Dr Martin Gruber
Martin Gruber is an anthropologist with expertise in participatory research methods and research interests in urban anthropology, homelessness, migration and health.
Martin Gruber completed an MA in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, London in 2003 and a Magister Social and Cultural Anthropology at Hamburg University in 2005. For many years, Martin has been working as a freelance researcher, filmmaker and lecturer in Germany and around the world. Between 2010 and 2013 he joined the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen. Martin conducted research in Namibia, Botswana and Angola, exploring the different ways in which participatory and ethnographic methods of filmmaking may contribute to the generation of academic knowledge as part of transdisciplinary research.
Selected Publications
Liparu Lyetu – Our Life. Participatory Ethnographic Filmmaking in Applied Contexts. Bremen: University of Bremen.
(In publication) Mediating Cultures: Participatory Filmmaking in Applied Visual Anthropology. In: Future Past – Cultural Heritage and Collaborative Ethnographic Film Work. Crawford, P. I. & B. Engelbrecht, eds. Hoejbjerg: Intervention Press.
Transdisciplinary research and stakeholder involvement. A review of the TFO approach (2013), In: Oldeland, J., Erb, C., Finckh, M., Jürgens, N. [Eds.]: Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region. – Biodiversity & Ecology 5: 195–212. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00275. (with Schmidt, L., Domptail, S., Klintenberg, P., Schmiedel, U., Zimmermann, I., Falk, T.).
Henley, Paul, (2012) The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema. In: Ethnoscripts 14(1): 197-199.
Film making as an instrument of research communication and capacity development (2010), In: Biodiversity in Southern Africa. Volume 2: Patterns and Processes at Regional Scale. Schmiedel, U. & N. Jürgens, eds: 326–331, Göttingen & Windhoek: Klaus Hess Publishers.
Platzverweis (2007), Obdachlose in der Hamburger Innenstadt. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag.
Betroffene von Räumungsklagen und Verbleib von Zwangsgeräumten: Eine ethnologische Untersuchung zu Lebenssituation und Verbleibs-alternativen (2007), Münster: Lit. (with Waltraud Kokot).
Street Magazine, Social Welfare, Soup Kitchen: The Income Strategies of Urban Homeless People in Hamburg/Germany (2006), Ethnoscripts 8(1): 79-92.
Selected Films (short)
Huchi - Honey, Angola, 39 min (2013)
Our Missionaries, Guinea, 8 min (2013)
The Secret of Our Environment, Botswana, 34 min (2013)
Liparu Lyetu – Our Life, Namibia, 32 min (2010)
Faces of Aging, Germany, 66 min (2009)
Wiza Wetu!, Our Forest, Namibia, 53 min (2007)
The Future of Visual Anthropology, Germany, 15 min (2006)
Cultivating Death, United Kingdom, 23 min (2003)
Sleeping rough, Germany, 43 min (2002)