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Florian StenschkeHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Born in Berlin (1981), I enrolled in American Studies and Neuere
deutsche Literatur at Humboldt in 2002. Previous interests include
lego, aviation, physics, nasa, and cognitive neurosciences. In 2003, I
spent a semester abroad at Duke University where my work focussed on
Utopian literature (a grad level course taught by the eminent Marxist
critic and farm owner Fredric Jameson), T.S. Eliot and Music, Canadian
Issues, and Toni Morrison. Moreover, I wrote papers on Hawthorne's "The
Scarlett Letter", Charles Olson, Ludwig Tieck, Wolfgang Borchert,
Richard Strauss, Roland Barthes & Michael Jackson and gave papers at
two student conferences: "The Invisible Narrator: Ishmael's Thinking
Bubbles" (where I synthesized Melville with the contemporary German
philosopher Peter Sloterdijk and his "Sphären" trilogy) at Uni Rostock
in June 2004, and "How to Wake Up From the European Dream" at the 3rd
annual Transatlantic Student Conference in Prague and Berlin (March
2005). I have worked as a music journalist, radio producer, sound
engineer, and soundtrack composer. My current projects include
documentary film script translations for Deutsche Synchron, publishing
the TEXT IMAGE MUSIC quarterly,
producing the Berlin rock group Kain, and le Quartier électronique. My
dream is to keep on doing the things that I do know and enjoy a lot and
come across many more surprises.
Paper: USS Media: Enter/tainment - Enter/America? (Session III)
A version of this paper has been published in:
Picturing America. Trauma, Reality, Politics and Identity in American Visual Culture.
Antje Dallmann, Reinhard Isensee, Philipp Kneis (Editors). Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007.
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