Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann – Visual History of the Holocaust

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, born 1975, is a film historian and media scholar, who has been serving as Lecturer for Film and German Studies at the Department of Communication and Journalism and the DAAD Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2014. He is also incumbent of the Cardinal Franz König Chair in Austrian Studies. He holds his PhD from the Free University of Berlin. He was a research and teaching assistant at the Academy for Film and Television (HFF) in Potsdam (2005–2010) and Research Assistant and Post-doctoral Fellow at the Interdisciplinary PhD-Program “Media of History – History of Media” at the Universities of Weimar, Erfurt and Jena (2010–2012). In 2012/13 he was Research Fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research Yad Vashem. 2013–2014 he served at the Film University Babelsberg as Senior Researcher in the DFG-Research Project “Regional Film Culture”. He also headed a research group on “German Postwar Visual History in a European Framework” (2015–2017) and is PI of the current research group on “Commemorating the Holocaust in the Digital Age: Immersion, Augmentation, Virtual Reality” funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published three books (on cinematic narration of the Holocaust, the German filmmaker Romuald Karmakar and German-Israeli film relations), co-edited four volumes (on European docudrama, contemporary German Cinema, the visual memory of the GDR in documentary film and on emotions in cinema) and published several articles on cinematic memories of the Holocaust, archive footage and the history of postwar German cinema in international journals and edited volumes.

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Commemorating from a distance: the digital transformation of Holocaust memory in times of COVID-19

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Commemorating from a distance: the digital transformation of Holocaust memory in times of COVID-19, in: Media, Culture & Society (December 2020), 1-18.

Erweiterte Orte: Überlegungen zur virtuellen Transformation von Gedenkstätten

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Erweiterte Orte: Überlegungen zur virtuellen Transformation von Gedenkstätten, in: Medaon – Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung, vol. 15, no. 28 (2021), 1-5.

The Auschwitz Tattoo in Visual Memory

Tobias 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

Digital Visual History: Historiographic Curation Using Digital Technologies

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Noga Stiassny, Lital Henig: Digital Visual History: Historiographic Curation Using Digital Technologies, in: Rethinking History, vol. 27, no. 2 (March 2023), 159–186.

The Impossibility of Simply Moving On: Essay On the Hamas Attack and the Atrocity Images It Generated

Deborah Hartmann, Tobias Ebbrech-Hartmann: The Impossibility of Simply Moving On: Essay On the Hamas Attack and the Atrocity Images It Generated (November 24, 2023). This essay has first been published in German in taz, November 11, 2023 (https://taz.de/Essay-zum-Angriff-der-Hamas/!5967960/). Translation by Jill Kreuer, Vienna.

Playful Images: Visual Holocaust Memory, Digital Media, and the Visual Walkthrough Method

Lital Henig, Shir Ventura, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann: Playful images: Visual Holocaust memory, digital media, and the visual walkthrough method, in: Memory, Mind & Media, vol. 3 (September 2024).

Virtual Topographies of Memory: Liberation Films as Mobile Models of Atrocity Sites

Tobias 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 Footage

Fabian Schmidt, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, A Travelling Archive: Tracing Soviet Liberation Footage, in: Research in Film and History, no. 6 (February 2025)