Tobias Dietrich

Publications

Books (in German)

2022: Kopf/Kino. Psychische Erkrankung und Film (hg. mit Winfried Pauleit). Berlin: Bertz + Fischer.

2017: Filme für den Eimer. Das Experimentalkino von Klaus Telscher. Stuttgart: ibidem.

Academic papers (English selection)

2022: Teaching Mental Illness through Film and Film through Mental Illness, in: Sark, Katrina (Hg.): Social Justice Pedagogies. (Forthcoming).

2019: Depression as Aesthetic Answer to the Socioeconomic Crisis in Two Days, One Night, in: Corbalán, Ana; Kaklamanidou, Betty (Hg.): Contemporary European Cinema. Crisis Narratives and Narratives in Crisis. London, New York: Routledge, S. 106–118.

Others (English selection)

2021: Frenzies, Films and Family.  A Review of ‘Mental Traveler’ by W.J.T. Mitchell in: The Polyphony. Conversations across the Medical Humanities. 19.3.2021.

2018: Social Justice, Blood Donation, and Gay Rights, in: Sark, Katrina (Hg.): Anthology of Social Justice and Intersectional Feminisms, 1., S. 25–27.

Presentations

5/5/2021: „Mind/Screens: Bridging Film Aesthetics and Mental Illness“, Introductory Note to the 25th International Bremen Film Conference, University of Bremen, CITY 46 / Kommunalkino Bremen e.V., together with Angela Rabing and Winfried Pauleit.

1/24/2020: „Experience as Aesthetic Change: Mental Illness as Self-corrective Truth in Christopher Nolan’s Memento“, 3rd Congress of the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research, „Experience, Medicine and Marginalisation“, University of Sheffield.

7/29/2019: „Madness and Posthumanism“, Summer School „Posthuman Intimacies. Cross-Species Entanglements in European Cinema“, University of Toronto.

10/26/2018: „Considering the Clinical Discourse as an Aesthetic One Through the Light of Film”, Cultural Crossings of Care. An Appeal to the Medical Humanities, University of Oslo.

6/29/2018: "Taking the 'Scenic' Route. Values of Authorial Wrong Tracks in Discontinuous Fictional Illness Narratives", GCSC-Workshop "Rhetorics of Health and Illness. (Dis-)Continuous Minds, Bodies, and Narratives", Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.

11/28/2017: „The Aesthetic Dimension of Mental Illness. Werner Herzog’s My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done”, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada.

10/2/2017: „Caligari – Dr. Unrath – M. Types of Madness in Weimar Cinema“, im Rahmen des Seminars „A Short History of German Film“, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada.

Memberships

| GfM - Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft
| NECS - Network for European Cinema and Media Studies
| IAMHAR - International Association of Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research
| NNMHR - Northern Network for Medical Humanities
| Netzwerk Medical Humanities, Zentrum Geschichte des Wissens, Universität & ETH Zürich