Claus Detjen

Claus Detjen (born May 24, 1936 in Würzburg ) is the publisher of the Haller Tagblatt in Schwäbisch Hall .

Detjen is a member of the Goethe Institute , juror of the RIAS Berlin Commission for the annual German-American radio and television awards, honorary senator of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and chairman of the board of trustees of the Viadrina sponsorship group. Detjen has been teaching media studies and media marketing at the Bavarian Academy for Advertising and Marketing (BAW) in Munich for more than ten years. He has published articles on media development and reunification in specialist journals and books. a. The other Germans - How the East is changing the republic .

Detjen was one of the pioneers of private broadcasting in Germany; He headed the Rhineland-Palatinate pilot project for cable and satellite communication in Ludwigshafen (AKK, Establishment for Cable Communication ), from which Germany's dual broadcasting system emerged (private radio and television stations in competition with public broadcasters). In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung, this pilot project was described as the “media-political big bang in Ludwigshafen am Rhein”.

In addition, Claus Detjen was also the managing director of the Bundesverband Deutscher Zeitungsverleger eV, publisher of the Märkische Oderzeitung in Frankfurt (Oder) and co-editor of the Donaukurier in Ingolstadt .

Publications (selection)

To media development

• Newspaper crisis - a spotlight that leaves a lot in the dark. In: Schröder, Michael; Schwanebeck, Axel (Ed.): Newspaper Future Future Newspaper. Munich 2005.
• Good bye Gutenberg? The press on new ways to electronic publishing. In: Koszyk, Kurt; Schule, Volker (Hrsg.): The newspaper as personality - Festschrift for Karl Bringmann. Düsseldorf 1982.

To reunification and the German state

• The other Germans - How the East is changing the republic. Bonn 1999.
• Do you call, my fatherland ... - trials and tribulations about nation and people. Constance 1966.

Others

• You dared. Notes from the RE1 Berlin-Frankfurt (Oder). In: European University Viadrina; Knefelkamp, ​​Ulrich (Ed.): "Bloom Dreams" and "Cloud Cuckoo Home" in "Timbuktu" - 10 Years of the European University Viadrina. Berlin 2001.
• The Arlesheim Cathedral. Art guide. Regensburg 2004.

Web links

• Literature by and about Claus Detjen in the catalog of the German National Library