ABOUT THE EDITORS.
Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Halle Wittenberg, Germany
Kathrin Fahlenbrach teaches media studies at the University of Halle Wittenberg, Germany. She studied German and French Literature, Theatre, and comparative Literature in Berlin and Siegen. In 1995 she received her master's degree in literature with a thesis about the discourse on postmodernism in German journals. From 1996 to 1998 she collaborated at a research project about the literary system of the GDR at the University of Halle Wittenberg. From 1998 to 2000 she was awarded a scholarship by the Government of Sachsen-Anhalt. In 2000 she completed her PH. D. in media studies with a dissertation on visual communication, visual media, and collective identities in the protest movements of the 1960s.
Her most recent book is entitled "Audiovisuelle Metaphern. Zur Koerper- und Affektaesthetik in Film und Fernsehen" (forthcoming 2010). It is focusing on audiovisual metaphors, concerning the aesthetics and the perception of audiovisual media. Her recent fields of interest are thus emotional and psycho-sensory aspects of audiovisual aesthetics. During the last time she focused her analyses of audiovisual metaphors on music videos and film sound.
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Martin Klimke, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC / Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), University of Heidelberg, Germany
Martin Klimke is a historian and research fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) at Heidelberg University, Germany.
His research focuses on the intersection of political and cultural history, with a particular emphasis on diplomatic and transnational history. He is co-editor of the publication series "Protest, Culture and Society" (Berghahn Books, New York/Oxford) and coordinator of the international research network "European Protest Movements Since 1945" supported by the European Union.
He is also the recipient of Heidelberg Universitys Ruprecht-Karls Prize 2006 and the NAACP's Julius E. Williams Distinguished Community Service Award 2009.
Klimke is currently co-authoring a history of the experience of African-American soldiers in Germany in the 20th century entitled "A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany" (forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan, Fall 2010) and writing a biography of peace activists Petra Kelly and Randall Forsberg.
For more information, visit www.maklimke.com
Joachim Scharloth, Dokkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Joachim Scharloth is a linguist and his research concentrates on the history of language, socio-linguistics, social movements, as well as discourse semantics.
He is the author of "Sprachnormen und Mentalitaeten. Sprachbewusstseinsgeschichte in Deutschland im Zeitraum von 1766 und 1785" (2005) and co-editor of "1968. Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte" (2007), as well as "1968 in Europe" (2008). His most recent book is "1968. Eine Kommunikationsgeschichte" (forthcoming, 2010).
For more information, visit www.scharloth.com
