Robert von Dassanowsky

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Robert Dassanowsky (center) at VIS 2016

Robert von Dassanowsky (born January 28, 1960 in New York City , New York, also Robert Dassanowsky ) is an Austrian - American German studies scholar , film historian , writer and film producer . He is Professor of German Studies and Film at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs , guest at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), served as Adjunct Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Webster University Vienna , and is an affiliate core faculty at Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) New York since 2017 and board member of the GCAS Research Institute Dublin since 2019.

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The articles he has written in the field of literary and cultural criticism include essays on Ingeborg Bachmann , Leni Riefenstahl , Robert Musil , Max Dauthendey , Alois Hotschnig , Billy Wilder , Christine Brückner , Hugo von Hofmannsthal and others. v. a. as well as essays dealing with topics of international film art. The specialist in the field of Austrian literary and cultural studies is considered an expert in the work of Alexander Lernet-Holenia . He wrote the first socio-political treatise on Lernet-Holenias novels, which examine the problems of the Austrian identity crisis: Phantom Empires (1996). His book Austrian Cinema: A History (2005) is the first English-language study of Austrian film history. He is also a poet, translator (including Lernet-Holenia, Hans Raimund , Oskar Marischler-Rotterheim), playwright and serves on the editorial board of the literary journals Poetry Salzburg Review , Rampike ( Canada ), Osiris ( USA ), Colloquia Germanica , and for Ariadne Press in Los Angeles. Dassanowsky is also a contributor to Senses of Cinema , Bright Lights Film Journal , and The Vienna Review .

He ran the Belvedere film production company in Los Angeles and Vienna with his mother, Elfi von Dassanowsky (1924–2007), and produced or co / associate produced films such as Semmelweis (short film, USA / A 2001), The Nightmare Stumbles Past ( Animated film, USA 2002), Wilson Chance (feature film, USA 2005), The Retreat (short film, USA 2010), Menschen (short film, USA / A 2012) and Felix Austria! (also: The Archduke and Herbert Hinkel , Documentary, USA / A 2013), De expressione humanitatis with Angelika Kirchschlager ( ORF television documentary, A 2014), Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women with Jodie Foster (Documentary, USA 2014), Before Anything You Say (feature film, Canada 2016), The Farmer zu Nathal with Sunnyi Melles u. Nicholas Ofczarek (documentary, A 2018).

Dassanowsky is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts , the European Film Academy , the Academy of Austrian Films , the Austrian and USA PEN Centers, and co-founder of the International Alexander Lernet Holenia Society and the Austrian American Film Association (AAFA) . From 2014 to 2020 he was a member of the advisory board of the Salzburg Institute of Religion, Culture and the Arts and from 2016 to 2020 a board member of the American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance (DÖW). He was a board member of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA), which has appeared as the Austrian Studies Association (ASA) since 2012 . Dassanowsky became Vice President (2010–2012) and President (2012–2014) of the Society as well as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Austrian Studies and the Journal of Austrian-American History .

Dassanowsky announced in November 2007 that an Elfi von Dassanowsky Foundation was planned in memory of his mother . The culture fund became active in February 2009.

Works

as translator
Video comment
as a guest editor
  • with Gertraud Steiner: Austria's Hollywood / Hollywood's Austria . Special edition of cinematography . 154, 1997.
  • Michael Haneke . Special edition of Modern Austrian Literature . 43.2, 2010.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. GCAS Core Faculty
  2. GCAS Research Institute Dublin
  3. ^ European Film Academy
  4. American Friends (DÖW)
  5. Finanznachrichten.de/2009-02
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