Robert von Dassanowsky
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States Email: belvederefilm@yahoo.com
Home page: http://www.belvederefilm.com
Robert von Dassanowsky is Professor of German and Film Studies at the
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, as well as Visiting Professor of German
at UCLA. He has served as founding President of the Colorado chapter of the
international writers' organization, P.E.N. and is a founding Vice President of the
International Alexander Lernet-Holenia Society. Since 2008, he is the head of the
Elfi von Dassanowsky Foundation, which supports projects in the spirit of his late
mother's work. A widely published literary, film and cultural historian, Dassanowsky
is also an award-winning playwright, has written for television and provides audio
commentary for motion picture releases on DVD. Additionally, he is the
Contributing Editor of the "Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America," 2nd Ed., a
Contributing Advisor to the "International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers," 4th
Ed., and the "Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture," and his
"Austrian Cinema: A History," is the first English language survey of Austrian film
art and industry. Dassanowsky is also active as an independent filmmaker and is
producer of the short "The Retreat" (2010), the documentary, "Felix Austria!, aka
The Archduke and Herbert Hinkel" (2011), the indie feature "Wilson Chance"
(2005), the animated short, "The Nightmare Stumbles Past" (2003), and the
dramatic short "Semmelweis" (2001), which received several U.S. and European
festival awards in 2002-04. Dassanowsky is a contributing editor to the literary
journals Osiris, Rampike, and Poetry Salzburg Review. His "Telegrams from the
Metropole: Selected Poems 1980-1998" received a Pushcart Prize nomination in
2000, he became one of the few Americans elected to the European Academy of
Sciences and Arts in 2001, and was named the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching/CASE U.S. Professor of the Year for Colorado in 2004.
Austria decorated Dassanowsky for his work in cultural and film studies in 2005
and he was named a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London (FRHistS) in
2007, and of the Royal Society for Arts, London (RSA) in 2010. He was elected
Vice President of the Austrian Studies Association (formerly: Modern Austrian
Literature and Culture Association-MALCA) in 2011.
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