DR. ANNA WIEHL CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL INFORMATION Nationality: German Date of Birth: 9 February, 1981 Place of Birth: Marktredwitz, Germany
HIGHER EDUCATION April 2016
Positive evaluation of habilitation research project by the University of Bayreuth
Nov. 2013
Admission as "Habilitandin" (experienced Post-Doc researcher, higher qualification phase, completing second book) at the Department for Humanities at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA (discipline: Media Studies) Research project: The 'New' Documentary Nexus – Participation, Collaboration and CoCreation in Factual Interactive Discourses and Practices
Nov. 2011
Completion of the trimedial vocational training as author and multimedia editor at the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting, Munich) and ARD (Public National German Broadcasting Corporation, Berlin et al.)
July 2010
Completion of PhD-thesis in Media Studies Mythos Europäische Identität – Repräsentation und Konstruktion supranationaler, nationaler und regionaler Identitäten in deutschen und französischen Fernsehnachrichten (The Myth of European Identity – Representation and Construction of Supranational, National and Regional Identities in German and French Television News) (summa cum laude)
Oct. 2006
Admission to the international PhD programme Cultural Encounters – Rencontres Culturelles (University of Bayreuth), Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Linguistics and Media
March 2006 Completion of Master's Degree (Magister Artium) in Anglophone Literature and Cultural Studies / Literature Romance Studies / Romance Literature Linguistics Oct. 2000
Enrolment at the University of Bayreuth
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PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING since 2017
Fully funded Habilitation Fellowship to launch transdisciplinary research network on Documentary Networks|Worknets, University of Bayreuth
2015-2016
Research Fellow at Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Researcher for i-Docs.org
2010-2017
Academic consultant for the law firm Dudek – Chamber for strategic application of law, Munich
2012-2015
Research Assistant and Lecturer at the Faculty for Media Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany
since 2010
Academic consultant at Bayerischer Anwaltverband e.V. (PR and strategical development)
2011-2013
Freelance author and editor at Bayerischer Rundfunk, ARD and arte and various production companies
2009-2011
Trimedial vocational training and internship at Bayerischer Rundfunk Author and editor for various programmes in the departments "Culture. Literature and Art", "Humanities and Science" and "National and International News" Author and editor for various programmes in the departments "Culture, Sciences and Education", "Documentary", "Film and Entertainment", "Cultural News", "History", Member of staff in the department for programme development
2007-2010
Editor-in-chief of the NJB info
2005-2009
Employee at Bayerischer Rundfunk and arte as author and editorial assistant
2002-2004
Graduate assistant at the department for Media Studies, University of Bayreuth
2004
Head of internal and external communication of the festival Young Artists, Bayreuth
2003
Project related collaborator at the Museo Civico, La Spezia, Italy
2002-2005
Project related collaborator for KulturPartner Lukas & Reichert, Berlin and Bayreuth, among others head of external communication of the Mozartfest, Würzburg and curational consultant Nachsommer Schweinfurt
2004-2006
Graduate assistant at the department for Anglophone Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Bayreuth
EXPERIENCE IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT since 2017
Initiator and moderator of the transdisciplinary research network New Documentary Networks and Worknets
since 2016
Co-editor of i-docs.org
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2016
Co-organizer and curatorial collaborator of the international transprofessional and transdisciplinary i-Docs Symposium 2016 among others co-convening the VR Bazar and commissioning work cases
2015-2016
Co-convener of various smaller events in the field of new media art, interactive factuals and fiction, digital and physical experiences
since 2014
External advisory of the board for the development of quality standards for high school teaching and empirical higher education research, University of Nürnberg
2013-2015
Member of the Bayreuth-University transdisciplinary Post-doc cooperation)
2012-2015
Advisor and Counselor of the M.A. and doctoral programme Medienkultur- und Medienwirtschaft (Media Culture and Media Economics), University of Bayreuth Member of the applicant admission board Development and Realization of examination regulations and curricula
2012-2015
Active participation in the initiative Quality Management for Academic Research, teaching and knowledge exchange
2013-2015
Spokesperson of the international transdisciplinary research team Television 4.0 (together with Prof. Dr. Jay Bolter (Georgia Tech, USA), Prof. Dr. Maria Engberg (Malmö University, Sweden), and Prof. Dr. Jürgen E. Müller University of Bayreuth, Germany)
2015
Active participation in the board for the development of faculty specific classification systems for web-based academic publications
2014
Member of the concept development board for the Transdisciplinary Graduate Programme BayKULT at the University of Bayreuth
2013
Member of the organization board for the annual meeting of media researchers and university professors CampusTag – MedienCampus
2013
Member of the concept development board for the Graduiertenkolleg Medianetworks – Formation, Participation and Governance (in the context of the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft DFG)
2013
Raising of third-party funding for the international workshop Media Networks
2012
Member of the concept development board for the development planning of the faculty for Literature and Linguistics, University of Bayreuth (in cooperation with the Dean's office)
2012
Raising of third-party funding for the international summer school When the Digital meets the Social, Augmented Reality, Mobile and Social Media for Entertainment and Personal Expression (funded by the European Commission Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency and the DAAD)
2012
Member of the concept development board for the implementation of the International Graduate School Media Networks (in the context of the Elitenetz Bayern)
2010
Member of the concept development board for the transnational European Graduate Programme ATME within the context of the initiative launched by the European Commission Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency 'Erasmus Mundus' (2009-2013) 3
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BIBLIOGRAPHY MONOGRAPHS Die Herstellung von Evidenz oder: Zum Phänomen interaktiver Web Dokumentationen. Marburg: Schüren, Augenblick – Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft, 2016, edited together with Beate Ochsner and Oliver Fahle. Netzwerke der Intermedialität: Theorie, Analyse, Praxis. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac (to be published 2017, edited together with Savarini, Nina and Nouledo, Charles). Mythos Europäische Identität – Supranationale, nationale und regionale Identitäten in deutschen und französischen Fernsehnachrichten. Münster: Nodus Publikationen, 2012.
ARTICLES "Mehrdeutigkeit in dokumentarischen Formaten. Experiment, Spannungsfeld und Spielraum". In: Bauer Matthias; Potysch Nicolas (Eds.): Deutungsspielräume – Mehrdeutigkeit als kulturelles Phänomen, Tübingen, 2016. "Documentary as Co-Creative Practice – from Challenge for Change to Highrise. Kat Cizek in a Conversation with Mandy Rose, edited". In: Rose, Mandy; Aston, Judith; Gaudenzi, Sandra: The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary. Columbia University Press/Wallflower, 2017. "Shifts of focus – A revised perspective on evidence in interactive documentary as living documentary. A conversation with Sandra Gaudenzi on autopoiesis, VR, data-mining and personalization". In: Ochsner, Beate; Fahle, Oliver; Wiehl, Anna: Die Herstellung von Evidenz oder: Zum Phänomen interaktiver Web Dokumentationen. Marburg: Schüren, Augenblick – Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft, 2016. "Evidence from Living Documentary Archives. Dynamic relationality, the importance of interface design and the expansion of linear causal links. An interview with Alisa Lebow on her interactive meta-documentary Filming Revolution". In: Ochsner, Beate; Fahle, Oliver; Wiehl, Anna: Die Herstellung von Evidenz oder: Zum Phänomen interaktiver Web Dokumentationen. Marburg: Schüren, Augenblick – Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft, 2016. "Non-linearity, multiple points of view and intercultural understanding. Interactive documentaries as sets of possibilities to tackle the complexities of 21st century's sociocultural reality. A 'Werkstattgespräch' with Judith Aston." In: Ochsner, Beate; Fahle, Oliver; Wiehl, Anna: Die Herstellung von Evidenz oder: Zum Phänomen interaktiver Web Dokumentationen. Marburg: Schüren, Augenblick – Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft, 2016. "Minimalism, Miniaturisation and Epistemo-Ontological Expansion. Database aesthetics, Modular Storytelling and the Intimate Small Worlds of Korsakow Documentaries". In: NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, summer, 2016. "Européanités imaginées digitales et analogues: Jeux et enjeux intermédiatiques de représentations identitaires allemandes dans les actualités audiovisuelles". In: Wiehl, Anna; Savarini, Nina, Nouledo, Charles (Eds): Netzwerke der Intermedialität: Theorie, Analyse, Praxis. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac (to be published in Sept. 2016).
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"Exploring documentaries from one screen to other screens. For a semio-pragmatics of nonfictional interactive, participatory transmedia formats". In: Chateauvert, Jean; Delavaud, Gilles (Eds.): Les médias en acte. Editions L'Harmattan, 2015. "'New New Media Documentary'? Das Dokumentarische im Kontext interaktiver und partizipativer Medien". In: Müller, Jürgen E.; Nouledo, Charles; Stiemer, Hendrik (Eds.): Text und Medien im Kontext. Münster: Nodus Publikationen, 2015. "'One Media – Three Screens' – Convergence and interactivity at its full potential? ARTE: FrenchGerman experiments in 'crossing the borders'". In: Convergent Television(s). Political Ideas, Industrial Strategies, Textual Features and Audience Practices, 2014. "'Interactive Documentaries': Modes of Interaction as crucial factor for the expansion of cognitive 'documentary experience' to physical, emotional and social engagement". In: Jürgen Sieck et al. (Eds.): Kultur und Informatik – Visual Worlds & Interactive Spaces. Boizenburg: Verlag Werner Hülsbusch, 2013, p. 27-39. "The Myth of European Identity". In: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology 5:2, 2014, p. 13-50. "Bildung im Wandel – Konsequenzen für den Schulbereich". In: Argumente und Materialien zum Zeitgeschehen 63, 2009, p. 73-80.
PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES "'Believe me – I am (not) of this world': Eine Befragung des ontologischen und epistemologischen Status interaktiver dokumentarischer Konfigurationen" Presentation at the transdisciplinary workshop Fakt/Fiktion: Referentielle Multimodalität in der digitalen Medienkultur, University Tübingen, June 2017. "'Is it me who is there?' Empathy, immersion and bodily presence in Karim Ben Khelifa's VR Documentary The Enemy" Presentation at the Annual General Conference NECS, Sensibility and the Senses, Paris, Sorbonne, July 2017 (accepted). 'Zooming In' und 'Zooming Out' – Methodologische Zugänge zur Exploration des Nexus interaktiver dokumentarischer Praktiken Presentation at the Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft gfm, October 2017, Nürberg-Erlangen, October 2017 (accepted). "networking networkedness or: dancing with Korsakow. an essay to approach interactive documentary assemblages as method" Presentation at the international workshop 'Interactive Documentary as Research Method', Symposium zum Film, Bremen , May 2017. "'Author-Audience-Text unleashed'. From Eco's opera aperta to open-space documentary?" Presentation at the i-Docs Symposium 2016, March 2016. "Wenn aus anarchischen Zettelkästen Utopien erwachsen. Database documentaries als ergebnisoffene Experimentalanordnungen" 5
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Presentation at the Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft gfm, October 2015. "Non-Quasi-Pseudo? Bear Rekonstruktion und Fiktion"
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Presentation at the international conference Die (Un-)Wahrheit der Bilder. Reality-Modi in TV und Kino, Kiel, Institut für Neuere deutsche Literatur und Medien, March 2015. "Von 'Visual Evidence' zu dokumentarischen Formaten"
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Presentation at the transdisciplinary conference Mediale Zeitenwende – interdisziplinäre Forschungsansätze zu Formierung und Wirkung des narrative turn, Cologne , November 2014. "Spuren (in) der Realität? – Karten & Kartographieren // Dokumentation & Dokumentieren" Presentation at the international workshop Mapping als analytische Metapher und ästhetisches Verfahren, Bayreuth, October 2014. "News@play – Digital Transformation and the Changing Role of News Media in the 21st Century" Presentation at the international conference of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), Geneva, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), August 2014. "New Documentary Networks" Presentation at the international workshop Media Networks, Bayreuth, July 2014. "Documentary@play – For a Semio-Pragmatics of Non-Fictional Interactive, Participatory Transmedia Formats" Presentation at the international conference From One Screen to Another. The Mutations of the Spectator, Paris, Université Paris 8 & Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, May 2014. "Zwischen Couch-Potato, YouTube und Social TV – Das Fernsehen 'der nächsten Generation' in der vernetzten Mediengesellschaft" Keynote lecture on CityCampus, Bayreuth, 2013. "'Interactive Documentaries': Schaffung von Erkenntnis-, Erlebnis- und Erfahrungsräumen durch die Verbindung dokumentarischer Repräsentationsmethoden und Partizipationsmöglichkeiten digitaler Medien" Presentation at the international conference Culture and Informatics, Pergamon Museum Berlin, May 2013.
SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS 2017
"Förderpreis" of the University of Bayreuth
2016
Shortlisted for Junior Professorship at the Faculty of Media and Culture at the University of Leipzig
2012
PhD-thesis predicate summa cum laude
2012
Research fellowship of the Equal Opportunities for Young Academics Programme
2007-2010
Research Grant of the Bayerische Eliteförderung 6
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2000-2005
Scholarship of the Bayerische Begabtenförderung
2013
Admission to the EU-promoted Mentoring Scholarship START for junior professors and academic leadership
EXPERIENCES IN ACADEMIC TEACHING since 2015
Moderation of PhD and research fellow group at UWE
2012-2015
Teaching in B.A. and M.A. transdisciplinary programmes B.A. Media Studies and Media Practice; B.A. Theatre and Media; M.A. Media and Literature; M.A. Media Culture and Media Economics Supervising of students’ project-development and realization Audio-visual productions, radio- and online-production, mixed media performances Support for PhD-fellows from abroad
RESEARCH FOCUS Theories of digital media culture, media history and media art Emerging documentary practices interactive documentary, database documentary, transmedia documentary, hybridization of fictional and factual discourses Use of digital media in non-fictional storytelling and art education Intersections of documentary practices and digital journalism Theories of linear and non-linear audio-visual narration Interactivity, interaction, participation, collaboration and co-creation Inter-, trans- and cross-mediality Networks and networking practices, ANT and Science and Technology Studies
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Experience in media art education (AR, VR, audio-visual practices) Expertise in research design and research methods Experience in research and project-development Expertise in publishing at an international level (as editor, author and peer reviewer) Experience in cooperation with extra-university research departments Experience in working in international research teams and transdisciplinary networking Experience in qualitative research
FURTHER SKILLS PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Strategic planning for website development Content Generation for Social Media Outlets 7
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CMS-based web-publishing Digital video and audio editing Digital image processing Camerawork in HDTV Script development Speaker and Moderator formation
DIDACTIC SKILLS Certificate of Didactics in Higher Education Certificate in peer-mentoring and student counselling Certificate in multimedia didactics Certificate in Vocational skills for Students of the Humanities
LANGUAGE SKILLS German (native speaker) English (fluent) French (fluent) Italian (conversational) Latin (basic)
MEMBERSHIPS Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft gfm European Network for Cinema and Media Studies NECS Emerging Fields of the University of Bayreuth (2012-2015) Nachwuchsjournalisten Bayern, e.V. (2008-2010)
PERSONAL INTERESTS Art, cinema, new media practices and literature Photography Travelling and Hiking Yoga and modern dance Gardening and Nature
CONTACT Bamberger-Straße 64b D – 95445 Bayreuth Germany email:
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