News from the faculty

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Weimarer Republik e.V. are opening the invitation to the »Medien und Demokratie im Umbruch« six-part event series starting on 29 April 2026. Experts from the fields of science, media industry, and society will be discussing the relationship between media transformation and democratic society at the Haus der Weimarer Republik’s Forum for Democracy. The events are open to the public and free of charge.

On 31 March, the six-year project period of the DFG-funded Media Anthropology research training group (GRAMA) at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s Faculty of Media came to an end. Last Friday, members of the research training group gathered to celebrate an emotional farewell together with representatives from the University at the site of the former tram depot (Lichthaus Kino).

Im Rahmen des Forschungswerkstatt-Projekts »From Process to Aesthetic: Recontextualizing Modernism in South Asia through Cinema, Print, and Object-Oriented Ontology« veranstaltet der Lehrstuhl für Medienphilosophie am 23.–24. April 2026 die internationale Online-Roundtable-Reihe »Mediating Modernity across Cinema and Print«.

Democratic societies depend on reliable information. But the rapid spread of misinformation through digital platforms is overwhelming for both users and current verification systems. Individuals who want to combat disinformation effectively need tools that can detect increasingly sophisticated technical forgeries and allow users to critically evaluate content. The ClaimGuard and PADSE research projects at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s Faculty of Media are involved in the in the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space’s current funding programme and developing new solutions for dealing with digital misinformation.

Interdisciplinary teaching, a green campus, or rethinking vacant rural properties: The BAUHAUS4EU Alliance is initiating three open calls for new international teaching formats. They are looking for European BAUHAUS courses, student-led courses, and Regional Living Labs. All formats are open to the ten partner universities’ communities and should improve international networking in studying and teaching.

On 11 February 2026, the newly establishes Media Council met for the first time. The six-member expert committee and the Media Council members were introduced at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s Medienvilla by State Secretary Heike Raab, Representative of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate to the Federal Government and for Europe and Media, Rundfunkkommission Coordinator, and the Head of the Thüringer Staatskanzlei and Minister of Media Stefan Gruhner. The required cooperation agreement between the Free State of Thuringia and the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar was also signed at the event.

Major success for the Faculty of Media and the European Medienkultur (EMK) degree programme: On Thursday, 29 January 2026, Maya Kurth was the fourth EMK graduate in a row to receive the Excellence Award for the top graduates of the Deutsch-Französischen Hochschule (DFH) at the German Embassy in Paris. The prize, funded by the German-French television broadcaster ARTE, is endowed with 1,500 euros.