Dr. Eik Dödtmann
Fields of Research
• Hebrew language
• History of Film and Television in Israel
• History of the State of Israel and Palestine
• Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy in Israel
About
Eik Dödtmann (born 1975 in Dresden), studied Jewish Studies, Media Studies, Film and Television, and Modern History in Potsdam, Berlin, Tel Aviv und Dresden. PhD. in 2020 at University of Potsdam about "The Status quo between Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy and the State of Israel at the beginning of the 21st century". Hebrew lecturer at University of Potsdam between 2014 and 2019 and again since 2024. Hebrew lecturer at Humboldt-University at Berlin between 2019 and 2021. Post-Doc research on Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy in contemporary film at Film University Konrad Wolf Babelsberg between 2020 und 2023. Editor and Israel correspondent for the "Jüdische Zeitung" from 2005 to 2014.
Zur Person
Dr. Eik Dödtmann
Campus Am Neuen Palais
1.11.0.Z06
consulting hours
Monographies
Die Charedim in Israel im 21. Jahrhundert. Der Status quo zwischen Staat und Ultraorthodoxie, Berlin 2021. (in German)
Exile or Home? Immigration and Integration into Israel of Polish Jews from 1968: a qualitative case study based on the analysis of interviews, Potsdam 2014. (in German)
„There is No Return to Egypt”. Polish Jews from 1968 in Israel today. Documentary film, 45min., Potsdam & Tel Aviv, 2013.
Teaching experience
Humboldt University of Berlin:
SoSe 2021:
Biblical Languages: Hebrew (Web-Seminar)
WiSe 2020/21:
Biblical Languages: Hebrew (Web-Seminar)
SoSe 2020:
Biblical Languages: Hebrew (Web-Seminar)
WiSe 2019/20:
Biblical Languages: Hebrew
Universität Potsdam:
WiSe 2019/20:
HaYehudim ba’im – Jewish Religion, History and Humour (extracullicular Master-course)
SoSe 2018:
The Middle East Conflict in Film: Israeli and Palestinian Cinema
Contemporary Israeli History in the Hebrew speaking Media
Conversation Modern Hebrew
WiSe 2017/18:
Hebrew I (Biblical Hebrew)
SoSe 2017:
The History of the State of Israel in Film
Hebrew I (Biblical Hebrew)
WiSe 2016/17:
Hebrew I (Biblical Hebrew)
SoSe 2016:
The Israeli-Arab Conflict – a historical Overview
Military and Militarism in Israeli Culture
The Founding Myths of the State of Israel
WiSe 2015/16:
Hebrew I (Biblical Hebrew)
SoSe 2015:
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Film
The Ultraorthodox Jews in Israel
Contemporary Israeli History in the Hebrew speaking Media
WiSe 2014/15:
Israeli History in Film
Sources of the Haredi Judaism
Contemporary Israeli History in the Hebrew speaking Media