Frank Brettschneider

This article is about the communication scientist. For the musician, see Frank Bretschneider .

Frank Brettschneider (born March 2, 1965 in Wiesbaden ) is a German communication scientist . Brettschneider has held the chair for communication science, especially communication theory, at the University of Hohenheim since 2006 .

Brettschneider is an encyclopaedist and works on the International Encyclopedia of Communication and the concise dictionary on the political culture of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

Frank Brettschneider studied political science , journalism and law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . There he worked from 1990 to 1992 at the Institute for Political Science as a research assistant. From 1992 to 2000 he carried out research as a research assistant and later as an assistant at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart . He received his doctorate from the University of Stuttgart in 1995 on the subject of public opinion and politics and completed his habilitation there in 2002 with a thesis on top candidates and electoral success .

From 2000 to 2001 he was in the chair for “Public Communication and Journalism” at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . On April 1, 2001, he was appointed professor of communication science by the University of Augsburg , where he was appointed professor. On April 1, 2006, he accepted a call from the University of Hohenheim for the chair of communication science, especially communication theory.

Brettschneider has been a member of the Media Tenor Advisory Board since January 1999 .

Works

Monographs

• Polls. Empirical findings on representation in the media and on the influence on voting behavior in the Federal Republic of Germany and the USA . Munich 1991, Minerva publication - KG Saur Verlag.
• Public opinion and politics. An empirical study on the responsiveness of the German Bundestag between 1949 and 1990 , Opladen 1995, Westdeutscher Verlag, ISBN 978-3-531-12763-7 [awarded the "Science Prize of the German Bundestag for work on parliamentarism 1996"]
• Top candidates and electoral success. Personalization - Competence - Parties. An international comparison . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 978-3-531-13722-3
• Election research . 1st edition. Vs Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-14007-0

Editing

• Frank Brettschneider, Jan van Deth, Edeltraud Roller (ed.): Youth and politics: “Voll normal!”: The contribution of political sociology to youth research . 1st edition. Vs Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-14383-5

Honors

• 1996 Science Award of the German Bundestag
• 1997 EMNID science award for the project “Personalization of Politics: Candidate Images and Image Agenda Setting of the Mass Media” (together with Angelika Vetter ).

Web links

• komm.uni-hohenheim.de
• Literature by and about Frank Brettschneider in the catalog of the German National Library
• University homepage of Prof. Brettschneider
• Frank Brettschneider publishes the Hohenheim Mediaskop, a trend meter for media reporting on political and economic issues ( Memento from May 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Profile (with picture) of Frank Brettschneider

Individual evidence

1. ↑ imb-uni-augsburg.de
2. ↑ komm.uni-hohenheim.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.