Directorate of Studies 17 - Theatre, Film and Media Studies

Bachelor Theatre, Film and Media Studies (580 [2] - Version 2011)

Introductory and Orientation Period (16 ECTS)

Introduction to Theatre, Film and Media Studies (8 ECTS)

• 170001 VO 8 ECTS ( OV STEOP ) STEOP: Lecture "Introduction to Theatre, Film and Media Studies"
  Charton, Th 18:30-20:00 (16×), Mo 09:45-11:15 (13×)

Forms of Theatre and Media Staging (8 ECTS)

• 170002 VO 8 ECTS ( OV STEOP ) STEOP: Lecture "Forms of Theatre and Media Staging"
  Hulfeld, Th 09:45-11:15 (16×), Tu 13:15-14:45 (14×)

Advanced Courses (41 ECTS)

Scientific Writing (8 ECTS)

Techniques of Scientific Writing

• 170109 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Techniques of Scientific Work"
  Khouloki
• 170110 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Techniques of Scientific Work" - Practice of scientific work
  Trinkaus, Th 09:45-11:15 (15×)
• 170111 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Techniques of Scientific Work"
  Khouloki

Scientific Writing and Presentation Skills

• 170113 UE 3 ECTS Exercise Course "Academic Writing and Presentation Skills" - Writing Project Bachelor Paper
  Sippl, Fr 13:15-18:15 (3×), Sa 09:00-13:00 (3×)
• 170114 UE 3 ECTS Exercise Course "Academic Writing and Presentation Skills" - Writing Project Bachelor Paper
  Mehdizadeh Baghbani, Th 15:00-16:30 (15×)
• 170115 UE 3 ECTS Exercise Course "Academic Writing and Presentation Skills"
  Sobota, Mo 09:45-13:00 (7×)

Analysis (15 ECTS)

Performance and Staging Analysis

• 170120 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis" - Misfits on stage
  Schmitt, Mo 16:45-18:15 (13×)
• 170122 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"
  Schmid-Reiter, Tu 13:15-14:45 (14×)

Film Analysis

• 170123 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Film Analysis" - THE PINK PANTHER
  Letschnig, We 15:00-16:30 (15×)
• 170124 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Film Analysis" - Introduction to film analysis
  Khouloki, We 11:30-13:00 (15×)
• 170125 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Film Analysis"
  Cargnelli, Mo 13:15-14:45 (13×)

Media Analysis

• 170126 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Influencing. On Concepts of Subjectivity in Digital Culture
  Jagella, Tu 15:00-16:30 (14×)
• 170127 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Affect, the Mundane, Media
  Trinkaus, Tu 18:30-20:00 (14×)

Theory (18 ECTS)

Theatre Theory

• 170130 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory"
  Kirschstein, Fr 13:15-18:15 (3×), Sa 09:45-16:30 (3×)
• 170131 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory"
  Hulfeld, Mo 15:00-16:30 (13×)
• 170132 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory" - Theater / Theories for Democracy and Peace: Erwin Piscator
  Marschall, We 18:30-20:00 (15×)

Film Theory

• 170133 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory"
  Tieber, Tu 11:30-13:00 (14×)
• 170134 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" - The Art of the Visual Idea - Filmmakers as Theorists
  Letschnig, We 16:45-18:15 (15×)
• 170135 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" - Introduction to film theories based on questions of the body
  Wagner, Th 13:15-14:45 (15×)

Media Theory

• 170137 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Introduction to Media Theories
  Seier, We 13:15-14:45 (15×)
• 170138 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Mediality and Theory
  Trinkaus, Th 11:30-13:00 (15×)
• 170139 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Media theories for beginners
  Waitz, Tu 16:45-18:15 (12×)

Specialisation (33 ECTS)

Body, Staging, Interaction (11 ECTS)

Concepts and Techniques of Acting

• 170210 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Proletarian Masculinities
  Ernst, We 11:30-13:00 (15×)
• 170211 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Acting Techniques in the 19th century
  Kirschstein, Fr 13:15-18:15 (3×), Sa 09:45-16:30 (3×)

Body Practices and Gender Presentations

• 170215 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - Representations of non-binary in audiovisual media
  Wagner, We 16:45-18:15 (15×)

Narrative Orders (11 ECTS)

Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media

• 170220 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - Antonioni
  Cargnelli, Th 13:15-14:45 (15×)
• 170221 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - Meme cultures
  Figge, We 15:00-16:30 (11×), Sa 31.01. 10:00-17:00
• 170222 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - Orders of narration
  Hulfeld

Media Transitions

• 170223 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Re-reading Artaud - the Theatre of Cruelty from the Last Writings
  Döcker, Mo 09:45-13:00 (6×)
• 170224 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Unbearable Images - hybrid story telling in film, animation and social media
  Kandioler-Biet, Th 09:45-11:15 (15×)

Space Productions (11 ECTS)

Theatre and Media Spaces

• 170230 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Déjà-vu. Image quotation in theater, film and media
  Blaser, Tu 11:30-13:00 (14×)
• 170231 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Reflections on Space
  Letschnig, Mo 13:15-14:45 (13×)
• 170232 PS 6 ECTS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - La Frontera - The Aesthetics of the Border in Video, Photography and Performance Art
  Robles Ponce, Th 16:45-20:00 (4×)

Staged Spaces

• 170233 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - Publics in Platformcapitalism
  Figge, Tu 15:00-16:30 (12×), Fr 30.01. 09:45-14:45
• 170234 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - Spaces of Music Video
  Gotto, Tu 09:45-11:15 (14×)
• 170235 UE 5 ECTS Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - Performing Knowledge. Performative science popularization in Viennese public education 1900-1938
  N.N., Mo 09:45-13:00 (7×)

History of Theatre, Film and Media (20 ECTS)

History of Theatre (3 ECTS)

• 170301 VO 3 ECTS Lecture: The History of Theatre - Commedia
  Hulfeld, Mo 13:15-14:45 (12×)

History of Film (3 ECTS)

• 060028 VO 4 ECTS Comedy on the brink - Holocaust, humor and cinematic border crossings
  N.N., Fr 13:15-14:45 (15×)
• 170310 VO 3 ECTS Lecture: The History of Film - Affect, Empathy, Narrative Perspective. Gender and/in Media
  Braidt, Tu 15:00-16:30 (14×)

History of Media (3 ECTS)

• 170311 VO 3 ECTS Lecture on the History of Media - Queering Home: Postdigital Politics of Care
  Schweigler, We 13:15-14:45 (16×)
• 170320 VO 3 ECTS Lecture: The History of Theatre, Film and Media - Queer Film and Media Historiography in Austria and in the world: Beginnings, viewed from the end (Part 2)
  Kandioler-Biet, Th 13:15-14:45 (15×)

History of Theatre, Film and Media (9 ECTS)

• 170320 VO 3 ECTS Lecture: The History of Theatre, Film and Media - Queer Film and Media Historiography in Austria and in the world: Beginnings, viewed from the end (Part 2)
  Kandioler-Biet, Th 13:15-14:45 (15×)
• 170321 VO 3 ECTS Lecture on the History of Theatre, Film and Media - Spaces of Thought and Image in Film and Media Art
  Schulte, Mo 18:30-20:00 (13×)

Discussion Course on the History of Theatre, Film and Media (2 ECTS)

• 170323 KO 2 ECTS Discussion Course on the History of Media - Queering Home: Postdigital Politics of Care
  Schweigler, Th 11:30-13:00 (16×)

Compulsory Supplementary Module (30 ECTS)

Theory and Aesthetics (10 ECTS)

• 170497 UE 5 ECTS Performance as Practice
  Döcker, We 09:45-13:00 (6×)
• 170498 UE 5 ECTS Whose Bodies Matter? On othered bodies in contemporary dance and performance
  Gillinger-Correa Vivar, Fr 03.10. 09:45-13:00, Fr 13:15-18:15 (2×), Sa 13:15-18:15 (2×), Fr 24.10. 19:30-21:00
• 170499 UE 5 ECTS Franz Kafka multimedial
  Gönitzer, Tu 11:30-14:45 (7×)
• 170500 UE 5 ECTS An "other" Materialism? - Forms of theory-building in German theatre studies in the context of the Cold War
  Roth, Fr 03.10. 15:00-16:30, Fr 09:45-16:30 (2×), Sa 09:45-16:30 (2×)
• 170503 UE 5 ECTS Cinema and the Ecological Crisis
  Zohren, Tu 11:30-14:45 (7×)

History (10 ECTS)

• 170508 UE 5 ECTS The American Road Movie
  Gotto, We 09:30-13:00 (7×)
• 170509 UE 5 ECTS Farces, Pomp, and Politics: Theatre and Society in the 19th Century
  Hofmann, Sa 06.12. 10:35-16:30, Fr 13:15-18:15 (2×), Sa 10:30-16:30 (2×)
• 170512 UE 5 ECTS Storying and Worlding
  Sandell, Fr 17.10. 11:30-14:45, Fr 09:45-16:30 (2×), Sa 09:45-16:30 (2×)
• 170513 UE 5 ECTS Endings and Beginnings: Hollywood in the 90s
  Tieber, Tu 09:45-11:15 (14×)

Fields of Practice and Communication (10 ECTS)

• 170519 UE 5 ECTS Peer Mentoring: First Practical Experience TFM 2025W
  Charton, Mo 06.10. 09:45-18:15, Tu 15:00-16:30 (14×)
• 170520 UE 5 ECTS Peer Mentoring: Advanced Experience TFM 2025W
  Charton
• 170528 UE 5 ECTS The common thread - watching, connecting and curating film
  Höglinger, We 08.10. 16:45-18:15, We 15:00-18:15 (5×), Fr 24.10. 16:45-20:00
• 170529 UE 5 ECTS Stop-Motion Animation
  Khouloki
• 170535 UE 5 ECTS Production dramaturgy in music theatre - Mieczyslaw Weinberg's ‘The Passenger’
  Morabito, Th 15:00-16:30 (13×)

Gender (10 ECTS)

• 170539 UE 5 ECTS Femosphere - reactionary turn in popular feminisms
  Kapfer, Fr 11:30-13:00 (2×), Fr 13:15-18:15 (2×), Sa 11:30-18:15 (2×)
• 170540 UE 5 ECTS Women in Austrian Film
  Letschnig, Mo 15:00-16:30 (13×)

Global Perspectives (10 ECTS)

Master Theatre, Film and Media Studies (583)

Theatre, Film and Media Cultures (21 ECTS)

MA 1.1 Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception (7 ECTS)

• 170600 SE 7 ECTS MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Time and Temporality in the work of Jim Jarmusch
  Gotto, We 09:30-13:00 (7×)
• 170601 SE 7 ECTS MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Close Reading: THE THIRD MAN (UK 1949)
  Cargnelli, We 13:15-14:45 (15×)
• 170602 SE 7 ECTS MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Assembly
  Figge, Tu 11:30-13:00 (13×), Fr 23.01. 09:45-14:45
• 170603 SE 7 ECTS MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Affect and Sound: tfm
  Charton, Mo 09:45-11:15 (13×)

MA 1.2 Processes of Theatricality and Mediality (7 ECTS)

• 170610 SE 7 ECTS MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality"
  Dalinger, We 13:15-14:45 (15×)
• 170611 SE 7 ECTS MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Mediality of Disorder
  Gotto, Tu 13:15-14:45 (14×)
• 170613 SE 7 ECTS MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Wellness, fitness, mindfulness. Self and media technologies in late capitalism
  Waitz, Tu 13:15-14:45 (9×), Sa 17.01. 11:30-14:45

MA 1.3 Discourses and Methods (7 ECTS)

• 170620 SE 7 ECTS MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Digital Witnessing
  Figge, Th 09:45-11:15 (12×), Su 25.01. 10:00-17:00
• 170621 SE 7 ECTS MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Understanding, Thinking and Experiencing Comics
  Hochschild, Th 11:30-13:00 (15×)
• 170623 SE 7 ECTS MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Commons, Uncommons, Undercommons: Mediality and Divergence
  Trinkaus, We 18:30-20:00 (15×)

Fields of Specialisation (21 ECTS)

MA 2.1 Specialisation 1 (7 ECTS)

MA 2.2 Specialisation 2 (7 ECTS)

MA 2.3 Specialisation 3 (7 ECTS)

Block of Elective Modules Fields of Research and Practice (40 ECTS)

MA 3.1 Historical an Theoretical Relations (10 ECTS)

MA 3.2 Aesthetics and Poetics (10 ECTS)

• 170708 UE 5 ECTS The Films of Kore-Eda - the Japanese film drama II
  Khouloki, We 09:45-11:15 (15×)

MA 3.3 Project Research (10 ECTS)

• 170715 UE 5 ECTS Academic writing with creative methods
  Rauch, Sa 09:00-13:00 (6×)
• 170716 UE 5 ECTS Conversations about Music Theatre
  Schmid-Reiter, Fr 08:00-09:30 (15×)

MA 3.4 Artistic Research (10 ECTS)

• 170519 UE 5 ECTS Peer Mentoring: First Practical Experience TFM 2025W
  Charton, Mo 06.10. 09:45-18:15, Tu 15:00-16:30 (14×)
• 170520 UE 5 ECTS Peer Mentoring: Advanced Experience TFM 2025W
  Charton
• 170739 UE 5 ECTS TAKE A LOOK! Everyday observation with amateur film - Artistic Research x Film Museum
  Müller
• 170740 UE 5 ECTS Studying as "Life Genre" (Lauren Berlant)
  Seier, We 16:45-18:15 (15×)

MA 3.5 Intersectional Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170741 UE 5 ECTS Media theories of the present - intersections and assemblages of gender, sex, race, class, ability
  Braidt, Th 13:15-14:45 (15×)
• 170742 UE 5 ECTS Social class in audiovisual and digital Media
  Seier

Master's Thesis Module (10 ECTS)

MA 4.1 Master's Thesis Exercise

• 170801 UE 5 ECTS ( MIXED ) Master's Thesis Exercise
  Hochschild, Fr 11:30-13:00 (2×), Fr 28.11. 11:30-18:15, Sa 29.11. 11:30-18:15

MA 4.2 Reflection on Methods

• 170820 UE 5 ECTS Reflection on Methods
  Charton, Tu 09:45-11:15 (14×)

Extension Curriculum Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice (171)

Lectures (6 ECTS)

• 170993 VO 3 ECTS Image and Word Combinations in History and Theory - Forms of experience of photographic media using the example of film and cinema
  Blaser, We 15:00-16:30 (15×)

Exercises (9 ECTS)

• 170995 UE 9 ECTS Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Contemporary photography
  Martin-Krems
• 170996 UE 9 ECTS Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Analog Photography
  Martin-Krems, Th 08:00-09:30 (15×)
• 170997 UE 9 ECTS Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Sound in history, theory and practice
  Ehardt, Fr 11:30-13:00 (14×)
• 170998 UE 9 ECTS Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Creative Writing: Theory - History - Practice
  Engler, Fr 10.10. 13:00-15:00, Fr 16.01. 09:45-18:15, Su 18.01. 10:45-18:00, Sa 24.01. 10:45-18:00
• 170999 UE 9 ECTS Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Creative Writing - Theory - History - Practice
  Engler, Fr 10.10. 16:00-18:00, Sa 17.01. 10:45-18:00, Fr 23.01. 09:45-16:30, Su 25.01. 10:45-18:00