Universiẗat, Diss., 2002--Marburg.

In August, 1999 sensational news spread over the world’s mass-media: the collection of the Berliner Sing-Academie (Bach’s Archive as it was named in newspapers), long thought lost, was found in Kiev.

No description available.

Zugl.: Tübingen, Universiẗat, Diss., 2007.

This paper deals with the journalistic work and the single novel of Justin Steinfeld (1886 Kiel - 1970 Baldock), who fled in 1933 from Hamburg to Czechoslovakia. This work focuses on his articles, which he wrote during his Prague exile (1933-1939) for the German speaking magazine Die Wahrheit and on his only novel Ein Mann liest Zeitung (1984, 2020) which tells the story of an exile who, like Steinfeld fled from Hamburg to Prague from the Nazis. The first part of the thesis introduces Czechoslovakia as an exile country for refugees from Germany in the 1930s and cultural activities of the exiles are shortly commented on, especially in relation to leftist and anti-fascist circles. This is followed by a short portrait of Justin Steinfeld. The main part of this work consists of chapters about the work of Steinfeld. First, his articles for Die Wahrheit are analysed. The attempt is made to characterize his journalistic writing, to find and describe the thematic focuses of his articles. The next chapter is devoted to the novel Ein Mann liest Zeitung and describes how the subject of exile is presented in it. The concept of exile is understood in different ways - firstly as a (geographical and social) space, secondly as a social status and thirdly as a psychological status. Finally, the magazine articles...

Fakes als mediale Produkte, auch „Borderline-Journalismus“ genannt, bezeichnen das Phänomen des vorsätzlich fälschenden Journalismus. Hierzu zählen die seinerzeit gefälschten Hitler-Tagebücher (stern),erfundene Interviews mit Hollywoodstars (u.a. SZ-Magazin) oder gefälschte TV-Reportagen (stern-tv). Weitere Felder sind manipulativer Fotojournalismus und in bestimmter Weise auch die Szene der „Webblogger“. „Medienethik“ hat daher nicht nur die Funktion, sozio-moralische Diskurse zu führen, sondern auch in einer möglichst öffentlichen Diskussion bedenklich erscheinende Geschehnisse explizit im Medienkontext aufzuarbeiten und zu analysieren. Ihr kommt so besonders die Funktion einer Berufsregeloder Standesethik zu. Es werden zwei Fallbeispiele (Tom Kummers „Starinterviews“, Janet Cookes „Jimmy’s World“) diskutiert. / Phony media products, also known as „borderline-journalism“, mark the phenomenon of the intentional faking journalism. Among those occur the faked Adolf-Hitler-Diaries (stern-magazine), the fabulous Hollywood star-interviews (Süddeutsche Zeitung-Magazine) or faked tv-reports (stern-tv). Further facets are manipulated photojournalism products and in special relation the „webblogger-scene“. „Mediaethics“ therefore is more than social-moralistic discussion. At least in public discourses (in the public about media, but especially in the media about themselves) they have carefully to locate and analyze dubious media contents, fulfilling their role as watchdog and professional caring instance. Referring to German and American fake journalists and their products in this essay two examples are shown.

Zugl.: Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 2009

Drawing on some 30 years’ experience in the UK and Central Europe, the author offers four assertions, three about education generally and the fourth that of the title. There the case is argued that statistics is a branch of logic, and therefore should be taught by experts in such subjects as philosophy and law and not exclusively by athematicians. Education in both Statistics and these other subjects would profit in consequence.

Zugl.: Hannover, Univ., Diss., 2004 u.d.T.: Magiera, Günter: Die Rehabilitierung der Meinung

Univ., Diss.--Paris., 2002.