Martin Lorber

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Martin Lorber

Martin Lorber (born June 1, 1967 in Stuttgart ) is a journalist , PR specialist and expert on youth media protection.

Life

Martin Lorber studied musicology, philosophy and ethnology at the University of Cologne (degree Magister Artium). After a journalistic traineeship at ARD radio, he was initially an editor and presenter at Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Stuttgart, before taking over press and public relations work for the Cologne Philharmonic in 1997 . The next station was the Düsseldorf-based Garant Schuh + Mode AG, where he was in charge of Public Relations and Investor Relations from 2000 to 2004. Martin Lorber has been working for Electronic Arts since 2004, initially as Head of PR. As PR Director, he is responsible for strategic corporate communication, political communication and corporate social responsibility in German-speaking countries. He is also the company's youth protection officer.

Martin Lorber has been teaching public relations at the University of Cologne since 2014. From 2007 to 2013 he had a teaching position at the University of Siegen . In 2009 he was appointed to the committee for telecommunications and new services of the DIHK, in 2012 as an expert in the specialist commission of the I-KiZ - Center for Child Protection on the Internet and in the advisory board of the Dialog Internet Initiative 'Dein Spiel. Your life'. Since 2014 he has been on the board of JusProg e. V., the provider of the state-approved youth protection software JusProg. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Cologne Game Lab ( Technical University of Cologne ) and the jury of the German Computer Game Award (until 2019), the German Developer Award and GamesTalente. From 2010 to 2014 he was on the board of trustees of the Art Academy for Media Cologne .

Martin Lorber deals primarily with cultural, social and political issues relating to computer and video games as well as the protection of minors in the media. Among other things, he initiated the European conference on computer and video games "Clash of Realities" together with Winfred Kaminski, which has been held every two years at Cologne University of Applied Sciences since 2006. Since October 2010 he has been running the EA blog for digital gaming culture.

He is also a double bass player (among others in the Trikustik ensemble, which he founded ) and a composer of experimental electroacoustic music .

Awards

In 2000 Martin Lorber received the German Multimedia Award for the CD-ROM of the Cologne Philharmonic . In 2007 he was awarded the Econ Award for corporate communication, in 2009 he won the German PR Award.

Publications

  • Theater without words or: a string quartet writes letters. Radio feature for S2 Kultur, first broadcast on February 16, 1995.
  • Britta Geldschläger / Martin Lorber: Behind every flower there is a death. Cut flower production in Colombia and Kenya . Radio feature for S2 Kultur, first broadcast on April 28, 1995
  • “I force my will to innocent molecules” Frank Zappa on art and new music. Radio feature for S2 Kultur, first broadcast on April 27, 1995.
  • "My music is theater music". Peter Eötvös in conversation with Martin Lorber . In: MusikTexte. 59: 7-13 (1995).
  • The dialect monastic Singspiel in Austria in the 18th century. A note on the history of the German Singspiel . In: Communications from the Austrian Society for Musicology. 30: 13-15 (1996).
  • The Singspiel “Die Reisen Ceres”, ascribed to Joseph Haydn . In: The music research. Vol. 50 (1997), H. 1, pp. 80-86.
  • The great composers. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Serges Medien, Cologne 1998 (together with Sebastian Loelgen under the pseudonym Martin Rundkowsky)
  • Internationalization and diversification in association groups , reports from the Institute for Trade Research at the University of Cologne. Special issue 47. Cologne, 2003.
  • PR strategies for international cooperation . In: Specialist journalist. No. 12 (2004), pp. 19-21.
  • Computer and video games - attitudes and usage behavior in Germany, France and Great Britain . In: EA studies. Vol. 1 (2005), pp. 1-18.
  • Winfred Kaminski, Martin Lorber (Eds.): Clash of Realities. Computer games and social reality . Kopaed, Munich 2006
  • Leisure activities and interactive entertainment in Germany, France and Great Britain . In: EA studies. Vol. 2 (2006), pp. 1-18.
  • Winfred Kaminski, Martin Lorber (Ed.): Clash of Realities 2008. Playing in digital worlds . Kopaed, Munich 2008.
  • Games and Movies - Brief History of a Successful Liaison . In: Patrick Jacobshagen (Ed.): Filmbusiness. PPVMEDIEN, Bergkirchen 2008, p. 356 ff.
  • Macbeth versus Ego Shooter - Ethical Issues in Computer and Video Games . In: Petra Grimm, Rafael Capurro (eds.): Computer games - New challenges for ethics? Steiner, Stuttgart 2010, pp. 31-39.
  • Against media illiteracy. Understanding as a prerequisite for a critical and appropriate use of new media - media education in schools and youth welfare . In: Marcus Lüpke, Ulf Neumann (ed.): Violence prevention 2.0. Digital challenges. Schüren, Marburg 2010, pp. 45–53.
  • Winfred Kaminski, Martin Lorber (Eds.): Clash of Realities 2010 . Computer games: media and more ..., Kopaed, Munich 2010
  • Unholy Alliance. About the (necessary) cooperation between the computer game industry and education . In: Sonja Ganguin , Bernward Hoffmann (ed.): Digital game culture. Kopaed, Munich 2010, pp. 43–46.
  • Workflow . In: Benjamin Beil, Thomas Hensel (Eds.): Game Laboratory Studies. Navigations. Journal for media and cultural studies. Vol. 2 (2011), pp. 145-149.
  • Culture force. In: Neue Musikzeitung. No. 6/11, p. 1.
  • Jörg Müller-Lietzkow and Martin Lorber: Communication about entertainment . In: Jörg Müller-Lietzkow (Hrsg.): Economy, quality and management of entertainment media . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2012, pp. 81-105.
  • Violence, addiction & loneliness: computer games in the fight against their image. In: PR-Professional Newsletter. 05/2012, p. 6 f.
  • The end of barbarism. In: Albert Drews (Ed.): Kulturgut Computerspiel? A media genre between a dirty image and acceptance. Evangelical Academy Loccum, Rehburg-Loccum 2012, pp. 75–78.
  • Electronic arts and e-sports (together with Thomas Hübner). In: Markus Breuer (Hrsg.): E-Sport - Perspectives from Science and Economy . Hülsbusch, Glückstadt 2012, pp. 137–141.
  • Winfred Kaminski, Martin Lorber (eds.): Gamebased Learning. Clash of Realities 2012 . Kopaed, Munich 2012.
  • Computer games declared a cultural asset! For a long time, computer games were not considered a cultural asset. It's scandalous. In: WASD - texts about games. 03, pp. 90-93.
  • Generational change in the games industry - are we facing a turning point? Lecture given on Games Day on October 16, 2013 at the Stuttgart Media University on the occasion of the opening of the Institute for Games ( online )
  • Winfred Kaminski, Martin Lorber (Ed.): Spielwelt - Weltspiel. Narration, interaction and cooperation in computer games. Clash of Realities 2014 . Kopaed, Munich 2014.
  • Martin Lorber, Thomas Schutz: Gaming for studies and work. Why do we learn when we play. HEP, Bern 2016.
  • Martin Lorber / Thomas Schutz: Gaming makes you smart . In: NZZ am Sonntag , April 17, 2016, p. 22
  • The role of the economy in protecting minors from the media in Germany using the example of Electronic Arts . In: BPjM Aktuell , 2/2017, pp. 8–11.
  • It takes a lot of time and a lot of people. How a computer game is made . In: Politics and Culture - Newspaper of the German Cultural Council , No. 5/17 September / October 2017, p. 21 ( online )
  • Program Board of the Clash of Realities Conference (ed.): Clash of Realities 2015/16: On the Art, Technology, and Theory of Digital Games. Proceedings of the 6th and 7th Conference. transcript, Bielefeld 2017.
  • Rhythm, abstraction and reality . In: Stefan Piasecki: Credere et ludere. Computer and video games from a religious educational perspective. (= Scientific articles from Tectum Verlag. Series Media Studies Volume 34). Tectum Verlag, Baden-Baden 2017, pp. 25–28
  • Ludomusicology. To Melanie Fritsch's book “Performing Bytes” . In: MusikTexte 162 (2019), p. 107f

literature

  • Daniel Neuen: Crossfire. In: prmagazin . 2/2007, pp. 36-39.
  • Juan Moreno : The crisis counter . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 2010, p. 79 ( online ).
  • Sandra Wicher: Playfully to success. In: Ralf Spiller & Hans Scheurer (eds.): Public Relations Scene NRW. A portrait of 50 communication professionals. mhmk, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8423-1235-7 , pp. 38-41.
  • Lorenz Steinke: Best Practice: The Crisis as a Challenge, In: Lorenz Steinke: Communicating in the Crisis. Sustainable PR tools for difficult times, Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 253–258.
  • Julia Bröder: The chased demon. Killerspiel Debate, In: PR Report, 11/2015, p. 18f.

Interviews

Web links

Commons : Martin Lorber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Siegen
  2. ↑ Advisory Board of the Cologne Game Lab ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / colognegamelab.de
  3. ^ Cologne Game Lab
  4. ↑ GamesTalents. Accessed June 9, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.khm.de
  6. ^ Podcast of the Junge Union Hessen ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jucast.de
  7. ↑ EA blog for digital gaming culture
  8. ↑ Start - Ensemble Trikustik. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Martin Lorber at Soundcloud. In: Soundcloud. Retrieved February 4, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Econ Award for corporate communication ( Memento of the original dated November 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jduk.de
  11. ↑ German PR Prize
personal data
SURNAME Lorber, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart