Holger Böning

Holger Böning (born December 16, 1949 in Delmenhorst ) is a German media historian .

Holger Böning attended elementary school and completed an apprenticeship as a high-voltage electrician. He passed the Abitur at the Oldenburg College . From 1972 to 1978 he then studied German, history and education. In 1982 he received his doctorate from Hans-Wolf Jäger in Bremen with a thesis on public enlightenment in Switzerland. In 1987 he became a research associate at the German press research department at the University of Bremen . His habilitation took place in 1991 with a thesis on the press and commercial literature of the German Enlightenment. Böning is Professor of Modern German Literature and History of the German Press at the Institute for German Press Research at the University of Bremen. He is co-editor of the yearbook for communication history .

His main research interests are German and Swiss history, literature and the press, the Enlightenment in German-speaking countries, the history of political song and poetry. For his work on the periodical press of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from the beginning until 1815, Böning was awarded the Lappenberg Medal in 2005 by the Association for Hamburg History .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• People's doctor and prophet of horror. Julius Moses. A Jewish life in Germany. Edition Lumière, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-943245-40-0 .
• Born to music. Johann Mattheson. Singer at the Hamburg Opera, composer, cantor and music journalist. a biography (= press and history. Vol. 80). Edition Lumière, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-943245-22-6 .
• Periodical press, communication and education. Hamburg and Altona as an example. Edition Lumière, Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-934686-09-5 .
• World conquest by a new audience. The German press and the road to education. Hamburg and Altona as an example. Edition Lumière, Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-934686-08-7 .
• The dream of freedom and equality. Helvetic Revolution and Republic (1798–1803) - Switzerland on the way to bourgeois democracy. Füssli, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-280-02808-6 .
• Revolution in Switzerland. The end of the Old Confederation. The Helvetic Republic 1798–1803. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1985, ISBN 3-8204-8486-8 .
• Heinrich Zschokke and his “Sincere and experienced Swiss messenger”. The public enlightenment in Switzerland (= European university publications. Series 1: German language and literature. Vol. 563). Lang, Bern et al. 1983, ISBN 3-261-05065-9 (At the same time: Bremen, University, dissertation, 1982: The enlightenment in Switzerland. ).

Editorships

• 300 years of Friedrich II. A literary report on the anniversary year 2012. Includes some thoughts on the relationship between the great king and his little subjects in relation to enlightenment and popular deception as well as journalism (= press and history. Vol. 75). Edition Lumière, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-943245-13-4 .
• with Hanno Schmitt and Reinhart Siegert: Public Enlightenment. A practical reform movement of the 18th and 19th centuries (= press and history. Vol. 27). Edition Lumière, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-934686-44-1 .
• Hans Wolf Jäger, Andrzej Katny and Marian Szczodrowski (eds.): Danzig and the Baltic Sea region. Language, literature, journalism (= press and history. Vol. 16). Edition Lumière, Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-934686-27-3 .
• German press research. History, projects and perspectives of a research institute at the University of Bremen. In addition to some articles on the importance of historical press research (= press and history. Vol. 13). Edition Lumière, Bremen 2004, ISBN 3-934686-20-6 .
• French Revolution and German Public. Changes in the press and everyday culture at the end of the eighteenth century (= German press research. Vol. 28). Saur, Munich et al. 1992, ISBN 3-598-21629-7 .

literature

• Rudolf Stöber, Michael Nagel, Astrid Blome, Arnulf Kutsch (eds.): Enlightenment of the public - media of enlightenment. Festschrift for Holger Böning on his 65th birthday. Steiner, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-10996-3 , ( preface and first article as a PDF file ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Holger Böning in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page at the University of Bremen
• Page at the Institute for German Press Research at the University of Bremen with CV and list of publications

Remarks

1. ↑ Astrid Blome, Arnulf Kutsch, Michael Nagel Rudolf Stöber: Foreword: Holger Böning for his 65th birthday. In: Rudolf Stöber, Michael Nagel, Astrid Blome, Arnulf Kutsch (eds.): Enlightenment of the public - media of enlightenment. Stuttgart 2015, pp. 7–8 ( foreword available online )