Wolfgang M. Schmitt

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Wolfgang M. Schmitt junior is a German literary scholar , film critic and podcast presenter . He gained fame through his YouTube channel Die Filmanalyse .

Live and act

biography

After graduating from high school in Neuwied , Schmitt studied German and literature at the University of Trier . After completing his master's degree, he worked there as a research assistant at the Chair of Modern German Literature and began a doctorate on politics in Ernst Jünger's late work. At the same time he published a few articles for the review forum literaturkritik.de . In 2015 Schmitt began to work as an independent consultant at the Institute for Contemporary Society (IFZ), where he also moderated together with Samira El Ouassil .

As a freelance journalist, he writes film and literary reviews a. a. for the Rhein-Zeitung and Neues Deutschland , he also publishes guest articles for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the weekly newspaper der Freitag . Schmitt is part of the team of authors in the quarterly Jacobin magazine, which has also been published in Germany since early 2020.

Schmitt lives in Koblenz.

Web videos and podcasts

Schmitt has been running the YouTube channel Die Filmanalyse since 2011 . In the videos he devotes himself to films - often new releases - and analyzes them critically . He does not limit himself to art house films, but also discusses blockbusters such as the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe , Disney publications in general or Til Schweiger's work. His reviews have many references to the work of Karl Marx and the Frankfurt School . Schmitt also attests to many supposedly apolitical films as neoliberal set pieces and thought patterns. In his view, a film always says something about the society in which it is made, referring to Siegfried Kracauer . The aim of the "Film Analysis" is to make the quirks of earlier television formats of the educated middle class , such as the literary quartet to obtain, for movie fans on YouTube. He works without the cuts and clips typical for YouTube, but relies on a simple setting and a largely uncut monologue.

In 2017 he appeared for the first time on the online portal Massengeschmack-TV and occasionally produced reviews of Internet phenomena in the style of film analysis for Holger Kreymeier's magazine Die Mediatheke . As a film specialist, Schmitt has also been a regular guest in the formats of Rocket Beans TV since 2018 , especially in their cinema magazine Kino + .

In 2019 Schmitt expanded his repertoire and started some co-produced podcasts with different topics. At the beginning of August he started the YouTube channel SchallalaBla together with Michael "Krogi" Krogmann from Rocket Beans TV to talk about temporary music and its social significance. Shortly thereafter, the weekly podcast Prosperity for All followed , in which he and Ole Nymoen tried to explain economically complex issues in an understandable way and to uncover economic myths. The title refers to the book of the same name by Ludwig Erhard .

Schmitt takes a critical look at political events in the format of the political analysis , which has appeared as a new section on the Jung & Naiv channel since summer 2019 . In it he summarizes a sequence of interviews and contrasts the essential core statements. At the end of 2019, Schmitt and Stefan Schulz announced a ten-year project, the monthly podcast The New Twenties about the new decade of the 2020s .

During the contact restrictions imposed since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic , he worked several times as a co-moderator in Tilo Jung's replacement interview format Jung & Live .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonas Nitsch: Interview with Wolfgang M. Schmitt - born to be a critic. In: kurt.digital. Technical University of Dortmund, January 30, 2020, accessed on July 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Former. Assistant to modern German literary studies. In: University of Trier. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Profile page of Wolfgang M. Schmitt. In: indes-online.de. INDES - Journal for Politics and Society , accessed on July 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Information on Wolfgang M. Schmitt. literaturkritik.de , accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Wolfgang M. Schmitt Jun. As an independent consultant to the IFZ. In: ifz-international.de. Institute for Contemporaneity, accessed on July 2, 2020 .
  6. ^ Description of the author by Wolfgang M. Schmitt. Macroscope , accessed July 7, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Imprint. Jacobin .de, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  8. ^ A b Max Knieriemen: Cinema thought differently - the film critic and Youtuber Wolfgang M. Schmitt. In: SWR.de. June 27, 2020, accessed July 2, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Wolfgang M. Schmitt: Wolfgang M. Schmitt on Wolfgang M. Schmitt. In: youtube.com. YouTube, LLC, December 9, 2019, accessed July 2, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Wolfgang M. Schmitt on the DRAGON LORD. In: Mass Taste TV. October 8, 2018, pp. 1:00 min - 1:18 min , accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Profile of Wolfgang M. Schmitt. rocketbeans.tv, accessed July 7, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Channel info: SchallalaBla. Youtube, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Ep. 01: How money is created at the push of a button. Wohlstandfueralle.podigee.io, August 13, 2019, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  14. ↑ New: THE POLITICAL ANALYSIS # 1 - Candidate Check Brandenburg & Saxony (with Wolfgang M. Schmitt). jungundnaiv.de, August 29, 2019, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  15. ↑ The New Twenties: A New Era. neuezwanziger.de, December 27, 2019, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Wolfgang M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitt, Wolfgang M. junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, film critic and podcast moderator
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century