Tobias Wendl

Tobias Wendl
Film director, Researcher, Chief executive officer (ceo)
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv, History/society, Media

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).

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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