Cinepoetics – Center for Advanced Film Studies

Annette Vowinckel

Annette Vowinckel is the head of "Contemporary History of the Media and Information Society" at the Centre for Contemporary History Research, Potsdam (with Jürgen Danyel). Her research focuses on contemporary history, cultural and media history as well as the history of ideas. Her most important publications include Geschichtsbegriff und Historisches Denken bei Hannah Arendt (Böhlau 2001), Grundwissen Philosophie: Hannah Arendt (Reclam 2006 and Reclam 2015) and Agenten der Bilder. Fotografisches Handeln im 20. Jahrhundert (Wallstein 2016). Next to Vowinckel's research on relational images of world and modern formations of visual publicness, her current work on Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism also interconnects with key research topics of Cinepoetics.

For the Center for Advanced Film Studies Cinepoetics, the exchange with leading scholars from all over the world is of profound importance.

The fellow program is designed to support academics in their research on audio-visual images and enables them to bring their experience and expertise into the center in order to engage in critical dialogue.

The program is flexible in that it facilitates short-term collaborations as well as longer, project-oriented stays. In addition to inviting exceptional scholars (Senior Fellows) working in the field of research, project-specific calls for proposals explicitly address young academics (Research Fellows and Junior Fellows).

Furthermore, within the framework of selected project foci, the presence of Artists in Residence allows for productive debates with filmmakers and professional artists.