respective opposing figures (martyrs and partisans) and shows, that the apparent proximity of both authors is partly due to distorted translations, e. g. "exceptional cases" for "ungeheure Fälle” (monstrous or tremendous cases). Image theory Grammatology of Images (2015), evaluated as “the most integral image theory we currently have”, and standard work in image scholarship, develops an image theory of the an-iconic. Departing from Derrida's statement “The trace must be thought before the existing”, her theory addresses traces preceding the image in contrast to the conventional concept of the trace left behind. At center is the question of imaging (Bildgebung): of how something that is not visibly accessible (e.g. feelings, sadness, honor, shame, transcendent phenomena, thinking) becomes an image. The book discusses indexical images, effigies, cult image as well as case studies of the face, caricature, and angels. Cross disciplinary scholarship of humanities and natural sciences “The boundary between the body accessible to empirical methods and the language in the broadest sense (including gestures, feelings, images, music, etc.) which demands deciphering and understanding, is the hot zone of research: contested area and a promising field of interdisciplinary scholarship at the same time. In this respect, there exists little border traffic so far,” as Weigel argues and pleads “For a broad border traffic”. She conducted cross-disciplinary projects in collaboration with biology, medicine, neuroscience and clinical psychoanalysis, e.g. on heredity and evolution, on surgery, on Sigmund Freud and neuroscience, and on empathy in philosophy and laboratory research; and she initiated research on the ‘History of Interdisciplinary Ideas’, viz. concepts used in various disciplines with different meanings. In recent years, her scholarship is occupied with the face and facial expressions. The exhibition on The Face conceptualized for the German Hygiene Museum Dresden (DHMD) achieved great public success. Transnational cultural policy Her study Transnational Foreign Cultural Policy – Beyond National Culture, commissioned by the Institute for International Relations (ifa) in 2019, provoked a public debate on fundamental contradictions between the goals of foreign cultural policy (support of human rights, civil society and sustainable economy) and the German economic and domestic policy in general. Weigel pleads for the regular implantation of the knowledge of experts of foreign cultural policy in the political decision processes of other ministries. Her study includes a critical analysis of the idea of the Kulturnation (cultural nation), an idea developed during the 19th century discourse upon the nation, which reinforced the xenophobic