Marion G. Muller

Marion G. Müller (born July 20, 1965 in Washington, DC , USA) is a German-American political scientist and professor of media studies .

life and work

Marion G. Müller grew up in Karlsruhe and attended grammar school there until she graduated from high school. After studying political science , art history and law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Hamburg, she received her doctorate in 1995 at the University of Hamburg as part of the Graduate School " Political Iconography " on the subject of "Political Image Strategies in the American Presidential Election Campaign". From 2000 to 2003 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Hamburg. She completed her habilitation in 2005 with the work "Political Liturgy of Parliaments: A Comparison of Parliamentary Ceremonial Structures in Great Britain, USA, Germany, France and the European Union". Since 2004 she has been teaching at Jacobs University Bremen (until 2007 International University Bremen), since 2019 at Trier University. In the tradition of Martin Warnke and as his pupil, she teaches, researches and publishes, among other things, in the field of political iconography.

Fonts

• Political Image Strategies in the American Presidential Election 1828-1996 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997. ISBN 3-05-002989-7
• Communication visual. The image as a research subject - basics and perspectives (with Thomas Knieper). von Halem, Cologne 2001
• Authenticity and staging of imagery (ed. With Thomas Knieper). von Halem, Cologne 2003. ISBN 3-931606-49-X
• Basics of visual communication. Theoretical approaches and methods . UVK, Konstanz 2003. ISBN 3-8252-2414-7
• Basics of visual communication (with Stephanie Geise). 2nd, completely revised edition. UVK, Konstanz 2015. ISBN 978-3-8252-2414-1