Kurt Paupié

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Kurt Paupié (born August 22, 1920 in Linz ; † December 6, 1981 in Klosterneuburg ) was an Austrian professor of newspaper studies at the University of Vienna .

Life

Kurt Paupié joined the then illegal National Socialist movement in his youth . After serving in the Waffen-SS , Paupié studied medicine in Graz and Bonn and then newspaper studies and modern history in Vienna . Paupié received his doctorate in 1949 at the University of Vienna with a thesis on Moritz Szeps as a doctor of philosophy. In 1954 Paupié became an assistant at the Institute for Newspaper Studies at the University of Vienna, in 1956 he submitted his habilitation , in 1957 he became a private lecturer. From 1969 to 1981 he was the successor to the two provisional institute directors Heinrich Benedikt (1958–1962, historian) and Herbert W. Duda (Orientalist) chairman of the Institute for Newspaper Studies founded in 1939.

During Paupié's time as head of the institute, there was a move away from the orientation towards the history of the press, which was cultivated after the Nazi propaganda training and which dominated until 1962. Paupié, supported by a new, critical generation of assistants and students, made the transition from the history of press, newspaper studies to empirical-analytical communication studies. His two-volume handbook of Austrian press history, which was compiled with the help of numerous helpers, is still widely quoted today. Marianne Lunzer succeeded him as head of the institute .

Works

  • Moritz Szeps. Personality, work and relationships with the imperial family. Vienna, Univ., Diss., 1949
  • The message as a functional means of human communication. Proven on the basis of the visual appearance of the newspaper. Vienna, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1956
  • Handbook of Austrian Press History 1848–1959 . Vienna, Braumüller, 1960/1966

literature

  • Wolfgang Duchkowitsch: Newspaper studies “on the beautiful native Danube city”. Structure, establishment and function of the Vienna Institute for Newspaper Science . In: Gernot Heiss, Siegfried Mattl , Sebastian Meissl, Edith Saurer , Karl Stuhlpfarrer (Ed.): Willing Science. The University of Vienna 1938–1945. Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1989. ISBN 3-85115-107-0 , pp. 155–178.
  • Wolfgang Duchkowitsch, Fritz Hausjell , Bernd Semrad (eds.): The spiral of silence. On dealing with National Socialist newspaper science. LIT Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7278-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Paupié, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian university lecturer, professor of newspaper science
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1981
Place of death Klosterneuburg