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Geschichtskörper: Zur Aktualität von Ernst H. Kantorowicz

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German

239 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

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Wolfgang Ernst

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Wolfgang Ernst is a German media theorist. He is Professor for Media Theories at Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) and a major exponent of Media archaeology as a method of scholarly inquiry.

Ernst studied History, Archaeology and Classics at University of Cologne, University of London, and Ruhr University Bochum. He wrote his dissertation on the aesthetic history of collections and work as an assistant at the Studienstiftung. He held positions in Leipzig, Kassel, Rome, Cologne, Weimar, Bochum, Paderborn and Berlin. Wolfgang Ernst collaborated with bootlab Berlin and developed alternative formats of theory with Till Nikolaus von Heiseler.

In 2001 he finished his Habilitation about institutions of remembrance and memory in the 19th and 20th century. Since April 2003 he is a full professor at Humboldt University of Berlin. 2015-2017 Wolfgang Ernst has held the position as director of the Department for Musicology and Media Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Ernst is internationally known as a theorist of archives and the media practice of archiving and as an exponent of Media archaeology. His latest work focuses on media-time, time-critical media, and the "sonic" as a form that connects technical and musical practices. He is the founder of a unique operative collection of technical media at Humboldt University Berlin - the "media archaeological fund".

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