Prof Dr Thiele, Jens
Prof Dr Thiele, Jens
www.jensthiele.de
Research focus: Aesthetics, theory and history of visual media (especially film and children's book illustration)
Forschungsstelle Kinder-und Jugendliteratur (olfoki)
Academic appointment:
- Studied fine arts, art history and art education in Braunschweig and Göttingen
- Art teacher in Göttingen
- Doctorate in art studies on "The work of art in film"
- Research assistant at the University of Wuppertal for art education
- Professor for "Visual Media" at the University of Oldenburg
- Director of the Children's and Youth Literature Research Centre at the University of Oldenburg
- Retired since 1 October 2008
Publications / Exhibitions (selection):
- Artists illustrate picture books.
- Exhibition catalogue (together with Detlef Hoffmann, 1986)
- Lichtbilder - Lichtspiele.
Beginnings of photography and cinema in East Frisia
(together with Detlef Hoffmann, 1989) - New narrative forms in picture books (1991)
- Drunter & Drüber. Jürgen Spohn. Exhibition catalogue (1994)
- Experiment Bilderbuch.
Zur künstlerischen Neubestimmung der Kinderbuchillustration
(with the collaboration of Mareile Oetken, 1997) - The picture book.
Ästhetik.Theorie.Analyse.Didaktik.Rezeption (Isensee Verlag, 2000) - New impulses in picture book research. In collaboration with Elisabeth Hohmeister. Schneider Verlag Hohengehren 2007
- Hidden childhoods. Social and emotional problems in children's literature. (Edited with Sabine Wallach) BIS Verlag
Oldenburg 2007 - Picture books:
Jo im roten Kleid, Hammer Verlag 2004
Der Junge, der die Zeit anhielt, Hammer Verlag 2006
Erlkönig, Bibliothek der Provinz 2007