Christian Trautsch - Biography

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• 1980: born (15.08.)
  
• 1988-2001: extracurricular film and stage actor in Berlin (including 1988's “Macbeth“ on the Schaubühne – 1994: "Boris Godunov" on the Volksbühne (see http://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/deutsch/volksbuehne/archiv/spielzeitchronik/1990_bis_2000/#id_383http://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/volksbuehne-berlin-cgi/vbbNav.pl?fID=B13&pID=290), cinema “Heart of Stone“ (see http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/525132), etc.
• 1995-1996: Member of a film youth club as a cameraman: “Jugendsport in Berlin“ (Engl. Youth Sport in Berlin) (later: “Bubble Gum“) in Berlin-Reinickendorf (Märkisches Viertel) –
• 2001: High School Diploma: Gabriele-von-Bülow Oberschule (Gymnasium) in Berlin-Tegel.
• 2002-2003: Film Internship: „safran films“, Theater Internship: Theater „Morgenstern“, involved in the cultural project "48 Stunden Neukölln" 2002.
• 2003-2009: Teacher Training Program (a.o.t. TU Berlin): High School education (German Language, Literature Studies and Philosophy).
• Since 2003: film work and management of video workshops for the youth art school "Atrium" (Jugendkunstschule „Atrium“ in Berlin-Reinickendorf).
• 2004: management of video workshops at the Volkshochschule Reinickendorf.
• 2007-2010: Teacher’s assistant (T.A.) in the fields of semiotics and linguistics.
• Since 2009: high school teacher in Berlin (subjects: philosophy, ethics, German Language and Literature Studies).
• Since 2010: PhD student in the field of semiotics (working title: Image and Speech Rhetoric), founder and administrator of the first German Social Semiotics Forum: www.semiotik-forum.de, lecturer in the field of semiotics (Berlin Institute of Technology), and member of the Virtual Institute for Visual Science (Virtuelles Institut für Bildwissenschaft, VIB): www.bildwissenschaft.org/mitarbeiter/chritra.
• Since 2011: Member of the German Association for Semiotics (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik).