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Bayer, F.; Wagner, H.-U. (2012): Die "Spiegel"-Affäre [The "Spiegel" Scandal]. In: NDR Geschichte(n) (online).
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner • Dr. Florian Bayer
2012
The project investigates the broadcasting activities of the Hamburg author Siegfried Lenz (1926-2014) and explores the development of the cultural value of public service broadcasting.
The network project looked at the historical and today's role of the media in the Baltic Sea Region in light of current challenges and analysed historical lines of developments of migration processes. In 2017/18, the project was funded by the Landesforschungsförderung Hamburg [Hamburg Resea...
Can Media help to integrate migrants? Historically, Germany has seen many periods of emigration and immigration. 12 million Germans who moved to a territorially reduced post-war Germany as a consequence of World War II had a particular huge impact. Radio broadcasting played a central role in the int...
Private Broadcasting has existed for only 30 years in Germany. However, it has existed long enough to ask, in a media history project, why and how private broadcasting was implemented.
The international research network ‘Entangled Media Histories’ between the universities of Lund (Sweden), Bournemouth (Great Britain) and Hamburg (Germany) is working on a common European history of media.
Paul Celan is one of the most important German-speaking poets and had a very special way of reciting his poems. In this compilation, the original recordings can be heard for the first time. For this occasion, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner has written a detailed accompanying text with background information...
On BBC History, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner describes in a blog article the genesis of the orchestra that is now known as the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. Founded 75 years ago amidst the ruins of post-war Hamburg, it is an inspiring symbol of close cooperation and joint development with the British occ...
In the brochure on the 75th anniversary of the NDR Elbphilhamonie Orchestra, media historian Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner wrote a guest contribution on the foundation of this "German-British dream orchestra." You can download the brochure (in German) here Abstract (in German) Von einem...
In his article in the Journal for Media History, Hans-Ulrich Wagner writes about the interaction between literary authors and the medium radio. Literary authors have made use of the radio as a political, technological, cultural, and social medium from its infancy. A wide range of complex rela...
The article by Dr. Hans-Urlich Wagner and guest researcher Philipp Seuferling in the journal Media History focuses on the memory culture of migration in the media on a theoretical and empirical level. Migration not only entangles people, cultures and societies but also histories and memories of div...
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