Karin Böhme-Dürr

Karin Böhme-Dürr

Karin Böhme-Dürr (born February 16, 1949 in Erfurt , † June 14, 2004 in Munich ) was a German communications and media scientist. She was a professor and co-founder of communication and media studies at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Life

Karin Böhme-Dürr was born as the daughter of Werner Böhme and Anna Weiss. On September 29, 1983, she married Alfred Dürr, with whom she had two children. Her tasks at the university and in her research work always included critical observation of the media and their changes.

Career

Karin Böhme-Dürr attended the University of Arizona , where she completed her Master of Arts in Linguistics with the title M.A. (USA) in 1973. In 1975 she received her diploma in psychology from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1983 Karin Böhme-Dürr was involved as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics with a thesis on the development of language awareness. At the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands she received her PhD. phil. In 1998 she completed her habilitation ( Venia legendi ) in communication and media studies at the University of Leipzig with a thesis on the subject of changing national images with the title: Perspektivenensuche. Germany in US daily newspapers in the period 1976–1995.

In 1980 Böhme-Dürr started as a university assistant at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where she worked until 1989. From 1990 to 1991 she was involved in the German Central Institute for Communication in the field of youth and educational television of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation in Munich and thus received a research grant at the University of California in San Diego . Böhme-Dürr researched and taught at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Humboldt University in Berlin , Leipzig University, Babenberg University, the University of Minnesota (School of Journalism and Mass Communication) and the University of California (Department of Communication) ) and in the German research community at Harvard University (Center of European Studies).

In 1994 she received a professorship at the University of Bamberg in the social sciences department . From 1999 she received a chair for media studies in Düsseldorf at the Heinrich Heine University. She also helped to rebuild the Institute of Social Sciences and its courses. In doing so, she managed to rename the subject Communication and Media Studies .

Scientific papers and publications

• Contribution in Enrico Demurray : "Media Reality - Reality": Contributions to media education, Kreisjugendring Nürnberg-Stadt 1988, ISBN 978-3-9801217-5-0
• Karin Böhme-Dürr (Ed.): "Knowledge change through media: theoretical foundations and empirical analyzes", Saur Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3-598-10896-9
• Karin Böhme-Dürr (Ed.): “In search of the audience. Media research for practice ”, Universitäts-Verlag Konstanz 1995, ISBN 978-3-87940-552-7
• Karin Böhme-Dürr: “Looking for perspective. The End of the Cold War and the Change in the Image of Germany in the American Press (1976-1998) ”, Universitäts-Verlag Konstanz 2000, ISBN 978-3-89669-237-5
• Karin Böhme-Dürr (ed.), Thomas Sudholt (ed.) With the collaboration of Alexandra Dolff and Carsten Breinker: "Hundred days of attention: the interplay of media, people and markets in 'Big Brother'", Universitäts-Verlag Konstanz 2001, ISBN 978-3-89669-342-6
• Dissertation “Children's Understanding and Awareness of German Possessive Pronouns”, 1983 at the University of Nijmegen.
• Heinz Moser: "Introduction to Media Education: Growing Up in the Media Age", Springer Verlag 1988, ISBN 978-3-531-90589-1
• Karin Böhme-Dürr (ed.), Susanne Keuneke (ed.): “Communication in Practice: Present and Future of Media Professions”, Vistas 2003, ISBN 978-3891583685

Awards

• 1984: First young scientist prize for "How and why do sign systems change?" From the DGPuK .
• 1988: "Top Paper Award" from the International Communications Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karin Böhme-Dürr. Retrieved December 7, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Brief profile. (No longer available online.) June 23, 2003, archived from the original on December 10, 2016 ; accessed on December 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Prof. Böhme-Dürr passed away. 2004, accessed December 7, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Hartwig Hummel: Prof. Böhme-Dürr passed away. 2004, accessed December 7, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Dr. Roland Posner and Christian Trautsch: How does the DGS achieve these goals? DGS, June 9, 2009, accessed December 10, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Awards. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 10, 2016 ; accessed on December 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.