PD Dr. Anna Wiehl

University of Bayreuth

Anna Wiehl has been a lecturer and research assistant at Bayreuth University, Germany, and has been a research fellow with i-docs at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE, Bristol. Her transdisciplinary research focuses on documentary theory, digital media cultures and epistemic media.

In 2010, she finished her PhD in the international program Cultural Encounters, from 2017 to 2019, she directed a research project with the title New Documentary Networks and Worknets, and in 2019, she finished her habilitation on The ‚New‘ Documentary Nexus. Networked|Networking in interactive assemblages. Currently, she is leading a research network on The Documentary and the Digital.

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Sarah Topfstädt

University of Hamburg

Sarah Topfstädt is a doctoral student at the Institute for Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg and was a scholarship holder of the Hans Böckler Foundation until January 2023. From April to September 2020, she worked as a research assistant in the BMBF-funded teaching project „Online course Documentary Film in Digital Transfer“ as part of the teaching laboratory of the Universitätskollegs at the University of Hamburg and until February 2023 as an academic tutor in educational and media science at the University of Hamburg. In her doctoral project, she is researching the cinematic culture of remembrance and is particularly concerned with the motif of the cinematic child in feature films about the Nazi era. Since March 2023, she has been working as a research assistant in the research project „The Documentary in the Digital“.

Further information at: https://www.sarah-topfstaedt.eu/

Jasmin Kermanchi

University of Hamburg

Jasmin Kermanchi is a research assistant and doctoral student at the Institute of Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg, where she is working on a dissertation in the area of interactive documentaries. Her main research interests include new documentary forms, theory and history of documentary film, theories of participation, and digital media.

More information: https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/imk/personen/kermanchi.html

Linda Weißenrieder

University of Bayreuth

While completing her bachelor’s degree in theatre studies and economics at the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz, she worked at the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz and the Staatstheater Mainz. In addition to various productions of the Staatstheater Mainz in which she participated as a second assistant to the director, she completed a FSJ Culture (a volunteer social year) in the department of communication.
Starting in 2019 she is now studying Media Culture and Media Economy at the University of Bayreuth.

Since september 2021, she is an academic assistant for the research project ‚The Documentary in the Digital‘.