studied Russian and German Literature and Language at Humboldt University Berlin and in Moscow (at MGLU and RGGU). She has been research assistant with the colleborate research center 626 »Ästhetische Erfahrung im Zeichen der Entgrenzung der Künste« at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focus is on the theory and poetics in Russian Formalism, concepts of » Kunstsynthese« of the Russian avant-garde movement, on totalitarian aesthetics and on the temporal mediality of films.