Lorenz Engell

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Lorenz Engell (born January 28, 1959 in Düsseldorf ) is a German media scientist and professor of media philosophy at the media faculty of the Bauhaus University Weimar . Since 2008 he has also been director of the International College for Research on Cultural Technology and Media Philosophy in Weimar.

Life

From 1977 to 1982, Engell studied theater, film and television studies, Romance languages ​​and art history at the University of Cologne. In 1988 he received his doctorate with Renate Möhrmann with a thesis on the temporal concepts of television . His habilitation thesis followed in 1993, which is a theoretical examination of film history and historiography, inspired by systems theory. In the same year he became professor for the theory of perception, history and theory of communication and the media, Faculty of Design, the University of Architecture and Building, Weimar. Significantly under his direction and with him as dean, the media faculty was founded in 1996 at the university, which has since been renamed the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. In 2001 he was appointed to the newly established professorship for media philosophy. Since 2008 he has been director of the IKKM together with Bernhard Siegert .

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Lorenz Engell belongs to the first generation of academics in Germany who do not pursue media studies in the humanities as part of other subjects, but as a subject of their own. His main focus is on film and television. With regard to cinema, on the one hand, closely following Niklas Luhmann's system theory and Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy, he has made significant contributions to a theory of film as an intelligible apparatus (in addition to numerous essays, especially Bilder des Wandels , Weimar 2003, and Bilder der Finlichkeit , Weimar 2005). He does not see film primarily as a medium of representation. Instead, Engell assumes that the film has a power to reflect on itself and to create and present specific temporal relationships.

With regard to television, Lorenz Engell is one of the few scholars who have presented concepts that go beyond recipient research and cultural criticism and want to understand television as a medium in its own right.

In recent years, Engell has increasingly dealt with concepts of distributed agency, as developed in the context of actor network theory (ANT). A contouring of the term cinematographic agency goes back to him . The film is thus described as a field in which, on the one hand, action is produced in the interplay of human and non-human actors (Engell quotes the classic slapstick film for this ). On the other hand, and this is what distinguishes it from other similar fields, the film makes precisely these processes observable and observes them itself.

Publications (selection)

  • From contradiction to boredom. Logical and temporal justifications for television . Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. u. a. 1989, ISBN 3-631-41789-6
  • The imagined war. Knowledge and world of global strategy . Raben, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-922696-63-5
  • Sense and industry. Introduction to film history . Campus, Frankfurt / M. 1992, ISBN 3-593-34725-3
  • The ghost of simulation. A contribution to overcoming "media theory" by analyzing its logic and aesthetics . VDG, Weimar 1994, ISBN 3-929742-35-7
  • Moving Describing. Film history theory . VDG, Weimar 1995, ISBN 3-929742-63-2
  • Course book for media culture . DVA, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-421-05310-3 , (Ed. Together with Joseph Vogl et al.)
  • Exit to Babylon. Essais and lectures on the critique of media culture . VDG, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-121-X
  • Images of change . VDG, Weimar 2003, ISBN 3-89739-369-7 , (= series modern film, vol. 1)
  • Images of finitude . VDG, Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-89739-489-8 , (= series modern film, vol. 5)
  • Television philosophy . Fink, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7705-4154-5 , (Ed. Together with Oliver Fahle)
  • Philosophy of film . Verl. D. Bauhaus-Univ., Weimar 2007, ISBN 3-86068-309-8 (Ed. With Birgit Leitner)
  • Playtime. Munich film lectures . UVK, Konstanz 2010, ISBN 3-89669-677-7
  • Archive for media history . Verl. D. Bauhaus-Univ., Weimar 2001ff., Ed. with Bernhard Siegert and Joseph Vogl.
  • Journal for media and cultural research . ed. with Bernhard Siegert, Meiner Verlag Hamburg, ISSN  1869-1366

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lorenz Engell: Moving Describing. Theory of film history, Weimar: VDG 1995.
personal data
SURNAME Engell, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf