Georg Seeßlen
Georg Seeßlen (* 1948 in Munich ) is a German author , columnist , cineast and film and culture critic .
Life
Seeßlen studied painting with Karl Fred Dahmen , art history and semiology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
He was a lecturer at various universities in Germany and abroad. He works as a freelance writer on social, cultural and film topics, for u. a. epd Film , Frankfurter Rundschau , Der Freitag , Jungle World , specifically , Der Tagesspiegel , taz , Die Zeit and Das Science Fiction Jahr and published numerous books on the subject. Seeßlen regularly writes features for radio that deal with current trends in cinema and popular culture , mostly in collaboration with Markus Metz , with whom he brought out several books.
Seeßlen was elected as a new member of the Film and Media Art section at the spring general meeting of the Berlin Academy of the Arts on May 25, 2013.
He lives in Kaufbeuren and Liguria .
Topics and positions
Seeßlen deals critically with current social developments in his film reviews and books. In more recent publications such as Orgasm and Daily Life , Seeßlen deals with television and current political events. Seeßlen sees entertainment politically. For example, the telenovelas in Latin America had accompanied the exploitation of women in the informal family economy decades ago, in Germany it was no different: "The afternoon of television belongs to the loser women of neoliberalism ". In an interview in 2016, Seeßlen expressed the hope that refugees could save Europe from “further brutalization and stupidity”. In an essay in February 2017, he advocated the thesis that “the last remaining weapon of the left and liberals” was the language that right-wing populists like Donald Trump “poison”.
reception
Jan Distelmeyer discussed Seeßlen's Scorsese biography in 2004 :
“How can one live up to abundance? [...] Own, because the ramifications cannot necessarily be followed without contradiction, because this sovereignty is based on a combination of knowledge and observation that is unique in German film journalism, and because Seeßlen has made this semiotic - culture-critical method his personal for over 25 years . [...] 'Martin Scorsese' is so much a personal and paradigmatic book that it virtually challenges the book 'Georg Seeßlen'. "
Award
The jury of the Bert Donnepp Prize awarded Seeßlen the media journalism prize for 2017. She paid tribute to his many years of media journalism. He is a very precise observer and gains insights from TV comedy formats or the Eurovision Song Contest, "which can be socio-politically illuminating for the reader".
Fonts (selection)
- The asphalt jungle. An introduction to the mythology, history and theory of American gangster films , Munich 1977
- The pornographic film , Frankfurt am Main and Berlin 1990 ( ISBN 3-550-06438-1 )
- Fist. Materials for a film by Peter Gorski , Gustaf Gründgens Meisterwerk , Duisburg 1992 ( ISBN 3-88932-050-3 )
- Western . History and mythology of western films , Marburg 1995
- Clint Eastwood meets Federico Fellini . Essays on cinema , Berlin 1996 ( ISBN 3-929470-05-5 )
- Natural born Nazis , Berlin 1996
- Erotica , Marburg 1996
- with Lars-Olav Beier (Ed.): Alfred Hitchcock , film 7, Berlin 1999 ( ISBN 3-929470-76-4 )
- Copland: History and Mythology of Police Films , Marburg 1999
- with Fernand Jung: Stanley Kubrick and his films. 3rd, improved and supplemented edition. Schüren, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89472-312-5 .
- with Peter Körte (eds.): Joel & Ethan Coen , film: 2, Berlin 2000 ( ISBN 3-929470-98-5 )
- Orgasm and everyday life. Crusades and transverse moves through the media mainstream , KVV Konkret, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-930786-30-5 .
- An innocent look at the world? Steven Spielberg and his films , Marburg 2001 ( ISBN 3-89472-335-1 )
- David Lynch and his films , Marburg 2002 (6th, expanded and revised edition, Arte Edition, Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89472-437-5 or ISBN 3-89472-437-4 )
- with Fernand Jung: Science Fiction , Marburg 2002
- The matrix decrypted , Berlin 2003 ( ISBN 3-86505-151-0 )
- Martin Scorsese , film: 6, Berlin 2003 ( ISBN 3-929470-72-1 )
- Drew Barrymore , stars! 4, Berlin 2003 ( ISBN 3-929470-34-9 )
- with Peter Körte and Robert Fischer: Quentin Tarantino , film: 1, 4th expanded and completely revised edition, Berlin 2004 ( ISBN 3-929470-88-8 )
- with Fernand Jung: Horror. History and mythology of horror films , basics of popular film, Marburg 2006, ISBN 3-89472-430-7 .
- Quentin Tarantino against the Nazis. Everything about Inglourious Basterds . 2nd corrected and expanded edition, Bertz + Fischer , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86505-702-0 .
- with Markus Metz: stupid machines. The fabrication of stupidity . edition suhrkamp 2609. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-12609-7 .
- Film knowledge: adventure . Popular movie basics. Schüren, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89472-704-8 . (Extended new edition of the 1996 edition)
- with Markus Metz: Citizens arise! Laika, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-942281-11-9 .
- with Markus Metz: We undead! About posthumans, zombies, botox monsters and other forms of survival and under-life in Life Science & Pulp Fiction. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-88221-563-2 .
- Traces of love in Michael Haneke's films . In: Michael Haneke: Love. The book. Hanser Berlin / Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-24027-8 , pp. 173-206.
- Dietmar Schönherr . From the fantastic adventures of the Orion spaceship to make a wish . 1st edition. Reichelt and Brockmann , Mannheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-923801-60-2 .
- Lars von Trier goes porn: (not only) about NYMPHOMANIAC , Bertz + Fischer, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86505-726-6 .
- with Markus Metz: money eats art - art eats money. A pamphlet suhrkamp, Berlin 2014 ISBN 978-3-518-12675-2 .
- Digital dating. Love and Sex in the Times of the Internet , Bertz + Fischer, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86505-732-7 .
- with Markus Metz: hatred and hope. Germany, Europe and the refugees , Bertz + Fischer, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86505-737-2 .
- Trump! POPulism as Politics , Bertz + Fischer, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86505-745-7 .
- with Markus Metz: freedom and control. The story of the slave who was not liberated to the end , suhrkamp, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-12730-8 .
- Is This the End? Pop between liberation and oppression , Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-89320-228-7
- with Markus Metz: The shift to the right. Sketches for a theory of political cultural change , Bertz + Fischer, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86505-747-1 .
- with Markus Metz: Capitalist (sur) realism. Neoliberalism as Aesthetics , Bertz + Fischer, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86505-735-8
- with Markus Metz: Dream of Freedom and Control Machine , bahoe books , Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-903022-93-5
- Corona control - after the crisis, before the disaster , bahoe books , Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-903290-37-2
Radio (all with Markus Metz)
- The digital future of cinema: myth, magic and picture rubbish. First broadcast on March 19, 2006 on Deutschlandradio Kultur
- Pixel-Monsters Electronic Kisses - The Brave New World of Digital Cinema , Radio Feature, WDR 2006
- Nice sound, terrible noise. Looking for an acoustic aesthetic in a noisy time. Radio feature about sound design, Deutschlandfunk 2008
- The Dick Files. A science fiction author feels observed , radio feature about the author Philip K. Dick , Deutschlandradio Kultur 2008
- "Scoring cat! Full of treachery, a gap in the bridge “- The Long Night of Rascal Stories , Time Travel, Deutschlandradio Kultur 2008
- A century of cinema passion - the history of the oldest movie theater in the world , time travel, Deutschlandradio Kultur 2008
- Mockumenta 3. The fake event of the year 2009 , radio feature, Deutschlandradio Kultur 2009
- On the transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity , time travel, Deutschlandradio Kultur 2009
- “Anything but no hero” - The rediscovery of the writer Rudolf Lorenzen , Deutschlandradio Kultur 2009
- The cinema speaks German - gloss and misery of synchronization , time travel, Deutschlandradio Kultur 2009
- Elevator blues. Elevator to the penthouse. Radio feature about the changes in the residents of the upper floors after the introduction of elevators, Deutschlandfunk 2009
- This is where dreams are made. The Bavaria Filmstudio Radio Feature, SWR 2010
- Monsters, Girls and Motors - A Brief History of Drive-In Cinema , Time Travel, Deutschlandradio Kultur 2010
- Sweet and stupid and very business-promoting - the success story of the mascot , time travel, Deutschlandradio Kultur 2010
- Zombies! Deconstructing a Myth. Radio feature on Voodoo , Deutschlandfunk 2011
- Whiskers and bikini line - a short cultural history of body shaving , time travel, Deutschlandradio Kultur 2011
- Trash. A declaration of love. Radio feature about " Trash " as an honorary title for pop products, Deutschlandfunk 2012
- "Addicted to Truthfulness." The director Michael Haneke. Radio feature about the film director Michael Haneke , WDR 3 and Deutschlandfunk, 2012
- Heldendämmerung: Notes on post-heroic society , radio feature, Deutschlandradio Kultur 2012
- Millions of pictures. How the market changes art. Radio feature about the effect of the art market on art, Deutschlandfunk, 2013
- Interview with the speaking machine. Text-to-Speech programs and the pitfalls of artificial communication , Deutschlandradio Kultur 2013
- Anarchist and child friend. A Long Night about Kasperl's Metamorphoses , Long Night, Deutschlandfunk 2014
- Deep Impact - Cosmic Catastrophes , radio feature, Deutschlandfunk 2014
- About freedom - the dialectical relationship between freedom and control , two-part radio essay, Deutschlandfunk 2014
- A special energy. The encounter between art and pop , radio feature, Deutschlandradio Kultur 2014
- "Love is colder than death." A Long Night about Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Long Night, Deutschlandfunk 2015
- Twilight on the edge. A long night about villains and seducers , Long Night, Deutschlandfunk 2015
- Best of Mao, Hitler, Stalin. Dictators as sensitive artists , radio feature, Deutschlandfunk 2015
- The filmmaker Christoph Schlingensief. "75 minutes with your fist on the screen" , radio feature, Deutschlandfunk 2015
- Divestment as a strategy against climate change. "Pull the coal off!" , Radio essay, Deutschlandfunk 2015
- Midnight Crime - Murder in Studio 12 , radio play, Deutschlandfunk 2016
- Eckhard Henscheid's fight against stupidity - a trip to the land of the stupid Germans , radio feature about Eckhard Henscheid , author of the New Frankfurt School and for the satirical magazines pardon and Titanic , Deutschlandfunk 2016
- What is money anyway? , Radio essay, Deutschlandfunk 2016
- Look-play and light-picture. The Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Connection. With Hans Helmut Prinzler . Radio feature about the filmmaker Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau . First broadcast on January 21, 2017 on Bayern 2
- The human being as a citizen , radio essay, Deutschlandfunk 2017
- People and elite. A crisis report , Bavaria 2, 2017
- Special offers: How shopping impulses are triggered by “creative” pricing , Radio-Essay, Deutschlandfunk 2019
- Pulp Fiction in the Empire: The Kolportage writer Robert Kraft , freestyle feature, first broadcast on August 23, 2020 in the DLF, director: Matthias Kapohl
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Seeßlen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Georg Seeßlen in the German Digital Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Georg Seeßlen at perlentaucher.de
- Archive of the texts by Georg Seeßlen at www.getidan.de
- An overview of Georg Seeßlen's reviews , online archive from filmzentrale.com
- Article by Georg Seeßlen at Die Zeit
- Article by Georg Seeßlen in Jungle World
- Stefan Höltgen : "For eternity but not necessarily for tomorrow" , interview with Georg Seeßlen in F.LM - Texts on the Film , June 1, 2002
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Rutschky : Towards the end. Diary entries 1996–2009. Berlin 2019. p. 73.
- ^ Ekkehard Knörer : Lexicon of Critics: Georg Seeßlen at www.jump-cut.de, September 14, 2001
- ↑ Jörg Auberg: Rohstoff Dummheit , About the intellectual duo of authors Markus Metz and Georg Seeßlen, satt.org , January 5, 2013
- ↑ Akademie der Künste Berlin - AdK blog from June 27, 2013 , accessed on July 17, 2013
- ↑ Michael Rutschky: Towards the end. Diary entries 1996–2009. Berlin 2019. p. 73.
- ↑ Georg Seeßlen: Global comfort machine. The Telenovela: A brand new, ancient format conquers the German screen. "Storm of Love" starts in the first . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 25, 2005.
- ↑ Benjamin Moldenhauer: Discourse on the AfD , Spiegel Online, March 17, 2016
- ↑ Donald Trump: Voice attack of the right-wing populists - Trumpets of Trumpism - SPIEGEL ONLINE . Website mirror online. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
- ^ Jan Distelmeyer : epd film . No. 2/2004 , 2004, ISSN 0176-2044 , p. 54 .
- ↑ Bert Donnepp Prize to epd film author Georg Seeßlen In: epd-film .de, January 22, 2018, accessed on January 26, 2018.
- ↑ Table of contents (pdf), prologue (pdf)
- ↑ spiegel.de March 17, 2016: Interview
- ↑ Dominik Irtenkauf: Donald Trump: Populism as Politics , Interview with Georg Seeßlen, Telepolis , January 20, 2017
- ↑ Uli Krug: That's the end! Georg Seeßlen is right. He judges contemporary pop even more mildly , Jungle World , March 29, 2018
- ↑ Script from Here dreams are produced. The Bavaria film studio
- ↑ Script for "Trash"
- ↑ Script from "Addicted to Truthfulness." The director Michael Haneke.
- ↑ Script from Millions of Pictures. How the market changes art.
- ^ Script from Best of Mao, Hitler, Stalin
- ^ The Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Connection , Bayern 2 , January 21, 2017 ( Download )
- ↑ How shopping impulses are triggered by “creative” pricing , Deutschlandfunk , May 19, 2019
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Seeßlen, Georg |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author, columnist and film critic |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |