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Tobias Wendl

Réalisateur/trice, Chercheur/se, Directeur/trice Général
Allemagne

Français

Tobias Wendl est le directeur de Iwalewa-Haus, le Centre Africain de l’université de Bayreuth depuis 2001. Il est né en 1957 à Munich. Avant d’intégrer l’université (anthropologie, littérature moderne, psychologie), il a travaillé en free-lance dans la photographie d’architecture.
Depuis 1981 il voyage régulièrement en Africa et a passé plus de 4 ans dans des pays comme le Ghana, le Togo, le Bénin, le Nigeria, la Côte d’Ivoire, le Burkina Faso, le Mali, le Sénégal et l’Afrique du Sud en tant que directeur de recherche. Il a écrit et publié de nombreux livres et articles universitaires..

Bibliographie :
2006 Black Paris – Kunst und Geschichte einer schwarzen Diaspora. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag (with Bettina von Lintig and Kerstin Pinther). 432 p.
2004 Africa Screams. Das Böse in Kino, Kunst und Kult. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag. 288 p.
2002 Afrikanische Reklamekunst. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag. 180 p.
1999 Frontiers and Borderlands. Anthropological Perspectives. Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang. (with Michael Rösler) 239 p.
1998 Snap me one! Studiofotografen in Afrika. München: Prestel (with Heike Behrend) 144 p.
1998 Future Remembrance – Photography and Image Arts in Ghana (Documentary, Video 54 min. – with Nancy du Plessis, distributed by IWF Wissen & Medien (Göttingen).
1991 Mami Wata – oder ein Kult zwischen den Kulturen. Münster und Hamburg: Lit-Verlag. 333 p.
1988 Mami Wata – The Spirit of the White Woman (Documentary 16mm 45 min – with Daniela Weise, distributed by IWF Wissen & Medien Göttingen).

English

Tobias Wendl is director of the Iwalewa-Haus, the Africa Centre of Bayreuth University since 2001. He was born in 1957 in Munich. Before entering the university (anthropology, modern literature, psychology), he worked free-lance in architecture photography. Since 1981 he has traveled to Africa and spent more than four years conducting research in countries like Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and South Africa. He received his Ph.D from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich in 1990. During his academic career, Tobias Wendl has worked and taught at the Universities of Paris, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt and Bayreuth. He authored and edited numerous books, documentaries, scholarly articles and exhibitions. His fields of interest include Contemporary Arts, Media Studies, Cinema, Popular and Urban Culture, Music and Religion.

Books & Documentaries
2006 Black Paris – Kunst und Geschichte einer schwarzen Diaspora. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag (with Bettina von Lintig and Kerstin Pinther). 432 p.
2004 Africa Screams. Das Böse in Kino, Kunst und Kult. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag. 288 p.
2002 Afrikanische Reklamekunst. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag. 180 p.
1999 Frontiers and Borderlands. Anthropological Perspectives. Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang. (with Michael Rösler) 239 p.
1998 Snap me one! Studiofotografen in Afrika. München: Prestel (with Heike Behrend) 144 p.
1998 Future Remembrance – Photography and Image Arts in Ghana (Documentary, Video 54 min. – with Nancy du Plessis, distributed by IWF Wissen & Medien (Göttingen).
1991 Mami Wata – oder ein Kult zwischen den Kulturen. Münster und Hamburg: Lit-Verlag. 333 p.
1988 Mami Wata – The Spirit of the White Woman (Documentary 16mm 45 min – with Daniela Weise, distributed by IWF Wissen & Medien Göttingen).
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