Katharina Kücke

Katharina Kücke

Academic staff member Media Studies | Deputy Equal Opportunities Officer

1Room 1317Tel: +49 331 6202 214k.kuecke(at)filmuniversitaet.de

Katharina Kücke has been an academic staff member at the Chair of Audiovisual Media Studies since November 2023 and is currently preparing for a doctorate. Katharina has also been Deputy Equal Opportunities Officer since August 2024.

In 2013, Katharina completed a Bachelor's degree in Media and Theatre Studies at Ruhr University Bochum and then studied the binational Erasmus Mundus Master Journalism, Media and Globalizationat the Danish School of Journalism, Aarhus Universitet and the University of Hamburg. In their Master's thesis, Katharina focused on the topic of “Gender Troubling Journalism”, where Katharina developed a constructivist-feminist framework for analyzing gender-diverse language in German-language journalism.

After completing their Master's degree, for five years Katharina worked as a television, radio, video, online and print journalist and video editor (including for ZDF, NDR, Funk, Watson, L-Mag) as well as a resilience dispatcher and social video producer at the Neuköllner Operin Berlin. Katharina has also been a volunteer examiner at the German Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation of Television FSFsince 2020 and has been completing a second Bachelor's degree in Philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin on a part-time basis since 2021.


SUBJECT AREA:

  • Media and communication studies

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Media theory
  • Feminist theory
  • Intersectional media and film analysis
  • Gender & Queer Studies
  • Journalism studies
  • Media philosophy
  • Live streaming

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

  • Media Sociology (Summer 2025)
  • Queer Media Studies (Winter 2024/25)
  • Introduction to academic work (Winter 2024/24, Winter 2023/24)
  • Livestreaming: Twitch, Reality, Authenticity (Summer 2024)
  • Social Media Production (Summer 2024)
  • Special methods for audience research (Winter 2024/25, Winter 2023/24)

 

CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS:

  • Kücke, Katharina (21.11.2024). In Real Life. Überlegungen zu Realitätskonstruktion, Normalisierung und Selbst-Überwachung im Livestreaming. Presentation at the Early Career Workshop as part of the annual conference of the Section for Media and Communication Sociology of the German Sociological Association, 21.-22.11.2024, Darmstadt.
  • Kücke, Katharina (11.09.2024). Gender Troubling Journalism. Conceptual Framework and Empirical Case Study of Gender-Diverse Journalism in Germany. Presentation at the Workshop for young academics at the joint annual conference of the DGPuK's specialist groups “Media, Public Spheres and Gender” and “Journalism Studies/Journalism Research”, 11.-13.09.2024, Berlin.
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