Marcus S. Kleiner

Marcus S. Kleiner (* 1973 ) is a German author, journalist, media and cultural scientist.

Life

Kleiner studied philosophy, sociology and literature. In 2006 he became a sociologist with a work on media heterotopias. PhD in discourse spaces of a socially critical media theory under Hermann Strasser . Since 1999 he has taught at universities in Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Bonn, Magdeburg, Paderborn, Siegen, Klagenfurt and Vienna, at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences, the Munich University of Music and Theater , the Macromedia University in Stuttgart and at the Baden-Württemberg Pop Academy in Mannheim .

From 2011 to 2015, Kleiner was the spokesman for the “AG Popular Culture and Media” in the Society for Media Studies (GfM). He is co-editor and editor of the online magazine “Rock and Pop in the Movies” and a columnist for pop music in the magazine “Pop. Culture and Criticism ”. Kleiner is the editor of the new series series cultures for the analysis of international television series since the 1950s at VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften and co-editor of the new series Pop Cultures (together with Ramón Reichert) at transcript Verlag.

He works as a freelance media consultant, project and event manager, organizer, moderator, copywriter and radio play author as well as a media expert in print, radio and television. Since September 2015, Kleiner has had the radio section " SWR1 Music Professor" and since January 2016 the radio section " SWR3 A matter of opinion".

Since 2016 Kleiner Professor for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Popular Arts in Berlin and head of the MA course "Experience Communication " there.

Publications

Books

As an author

with Thomas Hecken and André Mencke: Popliteratur. An introduction. transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-476-02535-7 .
Media heterotopias. Discourse spaces of a socially critical media theory (= Cultural Studies. 22). transcript, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89942-578-2 (also: Duisburg, University, dissertation, 2006).
with Marvin Chlada : Radio Derrida. Pop-Analyzes II. Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2002, ISBN 3-932710-44-4 .
with Marvin Chlada: sound machine. (Pop analyzes I). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Alibri et al., Aschaffenburg et al. 2001, ISBN 3-932710-37-1 .
Under the spell of finitude and loneliness? Death in existential philosophy and modernity (= small works on philosophy. 52). Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 2000, ISBN 3-89206-097-5 .

As editor

Basic texts on social science media criticism. VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-14371-2 .

As co-editor

with Thomas Wilke: Popular science backdrops. About science formats in popular media cultures (= pop cultures. 2). transcript, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-3219-4 .
with Thomas Wilke: Pop & Mystery. Speculative knowledge processes in popular cultures (= pop cultures. 1). transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2638-4 .
with Holger Schulze : Sabotage! Pop as the dysfunctional international. transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2210-2 .
with Thomas Wilke: Performativity and Mediality of Popular Cultures. Theories, aesthetics, practices. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-18357-2 .
with Michael Rappe: Methods of popular culture research. Interdisciplinary perspectives on film, television, music, internet and computer games (= popular culture and media. 3). Lit, Berlin et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11159-3 .
with Dirk Matejovski and Enno Stahl : Pop in R (h) einkultur. Surface aesthetics and everyday culture in the region. Klartext, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8375-0005-9 .
with Achim Szepanski : Soundcultures. About electronic and digital music. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-12303-3 .
with Hermann Strasser : Globalization Worlds. Culture and society in an unleashed world. Halem, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-931606-65-1 .
Michel Foucault. An introduction to his thinking. Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2001, ISBN 3-593-36847-1 .

Others

quadrature. Culture book. Volume 1-5. 1999-2004, ISSN 1437-5591 .

Audio & film publications

Discourse - End - Life. A text medley. (Radio play, together with Marvin Chlada, Stephan Maus, director: Leonhard Koppelmann ) WDR 3 (series: Pop Drei), 2002.
But live here, no thanks! Psychogeographies of finitude and loneliness in Wong Kar-Wai's film Chunking Express. A cinematic essay. (DVD) Dortmund, 2007.
The other in the global village. A manifesto for aliens. (Documentary) Duisburg, 2002.

Individual evidence

↑ The Music Professor , SWR1

↑ A matter of opinion ( memento of the original dated February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , SWR3 @1@ 2

↑ Prof. Dr. Marcus S. Kleiner ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , SRH College of Popular Arts @1@ 2

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personal data
SURNAME	Kleiner, Marcus S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German media and cultural scientist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1973

[1] The Music Professor , SWR1