Natascha Frankenberg
Natascha Frankenberg
>> Dissertation project: "Bewegt werden: Readings of queer documentary films under the aspect of temporality."
In my dissertation project, I am investigating theoretical and cinematic positions on temporality and gender identity and the ongoing productions and interruptions of meaning linked to them.
The concept of queer temporality as a possibility for queer-theoretical intervention is central for me. Queer temporality is concerned with societal/social fixations of bodies/subjects over time, which are also handed down via narratives. The term is used to describe normative structures based on time as an organising principle and to develop ideas / positions to counter restrictive, normative temporalities that produce exclusions. In this way, the boom in discussions of queer temporality describes a search for temporality beyond (hetero-)normative structures and powerful occupations.
Film in particular, as a time-based medium, is scrutinised with regard to its potential to produce queer temporality, as well as with regard to the fixations it emanates in terms of temporal constitution. I am focussing here primarily on documentary films that take an identity-political and/or identity-critical position. I thus juxtapose the theoretical debate with the practice of telling stories in the name of a collective - a community - and creating visibility and representations. I am interested in which (temporal) logics lgbtiq documentary films carry forward, how they create visibility via temporal structuring, via narratives and where they - also via the medium itself - evade unambiguity and make identitary closures impossible.
>> Short biography
Until 2013 research assistant at the Institute for Media Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum.
Studied film and television studies, theatre studies and modern German literature at the Ruhr University Bochum and at the Institute for Film Studies at Stockholm University. Programme design, film talks, organisation and media education project work for film festivals and institutions.
>> Teaching
Summer term 2015
Summer term 2013
Winter term 2012/13 | Institute of Art and Visual Culture, University of Oldenburg Of films and the desire (for them): Positions of queer-feminist film analyses.
Institute for Media Research, HBK Braunschweig I learnt that in the cinema! Experience and discourses of truth in cinematic reception. Institute for Media Research, HBK Braunschweig We!? Perspectivisations of US-American lgbt documentaries between identity criticism and identity politics
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Summer term 2012 | Institute for Media Studies, Ruhr University Bochum US-American lgbt documentary films
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Summer term 2010 | Institute for Media Studies, Ruhr University Bochum Locarno International Film Festival: Excursion and introduction to the international festival landscape together with Michael Andreas
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>> Publications / Conferences (selection)
Im Netz der Eindeutigkeiten - Unbestimmte Figuren und die Irritation von Identität. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2013 Editor together with Michael Andreas therein: "I'll be grotesque before your eyes" Two thoughts on Michael Jackson (together with Michael Andreas).
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Conference (collaboration) Perverse structures. Queering heteronormative orders inter/medially. International conference at the University of Oldenburg organised as part of the Helene Lange-Kolleg Queer Studies and Intermediality: Art - Music - Media Culture, 29-31 January 2015 |
Conference Documentary Film and Politics, Documentary Film Initiative Cologne Conception / co-organisation and co-organiser as a member of the Diskurswerkstatt Bochum - Dortmund |
Porn queer and feminist Film programme Conference Pornographisation of Society, University of Cologne
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In the web of ambiguities - indeterminate figures and the irritation of identity (conference at IWK Vienna) Conference concept and organisation together with Michael Andreas and the IWK Vienna
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How to speak the body! Publication In: onlinejournal kultur & geschlecht #4, 2009. available at: www.rub.de/genderstudies/kulturundgeschlecht/pdf/Frankenberg_Koerper.pdf
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>> Projects
International Women's Film Festival Dortmund|Cologne(www.frauenfilmfestival.eu)
Programme manager of the section begehrt!
Freelancer at other film festivals and (among others: doxs! documentary films for children and young people, Blicke! Filmfestival des Ruhrgebiets, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen )