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Johannes von Moltke
phone: 734.647.6909 or 734.647.0243
office: 1054 E Frieze or 3134 MLB
email: moltke@umich.edu
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Associate Professor, Screen Arts & Cultures, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Johannes von
Moltke
received his Ph.D. from Duke University and joined the faculty at the University
of Michigan
after having taught for 4 years at the University of
Hildesheim in Germany. His dissertation, "Beyond Authenticity: Experience,
Identity and Performance in the New German Cinema", focused on the role
of authenticity and the performative in Edgar Reitz, Rudolf Thome, and Rainer
Werner Fassbinder. Combining an interest in German Studies, Film Studies, and
Cultural Studies, he has also been exploring the phenomenon of stardom in Germany
and Hollywood, has worked on representations of Jewishness and the issue of Heimat,
Americanization and popular culture in postwar Germany. He is an editor of the
German film and media studies journal Montage A/V, for which he recently co-edited
a special issue on stardom. He was also a co-organizer of a recent conference
in German Studies at the University of Michigan, entitled "The Unification
Effect: The Berlin Republic Ten Years After" (Dec. 2-5, 1999).
S Johannes von Moltke is currently working on a cultural history of the German
Heimat film, entitled "No Place Like Home: Topographies of Modernity in
the German Heimat film"
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