This short piece reflects on the reception of the reissue of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ in 2016, and serves as an end piece to a collection of articles on ‘Mein Kampf’ curated by the German Historical Institute, London, in 2017. The collection appears in the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute and can be accessed in its entirely on the…[Read more]

This article is a brief set of reflections on the problems associated with trying to read and interpret Hitler’s text ‘Mein Kampf’ historically 70 years after it came out of copyright. The context is the wider set of conversations about the place of ‘Mein Kampf’ in German history and contemporary political culture prompted by the republication…[Read more]

MuViKon 11 took place in Saarbrücken at Saarland University’s Institute of Art History in October of 2011. A conference devoted to music videos, MuViKon 11 built upon MuViKon 8, which took place at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt (http://muvikon08.net). Whereas MuViKon 8 dealt primarily with the past and present of the music video, and ra…[Read more]

Videoclips: Gut zwei Jahrzehnte hatten sie die Oberhoheit über das Bild vom Popstar und die Musikindustrie gab Vermögen für die bewegten Bilder aus, um Stars wie Michael Jackson zu promoten. Doch mit der Musikindustrie begann auch das Genre Musikvideo zu schwächeln, nur für wenige Ausnahmen à la Lady Gaga stehen heute noch fette Budgets zur Verfü…[Read more]

Due to shifts in the contexts of the production and presentation of the music video, more and more people start to talk about a possible end of this genre. At the same time disciplines such as visual-, film- and media-studies, art- and music-history begin to realize that despite the fact that the music video obviously has come of age, they still…[Read more]

Abstract

Im Rahmen der Organisation eines internationalen interdisziplinären Kolloquiums zum Thema der Datenvisualisierung in den Geisteswissenschaften im Dezember 2015 durch das Deutsche Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris in Kooperation mit dem Kunstgeschichtlichen Institut der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main, wurde ein Kurzprojekt du…[Read more]