Ursula von Keitz

Ursula von Keitz, Dr. phil., is Professor of Film Studies and Film Education at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF and Director of the In-Institut Filmmuseum Potsdam. Previously, she held professorships at the Universities of Bonn (2008-2012) and Konstanz (2012-2014) and was a senior fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. After studying German language and literature and philosophy in Munich, she worked at universities and film schools in Kiel, Munich and Zurich and spent several years as a freelancer in film and television production. She gained archive and museum experience as chief curator and deputy director of the German Film Institute DIF/DFF in Frankfurt am Main.

From 2012 to 2019, she was co-director of the DFG long-term project ‘History of Documentary Film in Germany 1945-2005’ (together with K. Hoffmann, Stuttgart, and Th. Weber, Hamburg).

She has curated film-related exhibitions, most recently the special exhibitions "Everything Turns and Moves... Dance and Cinema‘ (July 2017–April 2018) and “Plakativ” (March–August 2019) as well as ’Theodor Fontane's Masculinities" (May 2019–March 2020) at the Filmmuseum Potsdam.

Her numerous publications deal with the aesthetics, history and theory of film, and her latest works focus on methods of critical film editing, casting and physiognomy, health films and the relationship between materiality and mediality in literary texts.
She is the editor of the book series Cadrage at V+R Göttingen.