Jörg Schweinitz

Jörg Schweinitz (* 1953 in Potsdam ) is a German film scholar .

Schweinitz studied art and cultural studies at the University of Leipzig from 1973 to 1978 and received his doctorate in 1981 with a study on film aesthetics. 1981–85 he was a research assistant at the University of Leipzig, Cultural and Art Studies Section, 1985–92 research assistant at the Academy of Arts in Berlin (East), film research area. From 1993–94 he was a Research Fellow at Princeton University .

Schweinitz received a habilitation scholarship from the DFG and completed his habilitation in 2002 at the University of Konstanz , but has meanwhile held substitute professorships, for example at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Klagenfurt , the Philipps University of Marburg , and the University of Chicago at the Ruhr University Bochum and at the University of Zurich . In 2006 he was appointed professor of media history at the Potsdam University of Film and Television in Babelsberg , and from 2007 to 2018 he was a full professor at the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich, where he was director from 2008 to 2013.

Publications (selection)

• Aspects of the aesthetic attractiveness of feature films: aesthetic-theoretical sub. with special consideration of the entertainment- oriented reception context Leipzig 1981 OCLC 916930035 Zugl. Dissertation A , University of Leipzig 1981
• Prologue before the film - thinking about a new medium 1909-1914 . Reclam, Leipzig 1992
• Film and stereotype. A challenge for cinema and film theory. On the history of a media discourse . Akademie, Berlin 2006 ISBN 3-05-004282-6 (Additional habilitation thesis University of Konstanz 2002: Stereotype and Film )
  • Film and stereotypes. A Challenge for Cinema and Theory . Columbia University Press, New York 2011 ISBN 978-0-231-15149-8
• with Margit Tröhler Ed .: The time of the picture has dawned! Alexander Verlag Berlin , 2016. Contributions by René Clair , Jean Epstein , Louis Feuillade , Abel Gance , Marcel L'Herbier , Louis Aragon , Blaise Cendrars , Jean Cocteau , Georgette Leblanc , Fernand Léger , Colette , Louis Delluc , Henri Bergson and others. a.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Schweinitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Texts by Jörg Schweinitz on mediarep.org.