Bio

Professor Kaes teaches courses in modern literature, literary and cultural theory, and cinema. His research concentrates on interdisciplinary and comparative aspects of Weimar culture and contemporary literature and film; literary theory and theory of cultural studies; film history and film theory. Professor Kaes is currently working on a cultural history of cinema in the Weimar Republic, tentatively entitledThe Wounded Nation: German Cinema after the Great War, forthcoming with Princeton University Press.

Major awards: Fellowships of the Rockefeller Foundation (1978) and the Humboldt Foundation (1984/85; 1986/87); Guggenheim Fellowship (1990), President's Research Fellowship (1995). He was also a Scholar in Residence at the Getty Center for Art History and the Humanities in 1989/90 and at Bellagio in 1998. Visiting Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra (1995) Harvard University (1999); and Tel Aviv University (2002).

Selected Publications

Fritz Lang's M (London: British Film Institute--Film Classics, 2000).

"Has the Picture Started Yet?" in Von der Nahe der Bilder, ed. Wolfgang Jacobsen (Berlin: Filme Verlag, 1998) pp. 91-95.

"Leaving Home: Film, Migration, and the Urban Experience." New German Critique 74 (Spring/Summer 1998) 179-192.

"Der Neue Deutsche Film," in Internationale Filmgeschichte, ed. Hans Michael Bock. (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1998) pp. 520-545.

"Cinema and Migration," in Kolnoa: Studies in Cinema and Television (Tel Aviv University), No. 1 (1998), pp. 101-115.

"Die nationale Dimension in der Filmgeschichtsschreibung," in Eckart Goebel and Wolfgang Klein, eds., Literaturforschung heute (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1999) pp. 193-200.

"War - Film - Trauma," in Inka Mulder-Bach, ed. Modernitat und Trauma. (Vienna: Edition Parabasen, 2000) pp. 121-130.

"Das bewegte Gesicht: Zur Groaufnahme im Film," in Claudia Schmolders and Sander Gillman, eds. Gesichter der Weimarer Republik. Eine physiognomische Kulturgeschichte. (Oldenburg: Dumont, 2000) pp. 156-174.

"Erinnerung und nationale Identitat: Der deutsche Film nach 1962," in Detlef Junker, ed., Die USA und Deutschland im Zeitalter des Kalten Krieges 1945-1990. Ein Handbuch, Band 2. (Stuttgart: DVA, 2001) pp. 538-547.

"Der Mythos des Deutschen in Fritz Langs Nibelungen-Film," in Hermann Danuser and Herfried Munckler, eds. Deutsche Meister--bose Geister? Nationale Selbstfindung in der Musik. (Schliengen: Edition Argus, 2001) pp. 326-343.