Thomas Koebner

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Thomas Koebner (born July 22, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German journalist , literary and media scholar .

Life

Koebner studied German , art history and philosophy with Walter Müller-Seidel , Hans Sedlmayr , Wolfgang Stegmüller a . a.

During this time he worked full-time as a music critic in Munich for 10 years . After receiving his doctorate , he worked from 1967 to 1970 as a lecturer for modern German literary history and for theater studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1970 to 1972 he worked as a lecturer in theater , film and television studies at the University of Cologne .

From 1972 to 1973 he was film commissioner for the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation . From 1973 to 1983 he held a professorship for German and general literary studies at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , which he was involved in establishing. From 1983 to 1989 he was appointed professor for modern German literature with a focus on media studies at the Philipps University of Marburg . From 1989 to 1992 he was director of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) . In 1993 he was called to Hamburg and Mainz . Since 1993 he has been a professor of film studies in Mainz and retired in 2007.

Activity as author and editor

Since the first book on the life and work of the Austrian writer Hermann Broch (1965), Koebner has published numerous volumes and texts on German literature of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, music theater , film history and television films . He is the founder of several specialist bodies, u. a. of the yearbook Exilforschung , the journals Discurs (together with Jan Berg, Günther Erken, Bruno Fischli, Uta Ganschow, Lothar Schwab and Richard Weber ), media studies and moment , later the quarterly journal Film Concepts (together with Fabienne Liptay) and the cultural studies publication series Projektionen . He also published several book series, including the film studies , which have grown to over 50 volumes, and a number of collected works.

His main research interests are “film as a work of art”; the German film since Caligari ; European film from neorealism to the present; the history of television films; the life's work of Fritz Lang , Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , Federico Fellini , Ingmar Bergman , Luis Buñuel , Alfred Hitchcock , Roman Polański ; Elements of cinematic narration; Acting in film; Image composition in the visual arts; Topos and motive research; Cultural patterns in film; Depth psychology and film; Construction of the foreign and another world in film and literature.

Awards

Publications

Monographs

  • The mythical dimension in Hermann Broch's novel trilogy “Die Schlafwandler”. (Bern, Munich: Francke Verlag, 1965)
  • The experimental television game - "Das kleine Fernsehspiel" on ZDF (Ed. With Egon Netenjakob) (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1988)
  • Unhoused. On German literature in the Weimar Republic, in exile and in the post-war period (Munich: Edition Text + Criticism, 1992)
  • Back to nature. Ideas of the Enlightenment and their aftermath (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1993)
  • Acts with music. The opera as a mirror of time, passion drama, total work of art. (Anif / Salzburg: Verlag Ursula Müller-Speiser, 1993)
  • Half-close. Writings on the film. 2nd episode (St. Augustin: Gardez, 1999)
  • In front of the screen. Studies, reviews and glosses on television. (St. Augustin: Gardez, 2000)
  • Years of apprenticeship in the cinema. Writings on the film. 1st episode (St. Augustin: Gardez, 2002, 2nd edition)
  • Like in a mirror. Writings on the film. 3rd episode (St. Augustin: Gardez, 2003)
  • Transformations. Writings on the film. 4th episode. (Remscheid: Gardez, 2004)
  • Film music. Moment. Vol. 35 (Marburg: Schüren, 2004)
  • Film images - symbols. Writings on the film. 5th episode. (Remscheid: Gardez, 2007)
  • Ingmar Bergman. A walk through his work. (Munich: Edition Text + Review, 2009)
  • Federico Fellini. The magic mirror of his films. (Munich: Edition Text + Review, 2010)
  • The beautiful ones in the cinema. Thinking about an aesthetic phenomenon. (Munich: Edition Text + Review, 2012)
  • Roman Polanski. The look of the persecuted. A biography. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-010936-6 .
  • Edgar Reitz: chronicler of German longing. A biography. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-15-011016-4 .
  • Borderlines between literature and film. Schüren, Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89472-917-2 .
  • Steven Spielberg. Between art house and effect cinema. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-15-011087-4 .

Editorships

  • Trends in German literature since 1945 (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 405). Kröner, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-520-40501-6 (2nd edition under the title “Tendenzen der Deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur”, 1984).
  • Weimars Ende: Prognoses and Diagnoses in German Literature and Political Journalism 1930–1933 (Ed.) (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1982)
  • Stalin and the intellectuals (ed.) (Munich: Edition Text + Criticism, 1983 = Exil -forschung Vol. 1)
  • Between the World Wars (Ed.) (Wiesbaden: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1983 = New Handbook of Literary Studies, Volume 20)
  • Memories of Exile - Critical reading of the autobiographies after 1933 (Ed.) (Munich: Edition Text + Criticism 1984 = Exil-Research Vol. 2)
  • "The new time moves with us". The Myth of Youth (Ed. With Rolf-Peter Janz and Frank Trommler) (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1985)
  • Thoughts on Germany in Exile (Ed.) (Munich: Edition Text + Criticism, 1985 = Exil Research, Vol. 3)
  • Germany after Hitler. Future plans in exile and from the occupation 1939-1945 (Ed. With Gert Sautermeister and Sigrid Schneider) (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1987)
  • The other world. Studies on Exotism (Ed. With Gerhard Pickerodt) (Frankfurt am Main: Athenaeum, 1987; 2nd edition Berlin: Philo, 2000)
  • Laocoon and no end: Der Wettstreit der Künste (Hrsg.) (Munich: Edition Text + Criticism, 1989; = Literature and other arts, Vol. 3)
  • Authors' films. Eleven work analyzes (ed.) (Münster: Maks, 1990)
  • Alfred Kerr: Dear Germany. Poems (Ed.) (Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1991)
  • Post March: The Origins of Aesthetic Modernism in a Post-Revolutionary Constellation (Ed. With Sigrid Weigel) (Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1996)
  • Idols of German film. Eine Galerie von Schlüsselfiguren (Ed.) (Munich: Edition Text + Criticism, 1997)
  • Acting in film. First Symposium (Ed.) (St. Augustin: Gardez-Verlag, 1998)
  • Science Fiction-Film (Ed.) (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2003; Vol. 1 of the 15-volume series "Filmgenres" conceived by Th. K.)
  • This side of the demonic canvas. New perspectives on the late Weimar cinema (Ed. With Norbert Grob and Bernd Kiefer). (Munich: Edition Text and Criticism, 2003)
  • Communications about the Maghreb. West-Eastern Media Perspectives I. (Ed. With Anton Escher) (Remscheid: Gardez, 2004)
  • Myth of Egypt / German-Turkish dialogue. West-Eastern Media Perspectives II (Ed. With Anton Escher) (Remscheid: Gardez, 2004)
  • Classic films. Descriptions and Comments. 5 vols. (Ed .; with the collaboration of Kerstin-Luise Neumann) (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006, 5th edition; 1st edition in 4 vols 1995)
  • Robert Altman. Farewell to the myth of America (Ed. With Thomas Klein) (Mainz: Bender, 2006)
  • Bildtheorie und Film (Ed. With Thomas Meder and Fabienne Liptay) (Munich: Edition Text + Criticism, 2006)
  • Komödiantinnen (Ed. With Fabienne Liptay) (Munich: Edition Text + Criticism, 2006; = Film Concepts Volume 1)
  • Chaplin-Keaton. Losers and Winners of Modernism (Ed.) (Munich: Edition Text + Criticism, 2006; = Film Concepts Volume 4)
  • Film genres: melodrama and romantic comedy. Ditzingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-15-018409-7 .
  • The golden age of Italian film (Ed. With Irmbert Schenk) (Munich: Edition Text + Criticism, 2008)
  • Edgar Reitz tells (Ed. With Michelle Koch) (Munich: Edition Text + Review 2008)
  • Film directors. Biographies, descriptions of works, filmographies. 3rd, updated and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2008 [1. Edition 1999], ISBN 978-3-15-010662-4 .
  • Aesthetic Existence - Ethical Existence. A contemporary either-or? (Hrsg.) (Munich: Edition Text + Criticism, 2008)
  • Film directors. Biographies, descriptions of works, filmographies (Ed.) (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2008, 3rd edition)
  • Series of projections: do you eat what you eat? Eating rituals in the film. (Ed. With Anton Escher) (Munich: Edition Text + Criticism, 2009, Vol. 1)
  • Series of projections: death zones. Deserts of sand and snow in the film. (Ed. With Anton Escher) (Munich: Edition Text + Criticism, 2009, Vol. 2)
  • Film genres: children and youth films. (Ed. With Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer). (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2010)
  • Series of projections: Indians in front of the camera. (Munich: Edition Text + Criticism, 2011, Vol. 4)
  • Reclam's dictionary of films. 3rd, updated and expanded edition. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-15-010833-8 .
  • Series of projections: ecstasy. (Munich: Edition Text + Criticism, 2012, Vol. 6)
  • “Blasphemy” and Criticism of Faith in Literature and the Arts. Edited with Hans Richard Brittnacher . Schüren, Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-89472-712-3 .
  • Thomas Koebner, Hans Jürgen Wulff (Ed.): Film genres. Thriller. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-019145-3 .
  • Standard situations in the film. A manual. Edited with Norbert Grob and Anette Kaufmann. Schüren, Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-89472-809-0 .

Rows

  • Koebner, Thomas (Ed. With Fabienne Liptay). "Film Concepts" (quarterly). (Munich: Edition Text + Critique, 2006ff) (last issue as editor: "Edgar Reitz", vol. 28, 2012)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: The mythical dimension in Hermann Broch's romantic trilogy "Die Schlafwandler". Bern, Francke, 1965, 142 pages.
  2. ↑ Ecumenical reception of the Berlinale 2010: Special prize to Prof. Dr. Thomas Koebner | inter-film.org. Retrieved October 3, 2017 .
  3. ^ Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Retrieved October 3, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Koebner, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist, Germanist and media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin