Stefan Höltgen

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Stefan Höltgen (* 1971 in Northeim ) is a German media scientist and journalist .

activity

Höltgen studied from 1996 to 2000 at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in the disciplines of German , philosophy , sociology and media studies . His doctoral dissertation (2009, at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn ) is entitled Media and Violence Discourses in Authentic Serial Killer Films . Since 2011 he has been researching media studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and received his doctorate in computer science in March 2020 with the dissertation archeology of early microcomputers and their programming . His main focus is the archeology and programming of the early microcomputers. From 2007 to 2012 he worked for the independent research association Post-apocalypse Studies. In 2016/17 he was a substitute professor at the University of Paderborn .

Höltgen also works as a journalist and publicist. In addition to his writings, he has long published reviews of films and video games, reviews and essays with a focus on film, media, culture and technology. He wrote for epd Film , Der Schnitt , telepolis , the International Archive for the Social History of German Literature and literaturkritik.de , among others . From 2001 to 2011, Höltgen was editor-in-chief of the film magazine F.LM - Texts on Film . From 2013 to 2015 he was editor-in-chief of RETRO magazine .

As a co-editor at Projektverlag , he is responsible for a series of books on computer archeology and retrocomputing . He published his book RESUME there in 2016 , which is also the catalog for the Oldenburg Computer Museum . Since 2014 he has curated the Vintage Computing Festival Berlin .

Höltgen is a member of the Society for Computer Science .

Fonts (selection)

As an author
  • Mirror Images: Strategies of Aesthetic Doubling in David Lynch's Films . Kovač, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-8300-0276-9 .
  • Interfaces. Serial murder in film (Marburger Schriften zur Medienforschung 16) , Schüren, Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89472-555-6 .
  • Resume: Hands-on retrocomputing . Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-89733-396-3 .
As editor
  • Lexicon of Postmodernism: from Abjekt to Žižek , Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89733-209-6 .
  • Killer Culture: Serial Murder in Popular Culture . Bertz and Fischer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86505-399-2 .
  • This is the end…: media visions of the demise of mankind . Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89733-247-8 .
  • Sick humor . Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89733-232-4 .
  • Shift - Restore - Escape: retrocomputing and computer archeology . CSW-Verlag, Winnenden 2014, ISBN 978-3-941287-70-9 .
  • Hot Wires: Cold War Media . Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89733-345-1 .
  • Time to Play: time and computer game . Hülsbusch, Glückstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-86488-097-1 .
  • Media technology knowledge Volume 1: Logic, information and storage theory . DeGruyter-Oldenbourg, Berlin / Boston 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-047748-1 .
  • Media-technical knowledge Volume 2: Computer science, programming, cybernetics . DeGruyter-Oldenbourg, Berlin / Boston 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-049624-6 .
  • Hello, I'm ELIZA. 50 years of conversations with computers . Projektverlag, Bochum 2018, ISBN 978-3-89733-467-0 .
  • OPEN HISTORY. Archeology of the early microcomputers and their programming . Dissertation. Berlin 2020. Online .

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personal data
SURNAME Höltgen, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Northeim