Tobias Dietrich
From A to Z
Ahrndt, Prof. Dr. Wiebke
Alvis-Seidel, Julia
Brandes, Prof. Dr. Kerstin
Brohl, Dr. Christiane
Dierks, Klaas
Dietrich, Tobias
Eck, Dr. Katharina
Flömer, Florian
Greiner, PD Dr. Rasmus
Greve, Prof. Dr. Anna
Hartmann, Dr. Johanna
Henschel, Alexander
Henzler, Dr. Bettina
Hess, Kira
Inthoff, Dr. phil. Christina
Keim, Dr. habil. Christiane
Kittlausz, PD Dr. Viktor
Knoop, Ute
Knopf, Dr. Eva
Kreul, Prof. Dr. Andreas
Linke, Dr. Maja
Lüdemann, Sarah
Melchert, Sabine
Müller, Prof. Dr. Michael
Naß, Mira Anneli
Nierhaus, Prof. Dr. Irene
Ochs, Amelie
Pauleit, Prof. Dr. Winfried
Peters, Prof. Dr. Maria
Press, Dr. Alexander
Rabing, Angela
Rauh, Franziska
Rooch, Prof. habil. Dr. phil. Alarich
Rüffert, Christine
Schenk, Prof. Dr. Irmbert
Schürmann, Dr. Jula Helena
Siemer, Nadja Tamara
Skalecki, Prof. Dr. Georg
Stamm, Prof. Dr. Rainer
de Vries, Kirsten
Nathalie Werner
Wöbkemeier, PD Dr. Ruth
Zanichelli, Prof. Dr. Elena
Department:
Institute for Art History - Film Studies - Art Education
Subject:
Film studies and media aesthetics
Büro:
GW2 B3885
Phone:
+49 421-218 677 28
E-Mail:
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Résumé
Since 2019, lecturer in Film Studies and Film Education at the Institute of Art History - Film Studies - Art Education and ZeMKI-Research Lab Film, Media Art and Popular Culture at the University of Bremen; freelance film curator; voluntary work for the Bremen queerfilm festival; member of the International Film Award selection committee at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, Glasgow.
2019-21 project coordinator International Bremen Film Conference.
2016–18 scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (see research projects).
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.
Research
Research Focus
| Film Aesthetics and Film History
| European Auteur Cinema
| Medical and Health Humanities
| Queer cinema
| Film Mediation
| Medical Humanities
Projects
Since 2015: „The Aesthetical Dimension of Mental Illness. On Audio-visual Construction of Mental Illness in Contemporary Auteur Cinema“ (PhD project)
2011-13: "Living Archive. Archive work as contemporary artistic and curatorial practice", 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)
Publications
Books (in German)
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)
2022: Teaching Mental Illness through Film and Film through Mental Illness, in: Sark, Katrina (Hg.): Social Justice Pedagogies. (Forthcoming).
2019: Depression as Aesthetic Answer to the Socioeconomic Crisis in Two Days, One Night, in: Corbalán, Ana; Kaklamanidou, Betty (Hg.): Contemporary European Cinema. Crisis Narratives and Narratives in Crisis. London, New York: Routledge, S. 106–118.
Others (English selection)
2021: Frenzies, Films and Family. A Review of ‘Mental Traveler’ by W.J.T. Mitchell in: The Polyphony. Conversations across the Medical Humanities. 19.3.2021.
2018: Social Justice, Blood Donation, and Gay Rights, in: Sark, Katrina (Hg.): Anthology of Social Justice and Intersectional Feminisms, 1., S. 25–27.
Presentations
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.
Memberships
| GfM - Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft
| NECS - Network for European Cinema and Media Studies
| IAMHAR - International Association of Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research
| NNMHR - Northern Network for Medical Humanities
| Netzwerk Medical Humanities, Zentrum Geschichte des Wissens, Universität & ETH Zürich