Photo of the working group of the Chair - March 2025

Not just "Something to do with media..."

The Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Culture Studies is interested in issues at the intersection of media and cultural theory, aesthetics and (cultural) narratology. It researches the political and emotional dimensions of literature, film and TV series, deals with popular cultural phenomena as well as 'high culture' and assumes that its subjects can only be comprehensively understood if they are historically classified and discursively contextualized.

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Employees

The Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature currently employs a total of eight members of staff: Under the academic direction of Prof. Dr. Lars Koch, the secretariat headed by Angelika Gleisberg and supported by two Student Assistants, the Chair employs a total of five Research Associates, including two doctoral students, as well as three teaching fellows.

The Principle of Disruption

The interdisciplinary research group, funded by the European Research Council, is dedicated to the cultural diagnostic potentials that are grouped in feedback loops around media, artistic and socio-political disruptions.

SFB 1285 Invectivity

Phenomena of vilification and degradation, shaming and exposure can be understood as fundamental operations of social communication across epochs and cultures. As moments of disruption, stabilization and dynamization of social orders, they have the potential to form communities and shape societies. The research network summarizes such phenomena under the term invectivity. In sub-project K, members of the MNDL department are investigating the representation, performance and reflection of invectives in contemporary theater, performance and action art from a media cultural studies perspective.

Culture - Theory - Diagnosis

The Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature is interested in issues at the intersection of media and cultural theory, aesthetics and (cultural) narratology. It researches the political and emotional dimensions of literature, film and TV series, deals with popular cultural phenomena as well as 'high culture' and assumes that its subjects can only be comprehensively understood if they are historically classified and discursively contextualized.

The Chair's program includes thematic multiperspectivity and a high degree of interdisciplinarity, which is reflected in the diverse and motivated research fields of its staff: Under the academic direction of Prof. Dr. Lars Koch, the Chair employs a total of eight research associates from various research contexts. While their approaches are united by the question of aesthetics, theory and the social function of their subjects, the Chair's academic profile is defined by the breadth of its subjects and perspectives.

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Information on the Chair's reference library can be found under Studies/Materials.