Kurt Koszyk

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Kurt Koszyk (born May 31, 1929 in Dortmund ; † January 1, 2015 in Munich ) was a German journalist . Along with Otto Groth and Emil Dovifat, he is considered "one of the three great German newspaper scientists" ( Reiner Burger ).

Life

Kurt Koszyk was born in Dortmund in 1929 as the son of the journalist Erich Koszyk (1902–1974) and attended the Dortmund city high school . He studied first in Münster, then at the University of Munich . In 1953 he was one of d'Karl ester supervised dissertation on origins and early development of the social-democratic press in the Ruhr area (1875-1906) for Dr. phil. PhD.

Until 1957 Koszyk worked as a journalist and editor for the Westfälische Rundschau . From 1957 to 1977 he headed the Institute for Newspaper Research in Dortmund. There he introduced archiving through microfilms . In 1965 he was instrumental in founding the microfilm archive of the German-language press and was its managing director until 1977.

Koszyk completed his habilitation in 1968 at the Free University of Berlin under Fritz Eberhard and worked from 1969 to 1974 as a professor for journalism and communication science at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1977, the then North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Science, Johannes Rau, appointed him founding professor of the model course in journalism at the University of Dortmund . His books on German press policy during World War I , German press 1914–1945 and press policy for Germans 1945–1949 are standard works. His contributions to the subject were highlighted on his 60th and 70th birthday.

In 1968 Koszyk was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia , and from 1996 he was a corresponding member.

After his retirement in 1992, Kurt Koszyk lived in Munich, where he died on January 1, 2015. He bequeathed seven paintings from the 17th century to the Dortmund Museum of Art and Cultural History.

Symposia

On November 6, 2009, the Institute for Journalism of the Technical University of Dortmund and the Institute for Newspaper Research of the City of Dortmund honored Kurt Koszyk on the occasion of his 80th birthday with the symposium on journalism that made history .

On November 12, 2015, the Institute for Journalism at the Technical University of Dortmund honored Kurt Kosyk with a symposium in his memory.

Publications (selection)

Note: A complete bibliography is included in the obituary by Hans Bohrmann published online by the Institute for Journalism at the Technical University of Dortmund .

  • Journalism and political engagement. Life pictures of journalistic personalities (= communication history, 5). Lit, Münster 1999
  • Gustav Stresemann . The democrat loyal to the emperor. A biography. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1989
  • How Ebert and Noske went swimming or what happens when an editor-in-chief goes on vacation. In: Rolf Terheyden (Ed.): Profession and calling. Mainz 1988, pp. 88-95
  • The Institute for Journalism at the University of Dortmund. In: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (ed.): Positions and structures in print media. Econ, Düsseldorf 1987, pp. 220-233
  • History of the German press. Colloquium, Berlin (Vol. 1. 1966 to Vol. 4. 1986, Vol. 1 together with Margot Lindemann)
  • (with Wolfgang Huhn) Communication and New Media. State Center for Political Education, Düsseldorf 1985
  • The Press in the British Zone of Germany. In: Nicholas Pronay and Keith Wilson (eds.): The Political Re-education of Germany and her Allies after World War II. Croon Helm, London 1985, pp. 107-138
  • (as ed. with Günter Sieber and Harald Bielig) In the beginning there was the word. Dortmund 1983 (Hoesch annual edition)
  • The Catholic daily press in the Westphalian Ruhr area from 1870 to 1949. Catholic Academy, Schwerte 1982
  • (as ed. with Volker Schulze) The newspaper as a personality. Festschrift for Karl Bringmann. Droste, Düsseldorf 1982
  • (as ed. with Karl Hugo Pruys ) Handbook of mass communication. dtv, Munich 1981
  • Continuity or a new beginning? Mass communication in Germany 1945-1949. Siegen 1981 (= MuK - publications of the research focus “mass media and communication”, issue 12).
  • Art. Press. In: Martin Greiffenhagen , Sylvia Greiffenhagen , Rainer Prätorius (Hrsg.): Concise dictionary on political culture in the Federal Republic of Germany. [1. Ed.] Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1981.
  • Gustav Höfken . A picture of life from the 19th century. In: Contributions to the history of Dortmund and the county of Mark. Vol. 71, 1978, pp. 5-118
  • 50 years of the Institute for Newspaper Research of the City of Dortmund 1926–1976. Institute for Newspaper Research , Dortmund 1976
  • The story of the forward 1876–1914. In: Vorwärts , special issue October 1976, pp. 6-14 and 30-38
  • (as ed. with the collaboration of Käthe Schröder) Directory and holdings of Westphalian newspapers (= Dortmund contributions to newspaper research, vol. 21). Documentation publishing house, Munich 1976
  • (as ed. and edit.) Television and social studies lessons. Investigations on the premises of media use in the upper secondary level (= Bochum studies on journalism and communication studies, vol. 1). Brockmeyer, Bochum 1975
  • Art. Kurt Eisner . In: Encyclopaedia Britannica , Vol. III, Chicago 1974, p. 820
  • Forerunner of the mass press. Economics and journalism between the Reformation and the French Revolution. Public communication in the age of feudalism. Goldmann, Munich 1972
  • The power of signals. Information, communication and society. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1971
  • The "Dortmund mixed newspapers" in the founding year 1769. In: Contributions to the history of Dortmund and the county of Mark. Vol. 65, 1969, pp. 37-58
  • (with Karl Hugo Pruys) Dictionary for journalism. dtv, Munich 1969
  • German press policy in the First World War. Droste, Düsseldorf 1968 (Habilitation, Berlin 1967)
  • The press of the German social democracy. A bibliography. Edited by Fritz Heine. Publishing house for literature and current affairs, Hanover 1966
  • Dortmund, Good Friday 1945. The mass shootings in the Bittermark and Rombergpark. Ruhfus, Dortmund 1960
  • Beginnings and early development of the social democratic press in the Ruhr area (1875–1906). Ruhfus, Dortmund 1953 (dissertation, Munich 1953)

literature

  • Hans Bohrmann : Kurt Koszyk †. In: The archivist . 68 (2015), p. 201.
  • Koszyk, Kurt. In: Wilhelm Kosch : Biographisches Staats Handbuch . Lexicon of politics, press and journalism . Continued by Eugen Kuri. Second volume. A. Francke Verlag, Bern and Munich 1963, p. 697.
  • Thomas Wiedemann: Kurt Koszyk. In: Michael Meyen , Thomas Wiedemann (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon of Communication Science. Herbert von Halem, Cologne 2014 ( online ).
  • Rudolf Stöber: Kurt Koszyk as a press historian . In: Astrid Blome (ed.): 90 years of the Institute for Newspaper Research. Review and Outlook , Essen: Klartext 2016, ISBN 978-3-8375-1695-1 , pp. 47–64.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ A b Reiner Burger: founding father, standard setter, pioneer. On the death of the great German newspaper scientist Kurt Koszyk . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 8, 2015, p. 13.
  2. Ulrich Pätzold : How to found a journalism institute . In: Horst Pöttker , Gabriele Toepser-Ziegert (ed.): Journalism that wrote history. 60 years of freedom of the press in the Federal Republic of Germany. Symposium for Kurt Koszyk . De Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-11-023507-4 . Pp. 151-159.
  3. ^ Walter Hömberg : On the benefits and disadvantages of history for journalism. Fragments of a conversation. Lecture at the symposium in honor of Kurt Koszyk's 60th birthday on May 31, 1989 in Dortmund. In: Publizistik, 34th year 1989, issue 3, pp. 354–359
  4. ^ Walter Hömberg: The future of the past - Kurt Koszyk for his 70th birthday. In: Journalistik Journal, 2nd year 1999, No. 2, pp. 39–41
  5. ^ Walter Hömberg: Bridge builder between theory and practice . On the death of the Dortmund communication scientist Kurt Koszyk. In: Medienkorrespondenz, Volume 63, 2015, No. 2 from January 23, 2015, pp. 12-14.
  6. Hans Bohrmann: Obituary for Kurt Koszyk . In: Publizistik, Volume 60, 2015, Issue 2, pp. 225–226.
  7. Susanne Riese: Journalism professor inherits museum works of art. In: Ruhr Nachrichten , June 5, 2015, accessed on June 5, 2017.
  8. Hans Bohrmann: The Institute for Journalism mourns its founding father. Online publication of the Institute for Journalism at the Technical University of Dortmund from February 2015, accessed on June 5, 2017.