Karl Prümm

Karl Prümm (born April 30, 1945 in Illingen , Saarland ) is a German media scientist , professor emeritus and founder of the Marburg Camera Prize .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1964, Karl Prümm studied German and history at the universities of Marburg and Saarbrücken . In 1973 he received his doctorate in Saarbrücken, followed by his habilitation in 1981 at the University of Siegen for Modern German Literature. From 1970–1982 he was a research assistant to Professor Helmut Kreuzerin Bonn and in Siegen. In the following years 1982–1986, Prümm held a temporary professorship for literary studies and media studies at the University of Siegen. For the next eight years, Prümm took on a professorship for theater studies (film and television) at the Free University of Berlin . Since he was appointed to the University of Marburg in 1994, he held a professorship for media studies there until his retirement in 2010.

Teaching and Research

His courses covered the areas of film history and film theory as well as the history of television and television aesthetics . His individual preference, however, was and still is for film and photography , especially the scientific consideration of camera work and camera analysis. The students particularly valued the extraordinary enthusiasm with which he expressed his great interest in these media in his lectures. In addition, he was committed to a film culture as diverse as possible in the department. For this he worked regularly with the Marburg Filmkunst-Kino so that the film viewing events offered could at least partly take place under cinema-screen conditions. Wherever it came about, he was also happy to invite filmmakers to talk to his seminar participants.

In 2011 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon .

further activities

In addition to reviews for specialist magazines, Karl Prümm occasionally writes for national newspapers, especially for the FAZ and for the Berliner Tagesspiegel . As far as expertise in film and television aesthetics is required in broadcasting, as a specialist he is sometimes a discussion partner, mostly for WDR and Deutschlandfunk .

The Marburg Camera Talks , which take place every year in March, were launched on his initiative in 2001 . The Marburg Camera Prize awarded there is the most important media science award for cameramen in Germany. Until his retirement in 2010, Karl Prümm organized this event together with his employees and the Culture Service of the City of Marburg and was able to secure its continuity by winning sponsors.

Fonts (selection)

• The literature of soldier nationalism of the 1920s . Group ideology and epoch problems. 2 vols. Kronberg / Taunus 1974.
• " Suspense ", "happy end" and deadly moment. Reflections on the structure of the moment in the film with an analysis of Michelangelo Antonioni's “ Blow Up ”. MuK 23. Publications of the research focus “Mass Media and Communication” at the University of Siegen. Wins 1983.
• Walter Dirks and Eugen Kogon as Catholic publicists in the Weimar Republic of Heidelberg in 1984.
• Walter Kramer . From Siegen to Buchenwald. Siegen 1986. (with Klaus Dietermann)
• with Barbara Felsmann: Kurt Gerron (1897–1944) celebrated and hunted. The fate of a German entertainer. Berlin 1992.
• Self-portrait of “political poetry”. On Robert Prutz's poem Justification. In: Günter Häntzschel (Ed.): Poems and interpretations. Vol. 4: From Biedermeier to Bourgeois Realism. (= RUB . No. 7893). Reclam, Stuttgart 2000 [first 1983], ISBN 978-3-15-007893-8 , pp. 180-190.
• A notorious border violator - Niklaus Schilling and his films , Verbrecher-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943167-83-2 .
• (together with Klaus Dietermann) Walter Krämer: locksmith, politician, doctor von Buchenwald , publishing house of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Siegerland, Siegen 2015, ISBN 978-3-9801926-8-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Prümm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website at the University of Marburg