Natascha Drubek

Dr. habil. Natascha Drubek is a scholar in Slavic Studies and Eastern European History with extensive expertise in film and media studies. She has held academic positions across Europe, teaching Slavic Studies at LMU, Potsdam, film history in Regensburg, and Comparative literature at Peter Szondi-Institut (FU Berlin) actively contributing to the fields of media studies and cultural memory research. She received a Fellowship Award at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and was a Marie Curie Intra-European Senior Researcher at FAMU, Prague. She is the recipient of the prestigious Heisenberg grant. Dr. Drubek-Meyer is the founder of Apparatus Press and serves as the editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe. Her work bridges academic scholarship with independent open-access publishing, fostering global accessibility to critical studies on Central and Eastern European cultural histories. She is the author of the books "Filme über Vernichtung und Befreiung. Die Rhetorik der Filmdokumente aus Majdanek 1944-1945" (Springer VS, 2020), and the forthcoming "Hidden Figures: Rewriting the History of Cinema in the Empire of All the Russias".  Another monograph will be devoted to the Nazi film production Theresienstadt, the subject of her Heisenberg grant project.