Dr. Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens

Image Credit: Tim Gassauer

Division Media Analysis/ Research Methods

Institute for Media and Communication Studies

Department of Political and Social Sciences

Researcher

Project "From Dallas to Berlin on Demand: The Transnationalization of Meaning? A Multilevel Replication Study in Israel and Germany" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Address

Otto-von-Simson-Str. 3
Room 302 (3rd floor)
14195 Berlin

Telephone

+49 30 838 65729

Fax

+ 49 30 - 838 4 65729

y.yurtaeva-martens@fu-berlin.de

Since May 2024	Research Associate (PostDoc) Research project “From Dallas to Berlin on Demand: The Transnationalization of Meaning? A Multilevel Replication Study in Germany and Israel” Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
2023 - 2024	Research Associate Media Studies Program Film University Babelsberg "Konrad Wolf", Potsdam
2023 - 2024	Research Associate Research Project “For Real? Virtual Encounters with Holocaust Survivors” Film University Babelsberg "Konrad Wolf", Potsdam
2022 - 2023	Research Associate Research Project “Value of News: The History of the German Press Agency (dpa)” Leibniz Institute for Media Research \| Hans Bredow Institute, Hamburg
2021 - 2023	Research Officer for Academic Early Career Support Research and Transfer Department / Graduate Academy Film University Babelsberg "Konrad Wolf", Potsdam
2009 - 2021	Research Associate Media Studies Program Film University Babelsberg "Konrad Wolf", Potsdam
2004-2008	Diploma, Audiovisual Media Studies Academy of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf", Potsdam, Germany Thesis: “Media Usage of Late Ethnic German Resettlers from the Former Soviet Union: A Case Study of Television Viewing”
2002 - 2004	Basic Studies (Grundstudium) History and Film Studies Freie Universität Berlin

Memberships

German Society for Media Studies (GfM) – member of the Television Studies, Media Education, and Media Studies & Dis/Ability Studies working groups
German Communication Association (DGPuK)
Brandenburg Center for Media Studies (ZeM)
Study Group on Broadcasting and History (RuG) – Network for Media History and Audiovisual Heritage, Deputy Chair
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)
Centre for Transnational Media Research (CTMR), Denmark
International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST)
European Media Historians Network (EMHIS)
Women’s Film and Television History Network (WFTHN)
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)

Transnational television
History of television and media, especially the history of media organizations and events from a transnational perspective
Research on women in the history of media
Production studies

Monograph
2025	Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens (2025): Geschichte der Intervision. Der transnationale Fernsehprogrammaustausch in Osteuropa 1960–1993 (History of Intervision: The Transnational Exchange of Television Programs in Eastern Europe, 1960–1993). Dissertation, Department of Media Studies, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Potsdam. Springer VS, series Film, Television, Media Culture of the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
Selected Publications
2025	Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens (forthcoming): Cross-cultural, but Illegal: Piracy and Media Content in Russia. In: Lothar Mikos, Gisela Dachs, Anne Beier, and Benjamin Nickl (eds.), Revisiting “The Export of Meaning”: Cross-Cultural Television Audiences in the Age of Streaming. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
	Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens, Lothar Mikos (forthcoming): Transnational Television Flow in East Europe in Times of Conflict. In: Gintaras Aleknonis and Tobias Hochscherf (eds.), Conflict Resolution and the Cold War: Media Encounters across the Iron Curtain. London/New York: Bloomsbury.
	Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens (forthcoming): Unterhaltung, Politik und vermeintliche Realitäten im Kontext von Reality-TV (Entertainment, Politics, and Constructed Realities in the Context of Reality TV). Online Dossier on Streaming, Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung), www.bpb.de
2024	Susanne Eichner, Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens (2024): Arbeit/ Klasse/ Gender im Unterhaltungsfernsehen am Beispiel von Germany’s Next Top Model (Work/Class/Gender in Entertainment Television: The Case of Germany’s Next Top Model). In: Dagmar Hoffmann, Moritz Stock, and Florian Krauß (eds.), Fernsehen und Klassenfragen (Television and Class Issues). Konstanz: UVK.
2022	Claudia Wegener, Kirsten Müller-Vahl, Carolin Fremer, Lisa Plumeier, Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens, Luise Laudenbach, and Anna Pisarenko (2022): Dissemination and Reception of a Functional Tourette-like Behavior via YouTube: A Qualitative Study with German Patients. In: Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2133550
2019	Susanne Eichner, Yesim Kaptan, Elizabeth Prommer, and Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens (2019): New Media and Audience Behaviour. In: Claus Arnold, Susanne Kinnebrock, and Pascal Preston (eds.), The Handbook of European Communication History. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
2017	Yulia Yurtaeva (2017): Medientagebuch als Erhebungsmethode in der qualitativen Forschung (Media Diary as a Method in Qualitative Research). In: Lothar Mikos and Claudia Wegener (eds.), Qualitative Forschung. Ein Handbuch, 2nd edition. Konstanz: UVK/UTB.
2017	Yulia Yurtaeva (2017): “Jetzt festivalt auch die Television.” – Television Festivals of the 1960s. In: Caroline Moine and Andreas Kötzing (eds.), Cultural Transfer and Political Conflicts. Film Festivals in the Cold War. Göttingen: V&R unipress.
2016	Yulia Yurtaeva and Lothar Mikos (2016): Song Contests in Europe during the Cold War. In: Karina Aveyard, Pia Majbrit Jensen, and Albert Moran (eds.), New Patterns in Global Television Formats. Chicago: Intellect.
2016	Yulia Yurtaeva (2016): Private Internetplattformen als Medienarchive und neue Forschungsräume (Private Internet Platforms as Media Archives and New Research Spaces). In: Sascha Trültzsch-Wijnen, Alessandro Barberi, and Thomas Ballhausen (eds.), Geschichte(n), Repräsentationen, Fiktionen. Medienarchive als Gedächtnis- und Erinnerungsorte (History/ies, Representations, Fictions: Media Archives as Sites of Memory). Jahrbuch Medien und Geschichte 2016. Köln: Herbert von Halem.
2015	Yulia Yurtaeva (2015): Ein schwarzer Rabe gegen Conchita Wurst oder wovor hat Russland Angst? (A Black Raven against Conchita Wurst – or What Is Russia Afraid Of?). In: Christine Ehardt, Georg Vogt, and Florian Wagner (eds.), Eurovision Song Contest: Eine kleine Geschichte zwischen Camp, Trash, Geschlecht und Nation (Eurovision Song Contest: A Brief History between Camp, Trash, Gender, and Nation). Vienna: Zaglossus.
2014	Yulia Yurtaeva (2014): Programmaustausch zwischen Ost- und Westeuropa. Institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen von 1945 bis 1990 (Television Program Exchange between Eastern and Western Europe: Institutional Frameworks, 1945–1990). In: Susanne Eichner and Elizabeth Prommer (eds.), Fernsehen: Europäische Perspektiven (Television: European Perspectives). Konstanz: UVK.
2014	Yulia Yurtaeva (2014): Intervision. Searching for Traces. In: VIEW: Journal of European Television History and Culture, Vol. 3, No. 5, Special Issue Television Histories in (Post)Socialist Europe.
2013	Thomas Beutelschmidt, Richard Oehmig, and Yulia Yurtaeva (2013): Grenzüberschreitungen. Internationaler Programmtransfer als transkulturelle Kommunikation zwischen West- und Osteuropa am Beispiel des DDR-Fernsehens (Crossing Borders: International Program Transfer as Transcultural Communication between West and East Europe Using the Example of GDR Television). In: Rundfunk und Geschichte, 39(3–4).
Reviews
2023	Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens (2023): Review of: Oberkrome/Schüßler (eds.) (2023): Arbeiten zwischen Medien und Künsten. Feministische Perspektiven auf die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (Work between Media and the Arts: Feminist Perspectives on the First Half of the 20th Century). Berlin: Neofelis. In: Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft (M&K), 3/2023.
2012	Yulia Yurtaeva (2012): Review of: Walk (2011): Das Andere im Tatort. Migration und Integration im Fernsehkrimi (The Other in Tatort: Migration and Integration in the TV Crime Series). Marburg: Tectum. In: tv-diskurs, 16(3), p. 110.
2011	Yulia Yurtaeva (2011): Review of: Trebbe/Heft/Weiß (2010): Mediennutzung junger Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund (Media Use of Young People with a Migration Background). Berlin: Vistas. In: tv-diskurs, 15(3), p. 92.
2010	Jesko Jockenhövel , Yulia Yurtaeva (2010): Review of: Lepa (2010): Jenseits des Films. Kritisch-realistische Rekonstruktion von Filmverstehen und Filmreflexion (Beyond Film: Critical-Realist Reconstruction of Film Understanding and Film Reflection). In: Zeitschrift für qualitative Forschung (ZQF), 10(2), pp. 345–347.
Conference Presentations (Selection)
2025	“Germanness Re-Negotiated: Transnational Readings of Berlin-Based Television Series in the Streaming Era” Annual Conference on German Studies: Language, Culture, Society (German Studies Association, GSA), Tel Aviv-Yafo, November 6, 2025 (with Assaf Uni, Dr. Anna Smoliarova, and Zeynep Altundağ).
	“Gray Zones of Streaming: Alternative Practices of Media Consumption”, (part of the Panel “Upstairs, Downstairs: Television and Platforms between Seduction and Empowerment”, ‘POWER’ – Annual Conference of the German Society for Media Studies (GfM), University of Paderborn, September 16–19, 2025.
	“Streaming Platforms and the Negotiation of Germanness in Contemporary TV Series” Film and Television’s Transformations in the Streaming Era. Reconceiving Aesthetics, Narratives and Forms – ECREA Film and Television Studies Section Conference: University of Bologna, Italy, September 8–9, 2025 (with Dr. Anna Smoliarova, Zeynep Altundağ, Prof. Joachim Trebbe, and Prof. Gisela Dachs).
	“Media Engagement and Public Discourse in Russia After 2022: Negotiating Boundaries and Strategies of Legal and Illegal Media Practices” International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference, Singapore, July 13–17, 2025.
	“Streaming Germanness: National Narratives in Contemporary German Series” International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference, Singapore, July 13–17, 2025 (with Dr. Anna Smoliarova, Zeynep Altundağ, Prof. Joachim Trebbe, Prof. Gisela Dachs, Prof. Lothar Mikos, and Assaf Uni).
	“Netflix after Netflix? – Unlicensed Audiences in Russia Before and After 2022” Discovering/Uncovering: Navigating the Complexities of Screen Media. European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), Lusófona University Lisboa, June 18–21, 2025.
	“Invisible Work? Women Behind East German Television” Doing Women’s Film and Television History VII - Entangled Media: Past and Present, University of Lincoln, June 18–20, 2025 (accepted).
	“Streaming and Piracy in Russia: How the Withdrawal of Netflix & Co. Is Reshaping the Media Landscape” re:publica – Digital Society Conference, Berlin, May 26–28, 2025.
	“Democracy Crisis in Babylon Berlin: How social media users reflect contemporary political challenges while watching TV Series” The Viewer Citizen – SVoDs, Audiences, and Democracy in Europe. Symposium. Örebro University, Sweden, May 23–25, 2025 (with Dr. Anna Smoliarova, Zeynep Altundağ, Assaf Uni, Prof. Gisela Dachs, Prof. Joachim Trebbe, and Prof. Lothar Mikos).
	“(Localized) Streaming Series as a Source of Value Discourses in Media Reception: Challenges of a Transnational Replication Study” Public Spheres and Their Values. 70th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Freie Universität Berlin, March 19–21, 2025 (with Prof. Joachim Trebbe).
	“From Berlin to Israel: Value Negotiation in the Reception of German TV Series” Public Spheres and Their Values. 70th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Freie Universität Berlin, March 19–21, 2025 (with Dr. Anna Smoliarova, Zeynep Altundağ).
	“Blurred Roles – Blurred Values? Self-Presentation of Young Journalists on Social Media” Public Spheres and Their Values. 70th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Freie Universität Berlin, March 19–21, 2025 (with Prof. Claudia Wegener).
2024	“Evolution of Educational Formats: Volumetric Media, VR, AR, XR, and AI” ‘ASSEMBLING’ – Annual Conference of the German Society for Media Studies (GfM), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, September 25–28, 2024.
	“Assembling Transnationally: Program Exchange, Audiences, Television Festivals” ‘ASSEMBLING’ – Annual Conference of the German Society for Media Studies (GfM), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, September 25–28, 2024.
	“DEFA and Television: Gender Perspectives” Quo vadis DEFA Research? New Perspectives on Dealing with the Film Heritage of the GDR, International Conference, University of Rostock and DEFA Foundation, Rostock, May 29–31, 2024.
	“Between Private and Professional Roles: How Do Young Journalists Present Themselves on Social Media Platforms?” Digital Transformation, Media, and Social Inequalities – ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference, European Sociological Association, Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media (in cooperation with the University of Bucharest), Romania, January 25–26, 2024 (with Prof. Claudia Wegener, Alissa Dornier, Philipp Eichel, and Louisa Jung).
2023	“In Real Life? – Virtual Encounters with Holocaust Survivors” Networked Images: Digital Approaches to the Audiovisual Heritage of the Holocaust, Workshop, DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum (Frankfurt am Main) and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (Vienna), December 11–12, 2023 (with Prof. Björn Stockleben).
	“Television festivals as a blind spots in contemporary television practices” Redefining Televisuality: Programmes, Practices, Methods – ECREA Television Section Conference 2023: Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Potsdam, October 25–27, 2023.
	“Narratives of the Neurodiverse: A Longitudinal Study on the Representation of People with Tourette Syndrome on Television and Social Media” Neurodiverse Moving Images – Workshop of the Television Studies and Dis/Ability Studies Sections, German Society for Media Studies (GfM), Artothek Hannover, May 11–12, 2023.
2022	“The ‘value’ of Gemany’s national news agency ‘dpa’” EMHIS Forum 10: Online Conference, Entangled Media Histories – A Research Network for European Media Historians, November 24–25, 2022 (with Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner and Immo Hagemann, Hans-Bredow-Institut, Hamburg).
	“Negotiations of Work in Entertainment Television: The Case of Germany’s Next Top Model” ‘WORK’ – Annual Conference of the German Society for Media Studies (GfM), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), September 28 – October 1, 2022 (with Prof. Susanne Eichner, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF).
	“Transnational Television Flow in East Europe in Times of Conflict. Intervision and the Prague Spring” Resolution and the Media. International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST) Conference, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Kiel, Germany, July 12–14, 2022 (with Prof. Lothar Mikos, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF).
2018	“The Intervision Network” Technological Innovation and the Spread of Globalization in the Cold War – International Conference, Institute of East European History, University of Vienna, Austria, October 12–14, 2018.