170126 UE Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - "Awww!" - Cuteness between aesthetic and affect in digital media
170127 UE Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Affect, the Mundane, Media
170128 UE Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Power, Media, Malefica: Reading the Witch Hammer with Foucault

Theory (18 ECTS)

Theatre Theory

170130 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory"
170131 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory"
170132 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory"

Film Theory

170133 PS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" - What is film?
170134 PS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" - Attraction and Narration: Theories on Early Cinema
170135 PS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" - Viewing positions: Watching films

Media Theory

170137 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Introduction to Media Theories
170138 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Mediality and Theory
170139 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Media theories for beginners

Specialisation (33 ECTS)

Body, Staging, Interaction (11 ECTS)

Concepts and Techniques of Acting

170210 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - The modern horror film - history and aesthetics
170211 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Affect and feeling. Emotion and the constitution of the Subject in 18th century theatre
170212 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Formats of the "We" - Collective resistance in film

Body Practices and Gender Presentations

170213 UE Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - Animal moving images. Entanglements and Embodiments of Difference in cinematic images
170214 UE ( MIXED ) Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - Acting out of oneself? Puppet and material theatre practices
170215 UE Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - "Still alive!" - Menopause as a Media Artifact. Affections, Aesthetics, and Discourses on Social Media

Narrative Orders (11 ECTS)

Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media

170220 PS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - "It matters what stories tell stories“ - Narration and the end of the world (as we know it)
170221 PS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - Social Echoes - Chamber Plays in Cinema
170222 PS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media"

Media Transitions

170223 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - "Manosphere": (Far-right) Masculinities in Online Media Culture
170224 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Plants - Botany and cinema
170225 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Dramaturgy Lab: Programme

Space Productions (11 ECTS)

Theatre and Media Spaces

170230 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Theatre Spaces and Power Relations
170231 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Shared worlds of perception - Audiovisual images and the forms of their use
170232 PS ( MIXED ) Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Data and Views from the Orbit: Media History and Theory with Satellites

Staged Spaces

170233 UE [ en ] ( MIXED ) Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - Performing Spaces: The role of setting, location and place in theater and opera
170234 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - (Post-)Cinematic Spaces: Scale and Space from Early Cinema
170235 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - Memory Cultures - memory and digital media

History of Theatre, Film and Media (20 ECTS)

History of Theatre (3 ECTS)

170301 VO Lecture: The History of Theatre - Theatricality in the 17th Century

History of Film (3 ECTS)

060028 VO From Dieterle to Zinnemann: Jewish Emigration to Hollywood
170310 VO Lecture: The History of Film - Austrian Film History Pt. 1. Beginning, Playing Up, Erasure. 1896-1945

History of Media (3 ECTS)

170311 VO Lecture on the History of Media

History of Theatre, Film and Media (9 ECTS)

170320 VO Transdisciplinary Lecture: The History of Theatre, Film and Media - Eastern Promises. Media-Politics of the Social After Socialism
170321 VO Transdisciplinary Lecture on the History of Theatre, Film and Media - Does Writing Have a Future? On the History (of the Crisis) of Alphanumeric Media
010116 VO Communication and Media Ethics

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

170322 KO Discussion Course on the History of Theatre, Film and Media - Eastern Promises. Media-Politics of the Social After Socialism
170323 KO Discussion Course on the History of Theatre - Theatricality in the 17th Century

Compulsory Supplementary Module (30 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 MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Temporality in the Cinema of Jim Jarmusch
170601 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Close Reading: LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (1948)
170603 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - The Aesthetics and Micropolitics of Affectedness in Audiovisual and Digital Media
170602 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - "Hombre parece, y vestido." Early modern stagings of race and gender.
060022 SE From Caligari to Hitler: Propaganda Through Entertainment

MA 1.2 Processes of Theatricality and Mediality (7 ECTS)

170610 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Migration and Exile on the Stage
170611 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Cinema of the Grotesque: Yorgos Lanthimos
170612 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Friedrich Schiller “Brought to the Stage”: Dramaturgy and Staging in the 19th Century
170613 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Im/personal biographies in long-term documentaries
170614 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Holiday Special: Optimistic Christmas Media Cultures

MA 1.3 Discourses and Methods (7 ECTS)

170620 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Ambivalence as an aesthetic experience: The Black Comedy
170621 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Theatre Censorship in the 19th century
170622 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Postmeritocracy - Scenes and narratives of social im/mobility
170623 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Automatization and knowledge

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)

Fields of Research and Practice (40 ECTS)

Historical an Theoretical Relations

170706 VU Performing Fandom - Lecture with integrated exercises

Aesthetics and Poetics

170707 UE Birth in Film
170708 UE Methods of Photography

Project Research

170519 UE Peer Mentoring: First Practical Experience TFM 2026W
170520 UE Peer Mentoring: Advanced Experience TFM 2026W
170715 UE "Museum-ing" - Medial and Performative Approaches to a Museum in the Making
170716 UE The unconscious of things. Object histories between research and artistic practice.

Artistic Research

170740 UE The Intervention Artist Jacob Levy Moreno - Pioneer of Interactive Theatre Formats at the Intersection of Art, Therapy, and Digital Instrumentalization
170741 UE Screenwriting as Artistic Research - Practical Exercise

Intersectional Perspectives

170742 UE Longitudinal Documentaries in Totalitarian Regimes
170743 UE Utopia/Dystopia revisited

Individual Specialisation (optional)

Master's Thesis Module (10 ECTS)

MA 4.1 Master's Thesis Exercise

170801 UE ( MIXED ) Master's Thesis Exercise

MA 4.2 Reflection on Methods

170820 UE Reflection on Methods

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

Lectures (6 ECTS)

170993 VO Image and Word Combinations in History and Theory - Forms of experience of photographic media using the example of film and cinema
170994 VO Development of Media and Forms of Communication - Mediated perception

Exercises (9 ECTS)

170995 UE Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Digital Facts - Digital facticity between science, narrative, identity and algorithms
170996 UE Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Analog Photography
170997 UE Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Sound in history, theory and practice
170998 UE ( MIXED ) Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Creative Writing: Theory - History - Practice
170999 UE Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Artificial Intelligence in Academic Work: Tools, Challenges, and Methods

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