Elisabeth Büttner (film scholar)
Elisabeth Büttner (born December 30, 1961 in Würzburg ; died February 28, 2016 in Vienna ) was a German film scholar .
Life
Elisabeth Büttner studied theater and film studies, German and linguistics in Vienna and Berlin and received her doctorate from the Free University of Berlin. She taught at various universities and institutions and was a co-founder of the cooperative "Das Kino CO-OP" in Vienna.
In 2007 Büttner was appointed to the first Austrian professorship for Theory of Film at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna . Her two-volume history of Austrian film, written together with Christian Dewald, was awarded the Austrian Victor Adler State Prize for the History of Social Movements . She was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .
Fonts (selection)
- with Viktoria Metschl (Ed.): Figurations of Solidarity. Algeria, cinema and the rhythms of anti-colonial internationalism. Verlag Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-947238-00-2 .
- with Vrääth Öhner and Lena Stölzl (eds.): Make visible. Documentary Politics. Verlag Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-940384-96-6 .
- with Joachim Schätz (Ed.): Werner Hochbaum. Film on the edges of history. Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902781-11-6 .
- with Andrea B. Braidt (Ed.): John Cassavetes: filmmaker. Böhlau, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78506-4 .
- (Ed.): Paul Fejos. The world makes films. Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-901932-31-3 .
- with Christian Dewald: The daily burning. A history of Austrian film from its beginnings to 1945. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7017-1261-1 . (a project of the cooperative »das kino co-op«, Vienna)
- Projection. Assembly. Politics. The practice of the ideas of Jean-Luc Godard (Ici et ailleurs) and Gilles Deleuze (Cinéma 2, L'image-temps). Synema, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-901644-04-0 .
- with Christian Dewald: connection to tomorrow. A history of Austrian film from 1945 to the present. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7017-1089-9 .
literature
- Christian Dewald, Petra Löffler, Marc Ries (eds.): Cinema work love. Homage to Elisabeth Büttner. Verlag Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-940384-95-9 . (including unpublished works and catalog raisonné by EB)
Web links
- Literature by and about Elisabeth Büttner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Elisabeth Büttner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Andrea B. Braidt: Obituary for Elisabeth Büttner (1961–2016) at univie; see also In: SYN - magazine for theater, film and media studies , vol. 12 »unbounded. Synthesis solutions «, Vienna: Lit Verlag 2016, pp. 15–17.
- Vinzenz Hediger: »You know, I love experiments.« Obituary for Elisabeth Büttner In: zfm - Journal for Media Studies , No. 14, »Media Ecologies«, Zurich / Berlin: diaphanes 2016, p. 186 f.
- Reading, film screening, workshop “To think about doing, to think about film - with Elisabeth Büttner” May 19-20, 2016, Austrian Film Museum and tfm | Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. Concept: Iris Fraueneder, Viktoria Metschl, Lena Stölzl. Contributors: Iris Fraueneder, Rosa John, Melanie Letschnig, Viktoria Metschl, Vrääth Öhner, Joachim Schätz, Lena Stölzl.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elisabeth Büttner in City46
- ^ Elisabeth Büttner grave site , Vienna, Zentralfriedhof, group 59, group extension C, row 12, no.27.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Büttner, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg , Bavaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 2016 |
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria |