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 Austrian American Film Association (AAFA). 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 and film 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 documentary, The Archduke and Herbert Hinkel (2009), the indie feature "Wilson Chance" (2005), the animated short, "The Nightmare Stumbles Past" (2003), and the dramatic shorts, "Believe" (2003) and "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 in London (FRHistS)in 2007.
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