Natascha Drubek

Natascha Drubek-Meyer (Drubek) is a researcher, author and editor in the area of Central and East European literature, film and media. Since 2012 Drubek has been teaching comparative literature, and film and media studies, at the Free University of Berlin (in 2020-21 as professor of the FONTE-Stiftung].

Drubek is one of the developers of Hyperkino and the editor-in-chief of the open-access academic journal Apparatus.^[1] From 2003 until 2014 she was the editor of the film and screen media section of ARTmargins, a journal for contemporary Central and Eastern European visual culture. From 2009 to 2015 Drubek was a Heisenberg fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgeminschaft at the University of Regensburg pursuing two projects: Soviet antireligious films and campaigns and the film projects in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.^[2] In 2014, during her Heisenberg fellowship she organized a conference on film propaganda in Theresienstadt concentration camp.^[3][4][5] In 2016, Drubek published a selection of the conference proceedings as a double special issue of Apparatus. She holds a PhD from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (with a thesis on Nikolai Gogol)^[6][7][8] where she was also habilitated with a monograph on the cultural history of early Russian film centering on the Russian pre-revolutionary director Evgenii Bauer (Russisches Licht. Von der Ikone zum frühen sowjetischen Kino, 2012).^{[9][10][11][12][13]} Her other research interests include Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Andrei Platonov, Vladimir Sorokin, and Jana Černá, born Krejcarová.