Cultural journalism

Cultural journalism is the field of practice in which culture or art is observed and reflected upon for the benefit of a broader public, whereby the spectrum of approaches can range from journalism to essay writing and academic writing to experimental and artistic forms. Contemporary cultural journalists differ from classic cultural journalists or critics and the like. a. by being able to act simultaneously in different roles (e.g. as journalist , editor , editor , author , essayist , curator , consultant , etc.). The background to the development is the media change, the associated differentiation of the cultural public - in addition to a mainstream oriented towards events and celebrities, there is an increasing number of style, genre and taste minorities - as well as the fact that value and importance in the arts are becoming more and more important determined by demand. The importance of conventional cultural journalism is declining, while the production of cultural journalistic texts and articles increases overall.

history

Despite the weight of current megatrends such as digitization , democratization and economization for cultural journalism, their central values ​​are pre-determined in the Enlightenment and in civil society, for example in criticism as subjectively arguable partisanship or in an authorship that allows observation and analysis to be aesthetic sophisticated storytelling connects. In the prologue to the volume “Laienherrschaft” (Diaphanes 2014), Ruedi Widmer shows that the ancestral line of influential figures in cultural journalism begins at the latest where archetypal critics (such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Friedrich Schlegel ); Artist-critics and writers (such as Francisco de Goya , Charles Baudelaire , Emile Zola ); Critic-essayists and scholars (such as Walter Benjamin , Siegfried Kracauer , Theodor W. Adorno ); or reporter-documentarist-narrators (such as Heinrich Heine , Emile Zola, Egon Erwin Kisch ) act as cultural observers and cultural critics . In this sense, the concept of the cultural journalist is also related to that of the cultural journalist, as used e.g. B. is interpreted in the volume "55 classics of cultural journalism" by Stephan Porombka and Erhard Schütz, closely connected.

Narrative forms

Cultural journalism as an observation and reflection of the arts and culture can in principle take place just as well in journalistic-fact-oriented as in fictional, verbal, visual or audiovisual genres. The spectrum of cultural journalistic narrative forms is therefore as broad as that of the arts, documentarism and journalistic media, including the new forms that are developing in the course of digitization ( e.g. data journalism , re-enactment , narrating real events as animation, etc.).

education

Cultural journalism as a master’s degree has been offered at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2008 (under this title since 2014). Further courses in the intersection of culture / art / journalism or culture / science / journalism: cf. Cultural journalism .

See also

• Cultural journalism

literature

• Dieter Heß (ed.): Cultural journalism, a manual for training and practice. 2nd updated edition, 1997, 247 pages, ISBN 3-471-78055-6
• Kilian Moritz: cultural journalism. In: Markus Kaiser (Ed.): Special Interest. Departmental journalism - concepts, training, practice , Munich (Econ-Verlag) 2012, ISBN 978-3-430-20145-2
• Ruedi Widmer (Ed.): Lay rule, 18 excursions on the relationship between the arts and the media. Diaphanes, Zurich 2014, 320 pages, ISBN 978-3-03734-794-2
• Stephan Porombka, Erhard Schütz (ed.): 55 classics of cultural journalism. Bostelmann & Siebenhaar, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-936962-62-8
• Wolfgang Lamprecht (Ed.): White book on cultural journalism, Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 9783854095934

Web links

• Internet presence of the "Cultural Journalism" course at the Zurich University of the Arts
• Internet presence of the cultural journalism platform of the Zurich University of the Arts

Individual evidence

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