Fahr, Andreas
Andreas Fahr *1966; Andreas Fahr’s scholarship focuses on mass communication, mainly from a media psychological perspective. As a quantitatively-oriented social scientist he has mainly used content analysis, surveys, and experiments in his research. Andreas studied communication, psychology & economics between 1989 and 1995 at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany. In 1996 his master-thesis about »Tandemspots – boosters of advertising?« won the annual research prize from the German professional association of market and social researchers (BVM). Between 1995 and 2000 he worked as research associate at the Media Institute Ludwigshafen (applied media studies). Since 2000 he is working as assistant professor at the department for communication and media research at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. In his doctoral thesis (2001) he examined the perfomance of news coverage about catastrophies
Leonhardt, Nic
Nic Leonhardt studied Theatre Studies and Audiovisual Media, German Philology and Art History at the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Mainz. In her PhD-thesis, Piktoral-Dramaturgie (Pictorial Dramaturgy), she explored the interplay of Visual Culture and Theatre in 19th Century Germany (1869-1899). She worked as a research assistant and associate instructor at the University of Mainz, and the University of Music in Köln, and received grants from the University of Mainz, the DAAD, and the Fulbright Commission. Nic Leonhardt is currently holding a position as research assistant at the University of Music and Theatre, Leipzig. Her research interests and publications include theatre and media history, visual culture, popular culture, censorship, acting theory, and telenovelas. She is currently working on a book on stereography.
Katenhusen, Ines
Ines Katenhusen is associate professor at the Institute of Political Sciences, University of Hannover. As such, she is the coordinator of the interdisciplinary Masters program in European Studies and, among other subjects, teaches the history of European integration in the twentieth century. Her dissertation on arts and politics in the 1920ies was published in 1998. Since 2000, she has been working on the German-American art historian and museum director Alexander Dorner. In this context, she has been awarded several research fellowships by US-American and German institutions, such as the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies/DAAD/Johns Hopkins University, the Fulbright Commission, the German Historical Institute, Washington, and the Terra Foundation for American Arts/John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, FU Berlin. In spring 2005, she has been guest professor at the Université de Paris 7. Articles and essays on Dorner have been published in German, US-American as well as French and Russian journals and books. Recent articles also include art historical, cultural historical, and urban historical issues. Furthermore, she has published on various issues of European history.
Adelmann, Ralf
Ralf Adelmann works currently in a research project of the German Government about »Visualizations in Scientific Communication«. University studies in media studies, philosophy, sociology and art history at the universities of Erlangen and Bochum, Germany. Dissertation thesis: Visual cultures of control society. On the Popularization of Digital and Videographic Visualizations in Television (2003). His fields of academic interest are audio-visual cultures, media theory, media economies in popular culture, documentary formats in television.
Liebsch, Dimitri
Dimitri Liebsch Education in philosophy, history, and German literature. Ph.D. in philosophy (Ruhr-University Bochum, 1999). Working experience as assistant professor, lecturer (in philosophy and social sciences), and journalist. Academic and professional interests: Aesthetics, theory of media, social theory, visual studies, philosophy of film.
Publications: Die Geburt der ästhetischen Bildung aus dem Körper der antiken Plastik (2001), Philosophie des Films. Grundlagentexte (ed., 2005), articles on aesthetics, theory of perception, philosophy of film, Rudolf Arnheim, September 11.
Ralf Adelmann works currently in a research project of the German Government about »Visualizations in Scientific Communication«. University studies in media studies, philosophy, sociology and art history at the universities of Erlangen and Bochum, Germany. Dissertation thesis: Visual cultures of control society. On the Popularization of Digital and Videographic Visualizations in Television (2003). His fields of academic interest are audio-visual cultures, media theory, media economies in popular culture, documentary formats in television.
Andreas Fahr *1966; Andreas Fahr’s scholarship focuses on mass communication, mainly from a media psychological perspective. As a quantitatively-oriented social scientist he has mainly used content analysis, surveys, and experiments in his research. Andreas studied communication, psychology & economics between 1989 and 1995 at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany. In 1996 his master-thesis about »Tandemspots – boosters of advertising?« won the annual research prize from the German professional association of market and social researchers (BVM). Between 1995 and 2000 he worked as research associate at the Media Institute Ludwigshafen (applied media studies). Since 2000 he is working as assistant professor at the department for communication and media research at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. In his doctoral thesis (2001) he examined the perfomance of news coverage about catastrophies
Ines Katenhusen is associate professor at the Institute of Political Sciences, University of Hannover. As such, she is the coordinator of the interdisciplinary Masters program in European Studies and, among other subjects, teaches the history of European integration in the twentieth century. Her dissertation on arts and politics in the 1920ies was published in 1998. Since 2000, she has been working on the German-American art historian and museum director Alexander Dorner. In this context, she has been awarded several research fellowships by US-American and German institutions, such as the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies/DAAD/Johns Hopkins University, the Fulbright Commission, the German Historical Institute, Washington, and the Terra Foundation for American Arts/John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, FU Berlin. In spring 2005, she has been guest professor at the Université de Paris 7. Articles and essays on Dorner have been published in German, US-American as well as French and Russian journals and books. Recent articles also include art historical, cultural historical, and urban historical issues. Furthermore, she has published on various issues of European history.
Nic Leonhardt studied Theatre Studies and Audiovisual Media, German Philology and Art History at the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Mainz. In her PhD-thesis, Piktoral-Dramaturgie (Pictorial Dramaturgy), she explored the interplay of Visual Culture and Theatre in 19th Century Germany (1869-1899). She worked as a research assistant and associate instructor at the University of Mainz, and the University of Music in Köln, and received grants from the University of Mainz, the DAAD, and the Fulbright Commission. Nic Leonhardt is currently holding a position as research assistant at the University of Music and Theatre, Leipzig. Her research interests and publications include theatre and media history, visual culture, popular culture, censorship, acting theory, and telenovelas. She is currently working on a book on stereography.
Dimitri Liebsch Education in philosophy, history, and German literature. Ph.D. in philosophy (Ruhr-University Bochum, 1999). Working experience as assistant professor, lecturer (in philosophy and social sciences), and journalist. Academic and professional interests: Aesthetics, theory of media, social theory, visual studies, philosophy of film.
Publications: Die Geburt der ästhetischen Bildung aus dem Körper der antiken Plastik (2001), Philosophie des Films. Grundlagentexte (ed., 2005), articles on aesthetics, theory of perception, philosophy of film, Rudolf Arnheim, September 11.
