{"id":152,"name":"Heike Oberlin","url":"http:\/\/www.uni-tuebingen.de\/aoi\/indologie\/mitarbeiter\/heike-oberlin-moser.html","description":"Prof. Dr. Heike Oberlin (n\u00e9e Moser) studied Indology and Social and Cultural Anthropology at T\u00fcbingen University. She completed her Ph.D. with \"summa cum laude\" in Indology at W\u00fcrzburg with a work about the Sanskrit theatre K\u016b\u1e6diy\u0101\u1e6d\u1e6dam (Na\u1e45\u1e45y\u0101r-K\u016bttu - ein Teilaspekt des Sanskrittheaterkomplexes K\u016b\u1e6diy\u0101\u1e6d\u1e6dam, Harrassowitz 2008). After starting to learn and stage Bharatan\u0101\u1e6dyam in 1989 she studied and performed K\u016b\u1e6diy\u0101\u1e6d\u1e6dam and Na\u1e45\u1e45y\u0101r-K\u016bttu from 1995 to 2001 with P.N. Girija and Painkulam Rama Chakyar at Kerala Kalamandalam in India. Since then she is involved in studying and teaching not only Kutiyattam but also the Malayalam language. In 2015 she established in cooperation with the Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University the \u201cGundert Chair\u201d for Malayalam at T\u00fcbingen. In May 2013 Heike Oberlin completed her habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) and was conferred the \u201cvenia legendi\u201d for Indology, in December 2016 she was appointed \u201cau\u00dferplanm\u00e4\u00dfige Professorin\u201d.\r\n\r\nHeike Oberlin was awarded the Ernst Waldschmidt Prize in 2008, was honoured as \"Scholar in Residence\" by the Higher Education Council of the State Government of Kerala in 2018 as part of the \"Erudite Program\" (flyer of the programme; article in \"attempto online\") and received the Gisela-Bonn-Preis of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in 2019 for special achievements in the field of Indo-German relations.\r\n\r\nCurrently she is the Scientific Coordinator of the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies (AOI) at T\u00fcbingen University and Associate Professor as well as Managing Director of its Dept. of Indology.\r\n\r\n \r\nResearch interests\r\n- Performing arts of India\r\n- Sanskrit theatre, specially K\u016b\u1e6diy\u0101\u1e6d\u1e6dam\r\n- Manuscript studies, specially South Indian palm leaf manuscripts\r\n- Malayalam: language, script, literature\r\n- Kerala studies\r\n- Gender studies\r\n- Digital humanities\r\n- Folk religions of India\r\n- History of Indology","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/author\/heike-oberlin\/","slug":"heike-oberlin","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a233cd39e4bcdd3936e5146e4d90fbb1?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a233cd39e4bcdd3936e5146e4d90fbb1?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a233cd39e4bcdd3936e5146e4d90fbb1?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}