Prof. Michael Danner

Professor Danner has completed ten years of teaching and since 2016 heads the international program for Photography at the UE in Berlin. He accompanies his seminars with empathy, a wealth of methods, a strong theoretical foundation and shares his own enthusiasm for the medium of photography with the students. His network of contacts with universities, curators, artists, and industry is an integral part of his teaching and uses it to offer accompanying guest lectures, collaborations, excursions and visits to galleries, museums, and trade fairs.

 

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Since 2018 Head of Programme for Photography (B.A.) in Berlin

Since 2016 Professor for Photography at University of Applied Sciences Europe (UE)

2012-2015 Lecturer for Photography at BTK

2010-2011 Lecturer at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel

1999-2019 Lectures and workshops at numerous institutions including University of Wales, University of Brighton, HGB Leipzig, and Goethe Institute Rabat/Casablanca

1995-1997 Studied Photography at University of Brighton

1992-1999 Studied Photo Design at FH Bielefeld

1967 Born in Reutlingen  

AWARDS

2018 ‘Contemporary German Photography’ Award, Folkwang Museum with Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach-Stiftung

Fotobookfestival Kassel, Dummy Award 

Arts funding by VG-Bildkunst-Kulturwerk

2014 Association of German Book Traders, „Deutscher Fotobuchpreis - nominiert 2015“ 

2012 Arts funding by Stiftung Kunstfonds

MONOGRAPHS

MIGRATION AS AVANT-GARDE, Dortmund 2018

CRITICAL MASS, Heidelberg 2013