Franz Dröge

Franz Dröge (born November 1, 1937 in Münster , † September 14, 2002 in Bremen ) was a German communication scientist and bar researcher .

Life

Dröge grew up in the Sauerland as the son of a Catholic train driver. After dropping out of high school, he did an apprenticeship as a technical draftsman. In 1960 he began studying journalism at the University of Münster . There he worked from 1961 to 1965 as a student assistant at the Institute for Journalism. In 1965 he completed his dissertation with Henk Prakke and then took over the management of the department for empirical communication research at the institute.

From 1968 Dröge received a scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to promote the next generation of university teachers. In 1968 he married Ilse Modelmog. In 1969 he received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation. In 1970 he was appointed adjunct professor in Münster and in 1971 he was given the chair for communication research (with special consideration of the journalistic media) in the field of communication / aesthetics at the University of Bremen .

Fonts (selection)

• Journalism and Prejudice. Münster 1967 (dissertation).
• Effects of mass communication. Münster 1969 (together with Rainer Weissenborn and Henning Haft).
• The talked to death resistance. On the sociology and journalism of the rumor in World War II. Düsseldorf 1970 (habilitation).
• Knowledge without consciousness. Materials for media analysis of the Federal Republic of Germany. With the collaboration of Ilse Modelmog. Frankfurt / Main 1972.
• The pub. On the sociology of a cultural form or "Two halves on me!". Frankfurt / Main 1987 (with Thomas Krämer-Badoni).
• The media process. On the structure of the inner achievements of civil society. Opladen 1991 (with Gerd G. Kopper).

literature

• Andreas Matthias Scheu: Adorno's heirs in communication studies. Cologne 2012

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Dröge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biographical lexicon of communication science
• Two professors from Bremen have found out what drives people to the bar. In: Der Spiegel from May 18, 1987