Michaela Krützen

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Michaela Krützen (born April 5, 1964 in Aachen ) is a German media scientist specializing in film studies . She is professor for media studies at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF Munich). From 2002 to 2013 she was Vice President of this university.

Life

Michaela Krützen studied theater, film and television studies (TFF), German and library studies at the University of Cologne and graduated in 1989 with a Magister Artium, the title of her master's thesis is The Most Beautiful Woman on the Screen: The Fabrication of the Star Greta Garbo . In 1994 it was named Hans Albers. A German career doing her doctorate, her habilitation followed in 2001 with the dramaturgy of the film: as Hollywood tells . From 1989 to 2000 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Theater, Film and Television Studies in Cologne; parallel to this, she worked in media practice until 1999 (including directing the film Shiva and the Gallows Flower ).

In 2001 Krützen took the chair in "European Media Studies" at the University of Potsdam . In spring 2001 she was appointed to the University of Television and Film (HFF) in Munich, where she took over the chair of “Communication and Media Studies” in the 2001/02 winter semester; she has been the managing director of this department since then. From 2002 to 2013 she was Vice President of the HFF Munich.

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Michaela Krützen deals with film history, film theory and film analysis in courses and publications. She is particularly interested in the star theory and the dramaturgy of the film, with the focus on classic narrative forms and their variations. In "Dramaturgy of the Film", Krützen analyzes the film " The Silence of the Lambs " in terms of its classic narrative form; the nude model and the model of the "journey of the hero" are shown. In the follow-up volume "Dramaturgies des Films" Krützen analyzes complex narratives from the turn of the millennium such as unreliable narratives (" The Sixth Sense ", " The Usual Suspects ", " Mulholland Drive "), non-chronological stories (" Pulp Fiction ", " Memento " "," Twelve Monkeys ") or multi-strand films (" Short Cuts "," Traffic "," The Hours "). In her most recent publication, Krützen presents film history using the example of just three productions: " Casablanca " stands for the classic, " Last year in Marienbad " for the modern and " Forget mine not! " For the post-modern.

The FAZ noted in 2011: "In recent years Krützen, born in 1964, has developed into the most distinctive younger voice in German film studies".

At the end of 2012, together with Fabienne Liptay and Johannes Wende , she took over the film concepts series founded by Thomas Koebner , which deals with influential filmmakers in world cinema and appears four times a year.

Fonts

  • The Most Beautiful Woman on the Screen: The Fabrication of the Star Greta Garbo. Frankfurt a. M .: Peter Lang Verlag 1990
  • Hans Albers. A German career. Berlin; Weinheim: Beltz Quadriga 1995, ISBN 978-3886792528
  • Daily Soaps. Series of lessons on television analysis. Cologne: RTL 1998
  • What is pop ed. by Walter Grasskamp, ​​Michaela Krützen, Stefan Schmid. Frankfurt a. M .: Fischer Verlag 2004, ISBN 978-3596163922
  • Dramaturgy of the film. As Hollywood says. Frankfurt a. M .: Fischer Verlag 2004, ISBN 978-3596160211
  • Shoot the film ... for the champions. The scripts. ed. by Michaela Krützen, Falco Jagau. Munich: HFF 2006
  • Fathers, angels, cannibals. Hollywood cinema characters. Frankfurt a. M .: Fischer Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3596173167
  • Dramaturgies of the film. Hollywood with a difference. Frankfurt a. M .: Fischer Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3100405036
  • Classic, modern, post-modern. A film story. Frankfurt a. M .: Fischer Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3100405043

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Albers. A German career. Weinheim / Berlin: Beltz / Quadriga, 1995; ISBN 9783886792528 .
  2. ↑ Dramaturgy of the film: as Hollywood tells. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt / M., 2004; ISBN 3596160219 .
  3. ↑ Suchsland, Rüdiger: "The next film won't be different." in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 28, 2011, p. 33
personal data
SURNAME Krützen, Michaela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen