Fabian Schmidt, born 1972, is a Sociologist (Dipl.) with an MA in film heritage. He is a PhD candidate at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF where he also has a teaching assignment. Since 2021, he is a research associate at Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History in Vienna, working in the Horizon 2020 project “Visual History of the Holocaust” (2019–2023). Since 2021, he is also working in the DFG long-term project “(Con)sequential Images – An archaeology of iconic film footage from the Nazi era” (https://filmikonen.projekte-filmuni.de/) (2021–2029) at Film University Babelsberg. Fabian Schmidt is a peer reviewer for Apparatus-Journal. He is the writer and director of a state funded cinema documentary about Holocaust film footage called “Atrocityfilm” (Schiwagofilm, projected release date: 2022).
Article Author
Atrocity FilmFabian Schmidt, Alexander Oliver Zöller, Atrocity Film, in: Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe, no. 12 (2021), 1-80. |
The Westerbork Film Revisited: Provenance, the Re-Use of Archive Material and Holocaust RemembrancesFabian Schmidt, The Westerbork Film Revisited: Provenance, the Re-Use of Archive Material and Holocaust Remembrances, in: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, no. 40/4 (2020), 702-731. |
Filmography of the Genocide: Official and Ephemeral Film Documents on the Persecution and Extermination of the European Jews 1933-1945Fabian Schmidt, Alexander Oliver Zöller: Filmography of the Genocide: Official and Ephemeral Film Documents on the Persecution and Extermination of the European Jews 1933-1945, in: Research in Film and History. Audiovisual Traces, no. 4 (February 2022), S. 1–160. |
The Auschwitz Tattoo in Visual MemoryTobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Noga Stiassny, Fabian Schmidt: The Auschwitz Tattoo in Visual Memory. Mapping Multilayered Relations of a Migrating Image, in: Research in Film and History. Video Essays (November 2022), https://film-history.org/node/1129 |
Virtual Topographies of Memory: Liberation Films as Mobile Models of Atrocity SitesTobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Fabian Schmidt, Virtual Topographies of Memory: Liberation Films as Mobile Models of Atrocity Sites, in: Lucie Česálková et al. (eds.), Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe: Visual Culture and the Reconstruction of Public Space. Amsterdam 2024, 399–424. |
A Travelling Archive. Tracing Soviet Liberation FootageFabian Schmidt, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, A Travelling Archive: Tracing Soviet Liberation Footage, in: Research in Film and History, no. 6 (February 2025) |
Depicting Atrocities. Ethics of Sharing Holocaust ImagesAnna Högner, Fabian Schmidt, Depicting Atrocities. Ethics of Sharing Holocaust Images, in: Research in Film and History, no. 6 (February 2025) |
Participation in Public Deliverables
Participation in Events
Participation in Videos
Migrating Images in the Digital Age: Multimodal Curation of Visual Records from the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps in Digital InfrastructuresThursday, 06.05.2021 |
Selectivity and Image MigrationFriday, 09.07.2021 |
VHH Research Seminar – Session 6: Towards a Forensic CinemaTuesday, 26.10.2021 |
Manual AnnotationMonday, 09.05.2022 |
Depicting Atrocities: Ethics of Sharing Holocaust ImagesThursday, 24.11.2022 |
