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Dr Annja Neumann is a dramaturg and the Isaac Newton Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cambridge Digital Humanities, an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Cambridge, an Affiliated Lecturer in German at Cambridge University and Senior Research Fellow in Modern Languages and Medical Humanities at Magdalene College in Cambridge. She works as an artist-researcher with a background in German Philology, Digital Humanities and Medical Humanities. Books she published include Durchkreuzte Zeit (2013), a study on the performativity of Paul Celan’s and Nelly Sachs’s middle period poetry, and Marionetten (2018), a critical digital edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s avant-garde puppet plays with extensive commentary. She has also published widely on Viennese Modernism, particularly Arthur Schnitzler, medical spaces, digital medical storytelling and digital visual cultures. Her recent work explores the current re-staging of public and medical spaces and the afterlives of Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, in relation to questions of digital change and agency. Research performances she has produced include the hospital drama Professor Bernhardi (London, 2015), the online live performance Dr Tulp and the Theatre of Zoom (2020), the interactive performance Waiting Room (Stroud, 2021) and the mixed-reality performance Faust Shop (Cambridge, 2022).
