Friedrich Balke

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Friedrich Balke (* 1961 ) is a German philosopher , cultural and media scientist . He holds the chair for media studies with special consideration of the theory, history and aesthetics of documentary forms at the Ruhr University in Bochum and spokesman for the DFG graduate school “Documentary. Excess and withdrawal ”.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1980 and subsequent civil service, Friedrich Balke studied German , philosophy and education at the Ruhr University in Bochum. After passing the state examination , he was a doctoral candidate from 1989 to 1992 in the DFG graduate college "Communication forms as forms of life" at the University of Siegen and then assistant in the scientific editing department at S. Fischer Verlag (with Günther Busch). In 1995 he was awarded with the work “The state after its end. The Temptation of Carl Schmitt ”is doing her doctorate at the Ruhr University Bochum. From 1996 to 2000 Friedrich Balke was Scientific Coordinator of the Siegen Graduate School "Intermediality" and from 2000 to 2007 Scientific Director of the Collaborative Research Center "Media and Cultural Communication" at the University of Cologne , where he led a sub-project on the subject of "Imagination and Political Order" .

In 2006 he received his habilitation at the University of Potsdam with a thesis on the cultural and media history of sovereign power from antiquity to the present ("Figures of Sovereignty") ( Venia legendi for the subjects of philosophy and cultural studies). In 2007 he accepted the professorship for the history and theory of artificial worlds at the Bauhaus University Weimar . From 2008 to 2012 he was the spokesman for the DFG graduate school “Medial Historiographies” at the universities of Weimar, Erfurt and Jena, and from 2010 to 2011 Vice-Rector for Studies and Teaching at the Bauhaus University. In 2012 he was offered the professorship for media culture studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Since the winter semester of the same year he has held the professorship for media studies with special consideration of the theory, history and aesthetics of documentary forms at the Ruhr University in Bochum.

In 2006 Friedrich Balke was visiting professor at the Department of Germanic Languages ​​and Literatures at Columbia University , New York . This was followed by fellowships at the “International College for Cultural Technology Research and Media Philosophy” (IKKM) in Weimar (2011/12), at the Excellence Cluster “TOPOI” at the Humboldt University in Berlin (2012), at the college research group “BildEvidenz. Aesthetics and History ”(2014) and at the Cluster of Excellence“ Cultural Foundations of Integration ”at the University of Konstanz (2016).

Since 2013, Balke has been the deputy spokesman for the DFG research group "Media and Mimesis", which he co-requested. The DFG Research Training Group for which he was responsible, “The Documentary. Excess and withdrawal ”started work at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in the winter semester 2016/17.

One of Friedrich Balke's research focuses is the change in form and function of sovereign power as well as the investigation of the cultural and media requirements and reflections of modern government techniques. In addition, he researches and publishes on contemporary French philosophy ( e.g. on Deleuze , Foucault and Rancière ), on the cultural and media history of mimetic practices (here most recently on Erich Auerbach and Walter Benjamin ), on the theory and history of the documentary ( e.g. using the example of Philip Scheffner ) and on serial formats in literature, film and television.

Friedrich Balke is co-editor of the “Archive for Media History”. He is a regular contributor to the magazine “cargo. Movie. Media. Culture".

Fonts

  • The state after its end. The temptation of Carl Schmitt . Fink, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7705-3098-5 (also dissertation).
  • Gilles Deleuze as an introduction . Campus, 1998, ISBN 3-593-35980-4 .
  • From a biopolitical point of view: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Crime . In: Cardozo Law Review . 2003, p. 705-722 .
  • Friedrich Balke, Volker Roloff (ed.): Erotic research. Marcel Proust's decoding of intimacy. Fink, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7705-3688-6 .
  • Friedrich Balke, Joseph Vogl, Benno Wagner (eds.): For all and none. Reading, writing and life with Nietzsche and Kafka. Diaphanes, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-03734-039-4 .
  • Figures of sovereignty . Fink, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4449-3 .
  • Friedrich Balke, Maria Muhle, Antonia von Schöning (ed.): The return of things. Kadmos, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86599-146-1 .
  • Friedrich Balke, Rembert Hüser: Traveling with Kafka. Paris, Weimar . August, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-941360-39-6 .
  • Friedrich Balke, Hanna Engelmeier: Mimesis and Figura. With a new edition of the “Figura” essay by Erich Auerbach . Fink, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-7705-6096-7 .
  • Mimesis as an introduction . Junius, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-96060-302-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Balke, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, cultural and media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961