Daniel Illger
Daniel Illger (born November 27, 1977 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German writer and film scholar.
life and work
Daniel Illger studied film studies and comparative literature as well as philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Free University of Berlin . In 2009 he received his doctorate on the subject of the aesthetic disposition of Western European post-war cinema using the example of city productions and completed his habilitation in 2019 at the Free University of Berlin. He has been a visiting professor for film studies there since 2019.
In addition to numerous scientific monographs and essays, Illger published three fantasy novels with Klett-Cotta . His novel The Path of Black Light was awarded the Seraph Fantastic Literature Prize for the best debut in 2016. From 2010 to 2015 he was co-editor of the magazine for Fantastikforschung .
Illger is a member of the German Society for Fantastic Research (GfF) and was a. a. active in the organizing committee of the annual conference 2019. He is also a member of the German Society for Media Research (GfM), the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (Necs) and the Fantastic Author Network PAN.
Today Daniel Illger lives in Berlin and Zurich.
Awards and nominations
- 2016: SERAPH for the best debut with The Path of Black Light
Works
Fiction
- Skargat 1: The Path of Black Light. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3608981605 .
- Skargat 2: The Law of Shadows. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3608949698 .
- Skargat 3: The star of midnight. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3608981247 .
Non-fiction
- Home searches. City and historicity in Italian post-war cinema. Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3940384263 .
- In the shade of green suns. Poetics and Politics of Fantasy in the Video Game Medium. Habilitation thesis, Free University of Berlin, 2019.
Editorships (selection)
- with Hermann Kappelhoff and Christine Lötscher: Cinematic side glances. Cinepoetic excursions to the cinema from 1968. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2018, ISBN 978-3110613179 .
- with Hermann Kappelhoff and Bernhard Groß: Democratization of Perception? Western European post-war cinema. Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3940384294 .
Web links
- Daniel Illger - Home
- Profile of the author at the Fantastic Author Network PAN
- Interview with Daniel Illger at the Catholic Media Center in Switzerland (2017): Fantasy asks for hope in the face of the all-consuming darkness
- Literature by and about Daniel Illger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Daniel Illger in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Daniel Illger Website of the Free University of Berlin. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- ↑ a b Prize winners of the SERAPH website of the Fantastic Academy. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- ^ 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Fantastic Research Website of the Free University of Berlin. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- ↑ About the author Website from Daniel Illger. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Illger, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and film scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bergisch Gladbach |