Autor: Anja Dreschke

Anja Dreschke (Author) Anja Dreschke, an anthropologist and filmmaker from Cologne, received a degree in cultural anthropology, history of arts and theatre, and film and television studies from the University of Cologne. From 2007 to 2012 she worked as a researcher on the project ‘‘Trance Mediums and New Media’’ at the University of Siegen. Currently she is Research Fellow at the graduate school Locating Media at the University of Siegen and Lecturer for Visual and Media Anthropology at the University of Cologne. Recently she released the documentary film Tribes of Cologne, which is concurrently part of her Ph D. dissertation intended as a three-fold project combining text, video, and photography. Martin Zillinger (Author) Martin Zillinger is Assistant Professor at the Research Lab ‘‘Transformations of Life’’ at the University of Cologne. A former graduate student of the University of Constance, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Tubingen and was a postdoctoral research fellow in the research project ‘‘Trance Mediums and New Media 1900/2000’’ and a Lecturer at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Siegen. He conducted extensive fieldwork in North Africa, especially in Morocco, and in Europe, particularly in Belgium. His research interests include media anthropology, anthropology of religion, and migration, with a special focus on the Mediterranean. He has published several articles and edited volumes. His dissertation, ‘‘Die Trance, das Blut, die Kamera. Trance-Medien und Neue Medien im marokkanischen Sufismus, ’’ received the Frobenius Research Award of the Frobenius Society.