Bernhard Siegert is a German media theorist and media historian.

Siegert was born in Bremen

Bremen

The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...

. He majored 1987 in Germanic Studies, Philosophy and History at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg/Germany. He followed Friedrich Kittler

Friedrich Kittler

Friedrich A. Kittler was a literary scholar and a media theorist. His works relate to media, technology, and the military.-Biography:Friedrich Adolf Kittler was born in 1943 in Rochlitz in Saxony...

 with whom he had worked already in Freiburg, to the department of Germanic studies at the Ruhr University

Ruhr University

Ruhr University Bochum , located on the southern hills of central Ruhr area Bochum, was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany since World War II...

 Bochum where he received his doctorate in 1991. In 2001 he earned a Habilitation

Habilitation

Habilitation is the highest academic qualification a scholar can achieve by his or her own pursuit in several European and Asian countries. Earned after obtaining a research doctorate, such as a PhD, habilitation requires the candidate to write a professorial thesis based on independent...

 at the Humboldt University Berlin. In the same year he was appointed to the chair for Theory and History of Cultural Techniques at the department for Media Studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar

Weimar

Weimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...

. Together with Friedrich Kittler

Friedrich Kittler

Friedrich A. Kittler was a literary scholar and a media theorist. His works relate to media, technology, and the military.-Biography:Friedrich Adolf Kittler was born in 1943 in Rochlitz in Saxony...

, Norbert Bolz

Norbert Bolz

Norbert Bolz is a German philosopher and media theorist. He is a professor at the Technical University of Berlin.Together with Friedrich Kittler, Bernhard Siegert, Georg Christoph Tholen and Wolfgang Coy, he is regarded as a pioneer of German media theory.Bolz developed a media theory, the "",...

, and Wolfgang Coy he is regarded as a pioneer of German media theory. Since 2008 Siegert is one the directors (together with Lorenz Engell) of the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM)

International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy

The International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy is a center for advanced studies at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, and was founded in 2008 by Lorenz Engell and Bernhard Siegert...

 in Weimar

Weimar

Weimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...

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Publications

• Passagiere und Papiere. Fink, Paderborn; München 2006, ISBN 978-3-7705-4224-6.
• [...] Auslassungspunkte. Inst. für Buchkunst, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-932865-26-X.
• Passage des Digitalen. Brinkmann und Bose, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-922660-80-0.
• Relays. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, Calif. 1999, ISBN 0-8047-3238-8.
• Relais. Brinkmann und Bose, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-922660-52-5.