Wolfgang Mühl-Benninghaus has been Professor of Film Theory and History at the Humboldt University, Berlin since 1993. He is the Deputy Director of the Institute of Musicology and Media Studies at Humboldt University. He was the Director of the Institute of Theatre Studies and Cultural Communication at the Humboldt University from 1994 to 2003. He has held guest professorships at the universities of Vienna, Istanbul and Moscow. He has written extensively on film, particularly on German film in the first half of the twentieth century.