Current

Recent Publications

Since April 10, 2024, weekly Pre-Publication of the 100 chapters of
Who Was WM? Investigating a Televisionary: The Life and Work of Wolfgang Menge
on Medium.com:

Introduction -> here
Chapter 1: Happy Is the One Who Forgets–Memories of Nazi Germany ->here

Wer war WM? Auf den Spuren eines Televisionärs: Wolfgang Menges Leben und Werk, Berlin: Kadmos  (forthcoming November 2024)

Film and Games as Alter Egos: Towards a Media Theory of Audio-Visual Play. In: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds 16:1, pp. 9-32)

Hoffen und Bangen. Zur Mediengeschichte der Zukunft. In: Colloquium: New Philologies, October 2023, pp. 1-46, download -> here.

Alter Egos: Zur Medientheorie von Filmen und Spielen. In: Markus Spöhrer (Hrsg.), AugenBlick: Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft – Cinegames: Filmspiele und Spielfilme, 87 (6/2923), pp. 25-49.

Towards the Ludic Cyborg: History and Theory of Authorship in Western Modernity. In: Joachim Friedmann (ed.): Narratives Crossing Boundaries: Storytelling in a Transmedial and Transdisciplinary Context, Bielefeld: transcript, September 2023, pp. 305-360, Open-Access-Download: here

Vegas, Disney, and the Metaverse: On the Material Anticipation of Virtual Worlds and Virtual Play in the Second Half of the 20th Century. In: Benjamin Beil / Gundolf S. Freyermuth / Hanns Christian Schmidt / Raven Rusch (eds.): Playful Materialities: The Stuff That Games Are Made Of, Bielefeld: transcript 2022, pp. 17-97 Open-Access-Download: here

Paratext | Paraplay. Contextualizing the Concept of Paratextuality. In: Benjamin Beil / Gundolf S. Freyermuth / Hanns Christian Schmidt / Raven Rusch (eds.): Paratextualizing Games. Investigations on the Paraphernalia and Peripheries of Play, Bielefeld: transcript  2021, pp. 13-52. Free Download -> here.

Video Games and Literature. In: Mark J.P. Wolf (ed.): Encyclopedia of Video Games. The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming, Santa Barbara: Greenwood 2021, pp. 1109-1111.

Leitbild Holografie. In: Medienkorrespondenz, Sonderheft „Medienevolution: Der indiskrete Charme der Holografie”, April 2021, pp. 5-15; online here

Teaching Interactive Storytelling and Game Design. In: Sylke Rene Meyer: Interactive Storytelling, New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge 2021, pp. 66-72.

Schrift und Bild in transmedialen Erzählungen. In: Antje Arnold / Michael Staiger (eds.): Der Deutschunterricht, Themenheft “Bild – Literatur – Medium”, 5/2020, pp. 55-64.

Game Studies. In: Olaf Zimmermann / Felix Falk (eds.): Handbuch Gameskultur. Über die Kulturwelten von Games, Berlin: Deutscher Kulturrat 2020, pp. 32-37

Utopian Futures. A Brief History of Their Conception and Representation in Modern Media—From Literature to Digital Games. In: Benjamin Beil / Gundolf S. Freyermuth / Hanns Christian Schmidt (eds.): Playing Utopia. Futures in Digital Games, Bielefeld: transcript 2019, pp. 9-65.
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Preface. In: Federico Alvarez Igarzábal, Michael S. Debus, Curtis L. Maughan (eds.), Violence | Perception | Video Games, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 7-10.

For earlier publications see CV ->here or the German website ->here.

Current Teaching Events

Summer Term 2022/23

BA Film: Intermediate Media and Game Studies I: Adaptation and Transmedia
(Seminar / Übung, ifs internationale filmschule köln, Studiengang Film, Jg. J

MA Game Development and Research: Intermediate Media and Game Studies – Serious Games and Adaptation
(Lecture / Seminar CGL, Master Class of 2022)

MA Digital Narratives: Digital Culture 2: Playing the Future
(Lecture / Seminar ifs, Master Class of 2022)