Hans-Jörg Stiehler

Hans-Jörg Stiehler (born May 10, 1951 in Pirna ) is a German author and has been a professor for empirical communication and media research at the University of Leipzig since 1993 .

Life

Hans-Jörg Stiehler was born on May 10, 1951 in Pirna and spent his childhood in Liebstadt . His father was a journalist. Stiehler did his Abitur in Leipzig and studied social psychology in Jena. From 1975 to 1990 he was a research assistant at the Central Institute for Youth Research in Leipzig (ZIJ) in the field of culture and media research. He received his doctorate in 1984 on the relationship between communication and personality development, illustrated by the interrelationships between mass communication and interpersonal communication. at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and in 1990 at the University of Education in Leipzig. Since 1993 he has been professor for empirical communication and media research at the University of Leipzig. He is married and has four daughters.

Publications

• with Bernd Schorb: idealists or realists? The German children and youth television producers and their subjective media theories. Munich KoPäd 1999
• Life without western television. Studies on media effects and media use in the Dresden region in the 1980s. Leipzig University Press 2001
• with Werner Früh: Television in East Germany. An investigation into the connection between program offer and reception. Berlin Vistas 2002

Web link

• University of Leipzig. Institute for Communication and Media Studies