Patrick Rössler is Professor of Empirical Communication Research and Methods at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He is author of The Bauhaus and Public Relations (2014), and with Elizabeth Otto, he co-edited Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School (2019). He was recipient of the Justus Bier Prize for German curators of 20th and 21st-century art for the exhibition "Bauhaus and National Socialism" (Weimar 2024).