Karin Bruns

This article deals with the media and literary scholar Karin Bruns; for the artist of the same name, see Karin Bruns (artist) .

Karin Bruns (* 1957 ; † October 7, 2016 in Linz ) was a media and literary scholar and since 2003 professor for media theories at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design in Linz .

life and work

Karin Bruns studied literature and linguistics, social psychology and social anthropology at the Ruhr University Bochum until 1984 . After completing her master's degree with the thesis Human Machines and Machine Men : Investigations into Subject Formation in Science Fiction , she completed her doctorate in 1993 with cinema myths 1920–1945. The film drafts of Thea von Harbou . From 1987 to 2000 she was one of the organizers of the women's film festival “femme totale” in Dortmund (today: Internationales Frauen-Film-Festival IFFF) and curated film and video programs in Germany and England. She taught at the Ruhr University in Bochum, the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig and the University of Television and Film in Munich . In 2004 she qualified as a professor at the comprehensive university in Essen with the thesis Fleeting Apparitions. Political image functions of audiovisual body presentations between 1900 and 2001.

Since 2003 she has been Professor of Media Theories, since 2004 Head of the Institute for Media and since 2009 Chairwoman of the Senate of the University of Artistic and Industrial Design Linz. Her research interests were: theories of digital media and intermediality; Theory and history of the 'format'; Gender and media; Cultures of Rumor on the World Wide Web.

literature

Complete list of publications at:

Recent literature and monographs (selection)

• High time for Mr. Hitchcock. Game as a knowledge technique between time management and game engine. In: Caja Thimm (Ed.): The game: pattern and metaphor of the media society. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 151–168.
• Do you remember "Katrina"? From orientation knowledge “climate” to mediopolitical catastrophism. In: Gerhard Banse, Matthias Wieser, Rainer Winter (eds.): New media and cultural diversity. Concepts and Practices. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2009, pp. 173–188.
• All by myself. Audiovisual self-publication techniques in pornographic web forums. In: Photo history. Contributions to the history and aesthetics of photography, 29th year, volume 1: Amateurs. Laypeople change visual culture. Edited by Susanne Regener, spring 2009.
• Telling archives: weblogs, V-blogs and online diaries as documentary-fictional formats. In: Harro Segeberg (Ed.): References. On the theory and history of the real in the media. Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-673-7 , pp. 314-333. (= Series of publications by the Society for Media Studies, Volume 16)
• Film and cinema. In: Hanser's Social History of German Literature: Vol. 9: National Socialism and Exile 1933–1945. Edited by Wilhelm Haefs. Hanser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-12784-5 .
• The stubborn audience: four theses on a theory of multicourse formats. In: Joachim Paech, Jens Schröter (Hrsg.): Intermedialität - Analog / Digital. Fink, Munich 2008, pp. 531-546.
• Reader new media. Texts on digital culture and communication. (together with Ramón Reichert). Transcript, Bielefeld 2007.
• IKEA revisited. Media aesthetics as an artistic practice between life design and subversion. In: K 60. Art University Linz, Linz 2007, pp. 22–33;
• Handbook of literary-cultural associations, groups and leagues 1825–1933. Stuttgart / Weimar 1998. (together with W. Wülfing and R. Parr).
• 100 years of women and cinema. Dortmund 1996. (Ed. With Silke J. Räbiger and Gudrun Schäfer on behalf of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia).
• Cinema myths 1920-1945. The film drafts of Thea von Harbou. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1995.
• Historical mythology of the Germans 1798–1918. Fink, Munich 1991. (Ed. With Wulf Wülfing and Rolf Parr).
• Dignity or the secret of a smile. Women's film culture in the Soviet Union. (together with Silke J. Räbiger, Brigitte Schmidt). efef-Verlag, Dortmund 1990.
• Women's Video Catalog. Video films by women from German-speaking countries. Hamburg 1990. (together with Claudia Richarz).

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1. ↑ party
2. ↑ Employee page - Art University Linz http://www.ufg.ac.at/Detail.372.0.html?emloyee=195
3. ^ Staff page - Publications.pdf - Art University Linz http://www.ufg.ac.at/Detail.372.0.html?emloyee=195
4. ↑ New media and cultural diversity. Concepts and Practices. http://www.itas.kit.edu/pub/m/2009/baua09a_inhalt.htm
5. ↑ Photo history http://www.fotogeschichte.info/
6. ↑ References http://www.dezibyte.com/Referenzen_AID2391.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ National Socialism and Exile 1933–1945 http://www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/buecher/buch.html?isbn=978-3-446-12784-5  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Intermediality - Analog / Digital. http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/buecher/Buch-Info.php?buch_id=24520
9. ↑ Kunstuniversität Linz - Publications http://www.ufg.ac.at/k60.5068.0.html
10. ↑ 100 Years of Women and Cinema - Film Festival / Publications http://www.frauenfilmfestival.eu/index.php?main=publications

Web links

• Literature by and about Karin Bruns in the catalog of the German National Library