史、社会和媒体因素如何影响在特定时期和特定文化中被视为英雄的行为，以及这将如何帮助理解英雄化和非英雄化的过程。因此，前两个资助期的重点是调查这些过程和“英雄主义”，即英雄主义隐含的习惯模式。在最后的第三个资助期，英雄化和英雄主义将作为一种评估基本文化社会现象的手段进行分析，如政治社会动荡，主体构成，男性气质的建构，以及作为社会因素的情感美学。这项研究还得到了知识转移、在线门户网站开发、公共关系以及创建英雄在线参考资料等项目的补充。因此，SFB将提供其研究的易于理解的综合。

Since ancient times, heroes and heroines have been crucial for the self-understanding of cultures and communities in and beyond Europe. The SFB responds to a new wave of interest in heroic figures by researching the heroic as a social phenomenon from a transcultural, long-term perspective (antiquity to the present day) that is synchronically and diachronically comparative. The SFB is particularly interested in the social orders that heroic figures at once stabilize and simultaneously call into question. The project investigates when and in what way heroines and heroes serve as figures upon which communities can focus their self-understanding. The project aims to explain how cultural, historical, social and media factors inform what is considered heroic at certain times and in certain cultures – and how this will help to understand processes of heroization and deheroization. Accordingly, the first two funding periods focused on the investigation of these processes and on “heroisms”, i.e. heroically connoted habitus patterns. In the concluding third funding period, heroizations and heroisms will be analyzed as a means of evaluating fundamental cultural-social phenomena, such as political-social upheavals, the constitution of the subject, constructions of masculinity, and affective aesthetics as factors of the social. The research is complemented by projects on knowledge transfer, the development of an online portal, and on public relations as well as the creation of an online reference work on the heroic. Thus, the SFB will provide an accessible synthesis of its research.