Bernhard Siegert

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Bernhard Siegert (born December 20, 1959 in Bremen ) is a German media historian and media theorist .

Life

Siegert studied German literature , philosophy and history at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg from 1979 to 1987 and received his doctorate in 1991 from the Ruhr-University Bochum .

Since 2001 he has been a professor and holder of the chair in the history and theory of cultural techniques at the Bauhaus University Weimar .

He's with Friedrich Kittler , Norbert Bolz , Georg Christoph Tholen , Peter Weibel , Wolfgang Coy , Claus Pias , Sybille Krämer and Wolfgang Ernst one of the pioneers of the German cultural studies dominated media studies .

Since 2008, Siegert and Lorenz Engell have been the director of the International College for Cultural Technology Research and Media Philosophy (IKKM) in Weimar .

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  • (with Lorenz Engell): Journal for Media and Culture Research , 2009 -, ISSN  1869-1366

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