Matthias Steinle

Matthias Steinle is a Senior Lecturer in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and a member of the Institute for Research on Cinema and Audiovisual (IRCAV). He pursued a triple academic background in Film and Audiovisual Studies, German Studies, and History in Mainz, Marburg, and Paris. His doctoral thesis focused on the mutual perspectives between the two Germanys in documentary film (1949-1989). He is a specialist in German cinema, particularly that of the GDR. He regularly collaborates on the production of documentaries about contemporary history. His main research interests revolve around the cinematic writing of history and the reuse of archival images. His current research focuses on hybrid film forms and cinematic creation in exile.

Institute: Sorbonne Nouvelle/IRCAV

The project

Title: Exile(s), War(s), and Creation(s) - Images of Resistance in Service of History

Selection of Publications

• History in Images: The Audiovisual Work of Marc Ferro, co-edited with Martin Goutte, Sébastien Layerle, and Clément Puget, Théorème No. 31, 2020.
• The GDR and Post-Socialist Society in German Cinema after 1989, co-edited with Hélène Camarade, Elisabeth Guilhamon, and Hélène Yèche, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Septentrion, 2018.
• The Archive Image: An Image in the Making, co-edited with Julie Maeck, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, "Histoire" collection, 2016.