Fabian Kling has been an academic staff member at JGU Mainz since 2022, where he mainly teaches in the Media Dramaturgy master’s degree program. As a doctoral candidate, he is working on the ZDF editorial office Das kleine Fernsehspiel. In 2024-2025 he was an associate member of the Research Training Group “Configurations of Film.” Since 2024, he has also been part of the Digital Cinema Hub (DiCi-Hub) research project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, which deals with digital tools and methods in film studies research and teaching.

Kling studied Media Design (B.A.) at the DHBW Ravensburg until 2016 and worked in advertising after graduating. In 2017, he began a program of study in Film Studies (B.A.) and Media Dramaturgy (M.A.) in Mainz, both of which he completed in 2022.

Responsible for IT and digital infrastructure (since 2023)

Spokesperson for the department’s mid-level faculty (since 2024), elected representative of the department’s mid-level faculty (2022-2024)

Member of the anti-discrimination working group (since 2022)

Society for Media Studies (GfM)

European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)

1. MA PrS. Mediendramaturgisches Labor II
   Instructor: Fabian Kling

SoSe 2026

Film and Television History in Germany

Digital Methods and Data Visualization in Film Studies

Dramaturgy and Narratology

Filmmakers in Exile between 1933 and 1945

History of Media Dramaturgical Work after 1960

Super-8 Home Cinema in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s