Chris Wahl is Professor of Audiovisual Heritage at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, where he heads both the MA program ‘Film Heritage’ and the DFG long-term project ‘(Con)sequential Images – An Archaeology of Iconic Film Footage from the Nazi Era’. He has been publishing the series Film-Erbe since 2015 and the journal Film-Konzepte together with Ilka Brombach and Michael Wedel since 2025. Currently, he is working on a film archaeological biography of Riefenstahl's propaganda film TRIUMPH OF THE WLL. Also forthcoming are an essay on Jay Leyda's seminal study Films beget Films and his time in East Berlin as well as one on Dominik Graf as a paradigmatic filmmaker of an audiovisual memory culture.