Karsten Witte
Karsten Witte (born June 8, 1944 in Perleberg ; † October 23, 1995 in Berlin ) was a German film scholar .
Life
Karsten Witte came from Perleberg in Brandenburg. He studied German and Romance languages in Berlin and Göttingen as well as comparative literature in Chapel Hill (USA) and Aix-en-Provence. Since 1979 he lived in Berlin, where he was a freelance film journalist and since 1990 professor for film studies at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Free University of Berlin .
Witte was editor of the unfinished writings edition by Siegfried Kracauer published by Suhrkamp Verlag . He died in October 1995 at the age of 51 of complications from AIDS .
Karsten Witte is buried in the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend (grave location: I-Ur-36).
Fonts
- Journey into the revolution: Gerhard Anton von Halem u. France in 1790 , - Stuttgart: Metzler, 1971.
- (as ed.), Theory of the cinema: Ideology criticism d. Traumfabrik , Frankfurt (am Main): Suhrkamp, 1972. (edition suhrkamp 557)
- (as ed.), Paris: German Republicans travel , Frankfurt am Main: Insel-Verlag, 1980.
- In the cinema: Texts from seeing & hearing , Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1985.
- Laufpass: Gedichte , Zurich: Arche, [1985].
- Film comedy in fascism . - 1986. Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 1986
- The Passenger - The Passenger: Thoughts on Film Work , Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Bund für Volksbildung, 1988
- (as ed.), Paris: a city reader , [4. Ed.]. - Frankfurt am Main: Insel-Verl., [1989]. (Insel-Taschenbuch; 389)
- Laughing heirs, great day: Comedy film in the Third Reich , Berlin: Vorwerk 8, 1995
- The body of the heretic: Pier Paolo Pasolini , With an in. Essay by Rudi Thiessen. From the estate, ed. by Rainer Mr. - Berlin: Vorwerk 8, 1998
- “Writing is stronger than all violence” - Marguerite Duras in conversation with Karsten Witte. In: Marguerite Duras: The green eyes . Munich; Vienna: Hanser, 1987.
- Writings on the cinema. Western Europe, Japan, Africa after 1945 Ed. Bernhard Gross & Connie Betz. Berlin: Vorwerk 8.
literature
- Stefanie Diekmann (Ed.): Writing about film. Homage to Karsten Witte . Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2010. 192 pp. ISBN 978-3-86599-107-2
Web links
- Andreas Kilb : " Der Fremdgänger " - obituary in DIE ZEIT No. 45/1995, p. 63
- Obituary - Karsten Witte (1944–1995)
- Obituary in the mirror
- Literature by and about Karsten Witte in the catalog of the German National Library
References and comments
- ↑ Who is Who
- ↑ Der Spiegel, No. 44, October 30, 1995
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 497.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Witte, Karsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pearl Mountain |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1995 |
| Place of death | Berlin |