Christoph Hilgert, M.A.
Associate Researcher of the Hans Bredow Institute
Christoph Hilgert, M.A., (born 1978) studied History, Journalism and Political Sciences at the Universities of Gießen, Bristol (England) and Hamburg. He has worked at the “Research Centre for the History of Broadcasting in Northern Germany” from March 2006 until December 2007. Before that he had already been a student assistant at the Hans Bredow Institute from 2002 onwards. Since January 2008, he has been the recipient of a scholarship of the “DFG-Graduiertenkolleg” “Transnationale Medienereignisse von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart” at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen. His research interests concern aspects of the research into the history of youth, the history of media, culture and mentalities, especially the history of the press and of broadcasting, of developments in media politics since 1945, the communicative dimensions of remembering, of the memory and of commemoration, as well as the medial presentation of history. In the framework of his PhD-project, he is working on the reporting in the mass media on and for “young people” in the 1950s, with a particular emphasis on West-German and British broadcasting.
Latest publications
Hilgert, C. (2011): Auf der Suche nach dem jugendlichen Hörer. Zum Wandel jugendspezifischer Programmangebote im deutschen Hörfunk zwischen 1924 und den 1990er Jahren [In Search of the Young Listener. On the Change of Youth-specific Programme Offerings in German Radio between 1924 and the 1990s]. In: Deutschland-Archiv 44 (1), pp. 5-12 (German online version).
Latest lectures
"'Halbstarke' Jugend im westdeutschen Radio. Zur Repräsentation von Jugendlichen im Hörfunk Westdeutschlands in den 1950er und frühen 1960er Jahren" ['Rowdy' Youth in West German Radio. On the Representation of Youth in West Germany's Radio in the 1950s and Early 1960s], lecture by C. Hilgert at the panel "Mediengeschichte" [Media History] of the "Medienhistorisches Forum für Absolventen und Forschungsnachwuchs" [Media-historic forum for graduates and junior researchers] hosted by the study group broadcasting and history in cooperation with the professional group communication history of the DGPuK in Wittenberg on 17 October 2009.
"America – Boon or Bane? The 'Americanization' of Youth in West German Radio in the 1950s", lecture by C. Hilgert at the panel "Media Representations of German Youth in the 1950s and 1960s" at the 33rd annual conference of the German Studies Association (GSA) in Washington, D.C., on 9 October 2009.
"Medienvermittelter Kulturkontakt und Kulturkontakt in den Medien: Zur Debatte um die ‚Amerikanisierung‘ der westdeutschen Jugend im Hörfunk der 1950er Jahre" [Media-conveyed Cultural Contact and Cultural Contact in the Media; On the Debate about the 'Americanisation' of West German Adolescents in the Radio of the 1950's], lecture by C. Hilgert at the consultative meeting of topic-related DFG-Graduiertenkollegs (Bielefeld, Gießen, Leipzig, Rostock) "Kulturkontakt? Potential und Grenzen eines Begriffs" [Cultural Contact? Potential and Limits of a Concept] in Rostock-Warnemünde on 8 May 2009.
Contact
Christoph Hilgert, M.A.
DFG-Graduiertenkolleg "Transnationale Medienereignisse von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart"
Justus-Liebig-Universität
Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10C
35394 Gießen