Gerhard Gensch

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Gerhard Gensch (* 1950 in Fürth ) is a German publicist , communication scientist and music curator.

Life

Gerhard Gensch grew up in Fürth, Franconia. After studying music a. a. at the Nuremberg Conservatory he worked as an editor in Karlsruhe and Frankfurt / Main. From 1980 to 1984 he studied journalism and communication science at the Free University of Berlin, where he received his doctorate with a thesis on news value theory (2000). From 1984 to 1988 he was a lecturer in the Southern African News Agency Development Project of UNESCO in Zambia and Botswana and then editor-in-chief of the epd regional service in Frankfurt / Main.

From 1999 to 2015 Gensch worked at the Danube University Krems (Austria), where he headed the central communication department and from 2003 the center for contemporary music. He developed the first European master’s degree in music management, founded the Austrian Mobile Music Day in 2008 and was also a member of the music jury of the Austrian “ImpulsProgramm creativwirtschaft”. From 2002 to 2015 he was curator Campus Cultur at Danube University Krems .

Gensch has been teaching for many years a. a. at universities in Latvia, Indonesia and Germany. In 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Stradiņš University in Riga (Latvia) .

From 2004 to 2015 Gensch was a board member of the Ernst Krenek Institute Private Foundation . Since 2018 he has been chairman of the Eduard Erdmann Society .

Works and editions (selection)

  • Topos , with photos by Peter Danninger, Fox Produktionen Traude Aubeck, Rastatt 1976, ISBN 3-921403-10-3
  • Harvest in the dunes, Bahn Verlag, Konstanz 1980, ISBN 3-7621-7305-2 .
  • Organization-specific determinants of information selection and processing of information by church press services and news agencies. A case study on the epd basic service. Berlin 2000 (Dig.Diss.)
  • with Ileana Alvarado V. (Ed.): Hernán Arevalo, A Todo Color , Contemporary Latin American Art in Profile, Edition Danube University Krems / San José Studio, Krems 2004, ISBN 978-9968-461-24-5 .
  • with Werner Fröhlich (Ed.): Nuevos Territorios, Latin American Art of the Present at the Danube University Krems , Edition Danube University Krems 2004, ISBN 3-9501777-6-0 .
  • with Eva Maria Stöckler and Peter Tschmuck (eds.): Music reception, music distribution and music production . The change in the value creation network in the music industry , Gabler Edition Wissenschaft, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8350-0913-4 .
  • with Herbert Bruhn, music and buying behavior , Austria study on background music in the sales area , AKM, Vienna 2009.
  • with Matthias Henke (ed.): Mechanisms of power . Friedrich Cerha and his music-dramatic work . Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5196-0 .
  • with Werner Grünzweig (ed.): Eduard Erdmann . Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Archives for the Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Volume 15, by Bockel Verlag , Neumünster 2018, ISBN 978-3-95675-024-3

Audio pieces (selection)

  • Topography of a marriage , Saarländischer Rundfunk / Radio Play Studio, Saarbrücken 1976
  • Mattstall or The Fascism of Gourmets , Nine Alsatian Village Sketches, Süddeutscher Rundfunk / Studio for Modern Literature, Stuttgart 1980
  • Landscape in the back light , A film to listen to, Süddeutscher Rundfunk / Studio for Modern Literature, Stuttgart 1980
  • Maginot , Süddeutscher Rundfunk, Studio for Modern Literature, 1980

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ lifePR (c) 2002-2020: Creative industries: Gerhard Gensch appointed to jury, Danube University Krems, press release - lifePR. May 10, 2007, accessed June 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Campus Cultur celebrates its 10th anniversary. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
  3. ^ Honorary Doctorate Degrees. Retrieved June 28, 2020 (English).