DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN

Friedrich Balke is a German philosopher, culture and media scholar. He holds the Chair of 
Media Studies with particular emphasis on the theory, history and aesthetics of pictorial 
documentary forms at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He is also the spokesperson of the DFG Research 
Group "The Documentary. Excess and withdrawal ". Professor Balk was in residence at Northwestern 
University in Spring 2019.