Robert von Dassanowsky

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.

Live and act

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

• Phantom Empires: The Novels of Alexander Lernet-Holenia and the Question of Postimperial Austrian Identity . Ariadne Press, Riverside 1996, ISBN 1-57241-030-2 .
• Telegrams from the Metropole. Selected Poems 1980-1998 . University of Salzburg, Salzburg 1999, ISBN 3-901993-02-9 .
• Robert von Dassanowsky (Ed.): Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America . 3 volumes. 2nd Edition. Gale Group, Farmington Hills 2000, ISBN 0-7876-3987-7 .
• Austrian Cinema: A History . McFarland, Jefferson 2005, ISBN 0-7864-2078-2 .
• European film . In: Gary Hoppenstand, Gerd Bayer (Ed.): Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture . Volume 3: Europe. Greenwood Press, Westport, London 2007, ISBN 0-3133-3255-X .
• Soft Mayhem: Poems . Poetry Salzburg Press, Salzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-901993-30-5 .
• Robert von Dassanowsky and Oliver C. Speck (eds.): New Austrian Film . Berghahn, New York and Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-1-84545-700-6 .
• Martin Liebscher , Christophe Fricker , Robert von Dassanowsky (eds.): The Nameable and the Unnameable: Hofmannsthal's Der Schwierige Revisited . Iudicium, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86205-030-7 .
• Robert von Dassanowsky (Ed.): Quentin Tarantino 's Inglourious Basterds : Manipulations of Metafilm . Continuum, London and New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-441138699 .
• Robert Dassanowsky (Ed.): World Film Locations: Vienna . Intellect, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-841505695 .
• Screening Transcendence: Film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933–1938 . University of Indiana Press, Bloomington 2018, ISBN 978-0253033628 .

as translator

• Jägerstätter. A Play by Felix Mitterer Translated by Gregor Thuswaldner with Robert Dassanowsky . University of New Orleans Press, 2015, ISBN 9781608010639 .
• Verses of a Marriage. Poetry of Hans Raimund . Foreword by Karl-Markus Gauß . Event Horizon, 1996, ISBN 1-880391-16-3 .
• Mars in Aries . Translation by Alexander Lernet-Holenias Mars in Aries . Ariadne Press, Riverside, 2003, ISBN 1-57241-118-X .

Video comment

• Freedom Day by Leni Riefenstahl . Short Vision 8, Warner Home Video DVD, 2000.

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

• 2001: Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
• 2004: Named "US Professor of the Year" for Colorado by the Carnegie Foundation and Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
• 2005: Silver Decoration of Honor of the Republic of Austria
• 2006: Chancellor's Award, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
• 2007: Appointed Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS)
• 2009: Appointed Delegate of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• 2010: Appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
• 2013: Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
• 2014: Botstiber Foundation Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS) scholarship
• 2015: CU Thomas Jefferson Award
• 2015 Appointed 9th "Botstiber Lecturer on Austrian-American Affairs" at the Austrian Embassy and Austrian Cultural Forum DC on May 29, 2015 in Washington DC BIAAS / Botstiber Foundation sponsor.

Web links

• Robert von Dassanowsky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Robert von Dassanowsky in the catalog of the German National Library
• Robert von Dassanowsky on the University of Colorado website
• Robert Dassanowsky on the Poetry Salzburg website
• Robert Dassanowsky on the New Orleans Press website

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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7. ↑ 2004: Professor of the Year State Winners ( Memento of February 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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9. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ http://www.euro-acad.eu/organisation/delegations
11. ↑ https://www.cusys.edu/newsletter/2010/03-17/people.html
12. ↑ http://www.uccs.edu/facassembly/awards/awards-home.html
13. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 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. 
14. ↑ https://www.cu.edu/office-academic-affairs/p-20-initiatives/thomas-jefferson-award-past-recipients
15. ↑ http://acfdc.org/upcoming-events/2015/5/29/lecture-robert-dassanowsky-ars-gratia-austriae-the-remarkable-1936-vienna-hollywood-deal-to-save-independant-austrian -film-and-its-threat-to-nazi-german-schlusswww.botstiber.org/austrian/grants/grantsgiven6.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.