Marie-Therese Mäder studied philosophy as well as film and religious studies at the University of Zurich after twenty years of professional engagement as an actress. She completed her doctorate in 2011 on the relationship between film and religion and was then a senior assistant at the Centre for Religion, Economics and Politics at the University of Zurich (UZH) for several years. In 2019, she habilitated at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (LMU) on the representations of religious communities in the media and is a lecturer in media ethics at the Universities of Bern and Graubünden, in the field of religion and the public sphere at UZH and in religious studies and history at LMU. Her research has resulted in numerous publications. Most recently, she published the monograph " Mormon Lifestyles. Communicating Religion and Ethics in Documentary Media".
Media and religious studies scholar
Country of origin
Switzerland
Festivals
Festivals
Current issues
Land of A Thousand and One Nights and Persian poetry, Iran has turned cinema into the art of suggestion: when speech is monitored, the image becomes a poem and editing a figure of style.
“To get straight to the point, Robert Redford was an idol of my youth.” This is how Peter Paul Huth begins his obituary for the famous actor, director, and festival founder.
Events
16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2