| Biografie | Tobias Wendl is Professor at the Institute of Art History (KHI) – Free University of Berlin, where he holds the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Endowed Chair for the Arts of Africa”. Until recently he served as director of the Iwalewa House, the Africa Centre of the University of Bayreuth. Tobias Wendl was born and educated in Munich. Before entering the university, he worked free-lance in architecture photography. Since 1981 he has traveled to Africa and spent more than four years conducting research in countries like Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and South Africa. He received his Ph.D. from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich in 1990. During his academic career, Tobias Wendl has taught at the Universities of Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Bayreuth and Berlin. He authored and edited numerous books, documentaries, scholarly articles and exhibitions. His fields of interest include Contemporary Arts, Media Studies, Cinema, Popular and Urban Culture, Music and Religion. |