University of Bremen - Dr. phil. Tobias Dietrich

60 University of Bremen - Dr. phil. Tobias Dietrich https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/kunst/staff/dr-phil-tobias-dietrich Tobias Dietrich en University of Bremen Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:20:03 +0200 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:20:03 +0200 University of Bremen content-159051 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:43:54 +0100 Résumé https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/kunst/staff/dr-phil-tobias-dietrich#c159051 2019–24 lecturer in Film Studies and Film Education at the Institute of Art History - Film Studies - Art Education and ZeMKI-Research Lab&nbsp; <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/zemki " target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">Film, Media Art and Popular Culture</a> at the University of Bremen; founding member of the U-Bremen’s BYRD postdoc network <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/institute-of-public-health-and-nursing-research/departments-working-groups/public-health-research/public-health-ethics-and-health-humanities/post-doc-network-health-humanities-and-audiovisual-cultures-heku?sword_list%5B0%5D=dietrich&amp;sword_list%5B1%5D=schreiber&amp;cHash=267fa1fa78a8d510c5863159f0dd93a4" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">Health Humanities and Audio-visual Cultures</a> (He:Ku), freelance film curator; voluntary work for the <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.queerfilm.de/en/" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">Bremen queerfilm festival</a>; member of the International Film Award selection committee at the <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.mhfestival.com/" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival</a>, Glasgow. 2019-21 and 2025 project coordinator of the International Bremen Film Conference. 2016–18 scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (see <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/film/research/phd-projects" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">research projects</a>). 2017 research stay at the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. 2009-15 B.A. in Art Studies and Public Health and M.A. in Art and Cultural Education with focus on Film Studies in Bremen and Paris; during studies participation in the research project "homo debilis" and other editorial activities online and for the publications of the International Bremen Film Conference, nachfilm.de, amongst others. Content content-159052 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:43:54 +0100 Research https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/kunst/staff/dr-phil-tobias-dietrich#c159052 Research Focus | Film Aesthetics and Film History | European Auteur Cinema | Medical and Health Humanities | Queer cinema | Film Mediation | Experimental Film Projects 2015–24: <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.film.uni-bremen.de/de/forschung/promotionen.html#c8534" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">„</a><a class="externalLink" href="https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/film/research/phd-projects" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">The Aesthetical Dimension of Mental Illness.</a> On Audio-visual Construction of Mental Illness in Contemporary Auteur Cinema“ (PhD project) 2011-13: "<a class="externalLink" href="https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/archive-distribution/archive-projects/ " target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">Living Archive. Archive work as contemporary artistic and curatorial practice</a>", Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art e.V., Berlin, in cooperation with the British Film Institute, London (student assistant) 2010-12: "homo debilis. Dis / ability in the Vormoderne ", Department of History, University of Bremen (student assistant) Content content-159053 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:43:54 +0100 Publications https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/kunst/staff/dr-phil-tobias-dietrich#c159053 Books (in German) Forthcoming: Filmästhetische Dimensionen psychischer Erkrankung im Auteurfilm. Artikulation, Verschränkung, Verräumlichung (working title). 2022: Kopf/Kino. Psychische Erkrankung und Film (hg. mit Winfried Pauleit). Berlin: Bertz + Fischer. 2017: Filme für den Eimer. Das Experimentalkino von Klaus Telscher. Stuttgart: ibidem. Academic papers (English selection) 2023: Teaching Mental Illness through Film and Film through Mental Illness, in: Sark, Katrina, ed.: Social Justice Pedagogies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 127–140. 2019: Depression as Aesthetic Answer to the Socioeconomic Crisis in Two Days, One Night, in: Corbalán, Ana; Kaklamanidou, Betty, eds.: Contemporary European Cinema. Crisis Narratives and Narratives in Crisis. London, New York: Routledge, pp. 106–118. Others (English selection) Forthcoming: Film and Mental Health. A Conversation, in: OUC / UOC: José Carlos Teixeira. Art and Mental Health. An Aesthetic and Ethic Approach. 2021: <a class="externalLink" href="https://thepolyphony.org/2021/03/19/frenzies-films-and-family-a-review-of-mental-traveler-by-w-j-t-mitchell/" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">Frenzies, Films and Family.</a>&nbsp; A Review of ‘Mental Traveler’ by W.J.T. Mitchell, in: The Polyphony. Conversations across the Medical Humanities. 19.3.2021. 2018: <a class="externalLink" href="https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/172485_c2448f514ee044ba83323d28f04022fe.pdf" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">Social Justice, Blood Donation, and Gay Rights</a>, in: Sark, Katrina, ed.: Anthology of Social Justice and Intersectional Feminisms, 1, pp. 25–27. Content content-159054 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:43:54 +0100 Presentations https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/kunst/staff/dr-phil-tobias-dietrich#c159054 Selection of talks in English 6/28/2024: „Screening Climatic Fears: Eco-Anxieties and the Permeability of Cinematic Barriers”, Screening Fears, Workshop with Francesco Casetti, Hamburg University. 5/28/2024: “Medical Humanities and Climate Change”, IMHAR Colloquium, Institute for Medical Humanities &amp; Artistic Research, Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen Ottersberg. 6/13/2023: „Mind/Screens. Mental Illness and Cinema“, IMHAR-Salon „Film_Psychiatry“, Institute for Medical &amp; Health Humanities and Artistic Research, Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen, Ottersberg. 5/5/2021: „Mind/Screens: Bridging Film Aesthetics and Mental Illness“, Introductory Note to the 25th International Bremen Film Conference, University of Bremen, CITY 46 / Kommunalkino Bremen e.V., together with Angela Rabing and Winfried Pauleit. 1/24/2020: „Experience as Aesthetic Change: Mental Illness as Self-corrective Truth in Christopher Nolan’s Memento“, 3rd Congress of the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research, „Experience, Medicine and Marginalisation“, University of Sheffield. 7/29/2019: „Madness and Posthumanism“, Summer School „Posthuman Intimacies. Cross-Species Entanglements in European Cinema“, University of Toronto. 10/26/2018: „Considering the Clinical Discourse as an Aesthetic One Through the Light of Film”, Cultural Crossings of Care. An Appeal to the Medical Humanities, University of Oslo. 6/29/2018: "Taking the 'Scenic' Route. Values of Authorial Wrong Tracks in Discontinuous Fictional Illness Narratives", GCSC-Workshop "Rhetorics of Health and Illness. (Dis-)Continuous Minds, Bodies, and Narratives", Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. 11/28/2017: „The Aesthetic Dimension of Mental Illness. Werner Herzog’s My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done”, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada. 10/2/2017: „Caligari – Dr. Unrath – M. Types of Madness in Weimar Cinema“, im Rahmen des Seminars „A Short History of German Film“, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada. Content content-159056 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:43:54 +0100 Memberships https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/kunst/staff/dr-phil-tobias-dietrich#c159056 | GfM - Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft | NECS - Network for European Cinema and Media Studies | IAMHAR - International Association of Medical &amp; Health Humanities and Artistic Research | NNMHR - Northern Network for Medical Humanities | Netzwerk Medical Humanities, Zentrum Geschichte des Wissens, Universität &amp; ETH Zürich Content