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title: "CDFI: Retired Professors and Staff"
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created: 2026-07-13
updated: 2026-07-13
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# CDFI: Retired Professors and Staff

This source provides a directory of retired and former professors and artistic staff members at the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Institut (CDFI) of the University of Greifswald. It documents the historical personnel of various chairs and their primary research focuses.

## Key Personnel Listed

### Professors
- **Prof. Michael Soltau**: Professor for Visual Media and their Didactics (until 2019). Focused on interdisciplinary conceptions, space-related installations, and performance.
- **Prof. Felix Müller**: Professor for Applied Art (until 2016). Focused on practice- and future-oriented techniques in printing, layout, and applied drawing.
- **Prof. Ulrich Puritz**: Professor for Theory and Practice of Fine Arts (until 2014). Focused on "transmediale Blickarbeit" (transmedial gaze/work) and the theory of artistic practice.
- **Prof. Dagmar Lisske**: Professor for Fine Arts (until 2010). Also served as chair of the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Gesellschaft e.V. until 2014.
- **Prof. Manfred Prinz**: Professor for Art Education (until 1995).

### Artistic and Scientific Staff
- **Sylvia Dallmann**: Artistic staff at the Chair of Painting, Drawing, Space and Interdisciplinary Artistic Strategies.
- **Roland Mieth**: Artistic-scientific staff for special tasks (until 2017) focusing on subject didactics and nature studies.
- **Heiko Krause**: Artistic staff (until 2015) focusing on photography, graphics, and new media.
- **Marcus Schramm**: Artistic staff (until 2012) and substitute professor (until 2014) focusing on space as an image and installation.
- **Marcus Kaiser**: Artistic staff (until 2010) focusing on photography, graphics, and new media.
- **Christine Schmerse**: Artistic assistant (until 2007) focusing on interdisciplinary contextual projects and digital post-production.
- **Herbert Moser**: Artistic staff (until 2001) focusing on photography, graphics, and new media.
- **Daniel Rode**: Artistic assistant (until 2003) focusing on interdisciplinary contextual projects and digital post-production.
