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Maria Zinfert

Maria Zinfert

works in Berlin as a freelance writer, publisher and translator. Her doctoral thesis is on the novels of Victor Segalen, and she has translated many of his texts into German. She is currently doing research into archive photos of 20th-century German-language authors and has already published on the photos from Kracauer’s estate.

Other texts by Maria Zinfert for DIAPHANES
Bibliography
  • German
  • 2014
    Kracauer. Fotoarchiv, Zürich, diaphanes
  • 2012
    Kunstkomparatistik. Zum Gedenken an Gert Mattenklott (Hg, mit Thomas Nehrlich und Friederike Wissmann), Berlin, Edition AVL
  • 2003
    Über eine Poetik der Inversion. Die Romane von Victor Segalen, München, Iudicium
  • English
  • 2014
    Kracauer. Photographic Archive, Zürich, diaphanes
  • 2014
    The Past's Threshold, Zürich, diaphanes
  • memory
  • photography
  • 1930s
  • portrait
  • 1950s
  • photographic images
  • biography
  • Paris
  • History of photography
  • archive
  • exile
  • Siegfried Kracauer
  • autobiography
  • 20th century
  • collection