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Werner Große
  • Lecturers
    • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Felix Büsching
    • Prof. Dr. Christian Floto
    • Werner Große
    • Dr. Holger Isermann
    • Olaf Levin
    • Ass. Iur. Natalia Theissen
    • Carmen Woisczyk

Werner Große

Foto Werner Große

Contact: w.grosse(at)tu-bs.de

Professional activity:

  • In his main job he was a senior staff member of the Leibniz Institute IWF Knowledge and Media (formerly Institute for Scientific Film) in Göttingen.
  • Since reaching retirement age in 2012, he continues teaching at the TU Braunschweig on a freelance basis
Curriculum Vitae
Since 1999 Lecturer at the TU Braunschweig
1966-1972 Studies of mathematics and physics in Frankfurt and Tübingen
1972-1973 Teaching at the Elisabethen Gymnasium in Frankfurt
1973-1975 Internship and subsequently news editor at the Frankfurter Neue Presse newspaper
Until 2012 Director of the IWF Knowledge and Media in Göttingen
1975-2012 Positions at the Leibniz Institute IWF Knowledge and Media in Göttingen:
> Head of Public Relations (1975-1983)
> Head of the Department of Natural and Engineering Sciences and the Computer Animation Unit (1983-2001)
> Head of the advanced training and continuing education program for external scientists (2001-2008)
> Representation of the Institute at umbrella and professional associations (1975-2008)
> Jury member of international scientific film festivals
> Secretary General of IAMS International Association for Media in Science (1992-96)
> Founding member and board member of the GMW Society for Media in Science
Courses

currently offered courses

  • Lecture: Fundamentals of Science Communication
  • Lecture: Structures of digitalization and medialization

Lectures and Seminars at the TU Braunschweig

  • Structures of Digitization and Medialization (IfKW)
  • Fundamentals of Science Communication (IfKW)
  • Forms of communication - presentation and performance (KTW)
  • The medial communication of abstract contents (IfKW)
  • The development of media from a technical point of view (IfKW)
  • Rhetoric in times of PowerPoint (PiB)
Publications

Selection:

Book publications:

  • Der Raum, die Zeit und das Licht. In: Photon – wie Bilder entstehen, von Höhle bis Handy, 2007
  • Filme für die Wissenschaft – Die Epoche des wissenschaftlichen Films in Göttingen, 2012
  • Zurück zur Realität – Eine mehr-dimensionale Betrachtung, 2018
  • Saïdas Entdeckung – Die algebraische Struktur der Natur, 2021

Author of scientific TV-Feature-Shows:

  • Schärfer als das Auge – schneller als der Schall. NDR, 1976
  • Der Mensch – ein Jahrmillionen Puzzle. NDR, 1979
  • Das Leben – ein Jahrmilliarden Puzzle. NDR, 1980
  • Blicke sprechen Bände – das Nonverbale in der Kommunikation. NDR, 1982

Editing and und production management of scientific movies:

  • Korrosion bei Glasfasern: Film B 1553 des IWF und G. W, Ehrenstein et al., 1984
  • Fly Lorenz: Film C 1575 des IWF und H.-O. Peitgen et al., 1984
  • Das ebene Doppelpendel: Film C 1574 des IWF und P.H. Richter et al.,  1984
  • Aktivator-Inhibitor – Ein Modell zur biologischen Musterbildung: Film D 1571 des IWF und H. Meinhardt / A. Gierer, 1984
  • Diffusion in festen Metallen: Film C 1566 des IWF und Th. Heumann / V. Ruth, 1985
  • Matrizen und lineare Abbildungen: Film C 1610 des IWF und R. Schaper, 1986
  • GKS – Das Graphische Kernsystem: Film C 1615 des IWF und G. Enderle / E.G. Schlechtendahl, 1986
  • Langzeitverhalten von spritzgegossenem Standard-Polystyrol: Filme B 1613 u. B1614 des IWF und P. Großkurth, 1987
  • Das eingeschränkte Dreikörperproblem: Film C 1654 des IWF und P.H. Richter / H.-J. Scholz, 1987
  • Amorphe Metalle: Film C 1628 des IWF und H. C. Freyhardt, 1987
  • Eigenwerte und Eigenvektoren: Film C 1650 des IWF und R. Schaper, 1988
  • Ein Weg ins Chaos: Film C 1641 des IWF und W. Metzler et al., 1988
  • Das zufällige Halsreißen: Film C 1694 des IWF und U. Brosa et al., 1989
  • Abscheren kleiner Stahlproben: Film C 1679 des IWF und W. Hussmann, 1989
  • Benoit B. Mandelbrot – Interview: H.-O. Peitgen: Film C 1738 des IWF, 1990
  • Wasserbauliches Versuchswesen: Film des Deutschen Museums München, 1999
  • Zeitkippungen: Film C 13075 des IWF, 2005 ; siehe auch Textpublikation  Zeitkippen

Editorship:

  • Dreisprachige wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift: Research Film, Le Film de Recherche, Forschungsfilm,  1975-1978  

Internet media:

  • Author of the blog “Allwissende Medien – Die Vermittlung der Wissenschaft“   www.scilogs.de published by Spektrum der Wissenschaft (2007-2010)
Awards and sponsorships
  • Multiple award winner at international scientific film festivals (1984-2010)
  • Laureate "Performing Science" University Gießen (2007)
Lectures and presentations
  • Postdoc-seminars “Science Presentation“ University of Bremen (Marum) 2008-2019
  • presentations at the University of Göttingen (MuK) 2000-2002
  • lectures and guest presentations at universities worldwide, i. a. Lomonossow-Universität Moskau (UdSSR), IIT Madras (India), PUC Rio de Janeiro, UPAEP Puebla (Mexico).
  • Extensive series of lectures about the scientific cinematography i. A. des Goethe-Instituts p. p. in the USA, Mexico, Brasilia, Sri Lanka, India, Egypt, Jugoslavia.
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