Hans J. Kleinsteuber

Hans J. Kleinsteuber (May 2010)

Hans-Jürgen Kleinsteuber (born June 5, 1943 in Lemgo ; † February 18, 2012 in Hamburg ) was a German political and media scientist .

Hans J. Kleinsteuber studied Political Science from 1962 to 1967 at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin and from 1967 to 1968 the subjects Political Science, Economics and Diplomacy at the Universities of Tufts and Harvard . From 1969 to 1975 he was a research assistant at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin. In 1975 he received his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on State Intervention and Transport Policy in the USA . A year later he became a professor at the Institute for Political Science (sub-area comparative government theory ) at the University of Hamburg . Since the Institute for Journalism was founded in 1982, he has worked there in the journalism sub-course and since 1989 has also been a professor at the Institute for Journalism. Kleinsteuerber retired in 2008. His main research interests were media and politics as well as media systems in Germany and in international comparison (North America, Europe), media economics, media technology, regulation, radio and international reporting.

In 1988 Kleinsteuber founded the Media and Politics department, of which he became head. In addition, Kleinsteuerber was from 1996 to 1998 as an expert in the Enquete Commission of the German Bundestag "Future of the media in business and society - Germany's way into the information society", from 1999 to 2007 member of the Broadcasting Council of Deutsche Welle and since 2002 in the information and specialist committee Communication of the German UNESCO Commission .

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Monographs

• with the collaboration of Ralph Eichmann, Uwe Hasebrink, Corinna Lüthje, Norman Müller and Frank Schätzlein: Radio - an introduction. Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-15326-1
• with Tanja Thimm: Travel journalism. An introduction. 2. revised and exp. Ed., Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-33049-5
• with Magnus-Sebastian Kutz: Pioneer on a new course? The future of electronic media in the US. FES , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89892-886-1
• with Torsten Rossmann : Europe as a communication space. Actors, structures and potential for conflict in European media policy. Opladen 1994, ISBN 3-8100-1280-7
• State Intervention and Transportation Policy in the United States, the Interstate Commerce Commission. A contribution to the political economy of the United States of America. Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-476-00349-3
• The USA - politics, economy, society. An introduction , Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-455-09141-5 (2nd edition 1984, ISBN 3-455-08654-3 )
• Television and business. Commercial TV in the US and UK - Lessons for the Federal Republic . Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3-455-09082-6

Editorships

• Current media trends in the USA. Journalism, political communication and media in the age of digitization. Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-531-13494-9 .
• The "Information superhighway" American visions and experiences. Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-531-12895-7 .
• Radio - the underrated medium. Experience with non-commercial local stations in 15 states. Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-89158-060-6 .

literature

• Petra Ahrweiler / Barbara Thomaß (ed.): International participatory communication policy. Structures and visions. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Hans J. Kleinsteuber. Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-9135-6 .
• Barbara Thomaß: Hans J. Kleinsteuber 60 years . In: Publizistik, Volume 48 (2003), pp. 211–212.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans J. Kleinsteuber in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

1. ↑ The name Hans-Joachim Kleinsteuber can also be found in the literature .
2. ↑ Hans J. Kleinsteuber: Seven years in the broadcasting council of Deutsche Welle: Expeditions of a scientist into media policy practice. Working papers of the Institute for Broadcasting Economics at the University of Cologne. Issue 229, Cologne, June 2007, online