Martina Roepke is a visiting professor in Screen Arts and Cultures. She has taught courses on Film history and theory as well as the philosophy of media at the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University (The Netherlands), where she is a lecturer at the department of Media and Cultural Sciences.
She graduated fro the University of Tubingen, where she had studied German literature, Linguistics and Philosophy. She received her pfd at the University of Hildesheim, where she had been a graduate student in the interdisciplinary program ‘Representing Authenticity'.
Martina Roepkes field of interests are film history with a focus on non-fictional and non-theatrical film, old and new media technologies and performance theory. In her book Home Cinema in Germany before 1945 (Heimkino in Deutschland vor 1945, 2006 ) Martina discusses the early years of amateur film production as an important element of German film culture before 1945.
For this research she has become involved in various archival activities surrounding the restoration and preservation of small gauge film in European archives. As a board member of the European Association Inedits (AEI) she has organized workshops and conferences bringing together researchers, archivists and filmproducers on topics related to the preservation, use and cultural significance of amateurfilm. Most recentely a DVD with 17.5 mm films was released by the Dutch Archive of Sound and Image . As member of the Davideon project, carried out by the Unversity of Amsterdam and the Dutch Institute of Sound and Vision, she developed teaching strategies and environments for the online use of archival footage in higher education.
Currently Martina is preparing a project on media literacy, which explores the dynamic relation of seeing, knowing, doing and feeling in historic and emerging media environments.
At the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, her teaching includes SAC 441 German Cinema (meets with German 330) (fall 2007), Amateur Cinema (winter 2008).
Selected Publications:
Privat-Vorstellung. Heimkino in Deutschland vor 1945 . Olms: Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: 2006
“Bringing Movies into the Home. Distribution Strategies for 17,5mm film (1903-1908)” In: Frank Kessler, Nanna Veroeff: Networks of Entertainment. Early Cinema: Distribution. John Libbey publishers, New York: 2007, pp.
“… denn auch bei anderen Beschauern wird das Bild Interesse erwecken.” Filmkataloge als Sehanleitungen”, KINtop Jahrbuch no.14/15, Frankfurt: Stroemfeld/Roter Stern, 2006, pp.77-86.
“Bewegen und Bewahren. Die Wirklichkeit im Heimkino." Geschichte des dokumentarischen Films in Deutschland, Bd. 3 (1933-1945) . Peter Zimmermann, Kay Hoffmann (ed.), Stuttgart: Reclam Verlag, 2005, pp. 285-298.
"Feiern im Ausnahmezustand. Ein privater Film aus dem Luftschutzkeller." Montage a/v 2001/2, pp. 59-66.
"Lichtspiele im Wohnzimmer. Der Filmamateur und sein Heimkino." Cinema 44 (Das Private), 1999, pp. 22-34.
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