Klaus Kreimeier

Klaus Kreimeier (born November 8, 1938 in Hanover ) is a German journalist and media scientist .

Life

Klaus Kreimeier grew up in Linz and Salzgitter . After graduating from high school in 1958, he studied theater studies, German language and literature and art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and from 1959 at the Free University of Berlin . In addition to his studies, he worked as a director at the student stage of the Theater Studies Institute in Berlin and as a freelance lecturer for the UFA television production in Tempelhof. In 1964 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. with a thesis on the history of style on modern stage design.

From 1964 to 1968 Kreimeier worked as a program officer, then as a television dramaturge at Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt am Main , then he was cultural editor at Spiegel in Hamburg. From 1969 he lived as a freelance journalist in West Berlin ; he wrote and produced film-historical and film-critical television programs for Westdeutscher Rundfunk , Bayerischer Rundfunk and ZDF . From 1971 to 1976 he was a lecturer at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin for film history and media theory, as well as visiting lecturer and lecturer at universities in Germany and abroad. In 1973 he published the book Kino und Filmindustrie in der BRD. Ideology Production and Class Reality after 1945 .

Teaching activity

After an appointment to a professorship at the University of Oldenburg Kreimeier in 1974 because of its active operation in the Vietnam War - opposition movement from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture because of the radical decree dismissed as a university teacher. In 1981 he completed his habilitation as a media scientist at the University of Osnabrück ; after his appointment to the Philipps-Universität Marburg he was rejected again for political reasons , this time by the Hessian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs.

From 1976 Kreimeier lived as a freelance journalist in Cologne; Here he worked for the radio companies (mainly WDR and Deutschlandfunk ) and wrote numerous literary reviews as well as film and media critical contributions for the Frankfurter Rundschau , Die Zeit , der Freitag , Die Woche , Tageszeitung and epd-Film . Until 1981 he was co-editor and editor of the cultural magazines Kämpfende Kunst (the magazine of the Maoist Association of Socialist Cultural Creators ), Art and Society and Traces . Between 1979 and 1987 he made several trips to Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Uganda. This resulted in radio broadcasts and studies on contemporary Anglophone literature in Africa, from which the book Geborstene Drummeln in 1985 . Africa's second destruction. Literary-political expeditions emerged . In 1996 a trip to South Africa followed to research the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for WDR and Deutschlandfunk.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Kreimeier was a member of the selection committees of the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival and the Duisburg Film Week ; He also traveled to the Middle East, Spain, India, several Balkan countries and Georgia as a film consultant for the Goethe Institute . During this time, he produced larger monographic works on Andrzej Wajda , Rosa von Praunheim , FW Murnau , Fritz Lang , Joris Ivens , Andrei Tarkowskij , Akira Kurosawa and Wim Wenders (especially in the film series by Carl Hanser Verlag ) as well as publications on Elia Kazan , GW Pabst and the cultural history of the femme fatale for the retrospectives of the Berlin International Film Festival ; in addition, studies of film history, including Joe May and Richard Oswald .

From 1987 to 1992 Kreimeier worked on a comprehensive history of the Ufa Group , which appeared in 1992. In addition, he was a specialist advisor at major film history exhibitions (Murnau, Bielefeld 1988; Ufa, Berlin 1992). From the examination of the German media landscape after the introduction of private television in 1984, his book Lob des Fernssehen emerged in 1995 .

From 1997 to 2004 Kreimeier was professor for media studies and speaker of the media course at the University of Siegen . From 1999 to 2005 he headed the sub-project “Weimar Republic” in the research project “History and Aesthetics of Documentary Film in Germany 1895–1945” funded by the German Research Foundation. In 2001 he founded the media science journal Navigationen . Since 2002, he and Joseph Garncarz have been leading the sub-project "Industrialization of Perception" in the research college "Media upheavals" at the University of Siegen, which is funded by the German Research Foundation. In 2006 he worked as a visiting professor at the Philosophical Faculty (German Studies) at the University of Sarajevo .

Works (selection)

1964 illusion and irony. Opposing forces in modern stage design. Dissertation FU Berlin
1971 The cinema as an ideology factory. Guiding principles and stereotypes in the history of German film. Berlin: Kinemathek 45 (book version of a WDR television series)
1973 Cinema and film industry in the FRG. Ideology production and class reality after 1945. Kronberg Ts .: Scriptor
1976 Joris Ivens. A filmmaker on the front lines of the world revolution. Berlin: Oberbaum
1978 contemporary Chaplin (as editor). Berlin: Oberbaum
1985 Broken drums. Africa's second destruction. Literary-political expeditions. Frankfurt: Publishing house new criticism
1991 Nadine Gordimer . Munich: edition text + kritik
1992 Notes in the Twilight. Everyday television and screen reality. Marburg: Schüren (selection of television reviews)
1992 The Ufa story. History of a film company . Munich: Carl Hanser (French translation 1994 by Flammarion - Prize of the French film critics for the best foreign film book; American editions by Hill and Wang, NY, 1996 and University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1999; Japanese edition by Hirata , Tokyo, 2005)
1994 The metaphysics of decor. Space, architecture and light in classic German silent films (as editor). Marburg: Stoke
1995 TV praise. Munich: Carl Hanser
2005 history of documentary film in Germany. Volume 2: Weimar Republic (1918-1933). (as author and editor with Antje Ehmann and Jeanpaul Goergen) Stuttgart: Reclam
2008 Precarious Modernism. Essays on film and cinema history. Marburg: Stoke
2011 dream and excess. The cultural history of early cinema. Vienna: Zsolnay

literature

Martin Papenbrock, Norbert Schneider (Hrsg.): Art history after 1968. Yearbook of the Guernica Society, Art and Politics, Volume 12. 1. Edition 2010. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress ISBN 978-3-89971-617-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Kreimeier, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German publicist and media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover