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Germanist, literary scholar and journalist
Country of origin
Germany

Hans-Joachim Neubauer, Berlin/Potsdam (Germany) (*1960) is Professor for Comparative Aesthetics at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam. As a cultural editor for the weekly Rheinischer Merkur and for Christ & Welt, supplement to DIE ZEIT, he was reviewing films and reporting on the Berlinale from 2003 to 2014. His books deal with social, historical and cultural aspects of arts and media. As a researcher and university teacher he focuses on the aesthetics of film, theatre, literature and on questions of film adaptation. 

Current issues

Peter Paul Huth comments favourably on the 2026 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony, highlighting in particular the Golden Lion winner, “Kvinde Ukendt” (Unknown Woman) by May el-Toukhy, and “Un bon petit soldat” by Stéphane Brizé, which won the award for Best Screenplay and the INTERFILM Jury Prize.
Alex Gibney’s documentary *Musk* portrays a ‘hero of capitalism’, whilst Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s *DAU* evokes the victims of Stalinism.

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin

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