Valentina Lommatzsch

 

Valentina Lommatzsch (née Valentina Myagkostupova) has been working as a lecturer at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg since 2024. She graduated from Humboldt University in Berlin with a doctorate in cultural studies. In 2022 she successfully completed her PhD thesis with the title "Principles of Life and Laws of Art. Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky" under the supervision of Thomas Macho, Prof. Dr. phil. In 2018, as part of a DAAD research project, she researched at the Andrei Tarkovsky Archive in Yurievets in the Russian Federation.

From 2013 to 2017, Valentina Lommatzsch studied at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, where she defended her thesis "The phenomenon of the tragic in Georg Simmel's philosophy of culture" and received her Master of Philosophy degree.

At the same time, from 2013 to 2016, she studied at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin and graduated with her thesis "Film in Theory and Reality. Siegfried Kracauer and Andrei Tarkovsky".

From 2011 to 2013 she was an Erasmus Mundus scholar in the student exchange programme between the Humboldt University in Berlin and I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University. In 2009, she completed her PhD at the Faculty of Philosophy at the I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University with the text of her PhD thesis "Understanding Man as a Dialogue Phenomenon. Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin". From 1999 to 2005, she studied philosophy at Odessa National University and received a Master's degree in Philosophy. She started her university education in 1998 at the Odessa National University of Economics in the Faculty of Finance, graduating successfully in 2003.