Friedrich Krotz

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Friedrich Krotz (born January 9, 1950 in Barcelona ) is a German communication scientist , sociologist and mathematician . Since 2010 he has been a professor in the research area Communication and Media Studies at the University of Bremen .

Live and act

Krotz has lived in Germany since 1955. After graduating from high school, he studied mathematics, physics and business mathematics at the University of Karlsruhe from 1968 to 1974 and graduated as a mathematician. From 1974 to 1978 Krotz worked as a research assistant at Saarland University .

In 1978 Krotz began studying sociology and social psychology at the University of Hamburg , from which he graduated in 1983. In 1989 he received his doctorate there. phil. After that, Krotz was again a research assistant in the sociology department at the University of Hamburg and from 1983 to 1986 at the "DFG project research in political science" at the Free University of Berlin . From 1986 to 1989 he was a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Hamburg ; He also worked as a lecturer and in market research.

From 1989 to 2001 Krotz held the position of a scientific advisor at the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research at the University of Hamburg. In addition, Krotz represented professorships at the universities of Jena and Potsdam and took up teaching activities at the universities of Dresden and Zurich.

From 2001 to 2003 he was a professor at the Institute for Communication Studies at the University of Münster. Since June 2002 he has been President of the Section “Psychology and Public Opinion” of the “International Association of Media and Communication Research” (IAMCR) together with Hillel Nossek . In the same year Krotz became chairman of the scientific committee for the federal-state-financed model course “European Media Studies” (BA / MA), which is run jointly by the University of Potsdam, the film school “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam .

In addition, Friedrich Krotz is a member of various other committees and editorial boards of specialist journals, as well as the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) , the German Society for Sociology (DGS) , the German Society for Journalism and Communication Research (DGPuK) , the society for Medienwissenschaft (GfM) , the sponsoring association of the Institute for Youth, Film, Television in Munich, as well as other associations. Between 2003 and 2010 Friedrich Krotz held the chair for social communication at the University of Erfurt. In addition, he was the founder and spokesman of the COMDIGMED research center in Erfurt. In the winter semester 2010 he moved to the University of Bremen, where he works in the field of communication and media studies with a focus on social communication and mediatization research.

During his academic career, Krotz carried out international research projects with communication scientists from numerous European countries as well as Israel, Japan and the USA, as well as research projects for the DFG , various state media authorities, state and social institutions and private companies.

Selected publications

  • Mediatization: A concept with which to grasp media and societal change . In: Lundby, Knut (ed.): Mediatization: Concept, Changes, Consequences. New York: Lang, p. 21-40, 2009
  • with Hepp, Andreas / Thomas, Tanja (Ed.): Key Works of Cultural Studies . Wiesbaden: VS, 2009
  • Mediatization: case studies on the change in communication . Wiesbaden: VS, 2007.
  • Action theories and symbolic interactionism as the basis of communication science research . In: Winter, Carsten / Hepp, Andreas / Krotz, Friedrich (eds.): Theories of Communication and Media Studies, 2007
  • Communication as participation. The “Cultural Studies Approach”. In: Rundfunk und Fernsehen, 40, Heft 3, pp. 412–431, 1992
  • Living worlds in the Federal Republic of Germany : A computer-aided qualitative analysis of quantitative data. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knut Hickethier: Habilitation Friedrich Krotz . In: Journalism . tape 45 , no. 3 , September 2000, pp. 365 , doi : 10.1007 / s11616-000-0118-3 .
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Krotz, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communication scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona