Thomas Weber (publicist)

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Thomas Weber (* 1963 ) is a freelance German publicist .

Professional career

Weber studied German, philosophy and theater, film and television studies at the University of Frankfurt am Main . He then worked as a freelance journalist for various newspapers and magazines and as a lecturer for German as a foreign language in adult education. He received his doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on German television thrillers entitled The entertaining Enlightenment with Burkhardt Lindner . In the same year he co-founded the media and cultural studies-oriented AVINUS publishing house , which he headed from 2000 to 2010 as managing director. From 1993 to 1998 he worked as a DAAD lecturer at Groupe HEC and then until 2006 as a research assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Here he completed his habilitation in cultural and media studies in 2006 with the thesis “Mediality as borderline experience. (...) ". From 2008 to 2010 he worked at the IFK Bonn as a teacher for special tasks, in 2009 as a Senior Fellow at the GCSC Gießen and then as a research assistant in the DFG research project "History of Documentary Film in Germany 1945 - 2005" at the House of Documentary Film (Stuttgart / SWR).

In 2011 he was offered a professorship from the University of Hamburg for the chair of media studies with a focus on film and television at the Institute for Media and Communication (IMK) , which he headed from 2012 to 2013 initially as deputy director and from 2013 to 2015 as managing director. His professorship represents media studies as a discipline in the humanities and cultural studies (media history, aesthetics and theory).

His main topics include European cinema (with a focus on France and Germany), media cultures of remembrance, media transformation cultures (including newer television developments, for example reality TV), cultural and media history, theories of documentary film, media theories and, in particular, the approach of mediology. Weber is a member of various professional societies and organizations such as B. the German Society for Journalism and Communication (DGPuK) , the directorate of the Research Center for the Study of Media (RCMC) of the University of Hamburg, AD REM (in France), the board of trustees of the Schleswig-Holstein Cinémathèque (SHC, Lübeck) , of the AVINUS e. V. and from Cinegraph e. V. Hamburg as well as especially the NECS and the Society for Media Studies (GfM) and within the GfM the AG Filmwissenschaft , the AG Fernseh-Geschichte / Television Studies and the AG Medienphilosophie . In these organizations he has held various positions and management functions on a voluntary basis.

Publications

  • The dramaturgical view. Potentials and models of dramaturgy in media change. Berlin: AVINUS 2014 (Ed. Together with Christa Hasche and Eleonore Kalisch)
  • Media transformations of the Holocaust. Berlin: AVINUS 2013 (Ed. Together with Ursula von Keitz)
  • Bernhard Lahire: double life - writer between profession and calling. Berlin: AVINUS 2011 (Ed. Zsm. With Michael Tillmann)
  • Mediology as a method. Berlin: AVINUS 2008 (Ed. Together with Birgit Mersmann)
  • Mediumship as a borderline experience. Futuristic media in cinema in the 80s and 90s. Bielefeld: transcript 2008
  • Alexis de Tocqueville: The misery of poverty. About pauperism. Berlin: AVINUS 2007 (Ed. Together with Michael Tillmann and Manfred Füllsack)
  • Mémoire & Médias. Paris: Éditions AVINUS 2001 (Ed. Together with Louise Merzeau)
  • Guide through the French media landscape. Marburg: Schüren 2001 (Ed. Together with Stefan Woltersdorff)
  • Régis Debray: Beyond the Pictures. A history of image viewing in the West. Rodenbach: AVINUS 1999 (Ed.)
  • The entertaining education. Ideology-critical interpretations of crime television series on West German television. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Institute for Media and Communication. Retrieved May 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German freelance publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963