Current fellows

Özgür Çiçek

Philipp Schwartz Research Fellow and expert on transnational Kurdish cinema.

Enis Dinç

Film scholar and expert in Turkish film history.

Elena Gorfinkel

Film scholar at King's College London, expert on marginal and independent cinema, and curator of international film programs.

Sarah Greifenstein

Junior professor for media, culture and communication as well as a member of the board of directors at the Brandenburg Center for Media Studies (ZeM).

Malte Hagener

Professor of Media Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg with teaching and research foci in history, theory and aesthetics of film.

Angelos Koutsourakis

Associate Professor for Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds and Humboldt research fellow. His research interests include film and modernism, politics and representation, and film philosophy.

Bodo Mrozek

Research associate at the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies of the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History with leading expertise in the field of pop culture and pop history.

Drehli Robnik

Freelance essayist, critic and theorist on history, politics, and film. Writes and publishes extensively on Kracauer and Rancière, popular cinema and horror film.

Christian Rüdiger

Film scholar and expert of German film history. His research interests include film as political experience spaces, as well as German film as a whole.