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International Media and Cultural Work

Prof Judith Bihr

Prof. Dr Judith Bihr

Experimental Media, Cultural Practice and Media Aesthetic Facilitation

Dr Bihr is set to join the IMC staff from the winter semester of 25/26 onwards. She currently works for the IMC as a part-time lecturer, teaching courses on innovative exhibition concepts with a focus on media and digitalisation.

Her courses explore ideas for a museum of the future. Using a conceptual guide as a basis, students will be introduced to the individual planning stages involved in curatorial implementation strategies, with a focus on digitisation and globalisation. Bihr worked as a curator at ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe, and is currently Deputy Director of the Museum Biberach.

Prof. Sabine Breitsameter

Sound and Media Culture
Director of the Master’s Programme in International Media Culture Work

Breitsameter is an award-winning media producer, curator, dramaturg and festival director, a pioneer in the field of art in digital networks and multimedia environments, with four decades of practical experience in the culture and media industry.

She has served as a jury member for various major media awards, including the Prix Ars Electronica, the ARD/ZDF Award for ‘Women and Media Technology’, and the German Audiobook Prize. She serves as Chair of the Presidium of the Hessian Film and Media Academy (hFMA) and was appointed to the Advisory Board of the German Music Council. Her teaching, research and publications focus on experimental audio media, soundscape studies and media ecology. She is passionate about working with people from all over the world.

Hazem Obid

Laboratory Engineer

Independent filmmaker and visual producer with international experience in the field of documentary and broadcast.

Klaus Schüller

Lecturer for Special Tasks

Klaus Schüller is a curator, frontman of the dark-pop band ‘Safran’ and an interdisciplinary media artist. His particular areas of interest are media and aesthetic education in rural Germany.

He therefore founded Netzwerk Bahnhof Langstadt e.V., a non-profit organisation that promotes cultural and media-related aesthetic education and collaborates with schools, other educational and cultural institutions, and non-profit organisations. As a freelancer, he also runs his own workshops at organisations such as Stiftung Lesen and Stiftung Zuhören.

Robin Wiemann

Laboratory Engineer

Award-winning audio producer and sound engineer. He therefore founded Netzwerk Bahnhof Langstadt e.V., a non-profit organisation that promotes cultural and media education.

IMC Adjunct Lecturers


Claire Dorweiler

Fulldome Productions

Claire Dorweiler is a lecturer specialising in fulldome productions, which utilise the 360° space surrounding the audience. She holds an MFA in Media Art and Design from the Bauhaus University Weimar and works as a freelancer.

Her fulldome productions have been screened in several domes and planetariums throughout Germany, as well as in Argentina and Colombia. She is particularly interested in how artistic work can evoke a different perception of a subject and contribute to social discourse.

York Freiling

Intellectual Property and Media Law

York Freiling teaches the elective module ‘Media, Entertainment and Event Law’.

He works as a lawyer at the law firm HOPPENSTEDT RECHTSANWÄLTE, which specialises in advising all kinds of creative professionals and companies (www.contentlaw.de).The course ‘Intellectual Property and Media Law’ offers a highly practical introduction to the legal aspects of creative work and the related legal fields, focusing primarily on intellectual property (copyright, trade marks, design, patents and know-how), as well as aspects of press law and unfair competition law relating to social media and advertising.

Christian Hoppenstedt

Copyright Law, Entertainment Law and Social Media Law

This lecture provides an introduction to international copyright law and discusses its implications for the creative industries, such as contracts in the film industry.

Using social media as an example, topics such as freedom of speech, marketing and related regulations are discussed.
Christian Hoppenstedt is a qualified lawyer specialising in copyright and media law. He is a partner at HOPPENSTEDT RECHTSANWÄLTE, a law firm specialising in advising all kinds of creative professionals and companies (www.contentlaw.de).

Avan-Nomayo Ikponmwosa

Avan is an adjunct lecturer at IMC, specialising in futurism in media art. He uses Afrofuturism to explore cross-cultural futures and teaches social media strategies for cultural institutions, bridging innovation, culture and inclusive storytelling.

Avan is an adjunct lecturer at IMC whose teaching focuses on futurism in media art, with a particular emphasis on Afrofuturism as a framework for exploring multicultural visions of the future. His course invites students to critically engage with how media art shapes and reflects global narratives, particularly those that have historically been underrepresented. He also teaches social media strategy for cultural institutions, focusing on how digital tools can be used to foster inclusive, forward-thinking public engagement. In addition to his teaching, Avan works as an independent curator and researcher, exploring memory and futures, and connecting innovation with culture and equity.

Stephen Kovats

Media Aesthetics and Educational Practices

Stephen Kovats is a Canadian cultural and media scientist based in Berlin. He has a background in architecture and urban planning. He was the artistic director of transmediale from 2007 to 2011.

Stephen Kovats founded his own non-profit organisation, r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation, in 2012.
His lecture focuses on methods for fostering a dynamic understanding between digital technology and societal, political and cultural contexts.

Martin Münch, Graduate in Social Pedagogy

Interculturality and Inclusion in Media and Cultural Work

Martin Münch holds the title of Diplom – Sozial-pädagoge (Dipl-Soz.päd.)

His profession and practical experience: Social education worker at schools in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district (since 2003); extensive experience in inclusive and intercultural projects and media and cultural projects at schools, youth centres and international youth meetings; lecturer at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (Social Work).
In his lectures, he works with students to design media and cultural projects relating to the themes of interculturalism, inclusion and gender equality.

Aleksandar Vejnovic

IMC adjunct lecturers

Aleksandar Vejnovic is a Berlin-based media educator and lecturer with a background in sound and media studies.


He worked as a research assistant at the Soundscape & Environmental Media Lab at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, where he focused on acoustic ecology and 3D audio. Since 2018, he has been teaching courses in audience development and audience research. Alongside his academic work, Vejnovic is active as an educator, collaborating with various institutions and organisations to develop educational concepts centred on sound and media.

Other IMC adjunct lecturers: Marlene Breuer, Michelle Bunn, Dr Kibreab Habtemichael Gebereselassie, Andreas Horchler, Jessica Menger, Valentina Petermann, Lasse-Marc Riek, Ute Ritschel, Reinhard Strömer