Rolf Kloepfer

Rolf Kloepfer (born January 25, 1942 in Munich ) is a German Romance studies and film scholar with a focus on film semiotics . Kloepfer wrote the article film semiotics in Roland Posner's Handbuch der Semiotik (3 volumes).

Life

Kloepfer was born in Munich and attended school in Essen-Werden from 1949 to 1961 . He then studied from 1961 to 1966 at the University of Freiburg , at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University in Cologne, the subjects of philosophy , German , Romance studies and economics . He began his professional activity in 1966 as a research assistant in Freiburg and was assistant professor at the TU Berlin from 1969 to 1971 . From 1971 until his retirement he was professor at the University of Mannheim . In May 2008, Kloepfer took part in the 5th Mannheim Round, a discussion on the subject of "Executive Board salaries - how much are top managers worth?" part.

Occupied offices

Deputy and

• 1973–1979: Chairman of the German Romanists Association
• 1985–1988: Chairman of the German Society for Semiotics
• 1987–1998: Director of the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Mannheim (not continuously)

other activities

• 1987–1995: Member of the supervisory board in various German companies and as a consultant for communication, applied semiotics, marketing.
• since 1975: Reviewer for the German Research Foundation , the Humboldt Foundation , the Volkswagen Foundation , the Daimler-Benz Foundation and several academies as well as various foreign universities.
• since 1999: Managing Director of the Foundation for Communication and Media Studies.

In the field of digital film research, his special professional achievement lies in the area of ​​software for the analysis and presentation of audiovisual media ( AKIRA ).

Works (selection)

• Rolf Kloepfer: Theory of literary translation. W. Fink, Munich 1967. ( Freiburg writings on Romance philology. Volume 12.)
• Rolf Kloepfer, Ursula Mantell-Oomen: Linguistic constituents of modern poetry. Athenaeum publishing house, Bad Homburg 1970.
• Rolf Kloepfer: Poetics and Linguistics. - Semiotic instruments. W. Fink, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7705-1175-1 .
• Rolf Kloepfer, Hanne Landbeck, Ute Werner: The aesthetics of advertising - the television commercial in Europe as a symptom of new power. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-596-10720-2 .
• Rolf Kloepfer: theatricality, drama, staging. Basics of a theater theory. Volume 5. Baier, Mannheim, 1995, ISBN 3-924608-12-1 .
• Rolf Kloepfer: Communication and Media Studies. - Introduction. Mannheim ASK (script) 6, 1996.

In addition, Kloepfer has written book and lexicon articles as well as other scientific writings.

Web links

• University of Mannheim - Rolf Kloepfer , accessed on September 18, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum vitae on uni-mannheim.de, accessed on September 18, 2012.
2. ↑ Mannheimer Runde ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2016 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. from mannheimerrunde.de, accessed on September 19, 2012. 
3. ↑ Akria ( Memento of the original dated August 6, 2011 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. at phil.uni-mannheim.de, accessed on September 18, 2012. 
4. ↑ Catalog of works on uni-mannheim.de or bibliography on uni-mannheim.de, accessed on September 19, 2012.