Heinz Pürer

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Heinz Pürer (born August 13, 1947 in Krumbach ( Lower Austria )) is an Austrian communication scientist and author of basic specialist books. From 1986 to 2012 he held a chair for communication science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

School and study

Heinz Pürer, son of a brick manufacturer and a kindergarten teacher, attended the Realgymnasium in Vienna from 1958 , which he graduated with high school diploma in 1967 . From 1967 onwards, after a semester in law, he completed a degree in journalism, political science and philosophy at the University of Salzburg . In 1973 he received his doctorate on church youth journalism in Austria .

Scientific career

From 1969 onwards, Heinz Pürer was a research assistant (until 1971 with Günter Kieslich ) and from 1973 to 1979 a research assistant at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Theory at the University of Salzburg. From 1979 to 1986 he was a co-founder of the Austrian Board of Trustees for Journalist Training and a lecturer at the Salzburg Journalism Institute. 1984 Pürer completed his habilitation in media studies with Michael Schmolke in Salzburg. In 1984/1985 he had a teaching position at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . From 1986 onwards he was a full professor for communication science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He retired in 2012.

Work areas

Pürer is primarily concerned with German and Austrian communicator and journalism research, media policy, ethics in journalism and mass media, and media structure and system research. He follows a social-scientific-empirical understanding of communication science and sees himself as a mediator between science and professional practice. After Pürer journalism is not a talent profession .

Awards

Winner of the Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1987).

Holder of the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art (2005).

Private

Heinz Pürer is married and lives in Salzburg. He plays the organ and piano and is an expert on classical, especially Italian, music.

Publications (selection)

Monographs
  • with Wolfgang Vyslozil and Eckart Roloff : The Structure of the Austrian Daily Press (1971) . Special issue of the magazine Information and Opinion . Lower Austrian Press House, St. Pölten 1973
  • with Walter Hömberg : media transformation. 10 years of dual broadcasting in Germany . Constance 1996
  • Introduction to Communication Studies. Systematics, questions, theoretical approaches, research techniques . 6th edition. UVK, Constance 1998
  • Journalism and communication studies. A manual . UVK, Constance 2003
  • with Johannes Raabe: Press in Germany . 3. Edition. UVK, Constance 2007
  • Journalism and communication studies . 2nd, completely revised and enlarged edition. UVK, Constance 2014
  • Journalism research . UVK, Constance 2015
  • Media in Germany. Press - Broadcasting - Online. UVK, Konstanz 2015, ISBN 978-3-8252-4262-6 .
  • with Nina Springer and Wolfgang Eichhorn: Basic concepts in communication science . UVK, Constance 2015
  • with Nina Springer, Friederike Koschel and Andreas Fahr : Empirical Methods in Communication Studies . UVK, Konstanz 2015, ISBN 978-3-8252-4300-5
  • with Helena Bilandzic, Friederike Koschel and Nina Springer: Recipient research . UVK, Konstanz 2016, ISBN 978-3-8252-4299-2 (print), ISBN 978-3-8463-4299-2 (EPUB)
Essays
  • I see myself more as a teacher . In: Michael Meyen and Maria Löblich (eds.): 80 years of newspaper and communication studies in Munich. Building blocks for an institute's history. Cologne: Herbert von Halem 2004, pp. 271–280
  • Why I wrote a textbook for journalists. Journalism is not a gifted profession . In: Der Österreichische Journalist, 17th year 2004, No. 2 (= special supplement 25 years KfJ. A balance sheet of journalist training in Austria)
  • The image of journalists. Premises and empirical findings . In: Communicatio Socialis, Volume 45, 2012, No. 3, pp. 258-275
Editorships
  • with Wolfgang Eichhorn and Karl Pauler: media, politics, communication. Festschrift for Heinz-Werner Stuiber . Reinhard Fischer, Munich 2006
  • with Meinrad Rahofer and Claus Reitan: Practical journalism. Press, radio, television, online . 5th edition. UVK, Constance 2004
  • with Walter Hömberg and until 2002 Ulrich Saxer and since 2003 with Roger Blum editor of the research field communication series
  • Communication science as a social science . UVK, Constance 2015

literature

  • Eckart Roloff: Heinz Pürer Professor of Communication Science at the University of Munich. In: Publizistik, Volume 32, 1987, pp. 492–493
  • Michael Meyen : Heinz Pürer 60 years. In: Publizistik, 52nd year 2007, p. 400
  • Nina Springer, Johannes Raabe, Hannes Haas, Wolfgang Eichhorn (eds.): Media and journalism in the 21st century. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Heinz Pürer . UVK, Munich and Konstanz 2012, ISBN 978-3-86764-410-5 , therein:
    • Eckart Roloff: Mediator between science and practice. Strolls through Heinz Pürer's work from 1972 until today . Pp. 613-623
    • detailed bibliography, pp. 625–635