Heinz-Dietrich Fischer

Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (born May 1, 1937 in Blankenstein an der Ruhr) is a German journalism and communication scientist.

Fischer studied journalism, history, political science and public law at the Free University of Berlin as well as at the University of Zurich and Münster. From 1968 to 1969 he taught at the University of Missouri's School of Journalism. He completed his habilitation at the Ruhr University Bochum and since 1974 has been head of the section for journalism and communication at the Ruhr University Bochum. He became known in 1972 as the editor of the anthology German newspapers from the 17th to the 20th century .

Works (selection)

• The big newspapers. Portraits of the world press. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1966
• (Ed.): German newspapers from the 17th to the 20th century. Verlag Documentation, Pullach 1972 (= Journalism-Historical Articles, Volume 2)
• (Ed.): Spectrum of communication professions. Twelve specifications on journalistic fields of activity in the Federal Republic of Germany. Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne 1979
• Handbook of the Political Press in Germany 1480–1980. Synopsis of legal, structural and economic fundamentals of trend journalism in the field of communication. Droste, Düsseldorf 1981
• (Ed.): Criticism in the mass media. Objective criteria or subjective evaluation? Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne 1983.
• (with Erika J. Fischer) John J. McCloy and the early history of the Federal Republic of Germany. Press reports and documents about the American High Commissioner for Germany 1949–1952. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1985
• (Ed.): Handbook of medical communication. Information transfer and journalism in health care. Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne 1988
• (Ed.): Medical journalism. Premises - Practices - Problems. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1990

literature

• Heinz-Dietrich Fischer: Bochum always had a locational disadvantage. In: Michael Meyen , Maria Löblich (ed.): "I invented this subject". How communication science got to the German-speaking universities. 19 biographical interviews (= theory and history of communication science. Vol. 4). von Halem, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-938258-67-5 , p. 193 ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz-Dietrich Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library