Prof. Dr. Evelyn Echle

Cultural and Media Theory

Head of the Department of Art and Cultural Studies / Critical Studies

Room G1.118
Holzgartenstr. 36
75175 Pforzheim

Tel. +49 (07231) 28-6043

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Since 2019 Professor of Cultural and Media Theory (W 3) at Pforzheim University, School of Design

2017 – 2019 Research Assistant/Senior Post Doc at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zurich

2015 – 2017 Research assistant at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich

2015 – Doctorate in Film and Media Studies at the University of Zurich with a thesis on ornament as an aesthetic phenomenon in silent film (funded by the German National Academic Foundation)

2008 – 2015 Research and teaching activities at various national and international colleges and universities

since 2007 Co-publisher and editor of the media studies journal Montage A/V (Berlin/Marburg)

2000 – 2007 Magistra-Artium studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum in film and media studies, literary studies, pedagogy

1997 – 2000 Print traineeship and editor at Schwäbischer Verlag with connection to the Munich School of Journalism ifp

Critical and experimental media cultures; film studies; history of fashion; intercultural aspects of audiovisual media; aesthetic interfaces of media, architecture and design theory, avant-garde cinema/expanded cinema

Expert reviewer for the German Research Foundation DFG and the Austrian Science Fund FWF

Series editor of "FilmStudies" together with Prof. Dr. Susanne Marschall (University of Tübingen) and Prof. Dr. Britta Hartmann (University of Bonn), Schüren-Verlag Marburg

Co-publisher and editor of the journal Montage AV - Zeitschrift für Theorie und Geschichte audiovisueller Kommunikation (Berlin/Marburg. peer reviewed, biannual publication)

Advisory Board of the DFG-funded, open journal Colour Turn (peer reviewed)

Member of Netzwerk Mode Textil / network fashion textile

Member of the selection committee for the German National Academic Foundation

Member of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft e.V. (GfM) since 2006

Member of the Society for Design Theory and Research e.V. (DGTF)

2012 – 2014 Member of the DFG network "Film style - between art history and media convergence: historical, theoretical and aesthetic foundations of a neglected category"

Conception and moderation of the panel discussion 'Egypt: Cinema from Tradition' during the 4th International Arab Film Festival Zurich, Kino Filmpodium, 18.11.2018

Conception and moderation of the panel discussion 'Zwischen Wagnis und Wiederaufbau - Filmland Irak' during the 4th International Arab Film Festival Zurich, Kino Filmpodium, 17.11.2019

Curation and conception of the film evening Focus Tunisia in collaboration with the iaffz association, the Tunisian Embassy in Bern and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), September 16, 2017, Kino Toni Zurich

Accompanying text for the exhibition "auswerfen der Netze - da, wo die Blätter sich färben" by Graziella Berger, January 28 to February 18, 2017, APROPOS Kulturraum Lucerne

Further training for teachers/Médiation culturelles. Workshop on film analysis during the Festival International de Films de Fribourg; February 11, 2017 and February 3, 2018

Conception and moderation of the panel discussion 'Algeria and film history' during the 3rd International Arab Film Festival Zurich, Kino Filmpodium, 18.11.2016

Conception and moderation of the panel discussion 'Torn apart? Syrian Cinema' during the 3rd International Arab Film Festival Zurich, Kino Filmpodium, 20.11.2016

Festival organizer at the International Arab Film Festival Zurich; responsible for the scientific and media-educational accompanying program as well as for moderations and panel discussions.

Member of the Swiss Association of Film Journalists (SVFJ/ASJC/ASGC).