Here you can find selected research projects at the Media Studies department. For further information on research activities within the department please check the websites of the chairs.

Faculty of Media
Chairs: Media Theory and History of Science (Prof. Dr Henning Schmidgen), Virtual Reality and Visualisation (Prof. Dr Bernd Fröhlich) and Digital Cultures (Jun. Prof. Dr Sabine Wirth) under the leadership of Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Term: 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2032
Third party fund provider: DFG (Excellence Strategy)
Funding amount: 4,525,847.00 Euro

Faculty of Media
Chair: Media Anthropology (Junior Professor Dr Jasmin Degeling) in joint work with Dr Maja Figge (mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)
Term: 1 July 2026 – 31 December 2027
Third party fund provider: Volkswagen Foundation (Aufbruch – New Research Spaces for the Humanities and Cultural Studies)
Funding amount: 332,321 €

Faculty of Media
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Henning Schmidgen
Professur Medientheorie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Third-party fund provider: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Term: 1. October 2024 - 30. September 2027
Funding Amount: 351.177,00 Euro

Faculty of Media
Project coordination:  Dr. Mathias Schönher
Professur Medientheorie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Third-party fund provider: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Term: 1 January 2023 - 31. Dezember 2025
Funding Amount: 546.000,00 Euro

Faculty of Media
Project Coordination: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sabine Wirth (Digitale Kulturen) with Prof. Dr. Benno Stein (Intelligente Informationssysteme) and Prof. Dr. Christoph Bareither (Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Third-party fund provider: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Term: 1. February 2023 - 31. January 2026
Funding amount: 414.850,00 Euro

Faculty of Media
Department: Media Studies (Dr. Elena Vogman)
Term: 1. June 2021 - 30. May 2027
Third-party fund provider: VolkswagenStiftung, Freigeist-Fellowship
Funding amount: 1.219.100,00 Euro

Faculty of Media
Project coordination: Media Studies (Dr. Rebekka Ladewig)
Term: 1. May 2021 - 30. September 2021 and 1. February 2022 - 31. August 2022
Third-party fund provider: VolkswagenStiftung, "Originalitätsverdacht?"

Faculties of Media and Architecture & Urbanism
Project coordination: Bildtheorie (Prof. Dr. Julia Bee) with Theorie medialer Welten (Franziska Klemstein) and Raumplanung und Raumforschung (Jannik Noeske)
Third-party fund provider: Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Thüringen
Term: 1. March 2021 - 28. February 2024
Funding amount: 160.000,00 Euro

Faculty of Media
Project coordination:  Prof. Dr. Henning Schmidgen (Theorie medialer Welten)
Further professorships: Content Management und Web Technologien (Prof. Dr. Benno Stein)  Computer Vision in Engineering (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Rodehorst) 
Third-party fund provider:  Thüringer Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Digitale Gesellschaft (TMWWDG) / Thüringer Aufbaubank
Term: January 1st, 2020 to December 31, 2022
Funding Amount: 397.777,39 Euro

Faculty of Media
Project coordination:  Prof. Dr. Jörg Paulus
Cooperation with the National Science Center Poland (Prof. Dr. Kadwiga Kita-Huber, Jagiellonen-Universität)
Third-party fund provider: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Term: 1 April 2020 to 31 march 2023
Funding Amount: 546.990,00 Euro

Faculty of Media
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Jörg Paulus
Third-party fund provider: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Term: 8 march 2019 to 7 march 2022
Funding Amount: 193,200,00 Euro

Faculty of Media
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Henning Schmidgen
Third-party fund provider: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Term: 1 April 2020 to 31 march 2023
Funding Amount: 203.450,00

Faculty of Media
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Christiane Voss  (Professur Philosophie audiovisueller Medien), Christiane Lewe, Tim Othold
Third-party fund provider: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Term: 1. April 2020 bis Oktober 2024
Funding Amount: 4.130.000 Euro
Website: www.uni-weimar.de/gkma

Faculty of Media
Chair: Theory of Media Worlds (Prof. Dr. Henning Schmidgen)
Third party fund provider: DFG
Term: 15. Oktober 2016 bis 14. Oktober 2019
Funding amount: 183,050 Euro

Further Information

Faculty of Media and University Library
Chairs: Theory of Media Worlds (Prof. Dr. Henning Schmidgen) in collaboration with Web Technology and Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Benno Stein) and the University Library (Dr. Frank Simon-Ritz)
Term: 1 October 2017 - 30 September 2020
Third party fund provider: DFG
Funding amount: 180,210 Euro (Theory of Media Worlds), 277,610 Euro (Web Technology and Information Systems) and 208,530 Euro (University Library)

Website

Faculty of Media
Department: Media Studies (Dr. Stephan Gregory)
Term: 1 April 2018 - 31 March 2021
Third-party fund provider: DFG
Funding amount: 284.900,00 Euro

Faculty of Media
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Lorenz Engell (Media Philosophy); Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Bernhard Siegert (Gerd Bucerius foundation professor for Theory and History of Cultural Technologies)
Third-party fund provider: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Term: 1 August 2014 - 31 March 2020
Funding Amount: 7,776,180.06 EUR
Website: www.ikkm-weimar.de/

Faculty of Media, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Siegert
Third party fund provider: DFG
Term: 1. April 2017 bis 31. März 2020
Funding amount: 806.556,00 Euro

Homepage: Medien und Mimesis

Faculty of Media / IKKM
Chairs: Philosophy of audio-visual Media (Prof. Dr. Christiane Voss) and IKKM (Prof. Dr. Lorenz Engell)
Third party fund provider: TMBWK
Term: 1 October 2014 - 31 December 2019
Funding amount: 1,600,000 Euro