Faculty
Moeller, Hans-Bernhard
Associate Professor
Office: EPS 3.114
Phone:512-232-6359
h-b.moeller@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Comparative, intercultural media and genre studies, especially in Central European and German-American Contexts. Exile literature and exile film.
Current research:
German film comedies of the 1960s to present. Films of Wolfgang Becker Volker Schlöndorff's new screen work The hunt in 20th and 21st cent. cinema. Screen realizations of the White Rose Exile Literature
Courses taught:
Undergraduate: German literature (conversation and composition keyed to literary texts and genres, introduction to literature, literature and cinema, German stylistics); German cultural history; courses on German cinema with an emphasis on genre, the historical interplay between American- and German cinema, from pre- and post-WW II Germany to the 21st century.
Graduate: 20th century literature, cinema, and transnational subjects, including seminars on literature and cinematic adaptation and literature at the time of Fascism.
Awards/Honors:
1968-69 Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. 1974-75 Visiting Associate Professorship, University of Southern California. 1977 Institute of Latin American Studies Summer Research Grant. 1979 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Summer Study Grant. 1982 Thyssen Research Grant. l986 FRG, Ausw. Amt Grant f. Sesquicentennial.DFG and Thyssen Grants for Symposium. l988 Visiting Professor. Philipps Universität Marburg, FRG. l990 Goethe Inst. Grants f. RMMLA German Special Session on "German 20th Century Writers and the Idea of Europe." 1991 Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek Grant f. Survey on German Film and TV in American University Research and Instruction. 2000 Nominated for German Representative to SCMLA Executive Council, Big XII Fellow.
Recent Publications:
Volker Schlöndorff's Cinema: Adaptation, Politics and the "Movie-Appropriate." Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. (With George Lellis)
"Werfels Fluchtkomödie Me and the Colonel: Vom Exiltheater zum Leinwanderfolg." Hitler im Visier. Literarische Satiren und Karikaturen als Waffe gegen den Nationzalsozialismus, eds. Viktoria Hertling, Wulf Koepke, Jörg Thunecke. Wuppertal: Arco Verlag, 2005. 39-51.
"Text and Genre Context in Doris Dörrie's Money ." Straight through the Heart, eds. Franz A. Birgel and Klaus Phillips. Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 2004. 106-114.
"Heroes without Compromise: An Interview with Volker Schlöndorff."Journal of Film and Video 58 (#3 -- Fall 2006): 1-23.
"Schlöndorff's The Ninth Day." Film Quarterly 59(#2-Winter 2005/06): 51-55. (w. George Lellis).