Rainer Rother

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Rainer Rother (born June 17, 1956 ) is a German media scientist .

Rother studied German language and literature and history at the University of Hanover up to his doctorate in 1988. He then worked as a lecturer at the University of Hanover . From 1991 to 2006 he was director of the cinematheque of the German Historical Museum (Berlin) and exhibition curator. He oversaw various exhibitions, including Das deutsche Bilderimperium. Ufa 1917–1945 and The Last Days of Mankind. Pictures of the First World War .

Rother's publications are primarily about topics from film history. He writes for Merkur , the privateer and for various newspapers. Since 2001 he has been a member of the selection committee of the Berlin International Film Festival ; from 2004 to 2006 he was co-curator of the film series Selling Democracy . Since 2006 he has been the artistic director of the Deutsche Kinemathek and head of the Berlinale retrospective .

Publications (selection)

  • Actuality of the past - the presence of history as a problem of representation in historical-theoretical and aesthetically formed reflection; Hanover 1987
  • Pictures write history. The historian in the cinema. Wagenbach, Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-8031-2193-6 .
  • The Cold War and German Film . Article on the website of the German Historical Museum
  • The present of history. An experiment on film and contemporary literature. Metzler, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 978-3-476-00695-0 .
  • Ufa 1917–1945. The German image empire. German Historical Museum, Berlin 1992.
  • Leni Riefenstahl . The seduction of talent. Henschel, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-89487-360-8 .
  • Nina Hoss - I have to believe every sentence. A portrait . Henschel, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-89487-602-9 .
  • with Annika Schaefer (Ed.): future Imperfect. science - fiction - film , Bertz and Fischer, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86505-249-0
  • with Vera Thomas (ed.): True to the line and popular: The Ufa Empire 1933 to 1945. Bertz and Fischer, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3865052551 .

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SURNAME Rother, Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rota, Raina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1956