Gertrud Koch (scientist)
Gertrud Koch (born March 20, 1949 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) is a German film scholar and professor of film studies at the Free University of Berlin .
She studied sociology, philosophy, German and educational sciences in Frankfurt am Main . Koch made a name for herself as a film critic in Frankfurt and published a. a. in the Frankfurter Rundschau.
From 1991 to 1998 she taught at the University of Bochum until she succeeded Karsten Witte at the Free University of Berlin .
She is an important representative of German feminism and an important film scholar in Germany. She is also co-editor of Women and Film and on the advisory board of the online film magazine nachfilm .
Awards
Fonts
- with Hauke Brunkhorst : Herbert Marcuse for an introduction. Hamburg 1987.
- "What I get are pictures". For the cinematic representation of the gender difference. Frankfurt am Main 1988.
- The attitude is the attitude. On the visual construction of Judaism. Frankfurt am Main 1992.
- Siegfried Kracauer for an introduction. Hamburg 1996.
- Empathy. On the past and present of an aesthetic concept. Munich 2008 (together with Robin Curtis ).
- Breaking Bad. Zurich 2015.
- The return of illusion: film and contemporary art . Frankfurt am Main 2016.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gertrud Koch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Koch at the Free University of Berlin
- The immortal body. Cinema and fear of death , lecture (video / audio)
- Gertrud Koch (scientist) in the database of renowned scientists AcademiaNet
- Entry by Koch in the DFG's Gepris database
Individual evidence
- ↑ see homepage of the magazine "Nachfilm"
- ↑ Honorary Award of the German Film Critics 2019 to Gertrud Koch . In: Association of German Film Critics (VdFk.de) from February 24, 2020, accessed on February 25, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koch, Gertrud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Garmisch-Partenkirchen |