Kathrin Fahlenbrach

Kathrin Fahlenbrach (* 1967 ) is a German media scientist .

Life

From 1988 to 1995 she studied German , theater studies , Romance studies and general literature at the Free University of Berlin and Siegen University . From 1996 to 1998 she was a research assistant in the DFG project "The GDR's Literature System" at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . From 1998 to 2001 she received a graduate scholarship from the state of Saxony-Anhalt. After completing his doctorate in media and communication studies in 2001 on the subject of "Protest productions. Visual communication and collective identities in protest movements" and his habilitation in July 2008, the subject of the habilitation thesis: "Audiovisual metaphors. On the aesthetics of the body and affect in film and television." she represented a professorship for theater, film and television studies at the University of Cologne in the 2010/2011 winter semester . From 2000 to 2009 she was a research assistant and research assistant (C1) at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle. Since April 2011 she has been teaching as a professor for media studies with a focus on film at the Institute for Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg .

Her focus is on the aesthetics and history of audiovisual media, body and affect aesthetics in film and television, cognitive film theory, metaphors and icons in media culture, transmedia image aesthetics, media rituals, media and visual codes in protest movements and images in political communication.

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• Prof. Dr. Kathrin Fahlenbrach