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Matthias Wittmann
Dr. Matthias Wittmann, currently Lecturer at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Film Studies), born in Vienna in 1976, is a media theorist, writer, and curator, as well as a literary and film critic. He received his PhD in Media Studies in 2013 on the topic “MnemoCine: The Construction of Memory in the Experience of Film.” From 2009 to 2019, he researched and taught at the Seminar for Media Studies at the University of Basel, focusing on film, screenology, medial mnemographies, and transcultural image research—particularly the cinema of Iran. He was Co-PI of the research project “Afterimages of Revolution and War: Trauma- and Memoryscapes in Post-Revolutionary Cinema” (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2016–2019). The project resulted in the book “Counter Memories in Iranian Cinema” (Edinburgh University Press 2021, ed. with Ute Holl). In 2021, he served as Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna (Theater, Film, and Media Studies).
He has recently completed two book on the octopus—Die Gesellschaft des Tentakels / The Society of Tentacle (2021) and Oktopia (2023)—and is currently developing a book titled “Media Martyrographies: A Transcultural Approach (with special focus on Iranian Cinema).” His most recent article, “Ciné-Martyrographies: Media Techniques of Witnessing in Iranian Cinema,” appeared in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BRJMES), Special Issue: Cultural Production, Propaganda, and Negotiating Ideology in Iran, edited by Goulia Ghardashkhani, Olmo Gölz, and Kevin Schwartz, 2024 [Peer Reviewed]. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13530194.2024.2342178
Contributions
“Martyrdom is a trap for the oppressed.” Éric Vuillard (The War of the Poor)1Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor…
