Friedrich Knilli

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Friedrich Knilli (2009)

Friedrich Knilli (born Friedrich Venier on February 14, 1930 in Fehring , Styria ; died on or before February 2, 2022 ) was a German-Austrian media scholar .

Life

Friedrich Knilli studied mechanical engineering in Graz and then psychology ( doctorate 1959) and general literature ( habilitation 1972) in Tübingen , Munich and Graz . From 1960 he lived as a freelance writer , working mainly for the Austrian and South German radio .

Knilli is best known for his book Das Hörspiel . Means and Possibilities of a Total Sound Play (1961), in which he took a counter-position to the “radio play pope” of the time, Heinz Schwitzke , and his definition of the radio play as a pure play on words.

For the screenplay for Auf, Sozialisten, close the ranks! Deutsches Arbeitertheater 1867–1918 (television play document, NDR 1970) Knilli received the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1971 .

From 1972 until his retirement , Friedrich Knilli was a professor of general literature with a focus on media studies at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1986 he founded the main course "Diploma Media Consulting", which he headed until 1998.

Since the mid-1970s, his other research focuses have included the portrayal of Jews in the media. In a research project, he and his research group examined viewer reactions to the broadcast of the mini-TV series Holocaust - The History of the White Family based on the letters to the WDR .

Knilli wrote the biography Ich war Jud Süss about the actor Ferdinand Marian , the lead in the anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süss (1940) directed by Veit Harlan . Based on this template, Oskar Roehler shot his 2009 film Jud Süss – Film ohne Conscience , which ran in competition at the 60th Berlinale in 2010 .

In a brief review by Deutschlandfunk Kultur after his death, it says, among other things: about Knilli: "For him, the media debate about the Holocaust was a kitschy version of Auschwitz."

Friedrich Knilli died a few days before his 92nd birthday.

factories

  • 1959 The radio play in the imagination of the listener
  • 1961 The radio play - means and possibilities of a total sound play , Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart.
  • 1963 Commercial Lending Libraries: Reports, Analysis and Interviews , with B. von Arnim, Thienemann Verlag, Gütersloh
  • 1970 German loudspeakers. Attempt at a semiotics of the radio , Metzlersche JB Verlagsbuchhandlung, ISBN 3476000834
  • 1970 Early German workers' theater 1847–1918: a documentation , with Ursula Münchow, Akademie-Verlag.
  • 1971 Introduction to film and television analysis: an ABC for viewers , with E. Reiss and Karin Reiss, Anabas-Verlag, Steinbach
  • 1971 Semiotics of the film: With analyzes of commercial porn and revolutionary agitation films , with E. Reiss and Knut Hickethier, Hanser Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3446113762
  • 1976 Literature in the Mass Media. Gasket disassembly? , with Knut Hickethier and Wolf Dieter Lützen, Hanser Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3446122648
  • 1982 Holocaust for entertainment. Anatomy of an international bestseller; Facts, photos, research reports , with Siegfried Zielinski, Elefanten Press, Berlin, ISBN 3882900121
  • 1982 The radio play. Means and possibilities of a total sound game , Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 3170880071
  • 1982 Medienmagazin I , with Erwin Reiss and Knuth Hickethier, Hanser Verlag, ISBN 3446118756
  • 1983 Jud Suss. Film protocol , program booklet and individual analyses, with Thomas Maurer and Thomas Radevagen, Volker Spiess Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 3-88435-090-0
  • 1985 Lion Feuchtwanger: "... for reason, against stupidity and violence" , with Walter Huder, Publica Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 3-89087-017-1
  • 1985 The entertainment of the German television family. Brief analyzes of series critical of ideology , Hanser Verlag, ISBN 3446113932
  • 1985 Subject: Holocaust. Viewers write to the WDR; a project report (with Siegfried Zielinski, Erwin Gundelsheimer, Frank Ostermann and Heino Mass), Volker Spiess Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 388435082X
  • 1986 Medium Metropolis: Berlin, Paris, New York , with Michael Nehrlich and Heino Mass, Winter Verlag, Heidelberg ISBN 3-533-03781-9
  • 1991 The Electronic Literature Review. The database program Jud Süss/Jews and Media , with Reiner Matzker in the series Germanistic Media Studies Vol
  • 2000 I was a Jew Suss . The Story of the Movie Star Ferdinand Marian , with a foreword by Alphons Silberman, Henschel Verlag, ISBN 389487340X
  • 2009 The radio play in the imagination of the listener. Self-observations , Peter Lang Verlag: Frankfurt am Main, 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-56127-0

radio plays

  • 1956 Pantalone , directed by Herbert Spalke (ORF Styria)
  • 1960 What does the listener see An experimental investigation into the stimulation of the imagination through hearing, directed by Imo Wilimzig (SDR)
  • 1963 There are Germans and Germans , directed by the author (SFB)
  • 1964 Where the Aar still lives (ORF)
  • 1969 The lust for capitalism - A radio declaration together with Erwin Reiss, directed by the author (WDR)
  • 1982 The Jew in Us (together with Clemens Schwender , Heino Maß, Susanne Mechnich, Erwin Gundelsheimer, Elke Weisser, Sabine Nehls and others), Director: Götz Naleppa (HR)
  • 2018 Descent into Hell - A Media Experiment , Director: Götz Naleppa (Deutschlandradio Kultur)

movies

  • Join the ranks, socialists! German workers' theater 1867-1918, screenplay, director, television play, NDR 1970, Adolf Grimme Prize 1971

writings

  • How the media became a science, exposé for a socio-biographical specialist history , in: MEDIENwissenschaft: recensions, reviews, 1/2003, Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2003, p. 17ff. Go to Article
  • Thirty years of teaching and research work on the media history of ›Jud Süss – A Report, in: Alexandra Przyrembel /Jörg Schönert (editors), »Jud Süss« Hofjude, literary figure, anti-Semitic caricature, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3593379872
  • Lion Feuchtwanger Relaunched. Interim reports and documents on the status of the Internet project, in: Ian Wallace (ed.), Feuchtwanger and Film, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, pp. 351-366

web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Since 1940 Friedrich Knilli, cf. Interview That was a mess , ORF Steiermark, November 8, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Siegfried Zielinski on the death of the media theorist Friedrich Knilli , Deutschlandfunk Kultur heute of February 2, 2022, retrieved on February 2, 2022
  3. ↑ On the death of Friedrich Knilli , hoerspielundfeature.de, retrieved on February 4, 2022.
personal data
SURNAME Knilli, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media scientist
BIRTH DATE February 14, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Fehring , Styria
DATE OF DEATH before February 2, 2022