Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner studied German Language and Literature at the Universities of Bamberg and Münster and worked as a freelance literary critic and journalist. He gained a doctorate in Bamberg in 1996 with a study on the radio plays of the immediate postwar years 1945-1949. Subsequently, he worked at the German Broadcasting Archive in Frankfurt am Main, with a DFG project on the broadcasting work of Günter Eich, as well as being a curator of the exhibition “Remigranten und Rundfunk 1945-1955” (returning emigrants and broadcasting 1945-1955). He has been working at the Research Centre for the History of Broadcasting in Northern Germany since 1 December 2000, initially as a staff member, and since 1 August 2005 as its head. He fulfils teaching and examination roles at the University of Hamburg in the Department of Language, Literature and Media I/Media Culture. He has been a member of the jury for the “Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden. Preis für Radiokunst” (Blind War Veterans’ Prize for Radio Plays. Prize for Radio Arts”) since 1996 and has been editor of the journal, “Rundfunk und Geschichte” (“Broadcasting and History”) since 2005. He is a board member of the “Studienkreises Rundfunk und Geschichte” [Circle for the Study of Broadcasting and History] and acted as chair from 2007 to 2011. His research interests include all issues of mediated public communication, the main focus being the investigation of long-term media effects, the relationship of broadcasting and literature, the semiotics of radio as well as overarching questions on the history of media, programming and mentalities in the 20th century.
Latest publications
Wagner, H.-U. (2011): Das "Nachwuchsstudio" des NDR. [The "Talent Studio" of the NDR]. Available Online
Wagner, H.-U., Bayer, F. (2011): Aufklärung statt Bewältigung. Tondokumente zur Berichterstattung von Axel Eggebrecht über den ersten Auschwitz-Prozess. [Clarification of Facts rather than Overcoming the Past. Sound Documents from Axel Eggebrecht Broadcastings of the Auschwitz Trial]. Audio-CD. Frankfurt am Main.
Wagner, H.-U.; Bayer, F. (2011): Aufarbeitung des Nationalsozialismus im Radio. Die Berichterstattung vom Nürnburger Prozess als Vermittler deutscher Geschichte. [Coming to Terms with National Socialism on the Radio. Broadcasting from the Nuremberg Trial]. Available online
Wagner, H.-U. (2011): 80 Jahre Funkhaus an der Rothenbaumchaussee. [80th anniversary of the broadcast studio at the Rothenbaumchaussee]. Available online
Wagner, H.-U. (2011): Die Norag 1924-1931. Binderstraße 28, Schlüterstraße 51-53. [The "Nordic Broadcasting Stock Company" 1924-1931]. Entry in the webproject „Kulturtopographie Hamburgs um 1900“. Available online
Wagner, H.-U. ; Stegemann, W. (2010): „Hallo, hallo! Hier Radio!“ Ein neues Medium verschafft sich Gehör: Der Rundfunk in Hamburg ['Hallo, Hallo, this is the Radio' A New Medium Gets Itself Heard. The Nordic Broadcasting Company (Norag) in Hamburg]. In: Hempel, D.; Weimar, F. (eds.): „Himmel auf Zeit“. Die Kultur der 1920er Jahre in Hamburg. Neumünster, pp. 177-201, 372-374.
Wagner, H.-U. (2010): Mapping Europe. Wie westdeutsche Rundfunkprogramme europäische Identitäten stiften sollten [Mapping Europe. How West-German Radio Programmes Were Supposed to Create European Identities]. In: M. Arenhövel, M. Razbojnikova-Frateva, H.-G. Winter (eds.): Kulturtransfer und Kulturkonflikt. Dresden 2010 (= Germanica, Neue Folge. Jahrbuch für Germanistik in Bulgarien), pp. 301-316.
Wagner, H.-U. (2010): Ein junger Mann kommt nach Hause. Hans-Ulrich Wagner im Gespräch mit Volker Starke [A Young Man Returns Home. Hans-Ulrich Wagner in Conversation with Volker Starke. Available online (German).
Wagner, H.-U. (2011): Wie neue Medientechniken die Nutzung verändern – Ein geschichtlicher Abriss [How New Media Technologies Change Usage – A Historical Outline]. In: J. Hennig, M. Tjarks-Sobhani (eds.), Veränderte Mediengewohnheiten – andere Technische Dokumentation? Lübeck, pp. 43-55 (= Schriften zur Technischen Kommunikation; 15).
Wagner, H.-U. (2010): “Unsere mit keiner andern meines Lebens vergleichbare Freundschaft”: Auf den Spuren von Walter D. Schultz [“Our with No Other in My Life Comparable Friendship”: On the Track of Walter D. Schultz]. In: Schriften der Kurt Hiller Gesellschaft, 4, 111-123.
Arnold, K.; Classen, C.; Kinnebrock, S.; Lersch, E.; Wagner, H.-U. (eds.) (2010): Von der Politisierung der Medien zur Medialisierung des Politischen? Zum Verhältnis von Medien, Öffentlichkeit und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert [From Politicisation of the Media to Medialisation of Policy? On the Relation of Media, Public and Politics in the 20th Century]. Leipzig.
Latest lectures
"Sounds like the Sixties: Approaches to Analyze Radio Aethetic in the Past", presentation by H.-U. Wagner at the conference "Electrified Voices: Medial, Socio-Historical and Cultural Aspects of Voice Transfer" at the University of Konstanz on 17 June 2011.
"The Auschwitz Trial on Air: West and East German Attempts to Voice the Holocaust", presentation by H.-U. Wagner and F. Bayer at the conference “Sound Bridges, Sound Walls. Broadcasting in the Historical Formation, Mediatisation and Localization of Sound” at the Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum on 19 March 2011.
“Wilmenrod, Waldhagen und das Walross Antje. Über Rundfunkprogramme aus Hamburg und warum sich Historiker mit Medien und Gedächtnis beschäftigen” [Wilmenrod, Waldhagen and Antje, the Walrus. On Radio Programmes from Hamburg and Why Historians Deal with Media and Memory], lecture H.-U. Wagner at the Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte at the State Library Hamburg on 12 January 2011.
“The Promotion of 'Volk', 'Heimat', and 'Nation' in the Literary Programme Offers by the Norag and the Reichssender Hamburg in the 1930s”, presentation at the symposium “Broadcasting in the 1930s: Radio, Television and the Depression” as Part of “On, Archives! A Conference on Media, Theater and History” at the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research in Madison/Wisconsin on 9 July 2010.
“’Hallo, hallo, hier Radio!’ Ein neues Medium verschafft sich Gehör – Der Rundfunk in Hamburg” ['Hello, Hello, this is the Radio' A New Medium Gets Itself Heard. Broadcasting in Hamburg], lecture by H.-U. Wagner in the course of the lecture series “Himmel auf Zeit – Die 20er Jahre in Hamburg” [Heaven for a Time – the 1920s in Hamburg] at the University of Hamburg on 10 June 2010.
"Private Opinions and Public Discourses. West-German Broadcasters and Their Attempts to Deal with the Participation of Audiences after 1945", lecture by H.-U. Wagner at the international workshop and founding conference of the ECREA-Section Communication History "User-generated Content. Historical Perspectives of the Participation of Audiences in Social Communication" in Potsdam on 4 June 2010.
“’Das Gebiet unserer Sendegemeinschaft ist Niederdeutschland’ – Der Rundfunk und seine niederdeutsche Programmarbeit in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren” [‘The Area of Our Broadcasting Community is Lower Germany’ – Broadcasting and Its Lower German Programme in the 1920s and 1930s], lecture by H.-U. Wagner at the 123rd annual conference for Lower German linguistics in Hamburg on 25 May 2010.
"Between 'Landschaftsarbeit' and 'Bildung einer Volksgemeinschaft'. Space-related Identities in the Literary Programme of the 'Reichssender Hamburg'", lecture by H.-U. Wagner at the conference "Space, Identity and National Socialism" at the Loughborough University, Department of Politics, History and International Relations on 12 May 2010.
"Der Nürnberger Kriegsverbrecherprozess als Medienereignis. Die Berichterstattung durch die Rundfunksender in den alliierten Besatzungszonen 1945/46" [The Nuremberg Trials as Media Event. Coverage by Broadcasting Stations in the Allied Occupation Zones 1945/46], lecture by H.-U. Wagner at the International Conference "That Four Great Nations... Der Nürnberger Prozess - Eine Bestandsaufnahme" in Nuremberg on 1 October 2009.
"Medien und kollektives Gedächtnis" [Media and Collective Memory], workshop by J. Finger, H.-U. Wagner and U. Hasebrink at the Summer School „Film, Fernsehen, Internet. Kulturwissenschaftliche Rezeptionsforschung“ [Film, Television, Internet. Reception Research in Cultural Studies] of the Institute of Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg on 28 July 2009.
"Witnessing - Zur Konstruktion von Zeitzeugen" [Witnessing - On the Construction of Contemporary Witnesses], lecture by H.-U. Wagner at the workshop of the DFG project „Medialität und Modernität im NS-Kino“ at the Warburg House of the University of Hamburg on 27 May 2009.
"Coming Home into Thin Air: Radio and the Social-Cultural Geography of Homecoming in Germany 1945-1955", presentation by H.-U. Wagner at the conference “Coming Home? Conflict and Return Migration in Twentieth-Century Europe“, University of Southampton on 2 April 2009 (with A. Badenoch, University of Utrecht).
"'Für Sie, für Sie – und ganz besonders für Sie'. Rundfunkgeschichte(n) im Norden" ['For you, for you - and especially for you'. Broadcasting (hi)stories in the North], module by H.-U. Wagner for the education of NDR programme trainees at the NDR in Hamburg on 23 March 2009.
"Media Witnessing. Reflections on a User-oriented Approach to Long-term Media Effects“, lecture by H.-U. Wagner and J. Finger at the "International Bergen-Belsen Conference“ on the topic of "Witnessing: Sites of Destruction and the Representation of the Holocaust“ in Bergen-Belsen on 12 January 2009.
Latest Courses
Wagner H.-U.: "Radio im Nationalsozialismus" [Radio in National Socialism]
Summersemester 2011, II-Seminar at the Department of Language, Literature and Media I, University of HamburgWagner, H.-U.: "Medien und kollektives Gedächtnis" [Media and Collective Memory]
Summersemester 2010, II-Seminar at the Department of Language, Literature and Media I, University of Hamburg
Contact
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner
Research Centre for the History of Broadcasting in Northern Germany
Universität Hamburg
Department Sprache Literatur Medien
Von-Melle-Park 6
D - 20146 Hamburg
Tel. +49 (0)40 428 38 - 27 24
Fax +49 (0)40 428 38 - 35 53