Screen1900 Member: Friederike Grimm

From 2009 to 2012, Friederike Grimm (born Steurenthaler) studied media and communication plus education at the University of Trier. In her bachelor thesis on films starring Asta Nielsen in Freiburg, Germany, before the First World War, she analyzed cinema advertisements in the local press and described the emergence of the star system using a local example. For her master’s degree she completed communication studies at the Department of Communication Studies and Media Research at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In her master thesis she surveys the psychological effects of a social desirable issue on readers and proves that the so called First-Person effect also appears at sustainability issues, completely independent from the display format.

After internships in market research and marketing communication, Friederike Grimm was a research assistant for the Importing Asta Nielsen Database, in 2017. From 2018 to 2021, she has been a research assistant for the research project „Asta Nielsen – the International Film Star and the Emergence of the Star System 1911 to 1914“, a collaborative project of  the Universities of Trier and Marburg, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Since 2021, she is a research fellow at Philipps University Marburg.

After internships in market research and marketing communication, Friederike Grimm has been research assistant for the Importing Asta Nielsen Database, in 2017. From 2018 to 2022, she was a research assistant for the DFG project „Asta Nielsen – the International Film Star and the Emergence of the Star System 1911 to 1914“, a collaborative project between the Universities of Trier and Marburg. Since 2021, she is a research fellow at Philipps University Marburg. She is currently working on her PhD dissertation about the distribution, promotion and exhibition of the first long feature exclusive star series starring Asta Nielsen in Germany and Austria-Hungary before the First World War. She has presented her studies at several conferences, such as the Early Cinema Colloquium (2017), the NECS Conference (2021) and the HoMER Conference (2022).

Screen1900 Member Friederike Grimm: Publications

Friederike Grimm: »Umweltschutz? Bin ich voll dafür!«. Eine Studie zum First-Person Effekt, dem Einfluss von Fallbeispielen und zu Attributionsfehlern im Kontext der Nachhaltigkeitsthematik. Master thesis. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, 2016. https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28537/

Friederike Steurenthaler: Filmstar Asta Nielsen in Freiburger Kinos (1911-1914). Lokale Analyse eines Medienumbruchs. Bachelor thesis. University of Trier, 2012. http://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor.php?source_opus=858&la=de

Friederike Grimm: Adoring the New Woman: Asta Nielsen’s diverse Fanbase in Germany and Austria-Hungary in the Early 1910s. In: Imago. Studi di cinema e media, vol. 26, no. 2 (2022), Rome: Bulzoni (forthcoming).

Friederike Grimm: The Asta Nielsen Brand: Advertising Long Feature Star Series in German Local Newspapers, 1911 to 1914. In: Yvonne Zimmermann (ed): Asta Nielsen, the Film Star System and the Introduction of the Long Feature Film, Early Popular Visual Culture, vol. 19, nos. 2-3 (2021), pp. 121-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2022.2059834

Friederike Grimm: Spezial-Nummer der Asta Nielsen-Zeitung from 11 November 1911. In: Yvonne Zimmermann (ed): Asta Nielsen, the Film Star System and the Introduction of the Long Feature Film, Early Popular Visual Culture, vol. 19, nos. 2-3 (2021), pp. 229-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2021.2058195

Friederike Grimm: ›Cinema: Todayʻs Theatre‹ – Images from the 1914 Cologne Rose Monday Parade. In: Yvonne Zimmermann (ed): Asta Nielsen, the Film Star System and the Introduction of the Long Feature Film, Early Popular Visual Culture, vol. 19, nos. 2-3 (2021), pp. 245-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2021.2058197

Friederike Grimm: Asta Nielsen in der Populärkultur – Parodien der ersten Filmdiva in Zeitschriften, Kino und Theater vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. In: ffk-journal Nr. 6, 2021. http://ffk-journal.de/?journal=ffkjournal&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=152