Elisabeth Klaus

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Elisabeth Klaus in 2016

Elisabeth Klaus (born September 20, 1955 in Oschersleben ) is a German sociologist and communication scientist . Since 2003 she has been working as a professor in the communication science department at the University of Salzburg .

Life

Klaus was born on September 20, 1955 as the youngest of six children in Oschersleben in Saxony-Anhalt. She grew up in Lage (Lippe) near Bielefeld. After several stays abroad, such as in the USA, in 2003 she took the position as full professor in the communication science department at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg.

Education and academic career

After completing her studies in mathematics and social sciences in Münster, Elisabeth Klaus worked as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana) from 1981 to 1985 .

During her stay, she completed her doctoral studies with the title Doctor of Philosophy as a family sociologist.

Just one year later, the communication scientist took up a position as a university assistant at the Dortmund Institute for Journalism. As part of teaching research projects, the first studies on gendering in journalism were made, with Klaus mainly incorporating her experiences from the USA.

Until 1992 she was a university assistant at the Institute for Journalism at the University of Dortmund . In the 1991/92 winter semester, he was appointed substitute professor at the Institute for Journalism at the University of Hamburg .

Between 1993 and 1995 the scientist received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 1997 she received the Venia legendi for the field of journalism.

In the period from 1993 and 2001 several guest and substitute professorships took place, as well as longer research stays in Vienna, Hamburg, Klagenfurt and Dublin.

Between 1996 and 2003, Klaus also worked as a university lecturer at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the Georg August University in Göttingen . In the dispute about the transfer of this institute into a center for interdisciplinary media studies, the communication scientist advocated the preservation of the Göttingen location.

Since October 2003 she has been a full professor in the communication science department of the University of Salzburg and acts as head of the communication theory and public relations department.

Communication science relevance

As part of her work as a communication scientist , Klaus initiated the DGPuk specialist group for media, public and gender in 1991 . In addition, from 2004 to 2010 she was chairperson or member of the Interdisciplinary Expert Council on Gender Studies (IER). In addition to her function as a professor, she worked as a senator at the University of Salzburg from 2006 to 2010.

Elisabeth Klaus is co-director of the program area Contemporary Art and Cultural Production with a focus on science and art . This focus is a collaboration between the University of Salzburg and the Mozarteum .

In addition, she is the head of the inter-university doctoral program “The arts and their public impact: Concepts - Transfer - Resonance” and is the chair of the Cuko for the inter-university doctoral program in science and art.

The communication scientist is co-editor of the series Critical Studies in Media and Communication at Transcript Verlag, as well as the series Media and Gender Studies at LIT Verlag.

Teaching and research focus

  • Theories of media and communication studies
  • Gender studies in communication science
  • Public theories
  • Cultural studies and popular culture (entertainment theories, audience and genre research, reality TV, contemporary drama series)
  • Inclusion and exclusion through / in the media
  • Media and cultural production

Scientific work

In Klaus' monographs, gender studies in communication science are increasingly taken up. The scientist is increasingly concerned with the inclusion and exclusion of women in media professions.

Works

The communication scientist's numerous publications include monographs, editorships, articles in specialist journals, articles in collective works, small forms, reviews, but also lectures, conference and research reports.

Monographs

  • Elisabeth Klaus: A Family of Families: When Family Relations Are Work Relations. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International 1986, Composite ID No. AC10686357.
  • Elisabeth Klaus: To change, honey. Lesbian journalists tell. Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1995, ISBN 3890859658 .
  • Elisabeth Klaus: Gender Studies in Communication Studies. On the importance of women in the mass media and journalism. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen / Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-531-12898-1 .
  • Elisabeth Klaus: Gender Studies in Communication Studies. On the importance of women in the mass media and journalism. 2nd corrected and updated edition. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen / Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-8258-5513-9 .
  • Elisabeth Klaus: Journalists. A story in biographies and texts 1848-1990 Journalism series: theory and practice. Volume 18. LIT-Verlag, Berlin / Münster / Vienna / Zurich / London 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-50416-6 .

Editing (excerpt)

  • Elisabeth Klaus, Hans Bohrmann, Marcel Machill: Media Industry, Journalism Culture and Communication Policies in Europe. Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-938258-17-9 .
  • Elisabeth Klaus, Manuela Grünangerl: STARMANIA and its audience. Medien Journal, vol. 31, issue 3/2007, ISSN  1025-9473 .
  • Elisabeth Klaus, Clemens Sedmak, Ricarda Drüeke, Gottfried Schweizer: Identity and inclusion in the European social space . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 9783531925356 .
  • Elisabeth Klaus, Eva Hausbacher, Ralph Poole, Ulrike Brandt, Ingrid Schmutzhart: Migration and gender relations. Can the migrant speak? Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-93189-0 .
  • Elisabeth Klaus, Ricarda Drüeke, Martina Thiele: Intersectionality . Medien Journal, vol. 38, issue 3/2014, ISSN  1025-9473 .
  • Elisabeth Klaus, Josef Seethaler: What Do We Really Know About Herta Herzog? Exploring the Life and Work of a Pioneer of Communication Research. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-69730-6 .

Memberships

  • Member of the Austrian Society for Communication Studies (ÖGK)
  • Member of the German Society for Media and Communication Studies (DGPuK)
  • Member of the Federation of Democratic Scientists (BdWi)
  • Member of the German Association of Women Journalists (JB)
  • Member of the editorial board of the open-access trade journal "Media and Communications".

Awards

  • 2019: Gabriele Possanner Appreciation Award for her life's work under the sign of gender research
  • 2019: elected member of Academia Europaea
  • 2005: Journal award of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies for the article Klaus, Elisabeth / Lünenborg, Margreth (2004): Cultural Citizenship. A communication science concept to determine cultural participation in the media society. In: Medien & Kommunikationwissenschaft, 52nd volume, H. 2/2004, pp. 193-213.
  • 1992: Prize winner Bennigsen-Foerder-Preis of the Ministry for Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

literature

  • Claudia Riesmeyer, Nathalie Huber: career goal professor. Ways and strategies in communication science. Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 3869620307 , pp. 113–128.
  • Martina Thiele: Elisabeth Klaus 60 years . In: Publizistik (Hrsg.): Publizistik. 60 edition. No. 3. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2015, ISSN  0033-4006 , pp. 345–346.
  • Ricarda Drüeke , Susanne Kirchhoff, Thomas Steinmaurer, Martina Thiele (eds.): Between the given and the possible: critical perspectives on media and communication; Festschrift for Elisabeth Klaus. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-3112-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photo: Dr. Alois Pluschkowitz
  2. ↑ a b c d Martina Thiele: Elisabeth Klaus 60 years . In: Publizistik (Hrsg.): Publizistik . 60th edition. No. 3 . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2015, p. 345-346 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Elisabeth Klaus academic career. Retrieved November 24, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Features. Retrieved November 24, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Claudia Ries Meyer, Nathalie Huber: career goal professor. Ways and strategies in communication science . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2012, p. 113-128 .
  6. ↑ Teaching and research focus. Retrieved November 24, 2016 .
  7. ↑ a b Complete list of publications. Retrieved December 10, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Memberships. Retrieved December 12, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Klaus, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klaus, Lissi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and communication scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Oschersleben