Department of German Studies
6084 Dartmouth Hall
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-3511
Office: 330 Dartmouth Hall
Telephone: (603) 646-2491
Fax: (603) 646-1474
E-mail: Gerd.Gemunden@dartmouth.edu
Gerd Gemünden is the Sherman Fairchild Professor of the Humanities, and Professor of German Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Comparative Literature. He studied German, English and Philosophy at the University of Tübingen and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon (Ph.D. 1988). His specialties include critical theory and cultural studies, 20th Century German literature, and the history and theory of German cinema. He is the author of Die hermeneutische Wende: Disziplin und Sprachlosigkeit nach 1800 (1990); Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination (1998), and A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder's American Films (2008 - also published in Austria as Filmemacher mit Akzent: Billy Wilder in Hollywood). His volumes as editor include Wim Wenders: Einstellungen (1993); The Cinema of Wim Wenders (1997); Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections (2002); Dietrich Icon (2007); and Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer (2012); as well as special issues of New German Critique on the director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and on Film and Exile. He serves on the editorial board of New German Critique and Film Criticism and is co-editor (with Johannes von Moltke '89) of the series "Screen Cultures" for Camden House. He is currently working on a study of German exiles and émigrés in Hollywood from 1933 to 1948. He also served as a consultant to the PBS film, Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood, which first aired in January, 2009. For more information, see http://www.pbs.org/wnet/cinemasexiles/. Most recently, he supplied a video interview for the Criterion Collection DVD of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire.
Click the controller below to hear Professor Gerd Gemünden and Kinohi Nishikawa '01 describe Dartmouth's Berlin programs in a feature that was broadcast on National Public Radio. (6.4MB/QuickTime)
