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Claus Tieber
Claus Tieber was principal investigator of several research projects about screenwriting at the University of Vienna and the University of Salzburg. He teaches film studies at universities in Vienna, Brno, Kiel and Salamanca. After working as a commissioning editor for TV movies at the Austrian Broadcast Company (ORF) he started to write his Habilitation (postdoc thesis) about the history of the American screenplay (Schreiben für Hollywood: Das Drehbuch im Studiosystem [Lit Verlag, 2008]) and switched from practice to research. He recently edited volumes on film music (When the Music Takes Over in Film, edited with Phil Powrie and Anna K. Windisch [Palgrave, 2023]) and screenwriting (The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies, edited with Rosamund Davies and Paolo Russo [Palgrave, 2023]). He is a former chairperson of the Screenwriting Research Network.
Contact: Department of Theater, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna, Josef Holaubek Platz 2, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
