Karin Wehn

Karin Wehn (* 1967 in Siegen ) is a German media scientist, curator and journalist.

Wehn worked as a research assistant a. a. at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, at the University of Leipzig and as a visiting professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and the University of the Arts Berlin. Since June 2010 she has been press spokeswoman at the gameslab of the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Berlin.

She also works as a curator, consultant, presenter or was a member of the jury at several renowned national international film and new media festivals, e.g. B. Dok Leipzig, Filmfest Dresden, the International Animated Film Festival Stuttgart and Fantoche.

As a freelance writer, she writes for the network culture magazine Telepolis and Shortfilm.de, among others .

In 1999 she received the " DRA scholarship for research into the radio and media history of the GDR". In the following year, Wehn ​​received his doctorate with a thesis on the history of television crime in East and West at the University of Halle-Wittenberg .

Since completing her doctorate, she has moved away from the television thriller. Numerous new fields of activity are offered to Wehn ​​by artistic animation film and the possibilities that new digital media have created in terms of production and distribution. These include u. a. viral marketing, projection in public space, convergence between new and old media and subcultures on the Internet (e.g. machinima, brick films).

Publications (selection)

• “Crime time” in flux . Bonn: ARCult-Media, 2001. ISBN 3-930395-33-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Karin Wehn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Private homepage with lists of activities and publications
• Animated film and new media website with more than 1000 links, texts and a forum .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article " DRA-Stipendium " in RundfunkWiki (link no longer available) requested on April 16, 2010