Joachim Paech

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Joachim Paech (born February 28, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German film and media scholar . With his scientific work he is one of the pioneers of media studies institutionalized at German universities.

Life

Joachim Paech studied theater studies , German literature and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . In 1974 he was with the work "The theater of the Russian Revolution" doctorate . From 1975 to 1988 he was a temporary professor in the media studies course at the University of Osnabrück . He was then visiting professor at the Catholic University of Leuven (1988) and at the Institute for Modern German Literature at the Albrecht Ludwigs University of Freiburg (1988/1989). From 1989 until his retirement in 2007 he was professor for media studies at the University of Konstanz , where he taught in the newly established course in art and media studies.

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His main research interests are the theory and history of film , the intermediality of film, literature, and traditional arts. He analyzes the film in the context of the aesthetics of modernity and is interested in the mutual relationships between film and the pre-film procedures of the traditional arts. Cinematic narration, the narrative of film, cannot, according to Paech, be reduced to the film adaptation of literary originals. Novels and narratives of the 19th century ( Poe , Dickens , ETA Hoffmann , Flaubert , Zola , ...) that are characterized by pre-film montage techniques provide models for the narrative of the film and therefore belong to the literary prehistory of film art. As the early film drew on the popular theatrical displays, the spectacular fairground and magic arts, and refined its media-specific possibilities of montage, it developed its own cinematic notation. According to Paech, developments in cultural history, traffic and communication technology, the new organization of the visual world through city experience, panorama, department store, assembly line, automobile and railroad played just as important a role as the genre mixes of the literary avant-garde , which was fascinated by cinema. The trend towards the economization of film at the beginning of the 20th century, which then culminated in Hollywood's success story , led, according to Paech, to a change from discontinuous to continuous narration. Paech differentiates between medium and form. Since media cannot represent each other, cannot interact directly, the aesthetic form of one medium becomes the medium of the form of another medium. Only the shapes can be observed, e.g. B. Novel and feature film in which a medium appears. For example, films can never represent literary texts. Media is not a container that holds other media. Cinema is the medium, film is the form.

Fonts (selection)

  • The theater of the Russian Revolution. Theory and practice of proletarian cultural revolutionary theater in Russia 1917–1924 . Scriptor-Verlag, Kronberg / Taunus 1974. (Dissertation)
  • (as ed.): Film and television language. Texts on the development, structure and analysis of film and television language . Diesterweg Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1975; 1978; 1984.
  • Student television . Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 1977.
  • (with Anne Silberkuhl-Paech, as editor): Photo, video and film in school. Didactic and pedagogical requirements, technical basics, equipment, working practice, organization . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1979.
  • (with Knut Hickethier , as ed.): Models of film and television analysis . Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 1979.
  • (as ed.): Literature and film: Mephisto . Diesterweg Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1984.
  • (as ed.): Method problems in the analysis of filmed literature . Münster 1984; 2nd, revised edition 1988.
  • Passion or: The Imaginations of Jean-Luc Godard . German Film Museum, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
  • Literature and film . Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 1988. 2nd edition Stuttgart / Weimar 1997.
  • (as ed.): Film - television - video and the arts. Strategies of intermediality . Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart / Weimar 1994.
  • (with Anne Paech): People in the cinema. Telling film and literature . Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart / Weimar 2000.
  • Following the movement of a line ... writings on film . Vorwerk 8 Verlag, Berlin 2002. (Collection of articles)
  • (with Jens Schröter , as editor): Intermediality, analog / digital. Theories - Methods - Analyzes . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2008.
  • Why media? . Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 2008. (Farewell lecture at the University of Konstanz on April 30, 2007)
  • (with Dieter Mersch , as editor): Program (s). First media science symposium of the DFG . diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2014.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online edition available from KOPS at the University of Konstanz
personal data
SURNAME Paech, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and media scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin